Written Quotes · Page 31

I have since written what no tide Shall ever wash away, what men Unborn shall read o'er ocean wide And find Ianthe's…

— Walter Savage Landor

The Constitution isn't written in Chinese, Swahili or Sanskrit. It's in plain English.

— Harry Browne

An empty book is like an Infant's soul, in which anything may be written,

— Thomas Traherne

The reason most folksongs are so atrocious is that they were written by the people.

— Tom Lehrer

I'm always happy when I see something written on an album that wasn't just typed on a computer.

— Neil Farber

Write how you want, the critic shall show the world you could have written better.

— Oliver Goldsmith

In 2012, I really thought, 'That's it. It's over. I've written what I can write.'

— Patrick Marber

The fact that I have a lot of songs written doesn't keep me from wanting to write new ones, or new ones…

— Christopher Owens

When the voices of democracy are silenced, freedom becomes a hollow concept. No man or woman should be sentenced to the shadows…

— Al Neuharth

A lot of newspaper columns used to be written in a rat-a-tat-tat, fast-paced style - and they tended to be funny. They…

— P. J. O'Rourke

Sam Seaborn is the best character that's ever been written for me, certainly. By far. And it's a timeless show [The West…

— Rob Lowe

The Epistles in the New Testament have all of them a particular reference to the condition and usages of the Christian world…

— Joseph Butler

I'd hate to be a writer forever and never perform, and I'd hate to perform and not write. I get sad if…

— Kristen Schaal

I beg you, to have patience with everything unresolved in your heart and to try to love the questions themselves as if…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

I've always written. I'm from an older generation of programmers [who] did not come out of engineering. [A]ll sorts of people were…

— Ellen Ullman

There is a lot of rubbish written about toilet humour - people saying it is childish and pretending it is beneath them…

— Anonymous

The hardest work that actors have done, including myself, is on poorly written scripts. And when you first start out you do…

— Bryan Cranston

here are the top three global resources getting scarcer in the twenty-first century: ozone layer, rain forest, people eager to read the…

— Sandra Tsing Loh

I'd be very suspicious of anybody that seems to have to move to the next level of expression. I distrust that: now…

— Elvis Costello

I don't feel quite normal if I haven't written for a while. I doubt I will ever again write anything as popular…

— J K Rowling

I am a political recidivist. An incorrigible, repeat voter. A career lever-pusher. My electoral rap sheet is as long as your arm.…

— Ellen Goodman

If any pale student, glued to his desk, here seek an apology for a way of life whose natural fruits is that…

— Francis Parkman

I never really wanted to be a writer. I know it sounds strange, but I honestly believe that I didn't pick the…

— Amish Tripathi

I had written three books [Games of Throne], at that point, and each one of them was better than the other. At…

— George R. R. Martin

If there is a book you want to read but isn't written yet,write it.

— Shel Silverstein

Dulwich College takes me back after seventy years: My Mum must have written one hell of a sick note!

— Bob Monkhouse

“Philosophy ought really to be written only as a form of poetry.”

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

Courts are places where the ending is written first and all that precedes is simply vaudeville.

— Charles Bukowski

I don’t see why it matters what is written. Not when it’s about people. It can always be crossed out.

— Anonymous

Mozart has written opera, symphony, sacred and chamber music - not to mention his piano and violin concerti.

— Neville Marriner

He's written some great songs. I thought that "Blues Man" was a perfect song for me to do as a tribute.

— Alan Jackson

I don't think many writers like their best-known piece of work, particularly when it was written a long time ago.

— Lillian Hellman

I cannot choose one hundred best books because I have only written five

— Oscar Wilde

All the good music has already been written by people with wigs and stuff.

— Frank Zappa

I think perhaps the greatest book ever written was Ulysses by James Joyce.

— Frederick Lenz

I'm so bored of all these girls who have written about 20 books by the time they're 25.

— Gail Porter

The history of intellectual progress is written in the lives of infidels.

— Robert Green Ingersoll

Mathematics is the language with which God has written the universe.

— Galileo Galilei

“How first you knew me in a book I wrote, How first you loved me for a written line”

— Edna St. Vincent Millay

If I had not existed, someone else would have written me, Hemingway, Dostoyevsky, all of us.

— William Faulkner