Written Quotes · Page 34

If marriage isn't something for me, but I like living with someone or being committed, I can choose this other path as…

— Robert Greene

When the audience comes in, it changes the temperature of what you've written.

— Stephen Sondheim

Christopher Marlowe or Francis Bacon The author of Lear remains unshaken Willie Herbert or Mary Fitton What does it matter? The Sonnets…

— Noel Coward

I have never read a really good novel written by a man where women are portrayed as they truly are. They can…

— Simone de Beauvoir

I've written a number of songs over the years and it's a big part of my life, this sort of tension between…

— James Taylor

It is of the nature of idea to be communicated: written, spoken, done. The idea is like grass. It craves light, likes…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

For it is written that just as it is forbidden to partake of the forbidden, it is forbidden not to partake of…

— David Mamet

When fairy tales are written in the west, they're known as folklore. In the east, fairy tales are called religions.

— Paul Henderson

It is safer to quote what is written than what is spoken. What a man writes it is fair to presume he…

— Christian Nestell Bovee

I also tried to focus on songs that Billie Holiday wrote, songs that she had a hand in shaping, like "Strange Fruit";…

— Jose James

If men were to be destroyed and the books they have written were to be transmitted to a new race of creatures,…

— Henry David Thoreau

I have written before, but I was primarily an actor and improvisational performer.

— Paula Pell

Just because you've written a song doesn't mean that you have pulled through. There are definitely songs where I embodied someone else's…

— Mat Kearney

Harriet Beecher Stowe thought Uncle Tom's Cabin was written through her by Another Hand, so little did she know what was going…

— Sophy Burnham

So: we're all tired. Now what? Manuscripts written in Club Med?

— Brian Ferneyhough

Lord Bacon could as easily have created the planets as he could have written Hamlet.

— Thomas Carlyle

I had read too many memoirs that were written after the writer or the director was past his or her prime.

— Joe Eszterhas

I've always written songs since I was a kid - always.

— Benmont Tench

I've always found it easy and natural and, more importantly, necessary to articulate thoughts and feelings, and fierce emotions, through the written…

— Anonymous

For as the aged, or those whose sight is defective, when any book, however fair, is set before them, though they perceive…

— John Calvin

If I had more time, I would have written less.

— Mark Twain

Dean [Devlin, Emmerich's partner on "Independence Day"] and I always said that we'd only do it when we had a really good…

— Roland Emmerich

We may expect answers to prayer, and should not be easy without them any more than we should be if we had…

— Charles Spurgeon

There exists a law, not written down anywhere but inborn in our hearts; a law which comes to us not by training…

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Any kind of music can be written badly and it can be written wonderfully. I admire a top performer in any field.

— Jack Kirby