Written Quotes · Page 38

I do not propose to add anything to what has already been written concerning the loss of the "Lady Vain."

— H. G. Wells

If a language is corruptible, then a constitution written in that language is corruptible.

— Robert Breault

And I think it's very rare to have good stories, well written comedies.

— Sophie Marceau

I would rather have bad things written about me than be forgotten.

— Pamela Harriman

It is difficult, if not impossible, to argue that laws written in the 1970s are adequate for today's intelligence challenges.

— Bob Barr

I think I learned a lot from reading in general - even from reading badly written books.

— Margaret Haddix

If you haven't written a novel by the time you're forty you never will!

— Richard Yates

I've written for Rita Ora; I've written for Chiddy Bang - there's been a few.

— LP

As a young actor, I would be invited to the CBC radio drama department to do voices for different characters, and I…

— Peter Cullen

So no one should rely on television either for their knowledge of music or for news. There's just more going on. It's…

— Kurt Loder

I don't just look at things as an actor. I've also written several films, so I look at it as a storyteller…

— Charlie Hunnam

Great books are written for Christianity much oftener than great deeds are done for it. City libraries tell us of the reign…

— Horace Mann

I was learning book-keeping at the age of 12, but it never stopped me from pursuing literature. Over the years, I grew…

— Ashwin Sanghi

“the written word is a recent invention that has left no trace in our genome and must be laboriously acquired throughout childhood…

— Steven Pinker

As a writer, I am an intellectual. I believe in the ideals of the Enlightenment, I believe in the written word, in…

— Henning Mankell

Anything good that I have written has, at some point during its composition, left me feeling uneasy and afraid. It has seemed,…

— Michael Chabon

Do not accept anything simply because it has been said by your teacher, or because it has been written in your sacred…

— Gautama Buddha

Along with Islam and Christianity, Judaism does insist that some turgid and contradictory and sometimes evil and mad texts, obviously written by…

— Christopher Hitchens

There are more than 100 first- and second- hand witnesses to the retrieval of an extraterrestrial spacecraft and at least four extraterrestrial…

— Steven M. Greer

A hastily written "Civil Rights Act" was rushed through Congress. President Andrew Johnson immediately vetoed it, noting that the right to confer…

— Eustace Mullins

“Each book is a new book. I’ve never written it before and I have to teach myself how to write it as…

— Paul Auster

If no one speaks out for [young readers], if they don’t speak out for themselves, all they’ll get for required reading will…

— Judy Blume

By 2010 computers will disappear. They'll be so small, they'll be embedded in our clothing, in our environment. Images will be written…

— Ray Kurzweil

A book may lie dormant for fifty years or for two thousand years in a forgotten corner of a library, only to…

— Marguerite Yourcenar

Those who say truth is stranger than fiction have wasted their time on poorly written fiction.

— Mark Twain

It's amazing what I could've written in my life if I had realized that I should keep writing and not masturbating.

— Lewis Black

Never take back what you've written. You never know where it'll take you.

— Eugenia Vela

Because one has written other books does not mean the next becomes any easier.

— John Gregory Dunne

It was a joke, okay? If we thought it would actually be used, we wouldn't have written it!

— Marc Andreessen

People who are offended by the Ten Commandments have a deeper problem than the stone that it's written on, I think.

— Judy Martz

Whenever I have a bunch of tunes written, I always find a kind of uniform that accompanies the songs.

— Jenny Lewis

I believe that books, once they are written, have no need of their authors.

— Elena Ferrante

When the history of guilt is written, parents who refuse their children money will be right up there in the Top Ten.

— Erma Bombeck

I look at 'Love Child' and it's as if it was written by someone else - someone who knew what they were…

— Allegra Huston

Your favorite story, whatever it might be, was written for one reader

— Victor Levin

I know a lot and have written a lot and have thought a lot about motherhood.

— Anna Quindlen

It's much harder to act poorly written material. It's much harder to memorize poorly written material.

— Carrie Coon

I started using Notes [on my iPhone] but I do a lot of hand written notes. It's a very slow, accumulative thing.

— Sue Tompkins

I usually don't read things written about me and I certainly don't read things if they are inappropriate.

— Helen Hunt

Screenplays aren't written to be read, they're written to be made into movies.

— Edward Norton