Written Quotes · Page 39

Everything I've ever done in my whole career, people might not know, I've never written anything down on paper.

— Don Rickles

There aren't a lot of roles written for women who are strong willed.

— Samantha Mathis

You try to get to know your character as best as you can before you start filming - whats written and not…

— Paul Dano

“Only when a book is written out of passion is there much hope of its being read with passion.”

— Jean Fritz

Since 1985, I have written about contemporary Jewish practice and the Jewish community.

— Anita Diament

I think I've written about family and things in 'Taipei' which could be considered Asian culture.

— Tao Lin

Sometimes everything has to be inscribed across the heavens so you can find the one line already written inside you.

— David Whyte

There haven't been enough profound things written about what being black means and what a black character is. Nobody knows.

— James Earl Jones

“The Bible was written by man to serve his own ends. Like society. Like the church. We use such things to control…

— Megan Chance

[on sexual politics] The Golden Rule works for men as written, but for women it should go the other way around. We…

— Gloria Steinem

I'm sure that the meaning of the songs that I've written will change for me over the years, the same way that…

— Angel Olsen

For the writer, there is nothing quite like having someone say that he or she understands, that you have reached them and…

— Virginia Hamilton

The costume that I wear on the show is a little snug and doesn't leave a whole lot to the imagination. I…

— Jeri Ryan

Literature is a fragment of a fragment. Of all that ever happened, or has been said, but a fraction has been written;…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

It was really written as most, I think, books are by writers - for themselves. There was something that just had to…

— Norton Juster

I feel that 'The Great Failure' is really a book written out of great love and a willingness to face all of…

— Natalie Goldberg

If you can stand to wait 24 hours before you decide the fate of what you have written - either good or…

— Lynda Barry

For many years there have been treatments available which are successful and usually NOT harmful for diseases, such as AIDS, cancer, cystic…

— Charles C. Pixley

By the time I was doing "Kill Bill," it was so much filled with prose that, you know, I start seeing why…

— Quentin Tarantino

One of my great experiences in life was to be interviewed on a late-night talk show by a guy named Tom Snyder.…

— John Shelby Spong

If I thought that any poem of mine could have been written by anyone else, either a contemporary or a forerunner, I…

— Robert Graves

I remember realizing, when I did Little Women [1994], that that was the only time girls that age were being written about.…

— Winona Ryder

What had brought me to New York in the autumn of 1972 was a letter of recommendation written by Norman Mailer, the…

— James Wolcott

I find myself absolutely fulfilled when I have written a poem, when I'm writing one. Having written one, then you fall away…

— Sylvia Plath

Accuse a person of breaking all Ten Commandments, and you've written the promo blurb for the dust cover of his tell-all memoir.

— P. J. O'Rourke

“He was all surface, written on by those who’d pass him, like a love hotel diary.”

— Christopher Barzak

Most country songs, certainly all the stuff I've written, are stories driven by characters.

— Dolly Parton

Some books seem to have been written, not to teach us anything, but to let us know that the author has known…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Think you, if Laura had been Petrarch's wife, He would have written sonnets all his life?.

— Lord Byron

The Catechism was not written to please you. It will not make life easy for you, because it demands of you a…

— Pope Benedict XVI

Fairness is actually not having presumptive negativity written about you and always assuming the worst about you.

— Kellyanne Conway

We generally learn languages for the benefit of reading the books written in them

— Thomas Jefferson

The only thing that would ever embarrass me would be something I would write that would be badly written.

— Gloria Vanderbilt

The fact that slavery is written into the Constitution is about as entrenched a form of classism as you could possibly imagine.

— Beau Willimon

I don't think I have made as much of my life as I should have. I should have written more books.

— Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr

You can't really compare any TV show to a show written by Aaron Sorkin.

— Constance Zimmer

I like to go back over history and check out what people have written and whether I agree with it or not.

— Harvey Pekar

I've written a couple raps in my day, in my own music career, that people don't know a lot about.

— Renee Elise Goldsberry

It's not a case of: 'Read this book and then you'll think differently. I've written this book, and I don't think differently.

— Daniel Kahneman

I have also written some poems which have not been collected in a volume.

— Grazia Deledda