Written Quotes · Page 41

I'm supremely uninterested as to what is written in many of the newspapers.

— John Bercow

We don't have to think up a title till we get the doggone book written.

— Carl Sandburg

Boy bands should be exploded from a great height. They're just pretty people singing music written by others.

— Eddie Izzard

The United States Constitution has proved itself the most marvelously elastic compilation of rules of government ever written.

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

It is written in the Jewish law book, the Talmud, that only the Jew is human, that Gentiles are only animals.

— Julius Streicher

I don't disrespect the audience. I only sing very well-written, intelligent songs.

— Tony Bennett

What lasts is what is written. We look to literature to find the essence of an age.

— Peter Brodie

The biggest stories are written about the things which draw human beings closer together.

— Susan Glaspell

The act of song writing and recording became one and the same to me; because I essentially recorded everything I did from…

— Adam Goldberg

I do say all I've ever written about is being alone. And most people take that as, 'Oh, that's so sad.' And…

— Shonda Rhimes

I think the written word is my first love. I was just a very imagination - centered child and a big part…

— Zoe Kazan

“Well, it is written, two out of three ain’t bad.” “Where is that written?” “Dalmatians 9:7, I think—doesn’t matter, no one else…

— Christopher Moore

I would pretend when I was a child that I was Charlotte Brontë, because I'd read Jane Eyre when I was ten…

— Jamaica Kincaid

I like a little movie I did in the early nineties called 'Mortal Thoughts.' The part was hardly written, but I learned…

— Bruce Willis

When those myths were created, when the Bible was written, man didn't know what an atom or a germ was, or where…

— Bill Maher

I don't know how to save my own life, so anything they've found in what I've written that saved theirs - I…

— Frederick Buechner

One of the nice things about being in a band is that you depend on each other for ideas, so it's not…

— Dean Wareham

It’s amazing how quickly something gets written. Now, when it comes, it can be on a bus, or in a store. I’ve…

— William Goyen

“Did you know, young lady," said Watkin to her, "that the Book of Revelation was written on Patmos? It was indeed. By…

— Douglas Adams

No one was more important to the game of baseball in the last half of the 20th century than Henry Aaron and…

— Ken Burns

The scriptures provide one of the best ways to find our course and stay on it. Scriptural knowledge also provides precious protection.…

— Russell M. Nelson

I think there was a bit of brotherly love, but I think everything has a motive when you're king. It's all about…

— Max Irons

The game business arose from computer programs that were written by and for young men in the late 1960s and early 1970s.…

— Brenda Laurel

When you decide 'to be a writer,' you don't have the faintest idea of what the work is like. When you begin,…

— Philip Roth

Everything looks true written down. What you read in National Enquirer and News Of The World looks true written down.

— Madonna Ciccone

A book, while it is being written, has an intense life of its own which you share.

— Margaret Bourke-White

It's interesting when something's written about you, and there's comments after.

— Alison Stewart

I've written poems about gifts. Life is inspirational; sometimes it comes from the most unlikely places.

— Ama Ata Aidoo

I have never written a book that was not born out of a question I needed to answer for myself.

— May Sarton

“How many books have been written just to know God? God is with you!”

— Dada Bhagwan

All good music, whatever its date, is ageless - as alive and significant today as it was when it was written.

— Peter Warlock

Too much has already been said and written about women's sphere. Leave women, then, to find their sphere.

— Lucy Stone

“A memoir, at its heart, is written in order to figure out who you are.”

— Sean Wilsey

If I hadn't had my children, I wouldn't have written more and better, I would have written less and worse.

— Margaret Laurence

Everything I have ever written has been in the same chair, in the same room.

— Alan Garner

It's a little mad, but I believe I am many people. When I am writing a poem, I feel I am the…

— Anne Sexton

My mother encouraged me to be artistic. It was written in a contract at an early age that I would be an…

— Kurt Cobain

Not a word that I have written about Yugoslavia is denounceable, not a single one. It is literature.

— Peter Handke

The best thing that can happen is that a song you've written will live in the world so people can hear it.

— Skylar Grey

I edit as I write. I revise endlessly. I don't go forward until I know that what I've written is as good…

— Anita Shreve