Written Quotes · Page 45

I believe my voice is pretty much the same. I've written 75 books, so I'm better at it now than I was…

— Caroline B. Cooney

A new chapter in life waiting to be written. New questions to be asked, embraced, and loved.

— Sarah Ban Breathnach

I had written lyrics to a song called The Silent Extreme, which Alex later renamed Humans Being.

— Sammy Hagar

It's pretty hard to measure influence of written or visual material.

— Ben Shahn

“In life you must write your own story, or one will be written for you.”

— A.J. Garces

“Can a writer forget something that he’s written in one of his own books? Yes, of course.”

— Sherman Alexie

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

— David Mamet

Anyone who wants to know who I am can just read my lyrics - I've always written about who I am.

— Joan Jett

Democrats, if they're smart and they're not brain-dead, are doing two things right now.They're having self-deprecating humor written for them. There was…

— Mark Shields

The gist is that good and evil are foreordained. What is foreordained comes necessarily to be after a prior act of divine…

— Blaise Pascal

I'm just very, very slow. I would not make it as a journalist, I've got to tell you. I sweat bullets over…

— Susan Elizabeth Phillips

The doctor knows that it is the prescription slip itself, even more than what is written on it, that is often the…

— Norman Cousins

But, sir, they have written me down upon the history of the country as worthy of expulsion, and in no unkindness I…

— Preston Brooks

Anything well written with good language and clarity and honesty is worth doing. It comes out of the same tradition as Shakespeare.

— Michael Moriarty

History is written by the winners. The books say the Indians were bad guys and the whites just needed a little land.…

— Mario Van Peebles

I have written a memoir here and there, and that takes its own form of selfishness and courage. However, generally speaking, I…

— Peter Carey

The history of Buenos Aires is written in its telephone directory. Pompey Romanov, Emilio Rommel, Crespina D. Z. de Rose, Ladislao Radziwil,…

— Bruce Chatwin

You know, I think everybody I've seen has come from some other therapy, and almost invariably it's very much the same thing:…

— Irvin D. Yalom

I sing to my wife; it helps me. She was my muse. I've written so many songs about her, to her, with…

— Ian McLagan

Believe it or not, I write on stage. I can't write anywhere else; I have to be in a moment. I also…

— J. B. Smoove

Sônia Braga reacted in a beautiful way to the draft I sent her, so we just made the film ["Aquarius"] as I…

— Sonia Braga

We worked the medley on side two of "Abbey Road" out carefully in advance. All of those mini songs were partly completed…

— George Harrison

As I grew a little bit older and got interested in law, I read that Clarence Darrow didn't believe in the Bible…

— Madalyn Murray O'Hair

I do not remember-that is the point-the first impulse that pumped and shoved most of the earlier poems along, and they are…

— Dylan Thomas

The character, as written on the page, is just a blueprint for a human being.

— Tom Hiddleston

I am moved, shaken, and when it is all over, I look at wonder at what is written or painted.

— Robert Kanigher

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

— Jack Kirby

[Emacs] is written in Lisp, which is the only computer language that is beautiful.

— Neal Stephenson

I just wish, when neither of us has written to my husband's mother, I didn't feel so much worse about it than…

— Katharine Whitehorn

Every really good book was written a little at a time, over time, in tremendous confusion and doubt.

— Richard Bausch

You are a trophy of God's grace. He has future accomplishments with your name written on them.

— Derwin L. Gray

In western countries, there are roles written for older actors. Films are made on them, including love stories.

— Om Puri

My books standing there on the shelf do not know that I have written them.

— Jorge Luis Borges

Music is not written in red, white and blue. It is written in the heart's blood of the composer.

— Nellie Melba

I don't think I've read any of the books that have been written about me.

— Hillary Clinton

Most of my songs are written about movies or TV shows - they're not about me.

— Madison Beer

If you want to know whether you have written anything worth preserving, sing it to yourself without any accompaniment.

— Joseph Haydn

I become irritated when I am being written off as aloof or stand-offish when I'm shy and don't know what to say.

— Trent Reznor

I've always written poetry and lyrics. My first husband, who was a musician, we wrote a bunch of songs together.

— P. J. Soles

I've read a lot of Irvine Welsh - Trainspotting, Glue - he's written some beauties.

— Andrew Flintoff