Written Quotes · Page 50

As few subjects are more interesting to society, so few have been more frequently written upon than the education of youth.

— Oliver Goldsmith

I have written a bunch of scripts that have not gotten produced, much more so early in my career than later.

— Tony Gilroy

I love to read poetry but I haven't written anything that I'm willing to show anybody.

— Abraham Verghese

When we think too much about the opinions of others, we are letting them edit a book God has written.

— Donald Miller

To have a part that is written for you certainly helps an actor.

— A. J. Bowen

I love the written word; I love when someone takes the time or leaves you a note or sends a letter.

— Sandra Bullock

“These things I have written to you so you may know that you have eternal life.”

— Apostle John

Writing is my number one passion. I've written two novels. I've written a screenplay. I also write short stories and poetry.

— Evangeline Lilly

A cabaret song has got to be written - for the middle voice, ideally - because you've got to hear the wit…

— James Fenton

One must conclude that, contrary to the established and current wisdom, a scenario describing the genesis of life on earth by chance…

— Hubert Yockey

I still connect with original emotions. 'Night Moves' was written about 1961 or 1962 when I was in high school, and it…

— Bob Seger

The attitude of the actor is his interpretation of what he reads, and the written word is what creates the role in…

— Gene Barry

I think maybe written films are better than real films. You can see them in your head and yet everything is exactly…

— Hal Hartley

It is abnormal for a Christian not to have an appetite for the impossible. It has been written into our spiritual DNA…

— Bill Johnson

We have fools in all sects, and impostors in most; why should I believe mysteries no one can understand, because written by…

— Lord Byron

I still feel like if I can get a song to work with, say, a basic beat, a rhythm, some chord changes,…

— David Byrne

I think the further away you get from completing a book, the more responses you see to it from readers, the more…

— Joe Abercrombie

The major accomplishment of analyzing illiteracy so far has been the listing of symptoms: the decrease in functional literacy; a general degradation…

— Mihai Nadin

People put clips of me up. There are quotes from me. I've written books, of course. I'm on Twitter. There are dozens…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

To me, the coolest riffs are composed of two guitar parts that interlock like gears. You need both parts to make whole.…

— Richard Lloyd

If the American Revolution had produced nothing but the Declaration of Independence, it would have been worth while. . . . The…

— Samuel Eliot Morison

The service in L.A. is the best. You don't get sarcastic, surly, fed-up waiters and waitresses like you do in England. They're…

— Ricky Gervais

I love to read and teach experimental fiction but yes, neither this work nor my first novel is really that experimental. It…

— Porochista Khakpour

The light that has guided us is still unquenched, and the causes that have carried us so far in the van of…

— Lord Acton

The book written against fame and learning has the author's name on the title-page.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Never criticize the composition of a Royal Highness. You never know who may have written it.

— Johannes Brahms

His Majesty the King requires that the Royal Chancellery in all written documents endeavor to write in clear, plain Swedish.

— Charles XII of Sweden

We owe it to our children to be honest about the world and to provide them with material written specially for them.

— Deborah Ellis

Strange, I feel as if up to now I had written no more than a few notes.

— Ludwig van Beethoven

Most of the press is sent to my publicist so I do see most of what is written about me.

— Sela Ward

The duty of labor is written on a man's body: in the stout muscle of the arm,, and the delicate machinery of…

— Theodore Parker

“Most books are so well written they barely have any effect on the reader’s senses”

— Steve Aylett

In the fabric of space and in the nature of matter, as in a great work of art, there is, written small,…

— Carl Sagan

The true history of my administration will be written 50 years from now, and you and I will not be around to…

— George W. Bush

The best prose is written by authors who see their universe with a poet’s eyes.

— Vera Brittain

Looking for a word from the Lord? Believe that he has already spoken, and read what he's already written.

— Mark Driscoll

I tend to only read comics written by friends or people I've known. And I'm not a great comic reader.

— Grant Morrison

Face your fears, endure its pain and they will be re-written in the form of pride and dreams.

— Greg Plitt

As gay young people, we are marginalized. As young people who are HIV-positive and have AIDS, we are totally written off.

— Pedro Zamora

We have always made mistakes, but the greatest mistakes are the poems we have written.

— Tristan Tzara