Written Quotes · Page 52

The roles that are written for women as they grow older in theater are much richer and much more powerful.

— Kathleen Turner

Ive written a book on gangs, taught a course on gangs at Occidental.

— Tom Hayden

“Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral law is written on the tablets of eternity.”

— Anonymous

The mixture of the oral and the written traditions in the writings of Plato enabled him to dominate the history of the…

— Harold Innis

I've written films that are violent. I'm not big on sitting and watching violence.

— John Ridley

I'm very proud of it. 'Hunchback' contains some of my favorite music I've ever written in my life.

— Dennis DeYoung

I have written too much about lives - I feel I have lived for too long.

— Shan Sa

If you didn't want to be written about, you shouldn't have been born to a writer!

— Emily Yoffe

Just why I sent it to the publishers would be hard to say, but when I had finished it I felt that…

— Mary MacLane

Eventually we even got to the point where we could disagree with [Bernard Leach]. I mean, when we first went there, gee,…

— Warren MacKenzie

It would be a narrow conception of jurisprudence to confine the notion of 'laws' to what is found written on the statute…

— Felix Frankfurter

Poetry, at least the kind I write, is written out of immediate need; it is written out of pain, joy, and experience…

— Madeleine L'Engle

A beautifully written tale that lives somewhere between landscape and memory, where regret becomes a prison, and a story told often enough…

— Brunonia Barry

You know if something is good because you remember the lines because it is written so well. The rhythm of the speech…

— Rob James-Collier

"In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth..." Whatever our speculations may be in regard to a "beginning," and when…

— Elisha Gray

We shall not busy ourselves with what men ought to have admired, what they ought to have written, what they ought to…

— George Saintsbury

If you take a movie like Easy Rider which everyone counts as the beginning of New Hollywood, that is a big movement.…

— Alex Stapleton

I could see why someone would want to make a website about me, and my quotes. They are all gold. How many…

— Zach Braff

I love a novel that’s funny, and The Taxman Cometh is very funny, delightfully well-written, yet with a serious message about how…

— Marvin Kalb

Most of Emily's backstory is written out between New Moon and Eclipse. I'm reading them as we're shooting the films. I haven't…

— Tinsel Korey

The kingdoms represented by the second and third Beasts, or the Bear and Leopard, are again described by Daniel in his last…

— Isaac Newton

The censor is always quick to justify his function in terms that are protective of society. But the First Amendment, written in…

— William O. Douglas

in the press, my sex life was something else again. I was Lady Bountiful of the Sheets. Some of the best fiction…

— Doris Day

For if I should not believe all that is written by Historians, of the glorious acts of Alexander, or Caesar; I do…

— Thomas Hobbes

Poetry has roots, but they are sometimes cut off and still poetry is written.

— Shirley Geok-lin Lim

Johnston's books are beautifully written and among the funniest I have ever read.

— Annie Dillard

I love writing. I've always written journals. I loved writing the book on living alone.

— Barbara Feldon

There's a lot of water in everything I've ever written. There's always oceans and pools.

— Jane Alison

A lot of lines in movies were written, but I'm always improvising. Once you get into the scene, it just comes to…

— Chris Tucker

The information I most want is in books not yet written by people not yet born.

— Ashleigh Brilliant

“If I could have been a cowgirl, I might have never written a word.”

— Carolyn Haines

Looking Backward was written in the belief that the Golden Age lies before us and not behind us.

— Edward Bellamy

Every writer secretly hopes that what he or she has written will endure.

— Jonathan Coleman

Some of the best songs I've written, I've written in 10 minutes.

— Christine McVie

The Constitution was not written to restrain the citizen's behavior, it was writtne to restrain the government's behavior.

— Rand Paul

History is written by victors and, occasionally, sensationalist journalists. I mean that with the best respect.

— Ray Stevenson

I have only written what I experienced, what I saw, what I learned first-hand.

— Mohamedou Ould Slahi

The Bible was not written for entertainment purposes, so it's a real hodgepodge and a compendium of all kinds of stuff.

— Robert Crumb

Whatever was written in the media was beyond me. The only thing I could control was getting fit.

— Andrew Flintoff

I don't think I'm such an amazing person who needs to be written about.

— Amy Winehouse