Written Quotes · Page 54

When you are mute, you become a good listener - it's all one-way. You appreciate the written word. You appreciate the sound.

— James Earl Jones

I'm really worried about my girlfriend's morals ... she has NEXT written on her knickers.

— Frank Carson

“Many people can and have written books, but many have nothing to say.”

— Amy Rogers

Feathers shall raise men even as they do birds towards heaven :- That is by letters written with their quills.

— Leonardo da Vinci

I'm probably the only bestselling author you know who's written more books than she's read.

— Suze Orman

Life is filigree work. What is written clearly is not worth much, it's the transparency that counts.

— Louis-Ferdinand Celine

Never write a poem about anything that ought to have a poem written about it.

— Richard Hugo

All 'Hamlets' are different, and it's the most overwritten play ever written.

— Martin Landau

The trajectory started when I was on the roof of our house looking out at a swamp when I was 19. I…

— Jim Harrison

From its beginning, fan fiction has been written mostly by women. Originally, this was because of a dearth of interesting female characters…

— Russell Smith

And this is the way a novel gets written, in ignorance, fear, sorrow, madness, and a kind of psychotic happiness as an…

— Jack Kerouac

The Bible's the greatest book ever written. But I sure don't need anybody I can buy for six bits and a chew…

— Huey Long

There's a great deal of attention paid and books written about this change of life in a woman, and really very little…

— Frank Langella

I would be ashamed to admit to the Indians that, where I come from, the women do not feel themselves capable of…

— Jean Liedloff

“ROM3.10 As it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one:  ROM3.11 There is none that understandeth, there is none that…

— Anonymous

From the Far East I send you one single thought, one sole idea - written in red on every beachhead from Australia…

— Douglas MacArthur

This is, in fact, the biggest show that Marvel television has ever taken on, in the animation world. We had a real…

— Jeph Loeb

Sharona Muir has written a gripping personal memoir about her odyssey to rediscover and reclaim her father. Along the way she uncovers…

— Edmund White

People apparently only read mystery stories of any length. With mysteries, the longer the better, and people will read any damn thing.…

— Cormac McCarthy

I'm not typing. I write only by longhand. I've always written first drafts by hand and then once I was into a…

— John Irving

Only as the written text began to speak would the voices of the forest, and of the river, begin to fade. And…

— David Abram

Why multiply instances? It is written, the Heavens and the Earth shall fade away like a Vesture; which indeed they are: the…

— Thomas Carlyle

I come from a nation where fantastic fiction has a very low status, unless it fits into some very specific categories or…

— Karin Tidbeck

The Prodigal Son story is, I think, the greatest short-story ever written. It has such drama in it, such great characters, it's…

— Max Lucado

History should not be written to make the present generation feel good but to remind us that human affairs are complicated.

— Margaret MacMillan

When you feel good about what youve written, there is just no high that is greater.

— Cynthia Weil

Believe me, those great death bed speeches are written ahead of time.

— Scott Simon

When you've written a film and directed it and it comes out exactly as you imagined it, it's pretty boring.

— Christopher McQuarrie

It would be morally reprehensible not to tell the truth... Everything I have written has stood the test of time.

— Kitty Kelley

I got my job through the New York Times. [Written underneath:] So did Castro.

— Robert Reisner

I'm seeing a lot of roles written explicitly for plus-size women, which is so cool.

— Shannon Purser

Most of our songs were written on acoustic guitar before they made it to the practice stage.

— Dave Grohl

Literature belongs first and foremost to the language in which it is being written.

— Amos Oz

This contract is so one-sided that I am astonished to find it written on both sides of the paper.

— 1st Baron Evershed Raymond Evershed

Strange as it may seem, the most ludicrous lines I ever wrote have been written in the saddest mood.

— William Cowper

A lot of people have told me, you know, that what I've written about, they identify with strongly.

— Carrie Fisher

Books that talk about 'contemplation' often seem to have been written on Jupiter. This one is a sterling exception.

— Martin Laird

I wish I could set deadlines for the Congress, but that's just not the way the Constitution is written.

— Robert M. Gates

I don't believe it's all for nothing. It's not just written in the sand.

— Robbie Robertson

There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written.

— Oscar Wilde