Written Quotes · Page 55

There is nothing terribly difficult in the Bible - at least in a technical way. The Bible is written in street language,…

— Eugene H. Peterson

I've never written a fiction before about real people. . . . I read everything that I could find by people who…

— Michael Frayn

Founders go wrong when they start to believe their business plan will materialize as written. I advise entrepreneurs to burn their business…

— Alexander Osterwalder

With a written agreement you have a prayer; with a verbal agreement you have nothing but air.

— Robert Ringer

There's a lot of craft in songwriting. The divine inspiration is when the idea comes. It may be a riff. It may…

— John Oates

I know that if I have been working on one paragraph and I have written it three times, it goes in the…

— Robert Rankin

None of my songs are written 'about' someone or something, they all just sort of tumble out unannounced, like the worst kind…

— St. Lucia

Mostly things that have happened to me, feelings that I've had, but on a couple of occasions I've written about things that…

— James Walsh

Beautiful books are always written in a sort of foreign language.

— Marcel Proust

Well I've written four beauty books as well.

— Joan Collins

Part of flirting is that you tend to give each other a little extra slack to be obscure - to say things…

— Elif Batuman

Why has no one written a November rhapsody with plenty of lilt and swing? The poets who are moved at all by…

— Mabel Osgood Wright

The highest teaching is never written down. It's only communicated from teacher to student because it's a "transmission of the lamp." It's…

— Frederick Lenz

When I finally got together with Rostropovich as a student, he was very focused, almost entirely focused on the music itself, on…

— David Finckel

People think I'm crazy, and it's been written in the papers that I'm off my rocker.

— Tommy Morrison

Central to everything I am and believe and have written is my astonishment, naive as it seems to people, that you can…

— George Steiner

"Southland" was not written for a black woman.

— Regina King

I write poems, have always written them, to transcend the painfully personal and reach the universal.

— May Sarton

The incomparable James Walvin has done it again: he has crafted a beautifully written and deeply informed single volume history of the…

— David W. Blight

And it [Fight Club novel] was written so general that my father thought I was writing about his father, and my boss…

— Chuck Palahniuk

I had learning disabilities, and I couldn't express myself in the written word,

— Laura Linney

I feel like there's already a written narrative going on everywhere. All the different situations and realities you're in, like words floating…

— Bill Callahan

The Greek idea of fate is moira, which means "portion." Fate rules a portion of your life. But there is more to…

— James Hillman

In the beginning was the Word. It doesn't say in the beginning was God. In the beginning was the Word because in…

— Harbhajan Singh Yogi

I have got you together to hear what I have written down. I do not wish your advice about the main matterfor…

— Abraham Lincoln