Written Quotes · Page 55

Mozart never composed anything, ever! He copied what was written on his soul.

— Marc Chagall

A symphony is a stage play with the parts written for instruments instead of for actors.

— Colin Wilson

I have written every one of my novels to convince somebody of something.

— Manuel Puig

No written law has ever been more binding than unwritten custom supported by popular opinion.

— Carrie Chapman Catt

It is true that some of my fiction was based on actual events. But the events took place after the fiction was…

— Edward Abbey

“written, preserved, and passed on to us. What an indescribable blessing it is for us”

— Janette Oke

Calvaryites are sometimes a little too heavily oriented to the written Word.

— John Wimber

Maybe the best comics are written by people who really are at ease in the comic world.

— Terry Pratchett

People lament that there's no roles being written for South Asian or Muslim characters. But their parents don't want their children to…

— Aasif Mandvi

“We're not on the same page right now, but that's okay. Were still in the same story, and there's still so much…

— Scott Stabile

Rapidity does not always mean progress, and hurry is akin to waste. The old fable of the hare and the tortoise is…

— Charles Warren Stoddard

Fate is a story that's been written for you by somebody else. By your parent's genes, by what happened to you when…

— Alberto Villoldo

We're real people and we're a band that's been playing on the scene for a long time. We've made a lot of…

— Dan Hawkins

Great touch is often written off simply as 'talent,' which is crucial, because a good swing can take a golfer only so…

— Arnold Palmer

The structure of 'March' was laid down for me before the first line was written, because my character has to exist within…

— Geraldine Brooks

There will be no 'Mommie Dearest' in the lives of my children, and no books like the one the Crosby boy wrote…

— Don Ameche

In company with people of your own trade you ordinarily speak of other writers' books. The better the writers the less they…

— Ernest Hemingway

Over the years I've never written or made movies about political themes 'cause while they do have current critical importance, in the…

— Woody Allen

I routinely oscillate between exultation and despair. Maybe at the end of the day I feel pretty good about what I've written,…

— Barbara Ehrenreich

The Bible is a wonderful book. It is the truth about the Truth. It is not the Truth. A sermon taken from…

— Richard Wurmbrand

When I started researching history in the 1960s, a lot of women about whom I've subsequently written were actually footnotes to history.…

— Alison Weir

I think people tend to forget that as celebrities we are still human. We have the same emotions - we cry, we…

— Sania Mirza

A recent study by David Green and Laura Casper, 'Delay, Denial and Dilution,' written for the London-based Institute of Economic Affairs, concludes…

— Walter E. Williams

To mourn is to wonder at the strangeness that grief is not written all over your face in bruised hieroglyphics. And it's…

— Meghan O'Rourke

In history there's what's written down and there's what actually happened.

— Steven Knight

A elegantly executed proof is a poem in all but the form in which it is written.

— Morris Kline

I have written too much history to have faith in it; and if anyone thinks I'm wrong, I am inclined to agree…

— Henry Adams

I find old copies of National Gallery catalogues, which are written in the dryest possible prose, infinitely soothing.

— Howard Hodgkin

Next to the Bible, I think the Constitution is the most important document ever written.

— Steve Scalise

As a reader, I have always enjoyed 'ranty' books, but they are all written by men.

— Claire Messud

I've always written at night - my working day for years was around 9pm to 2am - though I do keep more…

— Max Richter

A book or poem which has no pity in it had better not be written.

— Oscar Wilde

I've written 18 books, mostly dealing with issues of social justice, ending racism, feminism, and cultural criticism.

— Bell Hooks

“to heal the sick, care for the injured, and give aid to the wretched and impoverished. So was it written, and so…

— Brian Jacques

If you will read again what is written, you will see how it was.

— Black Elk

I had written 'Two Lovers' before we started shooting 'We Own the Night.'

— James Gray

When fairy tales are written in the west, they're known as folklore. In the east, fairy tales are called religions.

— Paul Henderson

What I have written-and how I came to write it-is most powerfully what I am.

— Hortense Calisher

I believe the Bible to be the written Word of God and to contain in it the whole rule of faith and…

— Robert Treat Paine

“Only writing could soak up his loneliness and pain. Written words could tell him who he was.”

— Don DeLillo