Written Quotes · Page 57

Everything I have written is the result of reading or of interest in people.

— Marianne Moore

Alan Menken, for example, is one of my heroes for all of the music he's written for Disney.

— Dave Koz

I've written so many songs about Englishmen, I have to go elsewhere.

— Ray Davies

I enjoy writing but I much prefer the experience of having written.

— Fareed Zakaria

I love slow readers. And readers who think about what I've written, think about how it's written - and copy me!

— Jacqueline Woodson

The moment I write out a cheque, it's an asset I have written off.

— Shiv Nadar

The book of nature which we have to read is written by the finger of God.

— Michael Faraday

I think half of our life is written out for us and things happen the way their supposed to happen.

— Rakim

It is the sincerest thing I have written, caught by the drama of a soul struggling in the contrary toils of love…

— Laurence Housman

When a day passes, it is no longer there. What remains of it? Nothing more than a story. If stories weren't told…

— Isaac Bashevis Singer

Instead of noting down things I’m unlikely to forget, I will write a poem. Even if I have never written one before…

— Paulo Coelho

Celebrity is a national drama whose characters' parts and plots are written by the tabloids, gossip columnists, websites and interactive buttons. The…

— A. A. Gill

“My past is my story to keep, and my future will be written by me, in my own way, not through the…

— Terry Goodkind

"Chocolate - The Consuming Passion" was written for the Chocolate Elite - the select millions who like chocolate in all its infinite…

— Sandra Boynton

What surprises me most in architecture, as in other techniques, is that a project has one life in its built state but…

— Aldo Rossi

Two-thirds of a century after [The Road to Serfdom] got written, hindsight confirms how inaccurate its innuendo about the future turned out…

— Paul Samuelson

Do you think that civilization advances because of things written in books? Not a bit of what is written in books ever…

— Walter Russell

But, in North Korea, it's just the opposite. There's one story. It's written by the Kim regime. And 23 million people are…

— Adam Johnson

David Agus is one of America's great doctors and medical researchers, a man dedicated to improving the health of as many people…

— Al Gore

I am sure it has been done with less, but you should be prepared to write and throw away a million words…

— Jerry Pournelle

It is the Jews who originated biblical exegesis (a critical analysis of the Bible), just as they were the first to criticize…

— Bernard Lazare

When 'Malcolm in the Middle' was over, I was looking for a drama more than a comedy...but if it was a comedy…

— Bryan Cranston

“I've written you sixty-seven love poems. Here’s another one for you. But really, for me. These poems are the candles that I…

— Kamand Kojouri

No one, at any rate no English writer, has written better about childhood than Dickens. In spite of all the knowledge that…

— George Orwell

I have written for, very fortunately, some great singers from Frank Sinatra to Elvis Presley.

— Neil Sedaka

Any time I've taken the mound, it's always been the old Samson-and-Goliath story written about me.

— Randy Johnson

If you've written something that moves you and frightens you, you just can't take it back.

— Viv Albertine

Concert repertoire is some of the most beautiful music ever written, and I frequently seek out opportunities to perform it.

— Susanna Phillips

Don't think. The worst songs I've ever written happen when I think.

— Neil Young

What worthwhile book after the Pentateuch has been written by a committee?

— George Steiner

I certainly wouldn't want a song that I'd already written to be used on a commercial. That seems strange.

— Jack White

Not only is history written by the winners, it is also made by them.

— Elisabeth Schussler Fiorenza

I've never written anything that hasn't been in my mind for a long time - seven or eight years.

— John McGahern

Lots of scripts are written and not made, even scripts that people want to make.

— James Salter

I've probably written about three albums that no one will ever hear.

— Jim Sturgess

A lot of '2112' was written in the back seat of a car and in cold dressing rooms while on tour in…

— Alex Lifeson

There's only one trick in software, and that is using a piece of software that's already been written.

— Bill Gates

I always believed that whatever had to be written would somehow get itself written.

— Seamus Heaney

My first book, 'Running Loose', was censored back in 1983 or '84. Every book I've written since has been censored somewhere.

— Chris Crutcher

Passing away" is written on the world and all the world contains.

— Felicia Hemans