Written Quotes · Page 58

When the history of civilization is written, it will be a biological history and Margaret Sanger will be its heroine.

— H. G. Wells

“So nothing will ever be written down again. Perhaps the act of writing is necessary only when nothing happens.”

— Kōbō Abe

The books I haven't written are better than the books other people have.

— Cyril Connolly

Everything goes by the board: honor, pride, decency, security, happiness, all, to get the book written.

— William Faulkner

If there's a poster boy for the fact that all essays are written through personae, it's Crèvecoeur.

— John D'Agata

I never thought I'd write, because I'd never written anything in my whole life.

— Linda Ronstadt

The record of one's life must needs prove more interesting to him who writes it than to him who reads what has…

— Elizabeth Kenny

The whole point of writing is to have something in your gut or in your soul or in your mind that's burning…

— Jerome Lawrence

As an actor, you're tied to the writing. You live and die by what's written for you. And you can elevate that…

— James Wolk

The mind is like a computer. It runs programs. Most of the software has been poorly written. It is written in the…

— Frederick Lenz

My music wasn't written by Mozart, Beethoven, Bach or Schubert. It's written by God and me. They go "a one and a…

— James Brown

I feel that I will be more of a feature director, and I will go away completely from videos. I want to…

— Chris Stokes

I would love to produce a film. I have written a script and am in the process of writing another, so maybe…

— Judi Shekoni

As I kid, I was always jealous of the music that my favorite bands had written - but not really of how…

— Jonny Greenwood

With the films I've done, I've written on them, I've acted in some of them. And even ones I haven't acted in,…

— Rob Reiner

I've got a nice car. I love my job. I've got a bagel store, and I have breakfast every morning with friends…

— Larry King

I'm not a huge kind of visual director. For me, it's all about the acting. There's no greater buzz than working with…

— Peter Mullan

The telephone conversation is, by its very nature, reactive, not reflective. Immediacy is its prime virtue. ... The letter, written in absorbed…

— Vivian Gornick

Those who first introduced compulsory education into American life knew exactly why children should go to school and learn to read: to…

— Dorothy H Cohen

I know myself - I cannot just play a cliche. It has to be a character; it has to be written with…

— Hiam Abbass

The book, you understand, was not written for publication. It was the portrayal of my emotions, the analysis of my own soul…

— Mary MacLane

Every day on the set, things change. You move things around. The actors are creating the roles and bringing them to life,…

— Summer Glau

Fate handed Barack Obama the best of all political gifts - a dyspeptic, surly, spiteful opposition on the one hand and very…

— Bill Moyers

No matter what I've written, someone somewhere has come up to me and said, "Me too." The truth can be offensive, but…

— Augusten Burroughs

I've written lots of songs on the piano. My mother had a piano and it was the first instrument I played

— Mick Taylor

Actors don't request what scenes to be written in. That's just not how it works.

— Nicholas Gonzalez

Customers want new things, and the way that they get them isn't written in stone.

— Natalie Massenet

I honestly don't class myself as a songwriter. I've got 'musician' written on my passport. That's even funnier.

— Robert Smith

Oliver [Goldstick] is a very dynamic and imaginative writer, so the stage directions were visceral and very clearly written.

— Tom Riley

The secret to success is written on the doors of this auditorium. One side says 'Push,' the other side says 'Pull.

— Judith Crist

Nowhere is it written that there must be conflict between the United States and China.

— Joe Biden

I've always kept a notebook in my pocket, I've always written stuff down since I was a kid.

— Gord Downie

I'm a huge fan of basically anything written about complicated, contradictory women. I'm drawn to them really quickly.

— Phoebe Waller-Bridge

All the sciences came to exist in Arabic. The systematic works on them were written in Arabic writing.

— Ibn Khaldun

Written poetry is different. Best thing is to see it in performance first, then read it. Performance is more provocative.

— Adrian Mitchell

“Can I show all that I have written to my Beloved, the one for whom all I write is written?”

— Vipul Rikhi

I've never written nearly as much about place as people seem to think I do. I just write about class.

— Richard Russo

Many of the songs on Undertow were written at the time Opiate came out.

— Adam Jones

Even the written history [of Abraham Lincoln's times] is poorly understood by most people.

— George Saunders

Every screenwriter worthy of the name has already directed his film when he has written his script.

— Joseph L. Mankiewicz