Written Quotes · Page 59

I write in all keys. I've always written in all keys. I've probably written a lot of songs in A.

— Teena Marie

Good stories are not written by people who live in a city of dirty strip malls, forced to listen to the machinated…

— Spencer Antle

I have not written in vain if I have heretofore done anything towards diminishing the reputation of the Renaissance landscape painting.

— John Ruskin

'Top Gear' changed people's perceptions of me. I've had much more positive responses from my TV appearances than written articles. And I…

— James Blunt

All too often the Democratic Party has taken the black vote for granted, and all too often the Republican Party has written…

— Jack Kemp

Government is about coercion. Limiting government is the single most important instrument for guaranteeing liberty. We're working on a third generation which…

— Walter E. Williams

The vehemence with which certain critics have chosen not simply to criticize what I've written, but to challenge my writing this story…

— Joyce Maynard

After The Bomb we developed a fairly good system for moving food around and have avoided the kind of massive famines that…

— Paul R. Ehrlich

My view, as one who taught it, is that the whole purpose of a literary education should be to tell people that…

— Guy Davenport

As gay young people, we are marginalized. As young people who are HIV-positive and have AIDS, we are totally written off.

— Pedro Zamora

I'm constantly revising. Once the book is written and typed, I go through the entire draft again.

— Chaim Potok

To me, the coolest riffs are composed of two guitar parts that interlock like gears. You need both parts to make whole.…

— Richard Lloyd

It's amazing that you can listen to any song and you can always tell when there's some substance beneath it and when…

— Teddy Thompson

My dad read The Hobbit to me originally when I was young. So, it was the first imaginary landscape I ever had…

— Benedict Cumberbatch

One of the high points in my career came from a time I had with Tim Conway on a film when I…

— John Ratzenberger

We [me and Alison McGhee] probably wouldn't have said that when we were writing the stories, but it is so apparent to…

— Kate DiCamillo

I have earned wages as a waitress, a nanny, a librarian, a personnel officer, an agricultural laborer, an advertising secretary, a typesetter,…

— Karen Hesse

My reputation was a bit exaggerated. Things were written in newspapers, then copied, then doubled. One of the reasons why I never…

— Thomas Kretschmann

Had be been Shakespeare, he would then have written Troilus and Cressidato brand the offending sex; but being only a little dog,…

— Robert Louis Stevenson

I am convinced that when the history of international law comes to be written centuries hence, it will be divided into two…

— Ludwig Quidde

The notion of the writer as a kind of sociological sample of a community is ludicrous. Even worse is the notion that…

— Richard Rodriguez

Thousands of years ago, weren't we capable of building enormous structures like the pyramids? Weren't we capable of worshiping gods, weaving, making…

— Paulo Coelho

If you look on Amazon - if you do a search for personal finance, there are literally 20,000 books written on personal…

— Aaron Patzer

I like 'Bewitched' off the first album because it's one of the happiest songs I've ever written and, as any writer will…

— Malcolm Wilson

I’ve written a lot and brainstorm ideas, and I plan on pursuing them very soon.

— Logan Lerman