Written Quotes · Page 62

In my own case, the most inflammatory statements I have ever made are ones that I have written and remain willing to…

— Sam Harris

I've never written a song that's hopeless. I'm not a hopeless person. I'm crazily optimistic. I crazily see the good in people.…

— Michael Stipe

I wanted to write; I sought all possible paths of personal liberation, but I could never sacrifice a living instant of life…

— Nina Berberova

I just think that the world of workshops - I've written a poem that is a parody of workshop talk, I've written…

— Billy Collins

I get so annoyed by famous people who have not actually written the books they slap their names on.

— Anderson Cooper

Volumes might be written upon the impiety of the pious.

— Herbert Spencer

The bank's product is debt, because the banks want to make sure that they can get paid for the debt. But ultimately…

— Michael Hudson

[The Yellow Birds] is based on a novel written by Kevin Powers, who is an Iraq War vet. I play a soldier…

— Alden Ehrenreich

If man had written the Gospels - say Shakespeare or Eugene O'Neill - the story of the gospel would have been drastically…

— Aiden Wilson Tozer

If at the end of your first ten or fifteen years of fighting and working and feeling, you find you've written one…

— e. e. cummings

The Bible must be the invention either of good men or angels, bad men or devils, or of God. However, it was…

— Charles Wesley

Lots of shows are written completely in the writer's room. And I wouldn't say 'The Walking Dead' is that way. There are…

— Scott M. Gimple

I have written to Minister of State for Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions, asking him to consider 'staggered office timings' for government…

— Veerappa Moily

That, if the Gentiles, (whom no Law inspir'd,) By Nature did what was by Law requir'd; They, who the written Rule and…

— John Dryden

“Even if you have the wit to look by yourself in a bush away from the other children, there are not many…

— Yasunari Kawabata

On those remote pages [of 'a certain Chinese encyclopedia'] it is written that animals are divided into (a) those that belong to…

— Jorge Luis Borges

I was sickly as a child and gravitated to books and drawing. During my early teen years, I spent hundreds of hours…

— Maurice Sendak

I hate that not everything ever written is on iBooks. Man, I hate paper.

— Penn Jillette

The greater amount of truth is impulsively uttered; thus the greater amount is spoken, not written.

— Edgar Allan Poe

I got Twin Peaks, and the part was basically written for me, which was a really big shock. I think everything really…

— Sherilyn Fenn

Every drop of human blood contains a history book written in the language of our genes.

— Spencer Wells

Every physician must be rich in knowledge, and not only of that which is written in books; his patients should be his…

— Paracelsus

I try to see their moral relevance [in the Bible] and, of course, to admire the literary beauty of the text. Prophetic…

— Elie Wiesel

Because Shakespeare's language is so expansive, we're under this misconception that it's difficult. But I discovered that it's easy because it's so…

— Jessica Lange

I honestly never sat down and said "OK, here's my style," because my whole thing was knowing everyone's style. Everything I've ever…

— Bun B

Perhaps the pleasure one feels in writing is not the infallible test of the literary value of a page; perhaps it is…

— Marcel Proust

Every single lyric I've ever written I meant.

— John Lydon

Those stories weren't being written at all - stories about women's inner lives and outer activism. We've come miles and miles, but…

— Marisa Tomei

Once I've written something it does tend to run away from me. I don't seem to have any part of it -…

— David Bowie

Our Feastival of Queens area, which featured five different authentic ethnic foods from Queens, was one of the most popular areas of…

— Tom Russell

The movie Fifty Shades of Grey is considerably better written than the book. It is also sort of classy-looking, in a generic,…

— Lisa Schwarzbaum

Behold our refutation of the error. It is not based on documents of faith, but on the reasons and statements of the…

— Thomas Aquinas

I don't procrastinate because I love the English language and the process of storytelling, and I'm always curious to see what will…

— Dean Koontz

Some writers, of course, simply write, as they feel they are driven to do, by outer/inner inspirations. If, after the work is…

— Tanith Lee

The duty of labor is written on a man's body: in the stout muscle of the arm,, and the delicate machinery of…

— Theodore Parker

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

— Morris Kline

I have got an iPad, what a joy! Van Gogh would have loved it, and he could have written his letters on…

— David Hockney

I curse in everyday life, but usually when I stub my toe. The topics I'm discussing, it's not necessary to curse. I…

— Jim Gaffigan

I've been writing a lot of country music again. I've written some bluegrass material. I'm having a good time doing that.

— Dan Fogelberg

I have a fundamental belief in the Bible as the Word of God, written by men who were inspired. I study the…

— Isaac Newton