Written Quotes · Page 63

Without the imaginative insight which goes with creative literature, history cannot be intelligibly written.

— C. V. Wedgwood

I've written a lot of songs that I really love, plenty for an album.

— Ruel

Britain's legal structure is basically the same as in feudal times: laws are written for the elite.

— Heather Brooke

Preaching, in the first sense of the word, ceased as soon as ever the gospel was written.

— John Selden

When anything important has to be written ... I think your hand concentrates for you.

— Rebecca West

I've written something and I would like to have my first film directed by the time I'm 30.

— Ryan Phillippe

Favoriting tweets has become a form of acknowledging that you've read what someone else has written.

— Kenneth Goldsmith

The idea of trying to fight against extremism was written off as naive.

— Joichi Ito

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

— John Ruskin

To see this place would truly be worth a trip to India in itself, and from the spirit of the religion that…

— Rudolf Otto

There are a lot of people in the field [ of horror stories] that I do read. There is a lot of…

— Stephen King

It takes me a long time to get with a landscape. It took me 20 years before I wrote anything about Ibiza,…

— Robert Sheckley

The songs that I've written about Africa, and AIDS and HIV and about the power of humanitarian love, those songs, I'm gonna…

— India.Arie

Let but the public mind become once thoroughly corrupt, and all attempts to secure property, liberty or life, by mere force of…

— Horace Mann

What good is all the painstaking work on copy if the headline isn't right? If the headline doesn't stop people, the copy…

— John Caples

“Writing letters...means to denude oneself before the ghosts, something for which they greedily wait. Written kisses don't reach their destination, rather they…

— Kafka, Franz

Every time I felt the pain coming on I'd go downstairs and hammer out an idea. After a few months I started…

— Frank Iero

If you cross the Atlantic with an American lady you invariably fall in love with her before the journey is over. Travel…

— Anthony Trollope

During all the first part of the Middle Ages, no other people made as important a contribution to human progress as did…

— Philip Khuri Hitti

In any case, once you're dealing on a nonverbal level, ambiguity is unavoidable. But it's the ambiguity of all art, of a…

— Stanley Kubrick

The Tao can't be perceived. Smaller than an electron, it contains uncountable galaxies. If powerful men and women could remain centered in…

— Laozi

I don't claim to be a particularly good father. I'm flawed, let's say. I've certainly been affected by the experience of having…

— Loudon Wainwright III

I truly love [Andy Serkis]. He's an amazing guy. Yeah, I think that when we really synced up was when he came…

— Woody Harrelson

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

— Yasunari Kawabata

The best and only authentic book written on the sixties underground.

— Dennis Hopper

If I live for another ten years I shall probably have written all that I want to write.

— Laurence Housman

I've always preferred writing in longhand. I've always written first drafts in longhand.

— John Irving

The importance to the writer of first writing must be out of all proportion of the actual value of what is written.

— Elizabeth Bowen

Anybody who knows me knows I would never read a comic book. And I certainly would never read anything written by Kevin…

— Tim Burton

He suddenly announced that he could not write any more since "All that I have written seems like straw to me."

— Thomas Aquinas

It was easier to do Shakespeare than a lot of modern movie scripts that are so poorly written.

— Jessica Lange

Films were never on my agenda, may be it was written in my destiny. And since I am here, I would like…

— Ameesha Patel

“Money to Burn” is a fantasy. I mean, I would love for that to be a true story. Most of my songs…

— Ladyhawke

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 think that I've always written about things that are very personal, but initially, I coded everything.

— William Gibson

In ways I don't entirely have the words for, an experience, thought or a lesson isn't real for me until I've written…

— Alexandra Fuller

I had a story-telling mother; she's written novels and short stories. So I feel like maybe I'm staying alive by telling tales.

— Ayshay

Well, the very best operas are the ones written by the very best composers.

— John Eaton

I disagree strongly with the concept of separation of church and state. It was not written into the Constitution.

— Ken Buck

I have gotten everything from a one-page letter written in pencil to a 50-page computer generated masterpiece.

— Ron Pearson