Written Quotes · Page 68

Speaks cheerful English and in the past has written this language with a paintbrush that talks.

— Jimmy Breslin

Historically speaking, the books I usually connect with the most are written in first-person narrative.

— Davey Havok

I doubt I would have written a line ... unless some minor tragedy had sort of twisted my mind out of the…

— Roald Dahl

Certain laws have not been written, but they are more fixed than all the written laws.

— Seneca the Younger

When you try to unravel something you've written, you belittle it in a way. It was created as a mystery.

— Don DeLillo

I think the measure of your success to a certain extent will be the amount of things written about you that aren't…

— Cybill Shepherd

Bands have always written songs against what they see as wrong. Ronald Reagan really made for a lot of songs.

— Henry Rollins

In general, what is written must be easy to read and easy to speak; which is the same.

— Aristotle

We don't actually know if the person who wrote the Gospel of John had a written copy of Thomas because we don't…

— Elaine Pagels

In the first 27 years of my life, I never had written a single non-technical word. I went to engineering college and…

— Karan Bajaj

A lot has been written about my age and my injuries. A lot of people think I'm going to be 94. I'm…

— Roy Keane

I don't know what people who I've never met think about me. Some have written horrible things, some have written nice things…

— Ben Elton

From Shakespeare to Robi Thakur, everyone has written stories about people and incidents around them. There is no creativity minus reality irrespective…

— Vidya Balan

“The representation written in this fashion identifies individual events, not overall changes from one point in time to another.”

— Charles M. Fox

I've written a song for Prince. I never showed it to Prince, but just to see if I could do it. At…

— Randy Newman

I have a suspicion - I have to be careful what I say - that you might actually find the best comics…

— Terry Pratchett

The 'tide in the affairs of men' does not remain at the flood; it ebbs. We may cry out desperately for time…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

You know, writer can write about the Foreign Legion without ever having been in the Foreign Legion, but that doesn't necessarily mean…

— Rod Serling

Amity Gaige has written a flawless book. It does not contain a single false note. Playful and inventive, SCHRODER movingly depicts the…

— David Bezmozgis

There have been times I thought that when I got a certain point in the story, a certain character was going to…

— Steve Erickson

We really wanted someone from the culture to sort of do that. And we heard about Taika [Waititi]. We saw his movie…

— Ron Clements

Often it's the latest novel that I've written that is my favourite. I'd been dreaming it for so long, living and breathing…

— Michael Morpurgo

Most people who ask me what's my favorite song, expect that it's 'Midnight Train' or 'Neither One of Us.' But actually, it's…

— Gladys Knight

Traditionally poetry is written in lines. But the prose poem is the kind of poem that isn't written in lines. It is…

— Campbell McGrath

Yet the deepest truths are best read between the lines, and, for the most part, refuse to be written.

— Amos Bronson Alcott

An actor remembers his first piece of published praise. It is written on his heart.

— Conrad Veidt

The thinker as reader reads what has been written. He wears the words he reads to look upon Within his being.

— Wallace Stevens

I would say there's a lot of similarity between folk and punk. It's written for the common man.

— Greg Graffin

I think there's a general misconception that anything written quickly lacks quality, and I don't believe that.

— Michael Connelly

It's just a matter of me opening up the page and whatever is written on the page, that's what I'm here to…

— Anthony Anderson

I would say that 99 per cent of what my father has written about his own life is false.

— L. Ron Hubbard

I'm just honored that some of my little contributions I've written with my daughter are doing well.

— Julie Andrews

I have my favorite authors, but in reality, my mother did. Though she's never written a book, she paved the way for…

— Franny Armstrong

Of all that is written, I love only what a person has written with his own blood.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

I never had a written contract, was never officially a stable jockey.

— Tony McCoy

Except for the Bible, the two greatest documents ever written are the U.S. Constitution and the Declaration of Independence.

— Rafael Cruz

The greatest history book ever written is the one hidden in our DNA.

— Spencer Wells

Sparky's the only guy I know who's written more books than he's read.

— Ernie Harwell

I'm writing constantly about all my crazy experiences across the world, so I have a lot of music I've already written.

— Kesha

William Trevor is an author I admire; his stories are subtle and powerful, and beautifully written.

— Kim Edwards