Written Quotes · Page 69

I've always found too that somewhere in whatever you've just written lies the seed of what you're going to write next.

— Matthew Specktor

I'd rather sing a good lyric written by someone else than one of my own that is terrible.

— Vanessa Paradis

The fact is I don't write songs, per se; I've written a couple here and there, but that's not my forte.

— John Dolmayan

The touring band is DIIV, and the songs are always written with them in mind. But the new record is going to…

— Zachary Cole Smith

What is it about the component of fire? People have written about it. People have wondered about it.

— Joseph Wambaugh

Equity is that idea of justice which contravenes the written law.

— Aristotle

Only sing - don't do cheap songs, don't do silly songs, just do, just do wonderful songs that are well-written.

— Frank Sinatra

I've always written about social concerns. My first book was about Spanish Harlem.

— Dan Wakefield

After I had written seventeen full-length mysteries, two volumes of mini-mysteries, a travel guide and some quiz books, not to mention a…

— Caroline Lawrence

The basic human rights documents-the American Declaration of Independence and the French Declaration of the Rights of Man-were written by political, not…

— Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr

The Fighter was about a family struggling to overcome and fighting each other sometimes, and I went back and rewrote this script…

— David O. Russell

Although all spiritual teachings originate from the same Source, once they become verbalized and written down they are obviously no more than…

— Eckhart Tolle

Our culture highlights all the trouble, all the drama, all the affairs and all the junk. Do not believe for a minute…

— Andy Stanley

I had written the script a few years earlier for Paramount, then later got hired with Sam [Fuller] to write an entirely…

— Curtis Hanson

I've written short stories in first person, but you have so much more control writing in third person. Third person, you know…

— Tamora Pierce

Have I ever written anything that has really changed something? What I believe is that you can't change anything without using art.…

— Henning Mankell

Wave after wave has brought to our shores beautiful and mysterious treasures from unknown worlds: figurines, animals, fetishes, masks, ceremonial or useful…

— Dominique de Menil

I love actors. I enjoy their company, and I get excited each and every time they bring a character I've written to…

— Christopher Durang

If you are doing a piece about somebody, even if you admire them tremendously and express that in the piece, express that…

— Joan Didion

You may be a geek. You may have geek written all over you. You should aim to be the geek they will…

— Bruce Sterling

I really can't answer that off the top of my head, my favorite movies. Each one individually was wonderfully made, wonderfully directed,…

— Debbie Reynolds

Before I wrote The Power of Now, I had a vision that I had already written the book and that it was…

— Eckhart Tolle

It's a very collaborative environment [making The Office]. We always do takes of how it's scripted, but then we also mix it…

— Ed Helms

The Prince was written by Machiavelli for the Haves on how to hold power. Rules for Radicals is written for the Have-Nots…

— Saul Alinsky

Every piece of software written today is likely going to infringe on someone else's patent.

— Miguel de Icaza

Books are slow. They require time; they are written slowly, published slowly, and read slowly.

— Lewis Buzbee

She didn't leave any written instructions. She has verbally expressed her wishes to me and other people.

— Michael Schiavo

I had written 'Cafe de Flore' with 'Stairway to Heaven' in mind.

— Jean-Marc Vallee

Jacques said that his master said that everything good or evil we encounter here below was written on high.

— Denis Diderot

When I turned 19 I kinda realized that I needed to write my own songs instead of singing songs written by other people.

— Colbie Caillat

Everything I've written is based on something that has happened to me or something that I know a great deal about.

— Peter Benchley

Everything has been written. Everybody knows everything about me. There are no secrets. Except the skeletons in my closet.

— Kirby Puckett

Trust me, I have never written a speech in my life, and if I have my way, I never will.

— Curt Schilling

I've decided to take advantage of outsourcing. My next novel will be written by a couple of guys in Bangalore, India.

— Tom Robbins

The more love I craved, the more distant and abusive he grew. The role I longed to play was never written into…

— Tatum O'Neal

If Francoise Sagan hadn't written a book called A Chateau in Sweden, I would certainly write a short story called A Chateau…

— Truman Capote

If you say to me: "Master, it would seem that you weren't too terribly wise to have written these bits of nonsense…

— Francois Rabelais

Ancient Egypt was a Negro Civilization. The history of Black Africa will remain suspended in air and cannot be written correctly until…

— Cheikh Anta Diop

REALISM, n. The art of depicting nature as it is seem by toads. The charm suffusing a landscape painted by a mole,…

— Ambrose Bierce

I suppose that it doesn't matter whether a song is written or sung by a man or a woman. If the sentiment…

— Emmy Rossum