Written Quotes · Page 70

Sônia Braga reacted in a beautiful way to the draft I sent her, so we just made the film ["Aquarius"] as I…

— Sonia Braga

Neiman's book is written with considerable flair, as many critics have already noted, but it possesses a far rarer and more valuable…

— Mark Kingwell

I want all of my songs to do well whether I've written them or not.

— Leona Lewis

I do want people to know that the songs that I wrote when I was with women were really about women. And…

— George Michael

I dream of summing everything up in the greatest sentence ever written.

— Mason Cooley

You never know what you're going to share. I can play, I know what is written - the marks, the things the…

— Igor Levit

My first in, my first break, was I met a director and got to talking with her, and she happened to be…

— Chris Pratt

I've written songs for Shirley Bassey, Marianne Faithfull, and Linda Thompson. I sort of focus on these wonderful, aging divas. But maybe…

— Rufus Wainwright

I don't think anyone honestly would hire me, so I don't think I have to worry but, if it was well written…

— Mary-Louise Parker

When I'm choosing things, there's a level of intelligence I want to peel off, whether it's written in terribly simple sentences, whether…

— Lynne Tillman

I've never written a play before, and I'll never write one again. You can quote me.

— Holland Taylor

Let no man write my epitaph... When my country takes her place among the nations of the earth, then shall my character…

— Robert Emmet

My denim jacket had 'I love GNR' and 'I love AC/DC' written all over it, but I always came back to swing.

— Paloma Faith

I have no idea what readership is of written editorials, but it doesn't come anywhere close to the readership of editorial cartoons.

— Paul Conrad

I don't see a difference between playing a performance capture role and a live action role, they're just characters to me at…

— Andy Serkis

I became fascinated by the fact that you could translate written material into performance.

— Raymond Cruz

Who would have thought that a tap-dancing penguin would outpoint James Bond at the box office? And deserve to? Not that there's…

— Robert Gottlieb

I wanted to be an artist after all, and my teachers told me these were the best authors the 20th century had…

— Simon Rich

If I could come out in this book and advocate complete revolution and the violent overthrow of the United States of America,…

— William Powell

“There's a lot of guys up there who like wearing a suit or try doing jokes that they think will play to…

— Jim Jefferies

When the Constitution was written, the founders had no way of anticipating the new technologies that would evolve in the coming centuries.

— Al Franken

Even if great poetry continues to be written, it has retreated from the center of literary life. Though supported by a loyal…

— Dana Gioia

He was born a King. The wise men came from the East and asked, 'Where is He that is born King of…

— W. A. Criswell

I think their pasts are treated with a voice that sees their role as those of innocents. That's reflected in the past…

— Chang-Rae Lee

I am not one of the great composers. All the great have produced enormously. There is everything in their work - the…

— Maurice Ravel

The Slobs were written in a very 2D way, but Kathy Burke brought a touching quality to all her characters.

— Harry Enfield

There's been resistance to every new technology that's ever been introduced. When books came out hundreds of years ago, there were complaints…

— Jeremy Stoppelman

I routinely oscillate between exultation and despair. Maybe at the end of the day I feel pretty good about what I've written,…

— Barbara Ehrenreich

I was in juvenile detention center, and I was in Rikers Island. And there was an anthology written by the inmates called…

— Lemon Andersen

I have written a wicked book, and feel spotless as the lamb. Ineffable socialities are in me. I would sit down and…

— Herman Melville

Most of the people dishing out judgment have no working experience of the theatre, have not written a professional play, a sketch,…

— John Lahr

If a scene isn't well written they'll drop your neckline to fill the void.

— Madeline Kahn

The teaching which is written on paper is not the true teaching. Written teaching is a kind of food for your brain.…

— Shunryu Suzuki

“We have written too many books about love and so few about hunger and poverty; that is why we need to wake…

— M.F. Moonzajer

The wisdom of samadhi is quite different. Higher level wisdom cannot be written down. It cannot be spoken. True wisdom is the…

— Frederick Lenz

In a way, I'd rather go into an interview and be disliked, and have unpleasant things written about me, than to have…

— Romola Garai

Khairani Barokka is a writer, spoken-word poet, visual artist and performer whose work has a strong vein of activism, particularly around disability,…

— Deborah Smith

Never criticize the composition of a Royal Highness. You never know who may have written it.

— Johannes Brahms

Some of the stories in Dogwalker were written as long as four years ago, but I wouldn't say I've been working on…

— Arthur Bradford

I still have a feeling that I haven't written the best that I can write. I think all poets must feel this:…

— Carol Ann Duffy