Written Quotes · Page 71

I call that [Book of Job], apart from all theories about it, one of the grandest things ever written with pen.

— Thomas Carlyle

When people ask, 'What role are you dying to play?' I always say, 'The one being written for me right now.'

— Bryan Batt

Shonin: I have composed a poem. Kokushi: Let's hear it. Shonin: When I chant, Both Buddha and self Cease to exist. There…

— Takuan Soho

We never thought we were writing for posterity, because at the time everyone assumed that all the great standards had already been…

— Mike Stoller

A goal that is not in writing is like cigarette smoke: It drifts away and disappears. It is vague and insubstantial. It…

— Brian Tracy

God has lent us the earth for our life; it is a great entail. It belongs as much to those who are…

— John Ruskin

People think that if you've written a book and somebody's given you a pat on the back then, you know, it's all…

— Barry Lopez

I believe that written stories will continue to survive because they answer an essential human need. I think movies might disappear before…

— Jonathan Lethem

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

Rock music was never written for or performed for conservative tastes.

— Frank Zappa

They should invent some way to tape-record your dreams. I've written songs in my dreams that were Beatles songs. Then I'd wake…

— Alice Cooper

Vernon Bogdanor's account The Monarchy and the Constitution is written as much in the shadow of Edmund Burke as it is of…

— David Cannadine

Bob has never written a bad song. Bob Dylan is a genius.

— Bob Dylan

My own best books have not been published. In fact, they've not even been written yet.

— Edward Abbey

I'm not a huge kind of visual director. For me, it's all about the acting. There's no greater buzz than working with…

— Peter Mullan

Politics is there the way men and women are there, the way the Atlantic Ocean is there. Sometimes I've written about politics…

— Kenneth Koch

I've always written songs with a visual counterpart in my mind that no one else can see.

— Phil Elvrum

The Jews would not willingly tread upon the smallest piece of paper in their way, but took it up; for possibly, they…

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

In new written testimony, just out as part Freedom of Information Act request, Hillary Clinton said she couldn't remember, recall, or anything…

— Donald Trump

Basically everything I've done in art, I was in possession of when I was 20 years old. I use a waste retrieval…

— Edward Ruscha

Basically I see that song as a bunch of images which I threw together to represent the fact that I was seeing…

— George Michael

Writing a book is a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout of some painful illness.

— George Orwell

I had written the script for Juno and apparently Steven Spielberg had read it. I can't just call him Steven, that's weird...…

— Diablo Cody

I have written stories, essays, even whole books on trains, scribble-scribble.

— Paul Theroux

For me, music is sort of my passion, more so than being an actor. I just never tried to make a career…

— Steve Kazee

[in 1998] I know my political ideas affect what I write but I've tried to follow the facts wherever they land. Every…

— James Q. Wilson

I'd been assured, at age 21 or so, by a well-known editor who saw the first part of The Secret History in…

— Donna Tartt

I try to make what I have written tighter, stronger and more precise, eliminating every element that's not doing useful work. Then…

— William Zinsser

I look at the natural geological record as a history of the world imperfectly kept and written in a changing dialect; of…

— Charles Darwin

Very effective way to do this with a bunch of second graders, is take a picture of The Lion King for instance,…

— Michele Bachmann

If you want a favorite book, Orson Scott Card's 'Ender's Game'. You'll be hooked. I think he's written like twelve or thirteen.

— Marisol Nichols

I love everything that Cormac McCarthy has written.

— Roger Deakins

There's also a lot of stuff that's not really good that gets written so I say to people who are excited about…

— Josh Prince

I feel very close to French culture and to the French humanism, which occasionally one finds, even in the highest places. And…

— Elie Wiesel

I wrote 'The Facebook Era' because I felt like it needed to be written, and I was one of the people who…

— Clara Shih

What really put me over the top was receiving a packet of hundreds of hand-written thank you notes, telling me how the…

— Scott Cohen

I've never written a 'Revolver' or a 'Pet Sounds.'

— Richard Ashcroft

If it is not totalitarian to arrest a man and detain him, when you cannot charge him with any offence against any…

— Lee Kuan Yew

I can see that "reap" and "deep," "prayers" and "bears," . . . do rhyme, and so I suppose it is a…

— Susan B. Anthony

I still feel like if I can get a song to work with, say, a basic beat, a rhythm, some chord changes,…

— David Byrne