Before journalism, I had worked doing medical aid work in conflict zones. Then, as a journalist, I had written about hospitals in… — Sheri Fink Copy Share Image
The Piano Lesson' is very sophisticated, easily the most adult or complex material I've attempted. It's the first film I've written that… — Jane Campion Copy Share Image
To have a romance, you have to have time. I'm a justice. I've written a book. The guy's gonna have to wait… — Sonia Sotomayor Copy Share Image
There are some different things I'm writing and developing, but I don't know where they'll go. They're fun stuff that I would… — Abby Elliott Copy Share Image
They were nicely written and nicely directed episodes [Star Trek: Enterprise]. I enjoyed working with Scott [Bakula]. So it was good to… — Brent Spiner Copy Share Image
'Two Voices,' from my album with Peter Schwalm, is an intact dream-poem. I awoke one night with an image of a piece… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
If you have all the research, all the ground rules, all the directives, all the data - it doesn't mean the ad… — David Ogilvy Copy Share Image
People don't like to say comic so they say Graphic Novel, despite the fact that I don't think the true Graphic Novel… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Virtues are in the middle, the royal way about which the saintly elder (Saint Basil the Great) said, "Travel on the royal… — Dorotheus of Gaza Copy Share Image
God has lent us the earth for our life; it is a great entail. It belongs as much to those who are… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
My best songs were written very quickly. Just about as much time as it takes to write it down is about as… — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
Know thyself! This is the source of all wisdom, said the great thinkers of the past, and the sentence was written in… — Karl Ernst von Baer Copy Share Image
I hear some guy teaches a course in diagrammatic thinking now; he's written books on it and stuff like that, and so… — Paul Laffoley Copy Share Image
Here's a slightly outrageous tip: Don't respect the text. Just because you've written something down doesn't mean it has a right to… — Crawford Kilian Copy Share Image
It's true that I wouldn't have written the first book had my sister and mother been alive. It was my way of… — Nigella Lawson Copy Share Image
Young poets worry that their experiences - whether urban or rural, immigrant or native, small town, suburb, or big city - aren't… — Allison Joseph Copy Share Image
The reading of the song is vital. The written word is first always . . . first. Not belittling the music, but… — Frank Sinatra Copy Share Image
Write every day, just to keep in the habit, and remember that whatever you have written is neither as good nor as… — Jane Smiley Copy Share Image
I gather a repulsive nobody writing in a paper no one of any decency would be seen dead with has written something… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
All of the little entries in 'The Cows' were written in an irregular way. There might be one or two done one… — Lydia Davis Copy Share Image
Also, I had read a book called She's Not There: A Life in Two Genders, written by a professor who had gone… — Mercedes Ruehl Copy Share Image
I shall always feel respect for every one who has written a book, let it be what it may, for I had… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
We did an album one time called White Mansions, about the civil war, but it was written by a guy from England.… — Waylon Jennings Copy Share Image
I'm also interviewing a guy who's just written a book about his experience living in Iraq, faced with the type of violence… — Jon Stewart Copy Share Image
I wrote my first two long novels and an anthology of short narratives, when I was a manager of my own jazz… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Occasionally I write a small piece or the odd lecture in English, and I teach in English, but my fiction is always… — W. G. Sebald Copy Share Image
My real log is written in the sea and sky; the sails talking with the rain and the stars amid the sounds… — Bernard Moitessier Copy Share Image
However much we admire the orator's occasional bursts of eloquence, the noblest written words are commonly as far behind or abovethe fleeting… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
A book unwritten is a delightful universe of infinite possibilities. Set down one word, however, and it immediately becomes earthbound. Set down… — Robert Harris Copy Share Image
All the Cosmic Drama, as it is written in the four Gospels, should be lived inside ourselves, here and now. The isn't… — Samael Aun Weor Copy Share Image
Oftentimes what happens is that the writer understands one character, but they don't understand the other one, and the other one ends… — Jennifer Beals Copy Share Image
Very similar experience happened last year when we released this album, North. It was on Deutsche Grammophon, it was very, very honest.… — Elvis Costello Copy Share Image
Poetry allows me to write about what I don't know, whereas journalism demands a higher level of certainty to be worthy of… — Eliza Griswold Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
In the first place, all books that get fairly into the vital air of the world were written by the successful class,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
If at the end of your first ten or fifteen years of fighting and working and feeling, you find you've written one… — e. e. cummings Copy Share Image
My symphonies would have reached Opus 100 if I had but written them down... Sometimes I am so full of music, and… — Robert Schumann Copy Share Image
A great amount has been talked and written about what constitutes a sufficient balance and what really is meant by the concepts… — Alva Myrdal Copy Share Image
The one thing I'm terrified of trying to write about is sex. I mean my God, my wife might read it or… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
The Red Sox believe what's written. If it's written that I should be traded, more times than not, that's what ends up… — Jon Lester Copy Share Image