Written Quotes · Page 83

I've written a lot of prose. I just haven't published it.

— Patti Smith

The Scriptures were written, not to make us astronomers, but to make us saints.

— Matthew Henry

Performing written music, even when I've written it, is not very interesting to me.

— Carter Burwell

I had never thought about what it might mean to be deaf, to be deprived of language, or to have a remarkable…

— Oliver Sacks

What makes it [economics] most fascinating is that its fundamental principles are so simple that they can be written on one page,…

— Milton Friedman

Sheriff Knezovich's bill was poorly-written and not constitutional, according to many attorneys, including myself, that reviewed it. We want to go forward…

— Matt Shea

The bible teaches that women brought sin and death into the world. I don't believe that any man ever talked with god.…

— Elizabeth Cady Stanton

I believe in a visual language that should be as strong as the written word.

— David LaChapelle

Although an impressive amount of business and social interaction takes place over the telephone and fax, by e-mail, or in person today,…

— Rosalie Maggio

“God, He didn't write the scripts for the puny little players down here. We wrote them ourselves-with each day we lived, each…

— V.C. Andrews

History's written from what can be found; what isn't saved is lost, sunken and rotted, eaten by earth.

— Jill Lepore

What happens is I speak to people outside of my circle of friends and they have already formed an opinion of me…

— Robbie Williams

I have a card catalogue in my brain of every lyric of every sappy love song ever written.

— Delilah

You don't really hear a female perspective on the radio, because so many of the songs are being written by men.

— Shirley Manson

It really makes little difference in the long run whether The Book of the Law was dictated to [Crowley] by preterhuman intelligence…

— Israel Regardie

There are a lot of great jokes you can sit down and write, but that's just a written joke, versus the comedy…

— John Mulaney

I have been extremely proactive in putting myself up for characters that may have been meant to specifically be Caucasian. You bring…

— Archie Panjabi

I've never written a song that I thought was a hit.

— Richard Marx

I sing to my wife; it helps me. She was my muse. I've written so many songs about her, to her, with…

— Ian McLagan

I'd like to think I'm not quite so pretentious as to think my characters go off and live their lives once I've…

— Jane Green

I've lost track of the number of people who want to be writers but never actually write anything. Talking about writing, dreaming…

— Laurell K. Hamilton

How can there be democracy if the leadership in the United States and Britain don't uphold the values which my father's generation…

— Vanessa Redgrave

It's funny, if you go back and look at all those old movies a lot of times they didn't have the budget…

— Todd Farmer

Let us not underrate the value of a fact; it will one day flower in a truth. It is astonishing how few…

— Henry David Thoreau

Simonides, a poet famous in his generation, is, I think, author of the oldest satire that is now extant, and, as some…

— Joseph Addison

One of the interesting things about the history of poetry in the 16th, 17th, and 18th centuries is that people who read…

— Robert Hass

There's nothing written in the Bible, Old or New testament, that says, 'If you believe in Me, you ain't going to have…

— Ray Charles

How much time have you invested in thinking about strategy? How many options have you considered before the plan was written? How…

— Max McKeown

If you know your archetypes - and not just yours, if you know how to perceive the world in archetypes, through archetypes…

— Caroline Myss

I've never written anything that hasn't been in my mind for a long time - seven or eight years.

— John McGahern

I think real humans are so complicated, and often [characters] are written more one-dimensional without maybe even the writer knowing it. I've…

— Kristen Bell

While I've worked on many topics and written many books, I have not abandoned my interest in multiple intelligences.

— Howard Gardner

I think maybe written films are better than real films. You can see them in your head and yet everything is exactly…

— Hal Hartley

When you are reading, someone has done a lot of work on your behalf, someone has had ideas and has then written…

— Margaret Mahy

“Most books are so well written they barely have any effect on the reader’s senses”

— Steve Aylett

For if I should not believe all that is written by Historians, of the glorious acts of Alexander, or Caesar; I do…

— Thomas Hobbes

Everyone has an opinion of who you are and what your relationship is about, things that you've done or didn't do in…

— Jessica Alba

If you want a commercial success - it's the confusion of commerce with art. A successful play is not considered to be…

— Edward Albee

Personally, I had a great education. My mum was a trained teacher, a Montessori teacher, and I know that I could not…

— Christopher Paolini

I shall always feel respect for every one who has written a book, let it be what it may, for I had…

— Charles Darwin