Written Quotes · Page 92

I can't compose or play music; I'm not that fortunate. But I can write and I can talk and sometimes when I'm…

— Christopher Hitchens

Max [Landis] writes in quite a heightened way, specifically for Dirk. There's a rhythm and a specific speed to it, and it…

— Samuel Barnett

I think God has it written down for me, that without training and working hard you will never achieve desired results. All…

— Vijender Singh

I've written about a lot of different things, but the whole idea of writing for another character is unusual for pop music...…

— Randy Newman

The British press have written some nasty and spiteful things about the way I look which used to affect me quite badly…

— Melanie Chisholm

When I was doing 'A Disappearing Number' in Plymouth, we had to go on an hour and a half late, and I…

— Simon McBurney

Following the invention of writing, the special form of heightened language, characteristic of the oral tradition and a collective society, gave way…

— Harold Innis

Because, as we know, almost anything can be read into any book if you are determined enough. This will be especially impressed…

— Anonymous

Even if you've written something for print, I think it's good to try [it] out on someone because it changes. You can…

— Eric Idle

'Swimming Pool' was a very important moment for me because the character was written for me.

— Ludivine Sagnier

Some leaders expect the team to read their minds on priorities, so they never provide the written and verbal guidance that we…

— Martin Zwilling

Hillary Clinton is a dead fish when it comes to being entertaining and alive. Without a prompter and a written script, she's…

— Rush Limbaugh

Theres a great deal of attention paid and books written about this change of life in a woman, and really very little…

— Frank Langella

Even the lifelong traveler knows but an infinitesimal portion of the Earth's surface. Those who have written best about the land and…

— Edwin Way Teale

The Germans have four violin concertos. The greatest, most uncompromising is Beethoven’s. The one by Brahms vies with it in seriousness. The…

— Joseph Joachim

Maybe the best comics are written by people who really are at ease in the comic world.

— Terry Pratchett

Chaos is the score upon which reality is written.

— Henry Miller

(Mariners) have written one of its most brilliant chapters. They have delivered the goods when and where needed in every theater of…

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

I do not mind having written the song at all. I just wish that I had written it in a different key,…

— Chuck Mangione

“By each book which i Have written... I play different roles... ... One I was playing the role of god!”

— Deyth Banger

I've written poetry most of my life.

— Julia Michaels

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

I've never heard a song written from a stepmother's point of view, about their family.

— LeAnn Rimes

Novels written by university professors and set in the groves of academe are far more rigidly predictable than anything but the most…

— John Clute

I would imagine that anyone picking up a book written by me would expect a fast-paced story that requires minimal effort to…

— Ashwin Sanghi

I have never successfully written in the third person. If there's a rhythm or a musicality that interests me, I become obsessed…

— Adam Rapp

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

— Dan Wakefield

It is written in the code of love: He who strikes the blow is himself struck down.

— Hadewijch

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

— Eckhart Tolle

I do not remember-that is the point-the first impulse that pumped and shoved most of the earlier poems along, and they are…

— Dylan Thomas

I have to say I owe my career to the master composers of the Great American Songbook who have written such high-quality…

— Tony Bennett

Capitol Records were very keen for me to write and see how I got on; I think that is what defined my…

— Shane Filan

You can't really compare any TV show to a show written by Aaron Sorkin.

— Constance Zimmer

I've written many nonfiction books, but that's a special gift.

— Tim LaHaye

I think perhaps the greatest book ever written was Ulysses by James Joyce.

— Frederick Lenz

I began to write a kind of waltz and in a little more than an hour I had the theme written.

— Maurice Jarre

If it's a really well written villain, he probably has more layers than the archetypal good person. So that would be very…

— Ben Kingsley

I think that the benefit of playing someone like Queen Elizabeth is that so much has been written about her, and there's…

— Cate Blanchett

You always want to go out there with the best book possible, so I listen to what my editors say, and even…

— Linwood Barclay

Every line of serious work that I have written since 1936 has been written, directly or indirectly against totalitarianism and for democratic…

— George Orwell