He Wrote Quotes
132 quotes by 127 authors
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But I liked Yeats! That wild Irishman. I really loved his love of language, his flow. His chaotic ideas seemed to me just the right…
— Chinua Achebe
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I received a letter just before I left office from a man. I don't know why he chose to write it, but I'm glad he…
— Ronald Reagan
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Mendelssohn never wrote any Water Music. However, he wrote the Scotch Symphony, which is even better, or at least stronger.
— Victor Borge
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Buffon, who, with all his theoretical ingenuity and extraordinary eloquence, I suspect had little actual information in the science on which he wrote so admirably…
— James Boswell
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Herrmann Pidoux and Armand Trousseau stated 'Disease exists within us, because of us, and through us', Pasteur did not entirely disagree, 'This is true for…
— Louis Pasteur
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After 17' is a song I wrote when my first daughter went to college, so that's kind of where I'm at in that part of…
— Alan Jackson
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Deborah, Duchess of Devonshire recounts her decision to leave her husband after decades of struggle with his alcoholism. Several days later, he wrote to her:…
— Deborah Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire
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For example, a few years ago, a great French philosopher, Roger Garaudy, wrote a scientific book. He did not offend, curse, or insult anyone. He…
— Hassan Nasrallah
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William James describes a man who got the experience from laughing-gas; whenever he was under its influence, he knew the secret of the universe, but…
— Bertrand Russell
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I was sleeping in the woods one night after a gig we'd played somewhere, when I saw this girl appear before me. That girl was…
— Syd Barrett
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It's a myth that older writers can't write for younger audiences. Shakespeare wasn't 15 when he wrote Romeo and Juliet.
— Tracy Keenan Wynn
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I don't think I ever saw Hank with anybody, say, 'Let's go write a song.' One Sunday morning we left Nashville to go to Birmingham…
— Don Helms
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I don't know why Sinclair Lewis fell in love with me. He didn't get even the slightest response from me. But his letters were lovely.…
— Fay Wray
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I met Tom Baker doing a voice-over when David [Arabella's friend, David Tennant] wasn't at all well known. We were doing this voice-over together and…
— Arabella Weir
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Mozart, striving for perfection, wrote the same symphony forty-one times. In his case, it worked. He wrote a perfect symphony.
— Edward Abbey
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It is no discredit to Walt Whitman that he wrote Leaves of Grass, only that he did not burn it afterwards.
— Thomas Wentworth Higginson
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Life is very full of sex, or should be. As much as I admire Tolkien - and I do, he was a giant of fantasy…
— George R. R. Martin
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All Germany was in turmoil. Revolutionaries seized power in the cities of Munich, Hanover and Cologne. One regional German government after another was toppled by…
— James Cross Giblin
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Market forces have no intrinsically moral direction, which is why, before he wrote The Wealth of Nations, Adam Smith wrote The Theory of Moral Sentiments.…
— Arianna Huffington
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In order to arrive you must follow the signs. God inscribed on the world the path that each man must follow. It is just a…
— Paulo Coelho
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