Irving Quotes
29 quotes by 28 authors
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As far as songwriters, I've always been a fan of Irving Berlin, Cole Porter, and George Gershwin; those guys mean a lot to me.
— Mel Brooks
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Anything I've ever read by John Irving has been really well written.
— Luke Bryan
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I've got a basketball signed by all the greats from Julius Irving to Oscar Robinson. It was at an All Star game I got them…
— Ice Cube
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There's a great quote by Julius Irving that went, 'Being a professional is doing the things you love to do, on the days you don't…
— David Halberstam
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You can’t learn to write in college. It’s a very bad place for writers because the teachers always think they know more than you do—and…
— Ray Bradbury
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Irving Berlin has no place in American music -- he is American music.
— Jerome Kern
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Books connect us with others, but that connection is created in solitude, one reader in one chair hearing one writer, what John Irving refers to…
— Lewis Buzbee
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I dressed all in black and went to see all the top photographers, like Irving Penn, and said, 'I am Veruschka who comes from the…
— Veruschka von Lehndorff
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The average trade book has a shelf life of between milk and yogurt, except for books by any member of the Irving Wallace family -…
— Calvin Trillin
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David Irving is under arrest in Austria for Holocaust denial. Perhaps there is a case for making climate change denial an offence - it is…
— Margo Kingston
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Irving Wallace family - they have preservatives.
— Calvin Trillin
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The only person I did bondage for was Irving Klaw and his sister Paula. Usually they would shoot four or five models every Saturday. He…
— Bettie Page
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A young lady went into a bookstore and asked the clerk for Irving Stone's book, "Immoral Wife." The title is "Immortal Wife," the clerk replied.…
— James Keller
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You know that when Irving puts the dog in the car, it is no longer in the yard. When Edna goes to church, her head…
— Steven Pinker
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The Darkness at Irving. Hope to have as much fun doing anything ever as these guys have on stage.
— Sloane Crosley
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One of my all-time favorite photographers is Irving Penn. I wish I could have watched him work.
— Mary Ellen Mark
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I want to say at once that I frankly believe that Irving Berlin is the greatest songwriter that has ever lived.... His songs are exquisite…
— George Gershwin
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I felt like I was in the best photography school in the world - I had Herb Ritts, Bruce Weber, Richard Avedon and Irving Penn…
— Helena Christensen
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A page of Addison or of Irving will teach more of style than a whole manual of rules, whilst a story of Poe's will impress…
— H P Lovecraft
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John Irving once told me he doesn't start a novel until he knows the last sentence. I said, 'My God, Irving, isn't that like working…
— Tom Robbins
Who Wrote These Irving Quotes
28 authors contributed a total of 29 Irving Quotes, led by these top contributors: