They Wrote Quotes
51 quotes by 49 authors
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Meek young men grow up in libraries, believing it their duty to accept the views which Cicero, which Locke, which Bacon, have given, forgetful that…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The world belongs primarily to the dead, and we only rent it from them for a little while. They created it, they wrote its literature…
— Robert Bly
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David Ogilvy made his copywriters come up 100 different headlines for every ad they wrote.
— David Ogilvy
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As I have said before, I never had any large respect for good spelling. That is my feeling yet. Before the spelling-book came with its…
— Mark Twain
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One of the reasons the doctors gave for hospitalizing me against my will was that I was ‘gravely disabled.’ To support this view, they wrote…
— Elyn Saks
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The worst storyline Ive ever been involved in I wasnt involved in, because I was clever enough to get pregnant with my second child and…
— Erika Slezak
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The problem was the journalists who also did not understand much of my music, but they wrote about it. I think you fell into the…
— Klaus Schulze
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The Constitution they wrote was designed to protect the rights of white, male citizens. As there were no black Founding Fathers, there were no founding…
— Shirley Chisholm
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Writers are frequently asked why they wrote their first book. A more interesting answer might come from asking them why they wrote their second one.
— Len Deighton
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They wrote it that my moustache was insured for 13 million.
— John Newcombe
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Every cool riff has already been written by Black Sabbath. You're either playing it faster or slower or backwards, but they wrote it first.
— Rob Zombie
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Your novels show only the tiniest fraction of detective work, the brilliant crime, the tantalizing clues, the dramatic chase, the final battle atop a lofty…
— Stefan Petrucha
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No writer of a portion of the Bible was perfect. It was the direct and miraculous operation of the Holy Spirit that what they wrote…
— Walter Lang
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Everybody knows that Black Sabbath started everything and almost every single thing that people are playing today has already been done by Black Sabbath. They…
— Rob Zombie
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It is immature and lazy to imagine we know everything there is to know about someone before we know that someone. We don't know their…
— Jen Hatmaker
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I believe that the Framers of the Constitution made their intent clear when they wrote the First Amendment. I believe they wanted to keep the…
— Nick Rahall
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I think most writers' houses are disappointing. What's much more atmospheric and interesting are the places they wrote about.
— Joseph Kanon
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There are some movie stars in Hollywood that are so scared, they also tell the reporter that they are recording them, in case there is…
— Jean-Claude Van Damme
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I watch artists say they wrote all these songs and don't mention anybody else who was involved, and that's fine. I don't expect an artist…
— Rico Love
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But as no two (theoreticians) agree on this (skin friction) or any other subject, some not agreeing today with what they wrote a year ago,…
— Hiram Maxim
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