Written Quotes
3817 Written quotes by 2570 unique authors
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It is wonderful how soon a piano gets into a log-hut on the frontier. You would think they found it under a pine-stump. With it…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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If it so happened that I had once written a best-seller, this was a pure accident, due to inattention and naivete, and I would take…
— Thomas Merton
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I've written thousands of stories, started hundreds of news cycles.
— Matt Drudge
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When I look at a lot of older stuff that I've written, I think one sign of amateur humor writing is when you see people…
— David Sedaris
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I Freestyle my Destiny, It's not written in Pages.
— Immortal Technique
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I always work only with friends, but it must be about them and myself. Because I film only very personal moments, nothing preplanned, staged or…
— Jonas Mekas
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The brain is highly structured, but it is also extremely flexible. It's not a blank slate, but it isn't written in stone, either.
— Alison Gopnik
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If people stop being interested it's because you haven't written a good enough album. Music will always be the most powerful thing. It doesn't matter…
— Tom Odell
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I was once hired to write a column for 'The Guardian' and then got fired before I'd submitted my first one. That was unusual. Most…
— Toby Young
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Every human being is loved by God the Father. No one need feel forgotten, for every name is written in the Lord's loving heart.
— Pope Benedict XVI
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Much is written about wine ... of its makers, its nuances, its myths. The white hot center of each wine’s mystery lies in humble corners…
— Greg Brown
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Good stories are not written by people who live in a city of dirty strip malls, forced to listen to the machinated opinions of lawyers,…
— Spencer Antle
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I think hope is not simply looking around and saying that everything’s great – that’s just ridiculous. For hope to have substance, it has to…
— Tim Foreman
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I have never, for a single moment, been aware of pressure from anyone in television about how I dress, what my shape is or how…
— Anne Robinson
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A star is extinguished, another will begin to shine - thus it is written in the Book of Nature
— Guido von List
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I can write anywhere. I write in airports. I write on airplanes. I've written in the back seats of taxis. I write in hotel rooms.…
— Garrison Keillor
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What kind of moron would go to work for half the amount of money, when they could sit at home and collect what's written in…
— Bill Goldberg
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If men were to be destroyed and the books they have written were to be transmitted to a new race of creatures, in a new…
— Henry David Thoreau
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Though I leave the house as little as possible, I have the impression that someone is disturbing my papers. More than once I have discovered…
— Italo Calvino
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If you haven't written a novel by the time you're forty you never will!
— Richard Yates
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The Word of God was not written to satisfy our curiosity; it was written to # change our lives.
— Howard G. Hendricks
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History is written by those who win and those who dominate.
— Edward Said
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I have always written only for myself - to clarify things, to clarify things with myself, to understand in an inner way what is actually…
— Herta Muller
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At some unnoticed moment, I began to understand that a life is written in indelible ink.
— Jane Hirshfield
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Sixteen Tons was written eight years before I recorded it.
— Tennessee Ernie Ford
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