Wrote Quotes
2110 quotes by 1583 authors
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The publisher Jeff Johnson, who has offered not a word of explanation to me, has privately told people that he hated every word that I…
— Robert Scheer
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All kinds of mysterious phenomena exist in this world, but answers to most of them have come with advances in scientific knowledge. Love is the…
— Mo Yan
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We wrote our first blog post before we wrote our first line of code.
— Jon Miller
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When my mother left her second husband, she wrote her autobiography and presented it to him for his approval.
— David Antin
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If I wrote a play with four characters every single one of them would talk like me regardless of age or sex.
— Norman MacCaig
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The first poem I ever wrote, about loss, when I was 5 years old, expressed the themes of everything I would ever write.
— Marguerite Young
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Like, I kind of developed my musical style in a vacuum. Even though I listen to a lot of stuff, the way I wrote was…
— Liz Phair
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I wrote it alone, for him, to interest him, to please him, to occupy him. I wasn't young, nor particularly pretty. I needed something which…
— Anne Desclos
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Ordinarily it would take me about fifteen minutes to get a hallucination going," wrote Feynman, "but on a few occasions, when I smoked some marijuana…
— Richard P. Feynman
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And I made a rural pen, And I stained the water clear, And I wrote my happy songs Every Child may joy to hear.
— William Blake
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About one month before he was killed, when asked by David Frost how his obituary should read: Something about the fact that I made some…
— Robert Kennedy
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It has been jestingly said that the works of John Paul Richter are almost unintelligible to any but the Germans, and even to some of…
— Jean Paul
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In that long sequence, when Lawrence enters in the desert to rescue a lost man, Lean listened the music I wrote and wanted to extend…
— Maurice Jarre
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I deliberately wrote a poem in my last book where I was suggesting that there are other passions as great as or more important than…
— Thom Gunn
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As Herman Melville wrote of that seagoing monster of a man Captain Ahab, “All mortal greatness is but disease.
— Nathaniel Philbrick
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I want to open myself. ... I want the light of God, I want the sweet love of Jesus. I danced for the Devil; I…
— Abigail Williams
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If it falls your lot to be a street sweeper, sweep streets as Raphael painted pictures, sweep streets as Michelangelo carved marble, sweep streets as…
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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I was in Paris at an English-language bookstore. I picked up a volume of Dickinson's poetry. I came back to my hotel, read 2,000 of…
— Gordon Getty
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Sometimes I need to reject the music proposed for my songs because the musicians misunderstand that the Fanny Crosby who once wrote for the people…
— Fanny Crosby
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Possibly the best suggestion in condensed form, as to how to live, was given by my old Headmaster, Dr. Haig Brown, in 1904, when he…
— Robert Baden-Powell
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