Wrote Quotes
2110 quotes by 1583 authors
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He promoted the education of the parish clergy and wrote: He seems to me a very foolish man, and very wretched, who will not increase…
— Alfred the Great
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When I entered graduate school I had carried out the instructions given to me by my father and had knocked on both Murray Gell-Mann's and…
— Kenneth G. Wilson
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God wrote His loveliest poem on the day He made the first silver poplar tree, And set it high upon a pale-gold hill For all…
— Grace Noll Crowell
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In order to dream so far, is it enough to read? Isn't it necessary to write? Write as in our schoolboy past, in those days…
— Gaston Bachelard
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Everything Tolstoy wrote is precious, but I found this final statement of the truth about life as he had come to understand it particularly beautiful…
— Malcolm Muggeridge
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To my surprise I found that when other top players in the precomputer age (before 1995, roughly) wrote about games in magazines and newspaper columns,…
— Garry Kasparov
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I wrote a letter to Harvard, explaining that I was having difficulty deciding between it and the University of Pennsylvania. Could I come and visit?…
— J. Michael Bishop
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A government institution called the Finnish Film Foundation funds filmmaking there, and I wrote several screenplays but never got any money. They were sent back…
— Renny Harlin
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I wrote 'The Zombie Survival Guide' because I wanted to read it, and nobody else was writing it. All I've been doing with everything I've…
— Max Brooks
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Ronald Reagan's biographer wrote of the former president's final days: "for all the intimate familiarity of that face and body, I did not feel his…
— Unknown Author
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For me, being a writer was never a choice. I was born one. All through my childhood I wrote short stories and stuffed them in…
— Laura Hillenbrand
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It's called Sisters of the Winter Madrigal. It was interesting for me to see it done after so many years; because I wrote it and…
— Beth Henley
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I have spent over 60 years bent over a guitar and to know that I wrote 70 compositions that masters have recorded, that makes me…
— Jerry Reed
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I've had three novels published, and I was working a little bit in theater in Ireland. I wrote one film script just to see what…
— Neil Jordan
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I am not overlooking any mail. I'm looking at all of it. I even wrote back to the Viagra people.
— Randy Newman
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I was probably 35 when I wrote the first story. The voice is kind of a mix in that it has a young voice, but…
— Denis Johnson
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You made a lot of mistakes, and you wrote a lot of crap. But it was all part of the learning process.
— Cynthia Weil
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I suppose not everyone has a dad who wrote a book saying he didn't believe in the Parliamentary road to socialism.
— Ed Miliband
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Danny and I wrote 10 songs in seven days, which I thought might be close to the record until you probably look at some of…
— Gerald Caiafa
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Every article I wrote in those days, every speech I made, is full of pleading for the recognition of lead poisoning as a real and…
— Alice Hamilton
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