Written Quotes

The trouble with the jokes is that once they're written, I know how they're supposed to work, and all I can do is not hit them. I'm more comfortable improvising. If I have just two or three ideas and I know how the character feels, what the character wants, everything in between is like trapeze work.

I have written two medical novels. I have never studied medicine, never seen an operation.

Temper your enjoyments with prudence, lest there be written on your heart that fearful word "satiety."

I might go on discussing this subject at great length, but after all is said, done, and written, my own book of experiences will best show what these obstacles are, and how I managed to overcome them to some extent.

There's so many great songs already written, it's kind of really wonderful you don't have to write your own.

The first 20 stories written about a public figure set the tone for the next 2,000 and it is almost impossible to reverse it.

If Moses had been paid newspaper rates for the Ten Commandments, he might have written the Two Thousand Commandments.

I've never written about my husband, Steve, or any of my children because I know them all too well. I see them in all their complexities which makes them impossible to render on the printed page.

Somewhere, everywhere, now hidden, now apparent in what ever is written down, is the form of a human being. If we seek to know him, are we idly occupied?

It's like they had a backlash the first 11 years. I think the reason why it always seems like there's a backlash is because when bands are unknown, they only get written about by fans.

From lies to forgeries the step is not so long, and I have written technical essays on the logic of forgeries and on the influence of forgeries on history.

I've had songs written during the Falklands war, and during the first Gulf war I got letters from soldiers saying they were listening to these songs, like Island of no return.

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 a contract?

A great amount has been talked and written about what constitutes a sufficient balance and what really is meant by the concepts of "balance" and "deterrence".

It is distressing to me that we live in an age in which we still must fight to protect our civil rights as Americans, in which a hate crime perpetrated against someone based their sexual orientation can go unpunished, and in which discrimination is being written into our laws.

The whole point of writing is to have something in your gut or in your soul or in your mind that's burning to be written.

Musical comedies aren't written, they are rewritten.

Television doesn't make stars. It's the written media, the press, that makes stars.

The Constitution was written by 55 educated and highly intelligent men in Philadelphia in 1787, but it was written so that it could be understood by people of limited education and modest intelligence.

The British press have written some nasty and spiteful things about the way I look which used to affect me quite badly when it was new to me but luckily, I've learned to ignore the comments. why do they even care about how I look?

I've written six novels and four pieces of nonfiction, so I don't really have a genre these days.

Israel is still the only country in the world against which there is a written document to the effect that it must disappear.

The Epistles in the New Testament have all of them a particular reference to the condition and usages of the Christian world at the time they were written.

Written poetry is worth reading once, and then should be destroyed. Let the dead poets make way for others.

The history of free men is never really written by chance but by choice; their choice!

Anything well written with good language and clarity and honesty is worth doing. It comes out of the same tradition as Shakespeare.

Write how you want, the critic shall show the world you could have written better.

You obviously don't really forget how to play the old songs; you just don't have to spend so much time convincing yourself that you remember them. Way less mental energy is spent swimming around in lyrics you've already written and chords you've already played.

The history of the Victorian Age will never be written: we know too much about it.

The only imaginative fiction being written today is income tax returns.