Written Quotes

A great deal has been written in recent years about the purported lack of motivation in the children of the Negro ghettos. Little in my experience supports this, yet the phrase has been repeated endlessly, and the blame in almost all cases is placed somewhere outside the classroom.

Founders go wrong when they start to believe their business plan will materialize as written. I advise entrepreneurs to burn their business plan - it's simply too dangerous to the health of your business.

I've written only two novels, but they're both long ones, and they each took a decade to write.

There was reference made to a book written in Greek by a former Rabbi who had been converted to Christianity. There was reference to a publication of a high clergyman of Milan. Not even did Jews raise objections to that book.

Frankly, I mean, sometimes the interpretations I've seen on some of the songs that I've written are a lot more interesting than the input that I put in.

The written word is the basic of everything. Most important, the idea, and after that, the dialogue. You can rehash the dialogue as you go along, it 's disgraceful to have to do this, but now and again you have no choice.

This is the sixth book I've written, which isn't bad for a guy who's only read two.

It seems inevitable that the magic of the written word will fade.

Speaks cheerful English and in the past has written this language with a paintbrush that talks.

Where is it written that a smart woman can't also be stacked?

The Indian story has never been written. Maybe I am the man to do it.

A lot has been written about Tony Perkins and myself and I figured, Let's get it straight. I had a relationship with Tony for two to three years, but those are only threads in the tapestry of my whole life.

All too often the Democratic Party has taken the black vote for granted, and all too often the Republican Party has written it off.

Musicals are written and then rewritten. Those things used to happen on the road. Now they are done in New York during preview performances.

I didn't know how to go about preparing for the part of someone who can't remember who he is. The frustration angle is written in, but there's also this incredible passive state.

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 newspapers wait until I've written at least one piece for them before firing me.

I loved writing for kids, I loved talking to children about what I'd written, I don't want to leave that behind.

They've never written a love story for me since I've been on the show and I think there's just more weight to it when two people love each other.

I've written something and I would like to have my first film directed by the time I'm 30.

Everyone has an opinion of who you are and what your relationship is about, things that you've done or didn't do in your relationship - and it's just all crap, really. Things that are written about it are all crap.

Science fiction is no more written for scientists that ghost stories are written for ghosts.

Most films are written and made with a hero around 35, or even 25.

I was lucky enough to have the songs in my first show written by George and Ira Gershwin. Then Cole Porter wrote five shows for me.

If it's well written and well directed and you've got good actors to work with, acting is easy. But making sure all the ducks are in a row is the hard part. It's very rare.

I've been with Life now for seventeen years and I have written several articles for them and will be doing more writing and do at least two assignments a year besides my writing.

I've written a whole body of work that I'm incredibly proud of.

Unavoidable circumstances prevent me from giving you ample written instructions. Such however as may be deemed necessary will be prepared and sent to you at the City of Washington in a very few days.

One of my greatest pleasures is falling into a story someone else has written.

I've always written songs, even when I wasn't doing anything with my personal life in music.

It is jazz music that called me to be a musician and I have always sang the songs that moved me the most. Singers, like Frank Sinatra and myself, we interpret the songs that we like. Not unlike a Shakespearean actor that goes back to the greatest words ever written, we go back to the greatest songs.