Written Quotes

I've already written 300 space poems. But I look upon my ultimate form as being a poetic prose. When you read it, it appears to be prose, but within the prose you have embedded the techniques of poetry.

Only those things are beautiful which are inspired by madness and written by reason.

It is difficult, if not impossible, to argue that laws written in the 1970s are adequate for today's intelligence challenges.

I've written several deeply personal songs this year, which I really love. Some of them came out of intense sadness. This has been an extremely difficult year for me.

Back when we were first making records, you didn't just make the music, you put a great deal of energy into the way it looked, and every word that was written on the whole thing.

Our perception of songs that we've written... the meaning changes from day to day... to whatever stage we're at in our life and careers.

I have read only the first 'Harry Potter' book. I thought it excellent, perhaps the best thing written for older children since The Hobbit. I wish the books had been around when my kids were the right age for them.

I don't think you can write - at least not well - if you don't love stories, love the written word.

I've written more songs for this record than I ever have in the past so I'm trying to give it a lot of special attention to be sure my ideas really get translated right.

Our characters were antiseptic but we weren't. And if you remember what we did on BATMAN, as the scripts were written very funny, we played them very straight.

The most casual examination will reveal the fact that all the jokes about the horrible results of masculine cooking and sewing are written by men. It is all part of a great scheme of sex propaganda.

Talented people are written off once they hit their 50s and 60s, and the saddest thing is, we just get better as we get older.

If Moses had gone to Harvard Law School and spent three years working on the Hill, he would have written the Ten Commandments with three exceptions and a saving clause.

I haven't written an awful lot recently, but I think I probably will start again very shortly. Being so much on the road, when you have a couple of weeks off, you're likely to avoid sitting at the piano, and taping, and giving yourself more work to do.

The constant need for special waivers is symptomatic of poorly written public policy. It's a signal that the cost of compliance is unreasonably high; the benefits are hard to measure; and either legislators or regulators have failed to do their homework.

Ulysses could have done with a good editor. You know people are always putting Ulysses in the top 10 books ever written but I doubt that any of those people were really moved by it.

The written word is everything.

Sometimes the beauty is easy. Sometimes you don't have to try at all. Sometimes you can hear the wind blow in a handshake. Sometimes there's poetry written right on the bathroom wall.

Written poetry is different. Best thing is to see it in performance first, then read it. Performance is more provocative.

When I die Dublin will be written in my heart.

I can't change the past, and I don't think I would. I don't expect to be understood. I like what I've written, the stories and two novels. If I had to give up what I've written in order to be clear of this disease, I wouldn't do it.

Biographies are but the clothes and buttons of the man. The biography of the man himself cannot be written.

I'm always looking, as an actor, for activities. I think it's far more interesting to watch what people do than what they say. You always want to watch behavior, because the dialogue as written by our illustrious leaders is great. Eminently playable.

The first song that I ever recorded was written by my mother.

Your emotional life is not written in cement during childhood. You write each chapter as you go along.

Whatever the practical value of the Walden experiment may be, there is no question that the book is one of the most vital and pithy ever written.

Nobody can give a good performance unless the authors and composers have written a good part, a fact which is often overlooked.

It's funny; Luther and I have written many songs together, but we've never written songs in the same room.

If I had killed Crow off I can think of least six novels I would never have written, 400,000 words' worth of very necessary experience.

I have written things that Republicans and Democrats and all kinds of figures have either hated or felt very uncomfortable about. Because in doing these long projects and books, you get close to the bone. And they're not calling me up and asking me for dinner.