Written Quotes

I kept looking to do songs that were written years ago and would live or outlive all of us, and the one thing they had in common was Sinatra.

Conducting! A subject, truly, concerning which much might be written, yet scarcely anything of real importance is to be found in books.

I genuinely don't feel that anything that's been written or said about me has overshadowed my music, and that's the most important thing as far as I'm concerned.

To see this place would truly be worth a trip to India in itself, and from the spirit of the religion that lived here one can learn more in an hour of viewing than from all the books ever written.

The first thing I read was of my character on the phone talking to Sydney's fiance. Though short, it was so beautifully written, and it made me laugh. I thought if I wanted to play a character, this would be it.

Most of the press is sent to my publicist so I do see most of what is written about me.

I've written a lot of really good books. Now we'll see if I can write any more good books. I mean there's a chance I won't, but I'm going to try.

There was a chance for me to write one song for the section where Elvis sat in his black leather outfit and sang the old hits. At eight oclock the next morning I had written Memories.

Personally, I would sooner have written Alice in Wonderland than the whole Encyclopedia Britannica.

The inspiration to write? Perhaps it's not so much inspiration, as a NEED to write. I get itchy and guilty and dissatisfied when I haven't written for a while. Ideas come to me and need to be written down.

The reason that there are so few good books written is that so few people who write know anything.

Other people, including me, have written books with main characters who were old and rich. Or old and brilliant. Old sages, old wizards, old rich people.

A good book written for children can be read by adults.

You're a song written by the hands of God.

Custom, that unwritten law, By which the people keep even kings in awe.

I don't think anyone has written a great graphic novel.

The picture alone, without the written word, leaves half the story untold.

A dream doesn't become a goal until it is written.

The saddest songs are written when a person is happy.

The more love I craved, the more distant and abusive he grew. The role I longed to play was never written into Ryan's script: daughter.

First of all, let it be remembered that I speak as an ex-Communist and one who has not testified before Congressional Committees, nor written works on the Communist conspiracy.

And were an epitaph to be my story I'd have a short one ready for my own. I would have written of me on my stone: I had a lover's quarrel with the world.

I have written about 10 books, all just practical encouragement for moms.

It was easier to do Shakespeare than a lot of modern movie scripts that are so poorly written.

Every one of my books is written from the viewpoint of cops, with the exception of my book Killer on the Road, which is written from the viewpoint of a serial killer.

All the good music has already been written by people with wigs and stuff.

I'd want to read the stories that I'd written, I'd want to show the drawings that I made. That was just purely natural. So I knew I wanted to go into the arts in some way and that I'd want to show that work in some way.

Before I'd written movies, I never could do big set-piece scenes with a lot of different speakers - when you've got twelve people around a dinner table talking at cross purposes. I had always been impressed by other people's ability to do that.

The influence of Paris, for instance, is now minimal. Yet a lot is written about Paris fashion.

I must have done everything I had. You go through years where you go through everything you've ever written.