Written Quotes

It is a fact often observed, that men have written good verses under the inspiration of passion, who cannot write well under other circumstances.

I want to clear up a few myths about myself. People have written that I was a kindergarten teacher and a former Miss Texas, and neither is true.

People will always be tempted to wipe their feet on anything with 'welcome' written on it.

I've always felt that life is a novel, and part of it is written for you, and part of it is written by you. It's up to you to write the ending, ultimately.

The traditions of a nation are very important and the anthem written by Francis Scott Key in the early days of our nation should always be revered.

I have four shelves covered with journals that I've written. Dad and I are writing songs together. I've probably written 100 songs.

And I admit it: there's a rather dirty thrill when 700 people laugh at a joke you've written.

If I like the story and it's well written, and it's a character I want to play and they'll pay me, then I decide to do it.

An empty book is like an infant's soul, in which anything may be written. It is capable of all things, but containeth nothing. I have a mind to fill this with profitable wonders.

People always tell me I'm nothing like my character. Well, hopefully not! He's a character who's very defined. He was purposefully written by Jo Rowling as very one-dimensional in the first few books, because you're supposed to hate him.

Lets tell young people the best books are yet to written; the best painting, the best government the best of everything is yet to be done by them.

When I first read the script a few years ago I thought it was one of the best written scripts I had ever read.

It's very painful to have something that's not true written about you.

Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral laws are written on the table of eternity.

Victor Young had been hired to write the score for the dances of The Ten Commandments but he became very ill. You were then hired to write the score. But at the same time you'd written The Man with the Golden Arm score.

I think the term poet is a very exalted term and should be applied to a man at the end of his work. When he looks back over the body of his work and he's written poetry then let the verdict be that he's a poet.

Between each album I try to gain a new insight that I didn't have before and perhaps write a song about something that I've written about before, but from a fresh viewpoint.

In Oxford before the war, I had, with this interest in mind, written a short textbook entitled, An Introduction to Economic Analysis and Policy. It was now my intention to rewrite this work.

You don't really hear a female perspective on the radio, because so many of the songs are being written by men.

I've written songs sober and I've written songs high.

Here is my theory on this one. If you write things down, if there is a mystery and you try and explain it, once you've written it down for permanent, in due time, it'll be proven stupid.

It cannot be said often enough that science fiction as a genre is incredibly educational - and I'm speaking the written science fiction, not 'Star Trek.' Science fiction writers tend to fill their books if they're clever with little bits of interesting stuff and real stuff.

Everything has been written. Everybody knows everything about me. There are no secrets. Except the skeletons in my closet.

It's hard to know whether certain characters come to life or not, they either come to have their own life or they don't. I've written many things in which the characters just remain inert.

My issue in the past with nudity was that these scenes had been written solely for box office draw.

The excess of our youth are checks written against our age and they are payable with interest thirty years later.

I sometimes don't know what songs are about for several years after I've written them.

Barton Fink got written very quickly, in about three weeks. I don't know what that means.

It is the sincerest thing I have written, caught by the drama of a soul struggling in the contrary toils of love and religion - death brought them into harmony.

The very ink with which history is written is merely fluid prejudice.