Written Quotes

Designing Woman was written for the screen.

Mozart has written opera, symphony, sacred and chamber music - not to mention his piano and violin concerti.

I wasn't a normal professor. I had worked in government. I hadn't written nine zillion books. I was a hands-on professor.

The society Shakespeare knew was heading for tremendous change, and he seems to have recognized that and written about it in a coded way. I understand those codes, I think.

I've had the same, full-time assistant and typist for eight or nine years now. She's read everything I've written, she types everything and does a good job, translates it and makes comments.

Well, "The Wellspring" was written from 1983 to 1986. And it had a section in the beginning that was poems that began from others' experience.

I will say again that I have never, and would never, harm a child. It sickens me that people have written untrue things about me.

Every ceremony or rite has a value if it is performed without alteration. A ceremony is a book in which a great deal is written. Anyone who understands can read it. One rite often contains more than a hundred books.

What helped me most were my failures and slumps - when I couldn't get work, people weren't interested in me or had written me off.

The idea of trying to fight against extremism was written off as naive.

I returned to Jerusalem, and it is by virtue of Jerusalem that I have written all that God has put into my heart and into my pen.

The greatest of all the Sioux in my time, or in any time for that matter, was that wonderful old fighting man, Sitting Bull, whose life will some day be written by a historian who can really give him his due.

I've written many extra verses to songs that I learned to sing - an extra verse about a friend, or just add some verse - and that led to writing my own songs.

As any student of literature knows, the books that last are often not the books that are most popular when they are written. Both 'Moby Dick' and 'The Great Gatsby' were complete failures, critically and commercially, when they first appeared.

I had learning disabilities, and I couldn't express myself in the written word.

All old music was modern once, and much more of the music of yesterday already sounds more old-fashioned than works which were written three centuries ago.

I'm just not that fascinating a person to have had all those lives that I've written about.

As to the war with Japan, the President had already received my memorandum in general as to the possibility of getting a substantial unconditional surrender from Japan which I had written before leaving Washington and which he had approved.

It's hard sometimes to not want to know what people are saying behind your back and to ignore certain things that are being written.

There are but two things worth living for: to do what is worthy of being written; and to write what is worthy of being read.

Since 1985, I have written about contemporary Jewish practice and the Jewish community.

Chaos is the score upon which reality is written.

Some of the best stories that I've gotten, that others have written about this administration, about the previous administration, you have to rely on anonymous sources.

In composing, as a general rule, run your pen through every other word you have written; you have no idea what vigor it will give your style.

Probably all the books I've ever written have been efforts to define the boundaries of humanity.

I'm pursuing soundtrack work in the southern California area and down the line I plan to make a moody, intense acoustic album. Not all acoustic, but an acoustic - oriented guitar record that I've already written most of the material for.

If wrinkles must be written on our brows, let them not be written upon the heart. The spirit should never grow old.

A verbal contract isn't worth the paper it is written on.

Now, to describe the process of the Wrapped Reichstag, which went from 1971 to '95, there is an entire book about that, because each one of our projects has its own book. The book is not an art book, meaning it's not written by an art historian.

I think we fool ourselves and really negate a great deal of history if we think that the oral history of poetry is shorter than the written history of poetry. It's not true. Poetry has a longer oral tradition than it does written.