Written Quotes
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The famous pipe. How people reproached me for it! And yet, could you stuff my pipe? No, it's just a representation, is it not? So if I had written on my picture “This is a pipe”, I'd have been lying!
Rene Magritte -
The written word may be man's greatest invention. It allows us to converse with the dead, the absent, and the unborn.
Abraham Lincoln
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If someone picks up one thing you've written, you want them to go, 'Wow, this is pretty good.'
Jim Gaffigan -
Alan Menken, for example, is one of my heroes for all of the music he's written for Disney.
Dave Koz -
I love the written word so much, I know it's gonna flow naturally.
Alicia Keys -
I've always written down how I feel.
Adele -
As I kid, I was always jealous of the music that my favorite bands had written - but not really of how they played. So I'd daydream about having written songs, and this way above being able to perform them.
Jonny Greenwood Radiohead -
Where is it written that lives should have a meaning?
Elena Ferrante
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Never before have I written so long a letter. I'm afraid it is much too long to take your precious time. I can assure you that it would have been much shorter if I had been writing from a comfortable desk, but what else can one do when he is alone in a narrow jail cell, other than write long letters, think long thoughts, and pray long prayers?
Martin Luther King, Jr. -
Good advertising is written from one person to another. When it is aimed at millions it rarely moves anyone.
Fairfax Cone -
I get so annoyed by famous people who have not actually written the books they slap their names on.
Anderson Cooper -
A woman's heart is just like a lithographer's stone; what is once written upon it cannot be rubbed out.
William Makepeace Thackeray -
I was very much against the Vietnam War, and Max Askeli was visiting Lyndon Johnson in the White House cheering him on, writing editorials. And in The Voice one day I once referred to him as Commander Askeli. And I called in to The Reporter to go over the galleys of a music piece I had written, and the editor whispered to me, `It's not gonna run. You're not gonna run. Max Askeli has fired you because of what you said about him.'
Nat Hentoff -
A book or poem which has no pity in it had better not be written.
Oscar Wilde
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When the audience comes in, it changes the temperature of what you've written.
Stephen Sondheim -
This paper of yours is so lightly written that you must have sweated terribly.
Albert Szent-Györgyi -
Most of the press is sent to my publicist so I do see most of what is written about me.
Sela Ward -
Designing Woman was written for the screen.
Vincente Minnelli -
In teaching an honors writing class, I juxtaposed Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein with Shelley Jackson’s Patchwork Girl, an electronic hypertext fiction written in proprietary Storyspace software. Since these were honors students, many of them had already read Frankenstein and were, moreover, practiced in close reading and literary analysis. When it came to digital reading, however, they were accustomed to the scanning and fast skimming typical of hyper reading; they therefore expected that it might take them, oh, half an hour to go through Jackson’s text. They were shocked when I told them a reasonable time to spend with Jackson’s text was about the time it would take them to read Frankenstein, say, ten hours or so. I divided them into teams and assigned a section of Jackson’s text to each team, telling them that I wanted them to discover all the lexias (i.e., blocks of digital text) in their section and warning them that the Storyspace software allows certain lexias to be hidden until others are read. Finally, I asked them to diagram interrelations between lexias, drawing on all three views that the Storyspace software enables. As a consequence, the students were not only required to read closely but also to analyze the narrative strategies Jackson uses to construct her text.
N. Katherine Hayles -
Volumes might be written upon the impiety of the pious.
Herbert Spencer
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If it can be written, or thought, it can be filmed.
Stanley Kubrick -
Don't let anyone tell you the future is already written. The best any prophet can do is to give you the most likely version of future events. It is up to us to accept the future for what it is, or change it. It is easy to go with the flow; it takes a person of singular courage to go against it.
Jasper Fforde -
Applause is interesting, but I'm a monster with or without it. Something is either well written or it isn't. 'White Rabbit' is not well written, and no amount of applause or royalties can convince me it is. I could have done a better job with those lyrics. They didn't say what I wanted.
Grace Slick Starship -
I've never written an original piece for film; all the original things I've done are for the stage.
Tom Stoppard