Bart Ehrman Quotes

Similarity among all the speeches in Acts suggests that they were written by the same person—Luke.

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• They say it is the first step that costs the effort. I do not find it so. I am sure I could write unlimited 'first chapters'. I have indeed written many.

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • Effort
  • First
  • Step

• People are very curious and have written a lot of things about me. Right or not. I never comment on those things, because it's not much of my thing to comment on everything that's written about me.

  

  Zlatan Ibrahimovic
  • People
  • Me
  • Written

• I love to draw and paint. I'm very active in that way, but I'm not very good with the written word, though.

  

  Mackenzie Foy
  • Love
  • Word
  • Written

• I'll always love movies. But there's something I love very much about TV, when you shoot episodes while other episodes are still being written.

  

  Karine Vanasse
  • Always
  • Movies
  • Written

• There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Book
  • Moral
  • Thing

• In old days books were written by men of letters and read by the public. Nowadays books are written by the public and read by nobody.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Books
  • Public
  • Written

• It was one of the dullest speeches I ever heard. The Agee woman told us for three quarters of an hour how she came to write her beastly book, when a simple apology was all that was required.

  

  P. G. Wodehouse
  • Book
  • Simple
  • Apology

• I've still not written as well as I want to. I want to write so that the reader in Des Moines, Iowa, in Kowloon, China, in Cape Town, South Africa, can say, 'You know, that's the truth. I wasn't there, and I wasn't a six-foot black girl, but that's the truth.'

  

  Maya Angelou
  • Truth
  • Written
  • Reader

• 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.

  

  Eric Brown
  • Ideas
  • Inspiration
  • Written

• Every pilot I've ever written, I've fallen deeply and madly in love with. It's the only way I work.

  

  Amy Sherman-Palladino
  • Work
  • Way
  • Written

• To keep your character intact you cannot stoop to filthy acts. It makes it easier to stoop the next time.

  

  Katharine Hepburn
  • Time
  • Character
  • Acts

• What stands out to me most about Maya Angelou is not what she has done or written or spoken; it's how she lived her life. She moved through the world with unshakable calm, confidence and a fierce grace.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Life
  • World
  • Done

• Every cool riff has already been written by Black Sabbath. You're either playing it faster or slower or backwards, but they wrote it first.

  

  Rob Zombie
  • Black
  • Cool
  • Firsts

• She gave the most stirring speeches, ... and she was never afraid to ask for money. Once when I was speaking at a rally, she grabbed the mike and told me to be more forceful in my fund-raising pitch. The crowd loved it; I think we raised $90,000 that day.

  

  Eleanor Smeal
  • Money
  • She
  • Speeches

• Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Books
  • Written
  • Well

• The subconscious acts first on the dominating desires.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Desires
  • Acts
  • Subconscious

• The fact that I have a lot of songs written doesn't keep me from wanting to write new ones, or new ones from coming.

  

  Chris Owen
  • Writing
  • Song
  • Facts

• If someone picks up one thing you've written, you want them to go, 'Wow, this is pretty good.'

  

  Jim Gaffigan
  • Want
  • Written
  • Picks

• So it shall be written. So it shall be done.

  

  Yul Brynner
  • Written

• Most of the stuff that people look at on Quora today was not written in the last month. You write something really good, and maybe it's the definitive answer on the Internet for the next 10 years. Maybe it's only a year, but not like a tweet, where it's only relevant for a day or a week.

  

  Adam D'Angelo
  • People
  • Good
  • Today

• Acting is playing, and it is like being a big kid. Yeah, it's great. You get paid.

  

  Olivia Colman
  • Great
  • Acting
  • Kid

• I had rather munch a crust of brown bread and an onion in a corner, without any more ado or ceremony, than feed upon turkey at another man's table, where one is fain to sit mincing and chewing his meat an hour together, drink little, be always wiping his fingers and his chops, and never dare to cough nor sneeze, though he has never so much a mind to it, nor do a many things which a body may do freely by one's self.

  

  Miguel de Cervantes
  • Food
  • Fingers
  • Ceremony

• During the whole time in Sonic Youth, I was happy to put my energy into that. It would have been very difficult to do a solo project.

  

  Lee Ranaldo Sonic Youth
  • Energy
  • Difficult
  • Put

• Similarity among all the speeches in Acts suggests that they were written by the same person—Luke.

  

  Bart Ehrman
  • Written
  • Acts
  • Speeches