Written Quotes
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The words of the prophets are written on the subway walls and tenements halls and whispered in the sounds of silence.
Paul Simon Simon & Garfunkel -
When 'Romeo and Juliet' came along, I fell in love with the way that it was written and how innocent and vulnerable it was and how different it was from 'True Grit.' I really liked that.
Hailee Steinfeld
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Readers let me know that they like books that have more to them than meets the eye. Had they not let me know that, I never would have written 'The View From Saturday.'
E. L. Konigsburg -
What is written is more influential than what is said.
James Cook -
Even though we didn't actually record it as the Move I had already written a song called 'Dear Elaine,' which I subsequently put on the Boulders album. I thought at the time that was probably the best song I'd written.
Roy Wood Electric Light Orchestra -
Your tweet is as important as if you would have written a Ph.D. [dissertation] on the subject.
Raoul Peck -
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 -
Democratic politicians have disliked things I've written, Republican politicians... if they all love you, you might as well be driving a Good Humor truck.
Adam Clymer
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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 -
I'm just first of all looking for a part that's well written and speaks to me.
J. K. Simmons -
I lost myself somewhere. And that’s a very sad thing. Losing yourself is sad and heartbreaking. Fucking sad and fucking heartbreaking. Losing yourself isn’t like losing a key to your house. It isn’t like losing an expensive pair of sunglasses or even the only copy of the greatest screenplay you’ve ever written.
Benjamin Alire Saenz -
Perhaps Lila was right: my book—even though it was having so much success—really was bad, and this was because it was well organized, because it was written with obsessive care, because I hadn’t been able to imitate the disjointed, unaesthetic, illogical, shapeless banality of things.
Elena Ferrante -
Blue Monday's distinctive intro was written on an Oberheim DMX drum machine.
Gillian Gilbert New Order -
Anyone should be very suspicious of a sentence he's written that can't be read aloud easily.
Andy Rooney
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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 -
I cannot choose one hundred best books because I have only written five.
Oscar Wilde -
Fate is written in the face.
Federico Fellini -
Criticism is the endeavour to find, to know, to love, to recommend, not only the best, but all the good, that has been known and thought and written in the world.
George Saintsbury -
The reason most folksongs are so atrocious is that they were written by the people.
Tom Lehrer -
I've bought pretty much every book ever written about the Alamo, and I talk to my friends that I've made over the past 15, 20 years. It's just a constant learning and fascinating thing for me.
Phil Collins Genesis
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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 -
A word aptly uttered or written cannot be cut away by an axe.
Nikolai Gogol -
Equity is that idea of justice which contravenes the written law.
Aristotle -
Of all the novels I've written, my favorite is 'Mick Harte Was Here'.
Barbara Park