Written Quotes
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..the only certainty is that he written by Kirchner himself creates from the forms of the visible world, however close or far from them he desires to or must come.
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
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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
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It sometimes takes 6 months or more after you've written and recorded it before you can start to enjoy the experience of singing the song.
Matt Shultz Cage the Elephant
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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
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Volumes might be written upon the impiety of the pious.
Herbert Spencer
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What is the poem, after it is written? That is the question. Not where it came from or why.
Allen Tate
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All the plays that have ever been written, from ancient Greece to the present day, have never really been anything but thrillers... Drama's always been realistic and there's always been a detective about... Every play's an investigation brought to a successful conclusion.
Eugene Ionesco
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And I knew in my bones that Emily Dickinson wouldn't have written even one poem if she'd had two howling babies, a husband bent on jamming another one into her, a house to run, a garden to tend, three cows to milk, twenty chickens to feed, and four hired hands to cook for. I knew then why they didn't marry. Emily and Jane and Louisa. I knew and it scared me. I also knew what being lonely was and I didn't want to be lonely my whole life. I didn't want to give up on my words. I didn't want to choose one over the other. Mark Twain didn't have to. Charles Dickens didn't.
Jennifer Donnelly
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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
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My mother encouraged me to be artistic. It was written in a contract at an early age that I would be an artist.
Kurt Cobain Nirvana
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I don't think it's necessary to put your feelings about photography in words. I've read things that photographers have written for exhibitions and so forth about their subjective feelings about photography and mostly I think it's disturbing. I think they're fooling themselves very often. They're just talking, they're not saying anything.
Eliot Porter
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No poem was ever written by a drinker of water.
Horace
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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
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Good advertising is written from one person to another. When it is aimed at millions it rarely moves anyone.
Fairfax Cone
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There's already a lot of self-exculpatory history being written. Right across the board. And it's my task to make sure that such self-exculpatory histories cannot be written.
Eric Reeves
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Stuff just comes out all the time, sometimes when I sing live it really comes alive and I sort of... I write songs and then almost... not forget about it, but live it really comes out and I suddenly realise what I've written. I don't know where it all comes from.
Ellie Goulding
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Mathematics is written for mathematicians.
Nicolaus Copernicus
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Who says life is fair, where is that written?
William Goldman
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To me not one thing is better than anything else, I'm completely proud of everything I've written and recorded.
Jerry Fulton Cantrell Jr. Alice in Chains
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In all honesty, I've written movies that have been made, and the process has not been as satisfying as writing for television.
Vince Gilligan
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The book of nature which we have to read is written by the finger of God.
Michael Faraday
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I bought it [sha la la la lee] because of steve marriotts voice. I didnt realise until recently it was written by kenny lynch. I'm not at all embarrassed, great song and great band.
Carl Frederick Kendall Palmer Asia
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They are all up — the innumerable stars— And hold their place in heaven. ... There they stand, Shining in order, like a living hymn Written in light, awaking at the breath Of the celestial dawn, and praising Him Who made them, with the harmony of sphere.
Nathaniel Parker Willis
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Exhaustively researched and beautifully written, Cronkite is a classic. Douglas Brinkley has written his best book yet. This is a fascinating story that will be read for years to come.
Debby Applegate