Written Quotes
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My music wasn't written by Mozart, Beethoven, Bach or Schubert. It's written by God and me. They go "a one and a two and up." We start on the downbeat. Bam! And that's where we got them.
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Who says life is fair, where is that written?
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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.
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Alan Menken, for example, is one of my heroes for all of the music he's written for Disney.
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If I had not existed, someone else would have written me, Hemingway, Dostoyevsky, all of us.
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Bands have always written songs against what they see as wrong. Ronald Reagan really made for a lot of songs.
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In this Revolution no plans have been written for retreat.
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If someone picks up one thing you've written, you want them to go, 'Wow, this is pretty good.'
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The written word may be man's greatest invention. It allows us to converse with the dead, the absent, and the unborn.
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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.
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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.
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The written word Should be clean as bone, Clear as light, Firm as stone. Two words are not As good as one.
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The book of nature which we have to read is written by the finger of God.
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When we rely on written records we need to continually ask ourselves what might be missing, what might have been recorded in order to manipulate events and in what direction, and in what ways we are allowing ourselves to assume that objectivity is in any way connected with literacy.
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What good are laws that cannot be read or understood, or a tongue that spews only hatred or ignorance? What good is the written word to an illiterate man?
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A writer is someone who has written something today
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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.
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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?
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When the audience comes in, it changes the temperature of what you've written.
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Counting the ones I've co-edited, I guess about 28 or 29 books I've written.
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Every story, every poem, every written piece is about belonging. There is a me, there is a we, there is an us, and we want to belong to it or we don't want to belong. You can read every story with this as its main focus.
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Mathematics is written for mathematicians.
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The treaty was not worth the paper on which it was written.
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If you want to know whether you have written anything worth preserving, sing it to yourself without any accompaniment.