The Written Quotes

I wish I could set deadlines for the Congress, but that's just not the way the Constitution is written.

We have a lot of long narrative poems written in the 20th century, but they're not very well known, and they're not read by very many people.

Tacit knowledge is one of the most important concepts of current scholarship in the humanities. Ambitious and important, Tacit and Explicit Knowledge is a well-written and original book.

If the president finds time to help the mentally retarded, what are you doing that's so important? [Written underneath:] Working to get them out of Washington.

I got my job through the New York Times. [Written underneath:] So did Castro.

I don't differentiate in the way that the genre creators want differentiation to be made. I feel that I have never written children's or YA stories particularly.

Anything said off the cuff has usually been written on it first.

I've written all that I've wanted to write to date.

You're every love song ever written.

I do enjoy Gothic fiction or books about zombies if they are well written and I like vampires.

A lot of first novels are written long before they're actually put down on paper.

Once I've written a song, I sometimes refine them.

He had written my mother once that he wanted her to be the first thing he saw every morning and the last thing he ever saw. And that's how it turned out.

As a writer, you look for someplace to start. Once you have a beginning and you've written the first two sentences, nothing else will ever change it.

I was a Gordon Lightfoot fan before he ever had a song out. You just knew he was pure talent and he was going to be successful. Gordon has written and recorded some of the greatest music ever.

I don't think any industry was ever as closely scrutinized and written about and constantly in the public eye as television.

Emma Rothschild's magnificently researched and lucidly written book reveals the many connections and layers of empire without in any way undermining the less edifying aspects of empire.

Why you won an election and why you didn't is a subject of, you know, books that get written 20 years later.

I've written songs for Shirley Bassey, Marianne Faithfull, and Linda Thompson. I sort of focus on these wonderful, aging divas. But maybe that's because I think I'm Christina Aguilera.

For an author nothing is as dead as a book once it is written.

For a dyed-in-the-wool author nothing is as dead as a book once it is written. ... She is rather like a cat whose kittens have grown up.

Do you know we have more acreage of forest land in the United States today than we did at the time the Constitution was written?

Hillary Clinton is a dead fish when it comes to being entertaining and alive. Without a prompter and a written script, she's nothing.

I've written something and I would like to have my first film directed by the time I'm 30.

I think that The Outsiders was meant to be written, and I was just picked to write it.

I haven't written my memoirs or let the television movie be made about my life.

I've never read anything so badly written that got published. It made 'Twilight' look like 'War and Peace.'

In my own case, the most inflammatory statements I have ever made are ones that I have written and remain willing to defend.

If you're doing a classic play, where if you do a Chekhov, you do the words as written. You can't do that with a novel; you have to do your version of the words as written.

All the Cosmic Drama, as it is written in the four Gospels, should be lived inside ourselves, here and now. The isn't something merely historic, it's something to live, here and now!

When women's parts are being written, they are more and more for under 30s who are nubile and beautiful. Actresses over 40 are finding very little happening.

I respond very well to well-written material and women who have had an effect on society, something tragic or monumental has happened to them.

History can be formed from permanent monuments and records; but lives can only be written from personal knowledge, which is growing every day less, and in a short time is lost forever.

Keeping accounts, sir, is of no use when a man is spending his own money, and has nobody to whom he is to account. You won't eat less beef today because you have written down what it cost yesterday.

Was there ever yet anything written by mere man that was wished longer by its readers, excepting Don Quixote, Robinson Crusoe, and the Pilgrim's Progress?

If a man could say nothing against a character but what he can prove, history could not be written.

What is read twice is usually remembered more than what is once written.

I don't think I'll write a large novel again because it was like being in jail for me. Even though that's the funniest book I've ever written, it was the saddest period of my life.

More than any of us, she had written her own story; yet she could not wash it out with all her tears, return to her victims what she had torn from them, and by so doing, save herself.

I am not a composer of music; I sing pieces which have been written for me which gives me bigger freedom to search for pieces I want to record.

But it was too early to know: there were always more pages to go, more words to be written, before the story was over.

But for now, I just sat there on the bed and listened to my song. The one that had been written for me by a man who knew me not at all, now sung by the one who knew me best.

It's a great compliment that people think they're fast reads. It's always funny to me because it takes so long to get a book (written) -- for me, it's never quick.

'Time after Time' is one of the best pop songs ever written, in my opinion. It's an incredible, beautiful, timeless song.

I don't read a word that's written about me. I don't read my own interviews. I don't read reviews. I think it would drive me insane.

There’s nothing more humbling than seeing your best quotes in a list, and thinking they could have been written by a coma patient with a keyboard and spasms.

I should have written that down. - Dilbert

What really put me over the top was receiving a packet of hundreds of hand-written thank you notes, telling me how the kids were inspired and excited about the [Cube] project.

I've always found that working through ideas in written form really changes the thinking.

Believe me, those great death bed speeches are written ahead of time.