Written Quotes - Page 37

• It is no exaggeration to say that the English Bible is, next to Shakespeare, the greatest work in English literature, and that it will have much more influence than even Shakespeare upon the written and spoken language of the English race.

  Lafcadio Hearn

  Race, Literature, Next

  Lafcadio Hearn (2012). “Books and Habits from the Lectures of Lafcadio Hearn”, p.105, tredition

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• Alexander the Great changed a few boundaries and killed a few men. Both he and Napoleon were forced into fame by circumstances outside of themselves and by currents of the time, but Margaret Sanger made currents and circumstances. When the history of our civilization is written, it will be a biological history and Margaret Sanger will be its heroine.

  H. G. Wells

  Men, Civilization, Atheism

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• Yes, the natural sciences are telling us a great deal about human origins, the origins of our species the origins of our minds; we're on our way to explaining a large part of it. I'll accept an answer provided only by such means as obtaining and exploring, analyzing and arguing over the evidence - not because of a scribe's myopic view of the subject written 500 years before the birth of Christ!

  E. O. Wilson

  Mean, Views, Years

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• The coverage [of crimes] is different. It's less angry when white [athletes] are involved, less accusatory, less judgemental. I see that in the pieces that are written and reported. At times it bothers me to the point that I just stop reading...just stop.

  Michael Wilbon

  Reading, Athlete, White

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• The music that really moves me is music that's written by people where there isn't a lot of money and they're really singing with just their voice and a guitar about their feelings and about their life. Their poetry is relatively simple, in the sense that it's about their soul in jeopardy.

  Anton Yelchin

  Moving, Simple, Guitar

  Source: collider.com

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• I'm a thespian. I don't like to improv. I don't like to go off course 'cause I think that's where stuff happens. When you stick to the material 'cause it's written so well, that's where the magic happens.

  Regina Hall

  Thinking, Magic, Stuff Happens

  Source: collider.com

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• If people I've never met or don't know say that what I've written or done or said means anything to them, then I'm happy to take it at face value, for once. It cheers me up.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Cheer, Mean, People

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• Any relationship that you have is about negotiation - anything - whether there is a written contract or not.

  E. L. James

  Negotiation, Contracts

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• There have been times when I've written something and it goes out and it comes back in a letter from some kid as to what they think about it and I've taken their analysis to heart so much that I have taken up his thing. Writing what my audience is telling me to write.

  David Bowie

  Taken, Writing, Heart

  David Bowie (2016). “David Bowie: The Last Interview”, p.39, Melville House

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• I've never approached classical music in a formal way, ever. I couldn't read very well. I'd have to play every piece and internalize it, almost as if I had written it myself.

  Andrew Bird

  Play, Pieces, Way

  Interview with Joshua Klein, pitchfork.com. May 22, 2007.

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• There's a common misconception with sketch comedy that you just go up there and wing it, but it's written, and there really is order.

  Adam Pally

  Wings, Order, Common

  "Mindy’s Pally". Interview with Devon Ivie, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 16, 2014.

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• You're damn right we need a rational code of morality and ethics. But not much progress can be made in that direction while we've still got a majority ranting about gods, devils, souls, and absolute morality, and using an ancient book written by ignorant nomads as a guide.

  Doug Graham

  Book, Soul, Ignorant

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• Michael Lowenthal has written a big-hearted and wise book about familial love in all its richness and complexity.

  Dani Shapiro

  Wise, Book, Bigs

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• The spiritual man habitually makes eternity-judgments instead of time-judgments. By faith he rises above the tug of earth and the flow of time and learns to think and feel as one who has already left the world and gone to join the innumerable company of angels and the general assembly and Church of the First-born which are written in heaven. Such a man would rather be useful than famous and would rather serve than be served. And all this must be by the operation of the Holy Spirit within him. No man can become spiritual by himself. Only the free Spirit can make a man spiritual.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Spiritual, Angel, Men

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• The first sparrow of spring! The year beginning with younger hope than ever!... What at such a time are histories, chronologies, traditions, and all written revelations? The brooks sing carols and glees to the spring.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Spring, Years, Glee

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Essential Thoreau”, p.180, Simon and Schuster

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• It's a completely powerful and serious book, as good as anything in prose or poetry written by a 'beat' writer, and one of the most alive books written by any American for years. I don't see how it could be considered immoral.

  Robert Lowell

  Powerful, Book, Years

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• No one was more important to the game of baseball in the last half of the 20th century than Henry Aaron and no one writes about that supremely talented man, that tumultuous time and this treasure of a game better than Howard Bryant. Together, they are an extraordinary combination, and the book Bryant has written gets to the heart of the complicated and dignified, patient and consistent genuine hero that is Henry Aaron.

  Ken Burns

  Baseball, Hero, Book

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• Any person that don't read at least one well-written country newspaper is not truly informed.

  Will Rogers

  Country, Newspapers, Wells

  Will Rogers (1979). “Will Rogers' Daily Telegrams: The Hoover years, 1931-1933”, Will Rogers Heritage Trust

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• Books arent written on whim or promises. Books are written on years turned inside out by ideas that never let go until you get them in print, and even then writings a last resort, a desperate ransom you pay to get your life back.

  Richard Bach

  Letting Go, Book, Writing

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• [T]he one indispensable ingredient of science fiction [is] a belief in a world being changed by man's intellect, a conviction that what was being written could really happen.

  James Gunn

  Men, Fiction, World

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• Ive probably written about three albums that no one will ever hear.

  Jim Sturgess

  Albums, Three

  “Hot Topic: Jim Sturgess” by Katie Amey, www.elle.com. March 15, 2013.

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• Were not one thing, as human beings, so any character that is written uni-dimensional, thats just a shallow character with shallow writing and shallow acting.

  Kari Matchett

  Writing, Character, Acting

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• The White House announced that it has rejected several petitions to legalize marijuana. They say it has nothing to do with politics. It's just that they can't accept a petition that was written on a crumpled up Funyuns bag.

  Jimmy Fallon

  Marijuana, White, House

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• All the people I have written about remain with me - perhaps they are my closest friends.

  Claire Tomalin

  People, Closest Friends, Closest

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• Are You Seeing Me? is written powerfully with both the heart and the head, and neither gives an inch. It's funny, moving and hugely insightful. Darren Groth puts the reader into the heads of Perry and Justine in a way that feels so true and so revealing that I think I've come away with a greater capacity for empathy. I didn't know a book could do that. We all need to spend some time inside this story.

  Nick Earls

  Book, Moving, Heart

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