Quotes of: Written-down Keyword

Nobody can give a good performance unless the authors and composers have written a good part, a fact which is often overlooked.

Judy Holliday

A serious and good philosophical work could be written consisting entirely of jokes.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

Music is neither old nor modern: it is either good or bad music, and the date at which it was written has no significance whatever.

Peter Warlock

All good music, whatever its date, is ageless - as alive and significant today as it was when it was written.

Peter Warlock

You know if something is good because you remember the lines because it is written so well. The rhythm of the speech is spot on.

Rob James-Collier

Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.

Truman Capote

I'd rather sing a good lyric written by someone else than one of my own that is terrible.

Vanessa Paradis

Some of those more out-there jokes were written in the wee hours of the morning. Somehow, they remained funny the next day.

Seth MacFarlane

Life is filigree work. What is written clearly is not worth much, it's the transparency that counts.

Louis-Ferdinand Celine

Our perception of songs that we've written... the meaning changes from day to day... to whatever stage we're at in our life and careers.

Layne Staley

Travel provided many interesting experiences, but perhaps the most useful lesson I learned was that I really had no proficiency for learning the thousands of characters of the written Chinese language.

Eric Allin Cornell

Nothing worse than reading a love scene written by your father.

Alafair Burke

I love the written word so much, I know it's gonna flow naturally.

Alicia Keys

I've written immense love letters that are supposed to be opened over days at a time.

Cary Fukunaga

I can't remember writing any of the songs that I've written.

Fiona Apple

The United States is a nation of laws: badly written and randomly enforced.

Frank Zappa

I've never written a play before, and I'll never write one again. You can quote me.

Holland Taylor

I stand behind all the lyrics I've ever written; I don't have a problem with that.

Ian MacKaye

It's very painful to have something that's not true written about you.

Jayson Blair

My favorite Twombly is 'Apollo and the Artist,' with the big 'Apollo' written across it.

Jean-Michel Basquiat

I think I'm less the writer than I'm the written.

John Banville