#written

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

#chinese #experiences #had #i #interesting

I met the Colonel when Elvis was recording some song I'd written for one of his movies. Elvis was just having fun with the gang and all the Memphis boys and Colonel Parker was sitting over here in like a theater seat. ↗

— Mac Davis

#elvis #fun #gang #having #having fun

One of my real goals was to hear someone whistling a song I'd written. ↗

— Mac Davis

#hear #i #real #someone #song

I think some period drama can be quite alienating, but 'Downton' isn't. This is going to sound quite, um, pretentious, but someone said that it's like a soap written by a poet. ↗

— Michelle Dockery

#going #i #i think #like #period

A composer knows that music is written by human beings for human beings and that music is a continuation of life, not something separated from it. ↗

— Hanns Eisler

#composer #continuation #human #human beings #knows

They have this big book called the "DSM-IV," you know, that is supposedly written about crazy people, but I think it is a book that is written by crazy people! ↗

— William Glasser

#big #book #called #crazy #crazy people

A characteristic of older folksongs, in most cases, is that we don't know their composers or authors. Older folksongs were written often with no commercial purpose in mind. They were passed down by word of mouth, from generation to generation. ↗

— Tom Glazer

#cases #characteristic #commercial #composers #down

When a writer admits that he has an affection for something which he has written, it is high time to pray for his soul. ↗

— Dornford Yates

#high #high time #his #pray #pray for

I've written about 15 screenplays and they all sold - they were all sold on pitches. ↗

— Bruce Vilanch

#i #pitches #screenplays #sold #were

None of this was written to hurt anybody's feelings. ↗

— Ric Flair

#feelings #hurt #none #written