Written Assignment Quotes & Sayings

Nothing is more depressing than a tired dominatrix. — Amy Poehler

Since we think about ourselves so much of the time, it is comforting to assume ... that we really know the score ... [But] this is not an easy assignment. [As] Santayana wrote, 'Nothing requires a rarer intellectual heroism than willingness to see one's equation written out.' — Gordon Allport

Life feels good if you don't know what it is. — Raheel Farooq

People put problems in front of me, I solve them — Kirsten Beyer

Why do we allow the mirage of to-morrow to keep our eyes from the beauties of to-day? — Orison Swett Marden

Truly I was born to be an example of misfortune, and a target at which the arrows of adversary are aimed. — Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra

When Rolling Stone handed me this crazy assignment to be in the studio with James Brown, they had the misapprehension that I'd written for them already just because I claimed my character had. — Jonathan Lethem

You did not come to this world for an experiment but for an assignment written on the palm of your hand. Discover yours ! — Osunsakin Adewale

Everybody had a hard year,
everybody had a good time,
everybody had a wet dream,
everybody saw the sun shine ... — The Beatles

A lot of screenwriters have a drawer of unsold scripts that they cut their teeth on. I don't have one. Everything I've written, after my first spec, I wrote on assignment. Everything I've written was work. — Jon Spaihts

I wrote small stories here and there, then bigger ones. Some were even written for money. I signed up for a writing class and snuck my first assignment on a yellow legal pad in a partner's office while he read through my memo. — Rachel Sklar

Thirty years ago my older brother, who was ten years old at the time, was trying to get a report written on birds that he'd had three months to write, which was due the next day. We were out at our family cabin in Bolinas, and he was at the kitchen table close to tears, surrounded by binder paper and pencils and unopened books about birds, immobilized by the hugeness of the task ahead. Then my father sat down beside him put his arm around my brother's shoulder, and said, Bird by bird, buddy. Just take it bird by bird. — Anne Lamott

The most insignificant score is the score at halftime. — Gresham Barrett

I had a high school English teacher who made me really work at writing. And once, when I got an assignment back, she'd written: 'This is so good, Andrew. This should be published!' That made a big impression on me. — Andrew Clements

It's pretty amazing to write under any circumstances when someone gives you an assignment to write a song, even if it doesn't get accepted. I've written songs a couple of times, some for Disney, that haven't actually ended up in their films, but then you're left with a song forever. — Jenny Lewis