The Written Quotes

I have read all that has been written by the gravest authorities on political economy on the subject of rent, wages, taxes, tithes.

I’ve written a lot and brainstorm ideas, and I plan on pursuing them very soon.

I'm definitely not an outsider artist. I'm very much an insider artist. I get written about in art magazines, and I'm not, like, in a mental institution. I'm a regular guy who went to art school.

That’s why I hate to take credit for the songs I’ve written. I feel that somewhere, someplace, it’s been done and I’m just a courier bringing it into the world.

Adventure, with all its requisite danger and wildness, is a deeply spiritual longing written into the soul of man.

I remember one game I got five hits and stole five bases, but none of it was written down because they didn't bring the scorebook to the game that day.

What good is all the painstaking work on copy if the headline isn't right? If the headline doesn't stop people, the copy might as well be written in Greek.

'Dare to Discipline' was published in 1970 in the midst of the Vietnam War and a culture of rebellion. The book was written in that context, but the principles of child rearing have not changed.

All songs are already perfectly written. It is the writer's job to find it and get it on paper.

I want to know a lot of things I don't already know -especially as the things I do know, if written down, do not have the permanence I want in my mind.

Nothing good has ever been written about the full rotation of a racecar about its roll axis.

A good book written for children can be read by adults

History is lived forwards but it is written in retrospect. We know the end before we consider the beginning and we can never wholly recapture what it was to know the beginning only.

I'm up to my ears in unwritten words.

I believe the Bible to be the written Word of God and to contain in it the whole rule of faith and manners.

This is perhaps the most important book on evolutionary genetics ever written

I've always written at night - my working day for years was around 9pm to 2am - though I do keep more regular hours these days.

All too often the Democratic Party has taken the black vote for granted, and all too often the Republican Party has written it off.

Never criticize the composition of a Royal Highness. You never know who may have written it.

Honestly I try to stay away from what has been written about me because if you let that stuff get to you and it's not true, it can drive you crazy.

It's not a case of: 'Read this book and then you'll think differently. I've written this book, and I don't think differently.

Fate's sentence written on the brow no hand can e'er efface.

Of course a politician's promise isn't worth the paper it's written on.

I mostly write short stories. They are best written in a continuous creative process. You have a feel of immediacy.

Pay no attention to the criticism of men who have never themselves written a notable work.

I was gravely warned by some of my female acquaintances that no woman could expect to be regarded as a lady after she had written a book.

What would become of all historical biography if it was written only with consideration for other peoples' feelings?

Not only is history written by the winners, it is also made by them.

There is no story unless you've written it.

There is no greater weapon than knowledge and no greater source of knowledge than the written word.

The history of free men is never really written by chance but by choice; their choice!

I am by temperament an optimist, and I thought from the beginning that there was much to be written about suicide that was strangely heartening.

My fantasy is to have a restaurant where there are no written menus, but where you just ask people, What are you in the mood for? Fish? Meat? White wine?

If all the music written since Bach's time should be lost, it could be reconstructed on the foundation which Bach laid.

Some people have things written all over their faces; the big guy had a couple of words misspelled in crayon on his.

If I had more time, I would have written a shorter letter.

Man ceased to be an ape, vanquished the ape, on the day the first book was written.

Rock music was never written for or performed for conservative tastes.

My trouble is insomnia. If I had always slept properly, I'd never have written a line.

Perhaps our deepest love is already inscribed within us, so its object doesn't create a new word but instead allows us to read the one written.

The nation demands a movement which has written upon its banner the internal and external national freedom that it will act as if it were the spiritual, social and political conscience of the nation.

Strength of character is already written. What we bring, as an actor, is an almost 3D-ness to it.

After you've written a story, the thing to do is sell it. Sounds simple, and it is, if one will follow certain basic principles of salesmanship.

I have seldom written a story, long or short, that I did not have to write and rewrite. There are single stories of mine that have taken me ten or twelve years to get written.

History is a voice forever sounding across the centuries the laws of right and wrong. Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral law is written on the tablets of eternity.

That morning, she had found an envelope stuffed into her locker. It was from the Mercer Hotel, and held a plastic door key for their suite. "See you there tonight," Oliver had written. "Chomp! Chomp!

The written tone and the spoken tone change and the reporters' disbelief in the veracity of the government spreads to the readers and the viewers.

My mother encouraged me to be artistic. It was written in a contract at an early age that I would be an artist.

In this Revolution, no plans have been written for retreat. Those who will not get into step will find that the parade has passed them by.

More good code has been written in languages denounced as "bad'' than in languages proclaimed "wonderful'' - much more.