The Written Quotes

The number one book of the ages was written by a committee, and it was called The Bible.

The very meaninglessness of life forces man to create his own meaning. If it can be written or thought, it can be filmed.

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

As soon as you move one step up from the bottom, your effectiveness depends on your ability to reach others through the spoken and written word.

He is not in the least arrogant. The last album was written in a room in Sussex. He was like a mad professor, spending all day writing and then coming out with brilliant tunes.

The written word is the only anchor we have in life. How extraordinary would it be if we had even three or four paragraphs written honestly about their lives by our ancestors?

A well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one.

The universal and absolute law is that natural justice which cannot be written down, but which appeals to the hearts of all.

Don't think about what you've left behind... everything is written in the Soul of the World, and there it will stay forever.

Precept is instruction written in the sand; the tide flows over it and the record is gone; example is graven on the rock, and the lesson is not soon lost.

A few years ago, I bought an old red bicycle with the words Free Spirit written across its side - which is exactly what I felt like when I rode it down the street in a tie-dyed dress.

In Oxford before the war, I had, with this interest in mind, written a short textbook entitled, An Introduction to Economic Analysis and Policy. It was now my intention to rewrite this work.

With my website, I'm really interactive. I've written a lot of things about me.

There have been 50 or 60 books written about Empress Orchid, but none of them bothered to really examine the period in China when she lived. I was taught that she was evil; it's in all the textbooks.

We have written the evidence of our existence onto the surface of our planet. Our civilisation has become a beacon, that identifies our planet as home to life.

I know that one is able to win people far more by the spoken that by the written word, and that every great movement on this globe owes its rise to the great speakers and not to the great writers.

It may not be written in any book, but it is written - You can't go back, you can't repeat the unrepeatable.

I will say again that I have never, and would never, harm a child. It sickens me that people have written untrue things about me.

Much was said and written, at the time, concerning the policy of adding the vast regions of Louisiana, to the already immense, and but half-tenanted territories of the United-States.

The letter kills the spirit. The written text is mute in the face of responding challenge. It does not admit of inward growth and correction. Text subverts the absolutely vital role of memory.

The 20th century has been a badly written drama, from the beginning.

There are a lot of great jokes you can sit down and write, but that's just a written joke, versus the comedy of the situation. Ideally, you're pulling as much comedy out of the situation as you can.

History is a story written by the finger of God.

I was a songwriter and I've written some good songs, but there are lots of greater songs that I know I have inside yet to come out.

I didn't know how to go about preparing for the part of someone who can't remember who he is. The frustration angle is written in, but there's also this incredible passive state

Ah, on what little things does happiness depend! I have read all that the wise men have written, and all the secrets of philosophy are mine, yet for want of a red rose is my life made wretched.

The written word endures, the spoken word disappears

I've never written a song in my life. It's all a big hoax.

Don't think. The worst songs I've ever written happen when I think.

I've written original material before, where I've come up with the idea and the characters myself, and that's definitely very different to working with someone else's characters and stories.

If I had not existed, someone else would have written me, Hemingway, Dostoyevsky, all of us.

People often ask if I have a favorite song that I've written. And the answer is yes, but it depends on the day and what mood I'm in.

I have written about 240 books and some short stories, too. It's taken me many years.

Take time to listen to what is said without words, to obey the law too subtle to be written, to worship the unnameable and to embrace the unformed.

The books I haven't written are better than the books other people have.

A word I want to see written on my grave: I am alive like you, and I am standing beside you. Close your eyes and look around, you will see me in front of you.

I don't like outlining, because books are organic things. Sometimes a book doesn't want to be written in a certain way.

A Marxist has never written a good novel.

Gods law has been written on all of our consciences, but only in Christ is it written on our hearts.

The traditions of a nation are very important and the anthem written by Francis Scott Key in the early days of our nation should always be revered.

I love revisions...We can't go back and revise our lives, but being allowed to go back and revise what we have written comes closest.

The part an actor played on stage was once written on a separate roll of paper.

Your whole life you are really writing one book, which is an attempt to grasp the consciousness of your time and place– a single book written from different stages of your ability.

The anxiety around such work [vulnerably written ethnographies] is that it will prove to be beyond criticism, that it will be undiscussable.

I am becoming increasingly difficult to please as a reader, but I adore being surprised by a really wonderful book, written by someone I've never heard of before.

A statue stands in a shaded place An angel girl with an upturned face A name is written on a polished rock A broken heart that the world forgot

After the advent of the written word, the masses who could not - or were not permitted to - read, were given sermons by the few who could.

I love Australia passionately. I love our landscape. It's influenced most of my work, really. Almost everything I've written is about the landscape. Trying to find, the sacred, the spiritual in it.

Only sing - don't do cheap songs, don't do silly songs, just do, just do wonderful songs that are well-written.

Written laws are formulas in which we endeavor to express as concisely as possible that which, under such or such determined circumstances, natural justice demands.