The Written Quotes

Even if you've written something for print, I think it's good to try [it] out on someone because it changes. You can think it's hilarious and they can tell you it's not.

Peace may be negotiated by politicians, but it is something written in hearts and minds not on pieces of paper

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

Ever since I've been young I've been fascinated by the human body. I've written songs about it, but you can become quite morbid if you think about it too much - paranoid and a hypochondriac.

There is one straight chain of truth without one heretical sentence in that which I have written.

You may translate books of science exactly. ... The beauties of poetry cannot be preserved in any language except that in which it was originally written.

Don't get it right, just get it written.

It is written on the arched sky; it looks out from every star. It is the poetry of Nature; it is that which uplifts the spirit within us.

At Bloomington, Indiana, I was invited to listen to music written in quarter tones for four harps and voices. I had to go out to be sick.

No better commentary on the Vedas has been written or can be written.

Everything you do leaves traces, doesn't it. The life you've lived is written all over you, for those who can read.

Without the imaginative insight which goes with creative literature, history cannot be intelligibly written.

Every story I've written was written because I had to write it. Writing stories is like breathing for me; it is my life.

Books want to be born: I never make them. They come to me and insist on being written, and on being such and such.

The brain is highly structured, but it is also extremely flexible. It's not a blank slate, but it isn't written in stone, either.

Ultimately the product that any writer has to sell is not the subject being written about, but who he or she is.

America is indeed a revelation, though not quite the one that was planned. Given a clean slate, man, it was hoped, would write the future. Instead, he has written his past.

Oh, friend, forget not, when you fain would note In me a beauty that was never mine, How first you knew me in a book I wrote, How first you loved me for a written line.

Nowhere is it written that NATO had to accept certain countries. All that would have been required to refrain from doing so was the political will. But people didn't want to.

Really Love itself is the extract of the whole Knowledge, it is written that in last synthesis the Wisdom can be reduced into Love, and the Love into Happiness.

We don’t have to debate about what we should think about homosexual activity, it’s written in the Bible.

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.

Liberty, then, about which so many volumes have been written is, when accurately defined, only the power of acting.

Some very plausible stuff is being written by women in a way that most men are not doing.

The press has always written that I am a recluse and a mysterious woman, but I am more down-to-earth than they think.

Broken Horses is an artistic triumph. Beautifully written, acted and imaged, this film wraps slowly around you like a king snake and squeezes.

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.

Nothing anybody's said or written about me ever bothers me, except when it does.

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

There's a real fantasy quotient to my work. Any play that I've written for myself to perform in basically begins with the idea, "Wouldn't it be fun to be, say, Jean Harlow in a pre-code movie?"

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.

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.

You are a trophy of God's grace. He has future accomplishments with your name written on them.

Two-thirds of a century after [The Road to Serfdom] got written, hindsight confirms how inaccurate its innuendo about the future turned out to be.

I suppose I have written novels to find out what I thought about something and poems to find out what I felt about something.

All the maxims have been written. It only remains to put them into practice.

I've written a lot of music, so to be able to put that together and play some shows around the country and elsewhere - that would really be a fun thing to do.

It is written that he who governs well, leads the blind; But that he who teaches, gives them eyes.

The mind is like a computer. It runs programs. Most of the software has been poorly written. It is written in the language of fear.

DNA is ROM. It can be read millions of times over, but only written to once - when it is first assembled the birth of the cell in which it resides.

"Reverence for parents" stands written among the three laws of most revered righteousness.

I have no idea what readership is of written editorials, but it doesn't come anywhere close to the readership of editorial cartoons.

Those who say that life is worth living at any cost have already written an epitaph of infamy, for there is no cause and no person that they will not betray to stay alive.

I am a writer perhaps because I am not a talker. It has always been hard for me to say exactly what I mean in speech But if I have written a clumsiness, I may erase it.

If that glad message of your Bible were written in your faces, you would not need to demand belief in the authority of that book in such stiff-necked fashion.

My philosophy is "Where is it written that at 40 you give up all your toys?" If I'm still having a great time doing something, I'm going to keep on doing it.

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

A writing may be lost; a lie may be written; but what the eye has seen is truth and remains in the mind!

You’ll come back To me . . . It’s written in the stars, you see, you’ll come back. You’ll come back, it’s a fact that I am strong because I do believe in you.

I am a genius who has written poems that will survive with the best of Shakespeare, Wordsworth and Keats