The Written Quotes

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.

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.

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.

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

I've written songs about things that nobody else has ever written about.

All really good picture books are written to be read five hundred times

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.

History should be written as philosophy.

... it was written I should be loyal to the nightmare of my choice.

I have also written some poems which have not been collected in a volume.

Live each day, as if it we're your last. It's written in the stars, your destiny is cast.

You contain a trillion copies of a large, textual document written in a highly accurate, digital code, each copy as voluminous as a substantial book. I'm talking, of course, of the DNA in your cells.

My father has always written with Mont Blanc pens. It's very chic and elegant and classic.

The moral system of the universe is like a document written in alternate ciphers, which change from line to line.

Language also encodes our past. We want to know who we are. To know who we are, we have to know who we used to be. Consequently, our literature, written in the past, anchors us in that past.

I wrote when I did not know life; now that I do know the meaning of life, I have no more to write. Life cannot be written; life can only be lived.

for it was not knowledge but unity that she desired, not inscriptions on tablets, nothing that could be written in any language known to men, but intimacy itself, which is knowledge

The alphabet will create forgetfulness in the learners' souls. They will trust the written characters and not remember themselves.

The record of one's life must needs prove more interesting to him who writes it than to him who reads what has been written.

My books standing there on the shelf do not know that I have written them.

The importance to the writer of first writing must be out of all proportion of the actual value of what is written.

I've never written one note or word of music simply because I think it will make money.

The great sickness and the grievous evil consist in this: that all the things that man finds written in books, he presumes to think of as true-and all the more so if the books are old.

You try to get to know your character as best as you can before you start filming - whats written and not written.

Ever since I've become chairman, there have been profiles of me in People, George, The Washington Post, The Detroit News, and all of them could have been written by the same person

I am overwhelmed with things I ought to have written about and never found the proper words.

All music written by a Christian should be as integrated as everything else done by a Christian.

There is nothing in anything that I have ever written that could be reasonably construed as an incitement to violence against anyone.

The fact of progress is written plain and large on the page of history; but progress is not a law of nature.

I don't like lyrics that are just thrown together, that were obviously written as you went along, or the song was already written and the guy made up the lyrics in five minutes.

Don't ever forget two things I'm going to tell you. One, don't believe everything that's written about you. Two, don't pick up too many checks.

I suppose that it doesn't matter whether a song is written or sung by a man or a woman. If the sentiment is there, it captures the audience.

This at least should be a rule through the letter-writing world: that no angry letter be posted till four-and-twenty hours will have elapsed since it was written.

One must be drenched in words, literally soaked in them.

Screenplays aren't written to be read, they're written to be made into movies.

Now that I have written many words, and let out so many loves, for so many, and been altogether what I always was a woman of excess, of zeal and greed, I find the effort useless.

When you say, "History is written by the winners," you like to think about someone who isn't you. You want to think, "Oh, that's the juggernaut I'm standing against." But you're probably part of it.

I just look for characters that have dimensions. If I don't see it written on the page, then I try to put it in there somehow. You don't want to play the same role twice.

When the history of our times is written, will we be remembered as the generation that turned our backs in a moment of global crisis or will it be recorded that we did the right thing?

The knowledge of your destiny is available to you, well before it actually happens, as a message streaming continuously from your heart to your brain, written in the language of longing.

When the audience comes in, it changes the temperature of what you've written.

You've written three lines" "Three carefully considered lines,"Xavier objected. "Quality over quantity, remember

The more love I craved, the more distant and abusive he grew. The role I longed to play was never written into Ryan's script: daughter.

To defend what you've written is a sign that you are alive.

People with clear, written goals, accomplish far more in a shorter period of time than people without them could ever imagine.

It is the only time that I can ever remember the Prime Minister reading out the conclusions of a meeting that did not take place. They were already written before it started.

Everything has been written. Everybody knows everything about me. There are no secrets. Except the skeletons in my closet.

By the time we made "Abbey Road", John and I were openly critical of each other's music, and I felt John wasn't much interested in performing anything he hadn't written himself.

I know that if I have been working on one paragraph and I have written it three times, it goes in the bin. Unless it comes straight out, it is wrong, it is awkward, it does not fit.

A lot of lines in movies were written, but I'm always improvising. Once you get into the scene, it just comes to me.