The Written Quotes

For some men, nothing is Written unless they Write it.

I have expressed my opinion through the written word through my books, that is all.

I carry a small sheet of paper in my wallet that has written on it the names of people whose opinions of me matter. To be on that list, you have to love me for my strengths and struggles.

I believe good software is written by small teams of two, three, or four people interacting with each other at a very high, dense level.

Passing away" is written on the world and all the world contains.

Calvaryites are sometimes a little too heavily oriented to the written Word.

My first biography written in '73 was not 'Journey To The Moon.' It was 'Return To Earth.' Because for me, that was the more difficult task - disappointment.

The ending is nearer than you think, and it is already written. All that we have left to choose is the correct moment to begin.

Where is it written that houses must be beige? Any dun colored house would look better if painted pineapple, cream, ochre, or even a smart sage.

I've written books on advertising-cheque books.

Temper your enjoyments with prudence, lest there be written on your heart that fearful word 'satiety.'

I have purposely presented the land ethic as a product of social evolution because nothing so important as an ethic is ever 'written'… It evolves in the minds of a thinking community.

I learned to play guitar at a young age and converted poems and stuff that I had written to songs.

It is not worth the paper it is written on unless it is backed by the kind of force that will make the other side consider the penalties too heavy to break the agreement.

I read the script, and I knew it was a good part. It was written for a white actor. That's what I'm up against - I have to try to make roles happen for me that aren't written black.

I don't think you can write - at least not well - if you don't love stories, love the written word.

I had written childrens books for 14 years before I published Wicked. And none of them were poorly reviewed, and none of them sold enough for me to be able to buy a bed.

Probably all the books I've ever written have been efforts to define the boundaries of humanity.

All the songs that were written for that album are just all our first sophomore songs. So they're all from real life. Very sweet and very innocent.

I think maybe written films are better than real films. You can see them in your head and yet everything is exactly as you want it to be.

Most of my recent plays were written in the railway train between Hatfield and Kings Cross. I write anywhere, on the top of omnibuses or wherever I may be; it is all the same to me.

It's as if all your past is written on the blackboard, and if we could erase it, your past would no longer exist. The way you do that - the only way you do that - is in samadhi.

It sometimes takes 6 months or more after you've written and recorded it before you can start to enjoy the experience of singing the song.

I've written so many songs about Englishmen, I have to go elsewhere.

Of all that is written, I love only what a person hath written with his blood.

Of all writings I love only that which is written with blood. Write with blood: and you will discover that blood is spirit.

Scriptures were written, not to satisfy our curiosity and make us astronomers, but to lead us to God, and make us saints.

Never stop writing because you have run out of ideas. Fill the lacunae of inspiration by tidily copying out what is already written.

In the end all books are written for your friends.

I returned to Jerusalem, and it is by virtue of Jerusalem that I have written all that God has put into my heart and into my pen.

People will always be tempted to wipe their feet on anything with 'welcome' written on it.

I dislike modern memoirs. They are generally written by people who have either entirely lost their memories, or have never done anything worth remembering.

When I write, I enjoy myself so much that what is being written really needs no reader

Nobody can give a good performance unless the authors and composers have written a good part, a fact which is often overlooked.

Either god should have written a book to fit my brain, or he should have made my brain to fit his book.

Any time I've taken the mound, it's always been the old Samson-and-Goliath story written about me.

I've been with Life now for seventeen years and I have written several articles for them and will be doing more writing and do at least two assignments a year besides my writing.

It amazes me that filmmakers will still film, and audiences will still watch, relationships so bankrupt of human feeling that the characters could be reading dialogue written by a computer.

It would be something that another person had written down without understanding its significance; just a sentence or two that would be like a flash of light.

In 1795, I sent him another letter, telling him, that danger still stood before us, and that the truth of what I had written in 1792 was to be proved by 12 men.

But I always held my music up and protected it from compromise. So I just do it for my friends. I've written hundreds of songs, and I'm sure I have a few albums worth of songs.

But I have always - ever since The Accidental Woman - written novels about individuals attempting to make choices in the context of situations over which they have no control.

[T]he one indispensable ingredient of science fiction [is] a belief in a world being changed by man's intellect, a conviction that what was being written could really happen.

The first line (of I Am The Walrus) was written on one acid trip one weekend. The second line was written on the next acid trip the next weekend, and it was filled in after I met Yoko.

Local television news, on both radio and television, is so appalling. Makes print journalism look like the greatest stuff ever written.

Certain books seem to be written, not that we might learn from them, but in order that we might see how much the author knows.

One of the things I know from the study of history is that history surprises you. History is not written. It's not inevitable.The victory of evil is not certain.

I'm so disappointed at what's being written and said about Anil Kumble ... He's been around for over 18 years and his achievements do all the talking.

And I have written three books on the soul, Proving absurd all written hitherto, And putting us to ignorance again.

And this is the way a novel gets written, in ignorance, fear, sorrow, madness, and a kind of psychotic happiness as an incubator for the wonders being born.