The Written Quotes

Our lives are written in disappearing ink.

Nothing truly convincing - which would possess thoroughness, vigor, and skill - has been written against the ancients as yet; especially not against their poetry.

There's nothing written in the Bible, Old or New testament, that says, 'If you believe in Me, you ain't going to have no troubles.'

I think of life itself now as a wonderful play that I've written for myself, and so my purpose is to have the utmost fun playing my part.

No written law has ever been more binding than unwritten custom supported by popular opinion.

Biographies are but the clothes and buttons of the man. The biography of the man himself cannot be written.

He is not seeking a powerful people to represent Him. Rather, He looks for all those who are weak, foolish, despised, and written off: and He inhabits them with His own strength.

Chaos is the score upon which reality is written.

Historians from England will say I am a liar, but history is written by those who have hanged heroes.

Every cool riff has already been written by Black Sabbath. You're either playing it faster or slower or backwards, but they wrote it first.

I would sooner read a time-table or a catalogue than nothing at all. They are much more entertaining than half the novels that are written.

Algebra is but written geometry and geometry is but figured algebra.

If Allah has written for you happiness, no one can steal that from you, and if He has written for your heart to break, then no-one can mend it but He, so always put your trust in Allah.

I've always written songs that were confessional, acoustic, wordy - my writing style matches my personality. The music always has to match the mouth it comes out of.

The United States has written the white history of the United States. It now needs to write the black, Latino, Indian, Asian and Caribbean history of the United States.

I have never written a word that did not come from my heart. I never shall.

I was lucky enough to have the songs in my first show written by George and Ira Gershwin. Then Cole Porter wrote five shows for me

Written in these walls are the stories that I can't explain

Since 1985, I have written about contemporary Jewish practice and the Jewish community.

REALISM, n. The art of depicting nature as it is seem by toads. The charm suffusing a landscape painted by a mole, or a story written by a measuring-worm.

The very first schoolbook that was written had God all over it.

It's true that I'm taking a break from writing a regular column to do other things but it's got nothing to do with what dear Simon has or has not written.

The pages are still blank, but there is a miraculous feeling of the words being there, written in invisible ink and clamoring to become visible.

Our peculiar security is in the possession of a written Constitution. Let us not make it a blank paper by construction.

Your emotional life is not written in cement during childhood. You write each chapter as you go along.

I have never written a note I didn't mean.

Programs must be written for people to read, and only incidentally for machines to execute.

For your benefit, learn from our tragedy. It is not a written law that the next victims must be Jews. It can also be other people.

The great American novel has not only already been written, it has already been rejected.

It's not written in the Constitution or anything else.... Congress, just out of the clear blue sky, said the airwaves belong to the people, which means, in essence, that it belongs to Congress.

And what shall I tell you, lady, of the natural secrets I have discovered while cooking? And I often say, when observing these details: had Aristotle prepared victuals, he would have written more.

There will be no withdrawal without written orders and these orders shall never be issued.

I don't think I was considered to be a cabaret singer because I didn't have patter that was written.

The whole story of migration and what that has done in interconnecting the planet is obviously something I've written about a lot.

I have a journalism degree, but I'd rather be the person who is being written about rather than the person who is writing.

In every thriller written about Washington, particularly after 9/11, there are good guys and there are bad guys, and there's no gray area at all.

The songs that I've written about Africa, and AIDS and HIV and about the power of humanitarian love, those songs, I'm gonna sing them because I know that it's real.

I don't think anyone has written a great graphic novel.

Photography speaks a universal language that does not need translation, and with an immediacy that the written word lacks. It freezes a moment in time, leaving an indelible image.

No, the shark in an updated JAWS could not be the villain; it would have to be written as the victim, for, worldwide, sharks are much more the oppressed than the oppressors.

I cry very easily. It can be a movie, a phone conversation, a sunset - tears are words waiting to be written.

The book of nature is written in the language of mathematics.

Manifesto. Read my Manifesto. I've written a Manifesto. It's all in the Manifesto!

Fiction is a branch of neurology: the scenarios of nerve and blood vessels are the written mythologies of memory and desire.

Love is a romantic designation for a most ordinary biological process-or, shall we say, chemical-process ... a lot of nonsense is talked and written about it.

I believe that anyone who doesn't read remains dumb. Even if they know how, failing to regularly ingest the written word dooms them to ignorance, no matter what else they have or do.

A woman's best love letters are always written to the man she is betraying.

If as a child I had written a story, the best story that I could imagine, I would have written as indeed is happening to me.

'Hansel and Gretel' is one of the scariest stories ever written! Psychotic mother; stupid, inane father.

To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say, and to finish without knowing what you have written.