The Written Quotes

The written word is redundant on the high seas. Why? Because paper gets wet too easily.

Graffiti is something written on a wall, and, of course, art can be exhibited or produced anywhere: a wall is just another venue.

Astronomy is written for astronomers

I began to write a kind of waltz and in a little more than an hour I had the theme written.

Once something is well-written, then everything else is gravy.

Most books today seemed to have been written overnight from books read the day before.

I've never written a political song. Songs can't save the world. I've gone through all that.

I'm an extremely slow worker, very unprolific. It can take me weeks to do a three-minute song, or at least to make it sound, in my mind, like I haven't written it. That's when I'm satisfied.

When Byrd came out of there, he had written a lot things while he was in the hospital.

Those who write against vanity want the glory of having written well, and their readers the glory of reading well, and I who write this have the same desire, as perhaps those who read this have also.

I have grown to believe that there is no dangerous idea, which does not become less dangerous when written out in sincere and careful English.

Strange as it may seem, the most ludicrous lines I ever wrote have been written in the saddest mood.

I’ll never forget my very first [SNL] show. I had a card in my changing room from Kristen Wiig. It just had a heart on the inside, and she’d written “Have fun.” That always stayed with me.

Omit and substitute! That's how recipes should be written. Please don't ever get so hung up on published recipes that you forget that you can omit and substitute.

The fall of the Berlin Wall did more for the progress of freedom than all of the books written by myself or Friedrich Hayek or others.

My writing is progressing slowly, but at least it's moving forward. I'm sure that's the case. The only problem is that I'm never absolutely certain that what I've written is any good.

You don't want the white men to be written in a three-dimensional way but the black men, not. I mean, it's just about [how] scripts should always reflect real human beings. So that's what I look for.

Too often we take notes on writing, we think about writing but never do it. I want you to walk into the heart of the storm, written words dripping off hair, eyelids, hanging from hands.

There is a point in your life when you realize that you have written enough destructors.

It's funny, when I'm not on the road or doing stuff with Bad Company - or whatever- I've always written songs galore... a lot of stuff people don't even hear.

... demanding a separation between church and state isn't enough; the churches' basic doctrines must be changed, with homophobia written out forever.

Every law that was ever written opened up a new way to graft.

Ive probably written about three albums that no one will ever hear.

I have written every poem, every novel, for the same purpose-to find out what I think, to know where I stand.

To celebrate growing older, I once wrote the 45 lessons life taught me. It is the most-requested column I've ever written.

The end of a man's life is often compared to the winding up of a well written play, where the principal persons still act in character, whatever the fate in which they undergo.

Simonides, a poet famous in his generation, is, I think, author of the oldest satire that is now extant, and, as some say, of the first that was ever written.

I want to get people to read stone, tree, so forth & so on through the construction of the picture, to lead them to these things exactly as if it were written out on a page. I think it can be done.

I realize that the New York Times probably not written for the express purpose of driving me mad; I think of it as liberalism's daily bulletin board.

I sometimes don't know what songs are about for several years after I've written them.

I have those (goals) written down, but don't want to discuss them. Right now, I just want to keep on improving.

I'm not a science-fiction writer. I've only written one book that's science fiction, and that's Fahrenheit 451. All the others are fantasy.

When I was little, I made up my own fairy tales, and the ghostly echo of Once upon a time shapes all the fiction Ive ever written.

Today's literature: prescriptions written by patients.

I try to turn a written thing, when I'm in trouble with it, into a spoken thing: I start imagining what I would say to someone if I were trying to tell the story or make the argument.

The Administration's policy on women is often hard to see because it is written in the font size of pharmaceutical ads.

My rage and sense of alienation as to how women have been written, have allowed themselves to be written, in so many ways, has political roots.

There's so many great songs already written, it's kind of really wonderful you don't have to write your own.

Scars are stories, history written on the body

I'm horrible at concepts. My life is random and my inspiration is random. But it's all written in a very specific time frame that says a lot about my life at the time.

This contract is so one-sided that I am astonished to find it written on both sides of the paper.

When I was young I longed to write a great novel that should win me fame. Now that I am getting old my first book is written to amuse children.

One of the funniest lines in my show was written for me by Alan Bursky. I really want to learn this routine!

Science for the Citizen is ... also written for the large and growing number of adolescents, who realize that they will be the first victims of the new destructive powers of science misapplied.

I can assure you that it feels even stranger to me than it probably does to you to have seen so much written about me when I have done so little to paint a picture of myself.

If the internal griefs of every man could be read, written on his forehead, how many who now excite envy would appear to be the objects of pity?

Who publishes the sheet-music of the winds or the music of water written in river-lines?

The gospel is not outward rituals and sacrifices, it is a living sacrifice. It is to have the laws of God written in our heart. It is to have a soft, listening, responding heart to God.

It's amazing what I could've written in my life if I had realized that I should keep writing and not masturbating.

Do those people who hold up the Bible as an inspiration to moral rectitude have the slightest notion of what is actually written in it?