The Written Quotes

The thought, when written down, becomes less oppressive, but some thoughts are like a cancerous tumor: you express is, you excise it, and it grows back worse than before.

The only thing that would ever embarrass me would be something I would write that would be badly written.

Nature's great book is written in mathematics.

Know thyself' was written over the portal of the antique world. Over the portal of the new world, 'Be thyself' shall be written.

Nothing written for pay is worth printing. Only what has been written against the market.

If I win, I'm a prodigy. If I lose, then I'm crazy. That's the way history is written.

Dad’s especially need to remember that what they say to their daughters is written in Sharpie. It can’t be erased.

Whatever hath been written shall remain, Nor be erased nor written o'er again; The unwritten only still belongs to thee: Take heed, and ponder well what that shall be.

A judicial activist is a judge who interprets the Constitution to mean what it would have said if he, instead of the Founding Fathers, had written it.

History has been written not by the most talented but by the most motivated.

The written argument endures. The oral argument is fleeting.

All epoch-making revolutionary events have been produced not by the written, but by the spoken word.

I have never written anything in one draft, not even a grocery list, although I have heard from friends that this is actually possible.

Education is education, be it verbal or written.

Since the age of four, I've been exploring what I can do with the written word: everything from championing literacy and youth voice to raising awareness about world hunger.

In this Revolution no plans have been written for retreat.

Only three percent of adults have written goals, and everyone else works for them.

Even when laws have been written down, they ought not always to remain unaltered.

I think sometimes women who are supposed to be strong are also written as mean and vindictive.

You know people are always putting Ulysses in the top 10 books ever written but I doubt that any of those people were really moved by it.

Richard Barager has written THE novel of the Sixties - a passion-filled, pitch-perfect, roller coaster of a tale about the decade that divides us all.

I have written the only diet book that I believe needs to exist, and here it is: CHAPTER ONE: Eat a bit less. CHAPTER TWO: Move about a bit more. THE END.

Our Constitution was not written in the sands to be washed away by each wave of new judges blown in by each successive political wind.

Richard Burton had a tremendous passion for the English language, especially the spoken and written word

Write it down. Written goals have a way of transforming wishes into wants; cant's into cans; dreams into plans; and plans into reality. Don't just think it - ink it!

It's a comedy thriller, brilliantly written and it's full of twists and turns at every page. When I was reading it I was desperate to get to the end to find out what happens, it really hooks you.

We need laws written by people who have confronted life in the real world, not in the sheltered world of trust fund recipients of the insulated cocoon of academia.

Do not cite the Deep Magic to me, Witch. I was there when it was written.

History is written by the dreamers, not the doubters.

A star is extinguished, another will begin to shine - thus it is written in the Book of Nature

A new chapter in life waiting to be written. New questions to be asked, embraced, and loved.

Make notes—I’ve lost more material than I’ve ever written. Contrary to popular opinion, it’s not still up there in one’s brain. It’s in outer space and it ain’t coming back.

The clarity of Scripture means that the Bible is written in such a way that its teachings are able to be understood by all who will read it seeking God's help and being willing to follow it.

No! on Human Rights and Freedom, on a subject that is as self-evident as that two and two make four, there is no need of any written authority.

In the house of poetry nothing endures that is not written with blood to be heard with blood.

I would have written you, myself, if I could put down in words everything I want to say to you. A sea of ink would not be enough.' 'But you built me dreams instead.

Knowing another is endless,' Shepherd had written; 'The thing to be known grows with the knowing.

Photography records the gamut of feelings written on the human face.

Mozart has written opera, symphony, sacred and chamber music - not to mention his piano and violin concerti.

What I have written, I have written.

The more laws that are written, the more criminals are produced.

The substance of the winds is too thin for human eyes, their written language is too difficult for human minds, and their spoken language mostly too faint for the ears.

Let it (what you have written) be kept back until the ninth year. [Lat., Nonumque prematur in annum.]

Cruel of heart, lay down my song. Your reading eyes have done me wrong. Not for you was the pen bitten, And the mind wrung, and the song written.

To compose is to remember music that has never been written.

He is wise who knows the sources of knowledge - where it is written and where it is to be found.

With a written agreement you have a prayer; with a verbal agreement you have nothing but air.

No poet will ever take the written word as a substitute for the spoken word; he knows that it is on the spoken word, and the spoken word only, that his art is founded.

We have always made mistakes, but the greatest mistakes are the poems we have written.

The average American doesnt realize how much of the laws are written by lobbyists.