The Written Quotes
I think some period drama can be quite alienating, but 'Downton' isn't. This is going to sound quite, um, pretentious, but someone said that it's like a soap written by a poet.
Some racists still reject the plain testimony written in the DNA that all the races are not only human but nearly indistinguishable. . . .
When the voices of democracy are silenced, freedom becomes a hollow concept. No man or woman should be sentenced to the shadows of silence for something he or she has said or written.
The arithmetical symbols are written diagrams and the geometrical figures are graphic formulas.
Let me introduce the word 'hypertext' to mean a body of written or pictorial material interconnected in such a complex way that it could not conveniently be presented or represented on paper.
Don't believe those lies about intellectual people. They're only written to soothe the majority.
Looking Backward was written in the belief that the Golden Age lies before us and not behind us.
Every man's own character is written so all who will may read it, in the expression of his eyes, the tone of his voice, the posture of his body, the style of his clothes, and the nature of his deeds!
I have written a book. This will come as quite a shock to some. They didn't think I could read, much less write.
I cannot write in English, because of the treacherous spelling. When I am reading, I only hear it and am unable to remember what the written word looks like.
I wish to be cremated. One tenth of my ashes shall be given to my agent, as written in our contract.
Unfortunately many young writers are more concerned with fame than with their own work... It's much more important to write than to be written about.
A good style should show no signs of effort. What is written should seem a happy accident.
God may reduce you on Judgment Day to tears of shame, reciting by heart the poems you would have written, had your life been good.
Let no man write my epitaph. When my country takes her place among the nations of the earth, then, and not till then, let my epitaph be written.
A NASA astronaut and a Russian cosmonaut can't be creative. He has to follow a predetermined detailed checklist written by an engineer and if he gets a little creative he'll never fly again.
It's a little mad, but I believe I am many people. When I am writing a poem, I feel I am the person who should have written it.
I just wish, when neither of us has written to my husband's mother, I didn't feel so much worse about it than he does.
Every spoken word double-crosses us. The written word is the only tolerable form of communication, as it isn't a stone in a bridge between souls but a ray of light between stars.
As I look back on what I have written, I can see that the very persons who have taken away my time are those who have given me something to say.
It had been startling and disappointing to me to find out that story books had been written by people, that books were not natural wonders, coming of themselves like grass.
Opinion polls are not worth the paper they are written on, in my view, through the conference season. They don't settle down again until November.
An apology for the devil: it must be remembered that we have heard one side of the case. God has written all the books.
The unfolding of a story is both as exciting and as difficult for each and every novel I've written, regardless of time and place.
A person writing at night may put out the lamp, but the words he has written will remain. It is the same with the destiny we create for ourselves in this world.
History is almost always written by the victors and conquerors and gives their view. Or, at any rate, the victors' version is given prominence and holds the field.
Nobody as of today can produce any oral or written statement from me talking about changing the constitution.
Some of those more out-there jokes were written in the wee hours of the morning. Somehow, they remained funny the next day.
What good is all the painstaking work on copy if the headline isn't right? If the headline doesn't stop people, the copy might as well be written in Greek.
Feathers shall raise men even as they do birds towards heaven :- That is by letters written with their quills.
Reconnaissance memoranda should always be written in the simplest style and be purely descriptive. They should never stray from their objective by introducing extraneous ideas.
I remember one game I got five hits and stole five bases, but none of it was written down because they didn't bring the scorebook to the game that day.
Adventure, with all its requisite danger and wildness, is a deeply spiritual longing written into the soul of man.
Well, 'The Wellspring' was written from 1983 to 1986. And it had a section in the beginning that was poems that began from others' experience.
A lot of truths about the living world are recorded in bad books; they are just badly written about.
Good novels are not written by orthodoxy-sniffers, nor by people who are conscience-stricken about their own unorthodoxy. Good novels are written by people who are not frightened.
Every line of serious work that I have written since 1936 has been written, directly or indirectly against totalitarianism and for democratic Socialism as I understand it.
I have written a great many stories and I still don't know how to go about it except to write it and take my chances.
I have read all that has been written by the gravest authorities on political economy on the subject of rent, wages, taxes, tithes.
I'm definitely not an outsider artist. I'm very much an insider artist. I get written about in art magazines, and I'm not, like, in a mental institution. I'm a regular guy who went to art school.
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The singing of our sacred hymns, written by the servants of God, has a powerful effect in converting people to the principles of the Gospel, and in promoting peace and spiritual growth.
The future is not a scenario written, which we only have to act out; it is a work which we have to create.
He would write it for the reason he felt that all great literature, fiction and nonfiction, was written: truth comes out, in the end it always comes out. He would write it because he felt he had to.