The Written Word Quotes

The Written Word Quote of the day

Its focus wasn't on the written word but how the word was written.

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.

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.

Honesty of thought and speech and written word is a jewel, and they who curb prejudice and seek honorably to know and speak the truth are the only builders of a better life.

The beauty of the written word is that it can be held close to the heart and read over and over again.

The best advice I can give you: Look unto Jesus, beholding his beauty in the written word.

The devil is a liar. I said the devil is a liar. Don't make me preach now, but you are the living epistle, the written word of Christ.

The written word can be powerful and beautiful - but films transport us to another place in a way that even the most evocative words never can.

I love the written word; I love when someone takes the time or leaves you a note or sends a letter.

While the spoken word can travel faster, you can't take it home in your hand. Only the written word can be absorbed wholly at the convenience of the reader.

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.

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

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.

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.

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 feel the written word, poetry and literature is just one of the most beautiful things that human beings do. So we have to fight for it.

I'm up to my ears in unwritten words.

I believe the Bible to be the written Word of God and to contain in it the whole rule of faith and manners.

There is no greater weapon than knowledge and no greater source of knowledge than the written word.

As soon as you move one step up from the bottom, your effectiveness depends on your ability to reach others through the spoken and written word.

I know that one is able to win people far more by the spoken that by the written word, and that every great movement on this globe owes its rise to the great speakers and not to the great writers.

The written word is the only anchor we have in life. How extraordinary would it be if we had even three or four paragraphs written honestly about their lives by our ancestors?

The written word endures, the spoken word disappears

After the advent of the written word, the masses who could not - or were not permitted to - read, were given sermons by the few who could.

The discipline of the written word punishes both stupidity and dishonesty.

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

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

I love the written word so much, I know it's gonna flow naturally.

Books are the building blocks of civilization, for without the written word, a man knows nothing beyond what occurs during his own brief years and, perhaps, in a few tales his parents tell him.

Things spoken can be forgotten and forgiven, but the written word has the power to change the course of history, to alter our lives.

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

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

So no one should rely on television either for their knowledge of music or for news. There's just more going on. It's an adjunct to the written word, which I think is still the most important thing.

If a director can find the exact combination between the written word as a guideline and improvisational input from his actors, I think that's where you'll find the most successful work being done.

Few children learn to read books by themselves. Someone has to lure them into the wonderful world of the written word; Someone has to show them the way.

What good are laws that cannot be read or understood, or a tongue that spews only hatred or ignorance? What good is the written word to an illiterate man?

The written word may be man's greatest invention. It allows us to converse with the dead, the absent, and the unborn.

Few things are better in the world than a room full of librarians. I consider them literary heroes. The keepers and defenders of the written word.

I think the written word is my first love. I was just a very imagination - centered child and a big part of that imaginary life came from reading.

Acknowledgements With grateful thanks to the three least-appreciated and hardest-working proselytizers of the written word: independent bookstores, librarians, and teachers.

It will be practicable to blot written words which you do not publish; but the spoken word it is not possible to recall. [Lat., Delere licebit Quod non edideris; nescit vox missa reverti.]

It seems inevitable that the magic of the written word will fade.

The written word still enjoyed a certain prestige here. It was a sluggish country.

I have a couple of thousand books in my personal library. Choosing a favorite is next to impossible. But I do love the written word.

But for me, really, the written word is always stronger than film.

The spoken word is nothing. It hardly lives longer than an insect! Only the written word is eternal. - Balbulus

God was there when it happened. We were not there.... Therefore, we are completely limited to what God has seen fit to tell us, and this information is in His written Word.

The written word is everything.

Even if the script's well written there's something about the life of an improvisation that resonates better than a written word, sometimes.

My Dear Reader Chum, a very hearty hello to you. What an honour and privilege it is to have you perusing my written word.