Written Quotes

Once you have found the right shot to introduce the scene-written your first declarative sentence-then the rest flows. You've found the key to the whole scene.

Nature is written in mathematical language.

The fall of man is written in too legible characters not to be understood: Those that deny it, by their denying, prove it.

For my best poems were all written when I felt the worst. When I was happy, I didn't write anything.

It seems not to have been written. It is the quintessence of life. It is the basic truth.

The helpful thought for which you look Is written somewhere in a book.

The entire Quran is a big joke. If it was not so violent, it would be the biggest comic book ever written.

Half my life is in book's written pages. Live and learn from fools and from sages.

All good art is in the nature of a letter written to amuse a sick friend. Too much art, particularly in our time, is only a letter written to oneself.

What can't be said can be written. Because writing is a silent act, a labor from the head to the hand.

The narrow gauge mindset of the past is insufficient for today’s wicked problems. We can no longer play the music as written. Instead, we have to invent a whole new scale.

My whole written history is one big lie! I mean, I can't even believe my history.

And an equation is the same whether it's written in red or green ink

If the best man's faults were written on his forehead, he would draw his hat over his eyes.

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.

Yet the deepest truths are best read between the lines, and, for the most part, refuse to be written.

As for love . . . no, having once written that word I can write nothing more.

Our identity is fictional, written by parents, relatives, education, society.

I did not enter the Labour Party 47 years ago to have our manifesto written by Dr Mori, Dr Gallup and Mr Harris

The true word of God is written in our heart.

The greater part of critics are parasites, who, if nothing had been written, would find nothing to write.

If there is a book you want to read but isn't written yet,write it.

'Groundhog Day' was one of the greatest scripts ever written. It didn't even get nominated for an Academy Award.

Isn't it strange that I who have written only unpopular books should be such a popular fellow?

What kind of moron would go to work for half the amount of money, when they could sit at home and collect what's written in a contract?

I would have written a shorter letter, but I did not have the time.

Your religion was written on tablets of stone, ours on our hearts. 8. We are part of the earth and the earth is part of us.

Music is not written in red, white and blue. It is written in the heart's blood of the composer.

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.

The Bill of Rights was not written to protect governments from trouble. It was written precisely to give the people the constitutional means to cause trouble for governments they no longer trusted.

Time lost can never be recovered...and this should be written in flaming letters everywhere.

Criticism, even when you try to ignore it, can hurt. I have cried over many articles written about me, but I move on and I don't hold on to that.

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

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 would be ashamed to admit to the Indians that, where I come from, the women do not feel themselves capable of raising children until they read the instructions written in a book by a strange man.

It is abnormal for a Christian not to have an appetite for the impossible. It has been written into our spiritual DNA to hunger for the impossibilities around us to bow at the name of Jesus.

It was written without fear and without research.

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.

God is the poet; men are but the actors. The great dramas of earth were written in heaven.

The moment you ascribe who you are right now to what happened yesterday, you have written off your life.

The world is upside down, if you can keep your head while everyone around you is losing theirs and blaming it on you, then you will be a man, my son. One of the greatest lines ever written.

This is something that I cannot get over -- that a whole line could be written by half a man, that a work could be built on the quicksand of a character.

What woman says to fond lover should be written on air or the swift water. [Lat., Mulier cupido quod dicit amanti, In vento et rapida scribere oportet aqua.]

All speech, written or spoken, is a dead language, until it finds a willing and prepared hearer.

The fact that slavery is written into the Constitution is about as entrenched a form of classism as you could possibly imagine.

Volumes are now written and spoken upon the effect of the mind upon the body. Much of it is true. But I wish a little more was thought of the effect of the body on the mind.

The writing in mathematics text is not only laconic to a fault; it is cold, monotonous, dry, dull, and even ungrammatical... The books are not only printed by machines; they are written by machines.

Everything I've written is personal - it's the only way I know how to write.

Shouldn't the commandments be re-written? No, they should be re-read!

The rules are drawn up by lawyers who are trying to protect the admirals and generals from the politicians; they’re not written by people who are worried about the guys on the ground getting shot.