There is a sort of an unwritten code in Washington, among the underworld and the hustlers and these other guys, that I… — Marion Barry Copy Share Image
There's an unwritten law that you cannot have a Jewish character in a film who isn't 100 percent perfect, or you're labeled anti-Semitic. — Spike Lee Copy Share Image
Those works whose ideal has not as much living reality and, as it were, personality as the beloved one or a friend… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
Perhaps the best definition of progress would be the continuing efforts of men and women to narrow the gap between the convenience… — Nadine Gordimer Copy Share Image
I'm so grateful to grab hold of something that wants to be a play. It doesn't happen very often. I don't have… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
“Reflections...passages in time..sometimes, the only things that make sense..the only peace I find..is found somewhere, unwritten..in between the lines.” — Victoria June Copy Share Image
I'm rather relaxed about death. From quite an early age I've regarded it as part of the deal, the unwritten guarantee that… — Bob Monkhouse Copy Share Image
“Staring at the blank page before you open up the dirty window let the sun illuminate the words that you could not… — Natasha Bedingfield Copy Share Image
New Haven cultivates ... an open gloom that seems happy to acknowledge disrepair and the superfluity of appearance. ... I realized that… — Sara Suleri Copy Share Image
... there's a large core of powerlessness which is balanced against the unwritten contract that says that if you behave, you'll be… — Judith M Bardwick Copy Share Image
When they were making black films in the '60s and the '70s, everyone knew their place, if you get my drift. You… — Paul Mooney Copy Share Image
I'd trapped myself in a script… But to be scripted at all is to be prepackaged, programmed, pinned to a page. Only… — David James Duncan Copy Share Image
There seems to be an unwritten rule on Wall Street: If you don't understand it, then put your life savings into it.… — Peter Lynch Copy Share Image
I find it very difficult to talk about unwritten works. It's never useful to start putting words casually around the flimsiest of… — Ian Mcewan Copy Share Image
Each one could be a Jesus mild, Each one has been a little child, A little child with laughing look, A lovely… — John Masefield Copy Share Image
For the whole earth is the tomb of famous men; not only are they commemorated by columns and inscriptions in their own… — Pericles Copy Share Image
“It was easy enough to write a sentence, but if you were going to create a work of art, the way Melville… — Chad Harbach Copy Share Image
Whatever hath been written shall remain, Nor be erased nor written o'er again; The unwritten only still belongs to thee: Take heed,… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
There is a misleading, unwritten rule that states if a quote giving advice comes from someone famous, very old, or Greek, then… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Today each of you is the object of the other’s reading, one reads in the other the unwritten story. — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
“no one has ever built them before in written history. (But much of history is unwritten. Remember this.)” — N.K. Jemisin Copy Share Image
“Her future was a blind spot, a blank page with an unwritten destiny, and this time, she held the pen.” — K.L. Harris Copy Share Image
“Everyone follows an unwritten productivity plan. Chances are, you already have one even if you don’t know about it.” — Vishal Ostwal Copy Share Image
The spiritual quality of earth: eternally pregnant and containing in its fertility the unwritten cipher of cosmic lore. — Lady Frieda Harris Copy Share Image
Every single step you take can, and will change your future. Your whole life is unwritten. You're the author, make your story… — Nishan Panwar Copy Share Image
“Don't be the forgotten voice in an unwritten book. Ikke bli den glemte stemmen i en uskreven bok.” — Atle Jarnæs Lerøy Copy Share Image
I always want to keep things unwritten. I'm inspired by Bob Dylan, who's kept evolving and changing his sound. I think that's… — Lykke Li Copy Share Image
There's a basic rule which runs through all kinds of music, kind of an unwritten rule. I don't know what it is.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
,000 people in Hampden Park. Of course they're all Scottish. Because no one else goes there. The English have an unwritten rule:… — Billy Connolly Copy Share Image
You do not know our culture, our ethics, or the unwritten codes that already provide our society more order than could be… — John Perry Barlow Copy Share Image
So far from genius discarding law, rather is it the supreme joy of genius to re-enact the eternal and unwritten law in… — Charles Henry Parkhurst Copy Share Image
Proverbs were anterior to boots, and formed the wisdom of the vulgar, and in the earliest ages were the unwritten laws of… — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
There's kind of an unwritten rule, Don't call your captain out at a Ryder Cup, win, loss or draw, you just don't. — Graeme McDowell Copy Share Image
A book unwritten is a delightful universe of infinite possibilities. Set down one word, however, and it immediately becomes earthbound. Set down… — Robert Harris Copy Share Image
I cannot too often repeat that Democracy is a word the real gist of which still sleeps, quite unawakened, notwithstanding the resonance… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
Irrespective of nationality, soldiers are always open to the same discomfort and to the same comradeship the world over. I'll make things… — Peter Ustinov Copy Share Image
Can one think that because we are engineers, beauty does not preoccupy us or that we do not try to build beautiful,… — Gustave Eiffel Copy Share Image
Looking at the poems of John Gray when I saw the tiniest rivulet of text meandering through the very largest meadow of… — Ada Leverson Copy Share Image
I am convinced that the unwritten knowledge scattered among men of different callings surpasses in quantity and in importance anything we find… — Gottfried Leibniz Copy Share Image