Written Quotes · Page 29

When the written and spoken word is censored, the urban landscape becomes a nation's only physical link to the past.

— Ma Jian

If written directions alone would suffice, libraries wouldn't need to have the rest of the universities attached.

— Judith Martin

A man of good sense always believes what he is told, and what he finds written down.

— Francois Rabelais

Beethoven's last quartets were written by a deaf man and should only be listened to by a deaf man.

— Thomas Beecham

Albums, with me, have never had an easy birth. Especially when all the songs are self-written songs.

— Marc Almond

I would have written of me on my stone: I had a lover's quarrel with the world.

— Robert Frost

We're supposed to have guns. It says so in the Bible; and the second greatest book ever written, the Texas State Constitution.

— George W. Bush

The vows that woman makes to her fond lover are only fit to be written on air or on the swiftly passing…

— Catullus

When the story of these times gets written, we want it to say that we did all we could, and it was…

— Edward de Bono

My philosophy is "Where is it written that at 40 you give up all your toys?" If I'm still having a great…

— Guy Fieri

The words It's not my fault! should never again come from your mouth. The words It's not my fault! have been symbolically…

— Andy Andrews

I like writing for other people. I love it. It's great because you write it and then you hand it off to…

— Nicholas Stoller

I have something to say about the difference between American and European cities, but I forgot what it was. I have it…

— David Byrne

I've purposely stayed away from reading much about postmodern theory, and most everything I have read just bored me to tears. I…

— Dave Eggers

I did a terrible television pilot that was so badly written and dumb that it became a turning point for me and…

— Fran Drescher

When you say the name Gilligan, you know who that is. If a show is good, if it's written well, you should…

— Sherwood Schwartz

I have to deplore the systematic manner in which the literature of Europe has continued to put out of sight our obligations…

— John William Draper

God Bless America started to become an almost ritualistic incantation at the end of political speeches really with Ronald Reagan. It appears…

— Susan Jacoby

Throw away my book: you must understand that it represents only one of a thousand attitudes. You must find your own. If…

— Andre Gide

What you're doing is putting into professional play the way that you relate to other people, the way that you analyze and…

— Trevor Nunn

When one read's Kierkegaard's profound analyses of anxiety and despair or Nietzsche's amazingly acute insights into the dynamics of resentment and the…

— Rollo May

No matter what character your play. I feel like whenever anyone is honest and whole and well-written, you're going to be able…

— Ellen Page

Maya Jasanoff's Liberty's Exiles places the loyalist experience and the aftermath of the American Revolution in an entirely new light. Alongside the…

— Sean Wilentz

In my opinion, the greatest sin in the church of Jesus Christ in this generation is ignorance of the Word of God.…

— J. Vernon McGee

I had learning disabilities, and I couldn't express myself in the written word,

— Laura Linney

A musician's biography is written wherever he performs; everybody hears what he is playing.

— Sri Chinmoy

The very best impromptu speeches are the ones written well in advance.

— Ruth Gordon

“It's written in our DNA somewhere: our children first, the rest of the world second.”

— Rachel Caine

In all honesty, I've written movies that have been made, and the process has not been as satisfying as writing for television.

— Vince Gilligan

I love being vulnerable. It's scary. I feel like the best stuff that I have ever written can come from real vulnerable…

— Mat Kearney

Ilike ideas writers have that I might not have written. Writers are there for a reason... to write for me.

— Tim Roth

History is written by winners, so most history books are about people who win.

— Harold S. Kushner

I was quiet for a year but I had 4,000 articles written about me.

— Heather Mills

How endless is that volume which God hath written of the world! Every creature is a letter, every day a new page.

— Joseph Hall

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

— Langston Hughes

I'd never written a novel before, and I wrote a novel, and that turned out OK.

— Rainbow Rowell

“I may have written this before, but I may not have written it as well, so I’ll write it again.”

— Jarod Kintz

There have been more books alone written about Hamlet than have been written about the Bible.

— Mark Rylance

I have only written what I experienced, what I saw, what I learned first-hand.

— Mohamedou Ould Slahi

The Bible was not written for entertainment purposes, so it's a real hodgepodge and a compendium of all kinds of stuff.

— Robert Crumb