Written Quotes · Page 36

When someone says they love you don't just take their word for it, it'll be written all over the way they're treating…

— Green Monk

I've written a lot of books which are written from the moon - the view from nowhere.

— Clifford Geertz

Scriptures were written, not to satisfy our curiosity and make us astronomers, but to lead us to God, and make us saints.

— Matthew Henry

Probably 95 percent of the things that are written never get on the screen.

— Joseph Wambaugh

When you get written off, you might be the only person who believes in you.

— Geno Smith

I like the idea of taking a true classic written by a true genius and essentially destroying it!

— Randy Newman

You try to get to know your character as best as you can before you start filming - what's written and not…

— Paul Dano

Every one of his opinions appears to himself to be written with sunbeams.

— Isaac Watts

I do have a sister. I have never written much about sisters before. I am very close to my sister, but, maybe,…

— Amy Bloom

The Bill of Rights was not written to protect governments from trouble. It was written precisely to give the people the constitutional…

— Henry Steele Commager

I would die happy if I knew that on my tombstone could be written these words, "This man was an absolute fool.…

— Lewis Mumford

The only map of your right life is written on your soul at its most peaceful, and the only sure compass is…

— Martha Beck

I loved to read, but I always thought that the dream was too far away. The person who had written the book…

— Rita Dove

If I show somebody something that I've written and they say, "Eh...alright," I just put it away and I never show it…

— Christopher Walken

I've never made up events, but I've always been a big exaggerator. It's written on my humorist license that I'm allowed to…

— David Sedaris

The brain upon which my experiences have been written is not a particularly good one. If their were brain-shows, as there are…

— H. G. Wells

It really gets on my goat that people keep quoting Dorothea Mackellar's 'My Country' as proof that there is no such thing…

— Judy Horacek

The usual method of creation for most human beings is a three-step process involving thought, word, and deed or action. First comes…

— Neale Donald Walsch

Another way of saying "put it in the Book" would be that each poem we write pops up in the city of…

— Gregory Orr

It takes a very long time to read a script. I'll look at a script, but there are so many scripts. I…

— Christopher Walken

I had never really written songs for anyone before. With [Broken] Social Scene, you're writing songs for others and your passing them…

— Kevin Drew

“Practically all writers and artists are aware of their destiny and see themselves as actors in a fateful drama. With me, nothing…

— Eric Hoffer

There arent many great passages written about food, but I love one by George Millar, who worked for the SOE in the…

— Sebastian Faulks

I think the language as spoken in Limerick and Cork has not really been written; 'City of Bohane' is a combination of…

— Kevin Barry

Every program has two purposes: The one for which it was written and another for which it wasn't.

— Alan Perlis

“In order to be written into History; one must first change it.”

— Darrius Garrett

The only time I'm pleased with myself is when I'm exhausted and shaking from having written too much.

— Mabel Seeley

I've been very lucky. I've written for most of my idols and the contemporaries.

— Alan Zweibel

Whenever I watch a show and twentysomethings have a lot of 'Star Wars' references, I know it's written by a 40-year-old dude.

— Anders Holm

A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer.

— Dean Acheson

I've never written a political song. Songs can't save the world. I've gone through all that.

— Bob Dylan

The greater the novel, the more it is apt to embody the special, non-replicable properties of the written medium.

— Joseph O'Neill

I've written all my songs on every single one of my records, and that's what's been fun about looking back.

— Taylor Swift

Never believe people in this business who say they don't read what's written about them.

— Ryan Seacrest

We don’t have to debate about what we should think about homosexual activity, it’s written in the Bible.

— Ted Haggard

At some unnoticed moment, I began to understand that a life is written in indelible ink.

— Jane Hirshfield

'Swimming Pool' was a very important moment for me because the character was written for me.

— Ludivine Sagnier

It is only what is written upon the soul of man that will survive the wreck of time.

— Anonymous

If a scene isn't well written they'll drop your neckline to fill the void.

— Madeline Kahn

The fact of progress is written plain and large on the page of history; but progress is not a law of nature.

— H. A. L. Fisher