Written Quotes · Page 61

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

— Ma Jian

One of my favourite Japanese cartoons is 'Yasuragi no Yakata,' written by the famous Fujiko Fujio.

— Hidetaka Miyazaki

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

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

— Thomas Gray

Remember, a word is an invention, a symbol for an idea. Written text began as an artistic representation of a thought or…

— Edward J. Fraughton

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

— Frank Bough

We believe in humility and integrity, the spirit of one people, bound together under God. We understand that the Constitution was written…

— Allen West

I've been writing since I was six years old. It's hard to imagine stopping. I would hate to think that I've already…

— Don Winslow

Another trick in software is to avoid rewriting the software by using a piece that's already been written, so called component approach…

— Bill Gates

Most books that come out with a comedy label seem to be, Eric [Wareheim] and I could have written, "This is our…

— Tim Heidecker

I have purposely presented the land ethic as a product of social evolution because nothing so important as an ethic is ever…

— Aldo Leopold

In my first 15 or 20 years of authorship, I was almost never asked to give a speech or an interview. The…

— John Updike

Yes, I have two books that are about me: one of them I wrote, and the other one was written about me.…

— Eve Bunting

I always wince a little bit when I send me to each of my new books. I wince at submitting myself to…

— Emma Donoghue

Darren Hardy has written a new bible for the self-improvement space. If you are looking for the real deal-a real program, with…

— David Bach

I always think it is kind of funny when it comes to wisdom, and I say God has a sense of humor,…

— Benjamin Carson

In the two books I wrote, even though they were written in a sort of Joycean gobbledegook, there's many knocks at religion…

— John Lennon

There's a sureness to good writing even when what's being written about doesn't make all that much sense. It's the sureness of…

— Anne Bernays

I suppose in some ways doing some of the songs in the show felt a bit like I was doing cover versions.…

— Kate Bush

Some say it is the elements of hope and wonder in children's books that make them special. But there are many dark…

— Katherine Paterson

I have written screenplays. Most recently for Errol Morris, who was thinking about doing his first fiction movie, and with a young…

— Jim Shepard

Education is a technology that tries to make up for what the human mind is innately bad at. Children don't have to…

— Steven Pinker

I've always found that working through ideas in written form really changes the thinking.

— Scott D. Anthony

The Bible was written in tears, and to tears it yields its best treasures.

— Aiden Wilson Tozer

I've never heard a song written from a stepmother's point of view, about their family.

— LeAnn Rimes

Usually the most interesting stories are written not on paper but hearts.

— Richard Paul Evans

What would become of all historical biography if it was written only with consideration for other peoples' feelings?

— Johannes Brahms

The certainty that everything has already been written annuls us, or renders us phantasmal.

— Jorge Luis Borges

I've written six novels and four pieces of nonfiction, so I don't really have a genre these days.

— Anne Lamott

I've written immense love letters that are supposed to be opened over days at a time.

— Cary Fukunaga

The first album was literally the first 12 songs I've ever written.

— Mat Kearney

Learning to read the Bible in the light of the times in which it was written is critical.

— Adam Hamilton

I think I've written 40 books, and none of them have been heavy on action. I'm an introspective person.

— Lois Lowry

Nobody can give a good performance unless the authors and composers have written a good part, a fact which is often overlooked.

— Judy Holliday

The only music I've ever written was for a film called Frank, and the idea was that it was the worst music…

— Domhnall Gleeson

I think fiction writers write what they do because no one else has written it and they want to read it.

— Alan Cheuse

“It's hard to keep a secret when it's written all over your body... ”

— Julia Hoban

As far as you can, do some manual work so as to be able to give alms, for it is written that…

— Poemen