Written Quotes · Page 64

Who publishes the sheet-music of the winds or the music of water written in river-lines?

— John Muir

The universal and absolute law is that natural justice which cannot be written down, but which appeals to the hearts of all.

— Victor Cousin

“This story was not written for people who do not know what I'm talking about.”

— Christopher Higgs

To celebrate growing older, I once wrote the 45 lessons life taught me. It is the most-requested column I've ever written.

— Regina Brett

“The written word isn't necessarily a chore but can be a window into new worlds”

— Wes Moore - Bestselling author of The Other Wes Moore

I have written about 240 books and some short stories, too. It's taken me many years.

— Eve Bunting

“also make ongoing written notes about my life. As it turned out, this was”

— Cliff Harwin

Some very plausible stuff is being written by women in a way that most men are not doing.

— Amy Clampitt

I do always know where I'm going in my books. I know the endpoint. I've written only two thousand words of my…

— Jonathan Trigell

I'm So Sorry' is probably one of my favorite songs that I've written... I wrote it very quickly and confidently. And then…

— Aldous Harding

You may translate books of science exactly. ... The beauties of poetry cannot be preserved in any language except that in which…

— Samuel Johnson

I'm a serious aficionada of country music - Reba McEntire, Toby Keith, Montgomery Gentry. I've even written some songs. They haven't done…

— Maya Angelou

I never try to force poems into a collection simply because they were written/published within a certain period of time. They will…

— Rigoberto Gonzalez

Partying and having all of those pictures taken distracts from the work that I do. It's not why I started acting. I…

— Lindsay Lohan

No poet will ever take the written word as a substitute for the spoken word; he knows that it is on the…

— Lascelles Abercrombie

For better or worse, a lot of people's images are based on the first things that are written about them. You can't…

— Andrew Luck

The history of the Jews has been written overwhelmingly by scholars of texts - understandably given the formative nature of the Bible…

— Simon Schama

Any time something is written against me, I not only share the sentiment but feel I could do the job far better…

— Jorge Luis Borges

I think there's a whole book being written about it in the UK. I don't know if you can get it here.…

— Neil Marshall

Even the most inspired verse, which boasts not without a relative justification to be immortal, becomes in the course of ages a…

— George Santayana

One of the best records I’ve ever heard. Seriously, maybe top 20 all-time… I think if Rich Mullins had been given more…

— Todd Agnew

Back in college, when I got kicked out of school, I was still in school, I'd just written the song that got…

— Brian McKnight

You have to see the stories [The New York Times] have written, it's one after another, after another, and facts mean nothing,…

— Donald Trump

Some of my favorite poems are "confessional" poems written in the voices of aliens ("Southbound on the Freeway" by May Swenson" and…

— Matthea Harvey

After a while, though, the group just wasn't a good vehicle for the songs I'd written.

— Mark Knopfler

I never reread what I've written. I'm far too afraid to feel ashamed of what I've done.

— Jorge Luis Borges

I am a genius who has written poems that will survive with the best of Shakespeare, Wordsworth and Keats

— Irving Layton

“I wonder if you ever read my poems and wish they were written for you.”

— Kamand Kojouri

You know, I've written many of my songs while driving - which is against the law in many cases.

— Chuck D

I haven't written adult fiction, but I do not sugarcoat grief - or what I expect grief to be.

— Adam Silvera

I have written much about many good places. But the best places of all, I have never mentioned.

— Edward Abbey

So much has been written about me, and people don't know what's right and what's wrong. I'd rather let them stay confused.

— Prince

I have written many works to accompany Old Church Slavonic texts.

— Krzysztof Penderecki

I think a lot of the Mothers stuff that we recorded was written while we were on the road.

— Jimmy Carl Black

The people who send us fan mail written in blood say the nicest things, so it doesn't freak us out too much.

— Davey Havok

Children's books are written for upbringing...but upbringing is a great thing; it decides the fate of the human being.

— Vissarion Belinsky

Literacy, written language is a very late acquisition in terms of human evolution.

— Jean Berko Gleason

Philip Martin has written a wise, compassionate, and nurturing guide through the self-oppression of depression.

— Harold H. Bloomfield

The Word of God is so much broader than people are giving it credit for. Look at Proverbs, a book written on…

— Beth Moore

Readers embrace all kinds of characters as long as they are written with emotional truth.

— David Levithan