Written Quotes
3817 quotes by 2690 authors
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I hate to look at the stuff I've written and consider what it means or why I do it.
— J. J. Abrams
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Even when laws have been written down, they ought not always to remain unaltered.
— Aristotle
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Through my illness I learned rejection. I was written off. That was the moment I thought, Okay, game on. No prisoners. Everybody's going down.
— Lance Armstrong
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A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer.
— Dean Acheson
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Each book I've done somehow finds its own unique form, a specific way it has to be written, and once I find it, I stick…
— Paul Auster
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Some things get written more quickly than others, but I can't really measure degrees of difficulty.
— Paul Auster
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The reason is that till date, in spite of advances in information technology and strategies of information, the written word in the form of books…
— Ibrahim Babangida
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Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral laws are written on the table of eternity.
— Lord Acton
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Biography should be written by an acute enemy.
— Arthur Balfour
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I mean, the Constitution of this country was written 200 years ago. The house I was living in in Madrid is 350 years old! America…
— Antonio Banderas
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I think I'm less the writer than I'm the written.
— John Banville
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I have written too much history to have faith in it; and if anyone thinks I'm wrong, I am inclined to agree with him.
— Henry Adams
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Ever since I was a girl, I have written about one to five pages every day - on napkins, on scrap paper, in notebooks and…
— Roseanne Barr
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Ideas aren't magical; the only tricky part is holding on to one long enough to get it written down.
— Lynn Abbey
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A few years ago, I bought an old red bicycle with the words Free Spirit written across its side - which is exactly what I…
— Drew Barrymore
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Most of my early records were not cohesive at all, just collections of demos recorded in different years. 'Odelay' was the first time I actually…
— Beck
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At Oxford University, I studied languages so I could read the great novels as they were originally written. I took what in the United States…
— Kate Beckinsale
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Our foreign policy has made a wreck of this planet. I'm always in Africa... And when I go to these places I see American policy…
— Harry Belafonte
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Other men wear white suits in summer and it doesn't seem to bother them. But my white suit seems to be a little whiter than…
— Robert Benchley
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I have written two nonfiction books, I'm embarrassed to say.
— Dirk Benedict
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