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I have a little sister, and I'm constantly annoyed [by] how terribly written most females are in most everything - and especially in comedy. Their… — Jay Baruchel
I have gotten everything from a one-page letter written in pencil to a 50-page computer generated masterpiece. — Ron Pearson
Government is about coercion. Limiting government is the single most important instrument for guaranteeing liberty. We're working on a third generation which has little in… — Walter E. Williams
[Science] is the literature of God written on the stars-the trees-the rocks-and more important because [of] its marked utilitarian character. — James A. Garfield
We seem to be heading for a state of affairs in which the determination of whether or not Doomsday has arrived will be made either… — Herbert York
I'm out there to clean the plate. Once they've read what I've written on a subject, I want them to think, 'That's it!' I think… — Richard Ben Cramer
When the uncultured man sees a stone in the road it tells him no story other than the fact that he sees a stone ...… — Elisha Gray
With full responsibility for my words as a professional biologist, I do not hesitate to say that all existing and genuine knowledge about the way… — Lancelot Hogben
I want to make it as hard as possible. Gun owners would have to be evaluated by how they scored on written and firing tests,… — Joycelyn Elders
Be faithful and true of word; let thy walk be plain and lowly: thou wilt get on, though in savage land. If thy words be… — Confucius
Every spoken word double-crosses us. The only tolerable form of communication is the written word, since it isn't a stone in a bridge between souls… — Fernando Pessoa
When a man is proud because he can understand and explain the writings of Chrysippus, say to yourself, 'if Chrysippus had not written obscurely, this… — Epictetus
The word is not just a sound or a written symbol. The word is a force; it is the power you have to express and… — Miguel Angel Ruiz
Music can minister to minds diseased, pluck from the memory a rooted sorrow, raze out the written troubles of the brain, and with its sweet… — William Shakespeare
One must conclude that, contrary to the established and current wisdom, a scenario describing the genesis of life on earth by chance and natural causes… — Hubert Yockey
It struck me recently, that one should really consider the sequence of a protein molecule about to fold into a precise geometric form as a… — Christian B. Anfinsen
Write how you want, the critic shall show the world you could have written better. — Oliver Goldsmith
Men over forty are no judges of a book written in a new spirit. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
To be just, that is to say, to justify its existence, criticism should be partial, passionate and political, that is to say, written from an… — Charles Baudelaire
Criticism, even when you try to ignore it, can hurt. I have cried over many articles written about me, but I move on and I… — Diana Ross
The doctor knows that it is the prescription slip itself, even more than what is written on it, that is often the vital ingredient for… — Norman Cousins
There is romance, the genuine glinting stuff, in typewriters, and not merely in their development from clumsy giants into agile dwarfs, but in the history… — J. B. Priestley
Where is there any book of the law so clear to each man as that written in his heart? — Leo Tolstoy
During all the first part of the Middle Ages, no other people made as important a contribution to human progress as did the Arabs, if… — Unknown Author
Going to Europe, someone had written, was about as final as going to heaven. A mystical passage to another life, from which no-one returned the… — Shirley Hazzard

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