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Why do you never find anything written about that idiosyncratic thought you advert to, about your fascination with something no one else understands? Because it… — Annie Dillard
In the stars is written the death of every man. — Geoffrey Chaucer
Which direction do we take? The one prompted by the passions or the one indicated by the star which shines in your conscience? The Magi… — Pope Benedict XVI
The very best impromptu speeches are the ones written well in advance. — Ruth Gordon
Written language must be considered as a particular psychic reality. The book is permanent; it is an object in your field of vision. It speaks… — Gaston Bachelard
William James describes a man who got the experience from laughing-gas; whenever he was under its influence, he knew the secret of the universe, but… — Bertrand Russell
Let the public mind become corrupt, and all efforts to secure property, liberty, or life by the force of laws written on paper will be… — Horace Mann
As I have often written, power is the fundamental ingredient of the human experience. Every action in life, every thought, every choice we make-even down… — Caroline Myss
History is a voice forever sounding across the centuries the laws of right and wrong. Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the… — James Anthony Froude
Patriotic feelings will surely swell, prompting proud proclamations of the wisdom, foresight, and sense of justice shared by the Framers and reflected in a written… — Thurgood Marshall
It's been written that the most sublime figure in American history was George Washington on his knees in the snow at Valley Forge. He personified… — Ronald Reagan
The words of language, as they are written or spoken, do not seem to play any role in my mechanism of thought. The physical entities… — Albert Einstein
Written forms obscure our view of language. They are not so much a garment as a disguise. — Ferdinand de Saussure
To excavate is to open a book written in the language that the centuries have spoken into the earth. — Unknown Author
Porting a Google App Engine app written in Python to Go: Although I'm new to Go I get much quicker results than I've got with… — Unknown Author
As to Don Juan, confess that it is the sublime of that there sort of writing; it may be bawdy, but is it not good… — Lord Byron
The postmodern reply to the modern consists of recognizing that the past, since it cannot really be destroyed, because its destruction leads to silence, must… — Umberto Eco
After the planet becomes theirs, many millions of years will have to pass before a beetle particularly loved by God, at the end of its… — Primo Levi
There is no story unless you've written it. — Hunter S. Thompson
I've written so many songs about Englishmen, I have to go elsewhere. — Ray Davies
We worked the medley on side two of "Abbey Road" out carefully in advance. All of those mini songs were partly completed tunes; some were… — George Harrison
I really, really like writing songs. Capote wrote every day. He said that's the only way, you have to sit down every day and do… — Debbie Harry
I can draw with sound. That's the most useful thing I learned in terms of what my craft is...The arrangements were mine. They were little… — Linda Ronstadt
All the songs that were written for that album are just all our first sophomore songs. So they're all from real life. Very sweet and… — Ann Wilson
All those songs are totally timeless. They'll always stand up because they came from a real place. They weren't crafted songs. They were written from… — Shooter Jennings

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