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Speaks cheerful English and in the past has written this language with a paintbrush that talks. — Jimmy Breslin
Music is not written in red, white and blue. It is written in the heart's blood of the composer. — Nellie Melba
Empires fall, ids explode, great symphonies are written, and behind all of it is a single instinct that demands satisfaction. — Sherwin B. Nuland
A house built on granite and strong foundations, not even the onslaught of pouring rain, gushing torrents and strong winds will be able to pull… — Haile Selassie
The Adderall Diaries is phenomenal. With jittery finesse and a reformed tweaker's eye for detail, Stephen Elliott captures the terrifying, hilarious, heart-strangling reality of a… — Jerry Stahl
If you do not seek to publish what you have written, then you are not a writer and you never will be. — George V
While the spoken word can travel faster, you cant take it home in your hand. Only the written word can be absorbed wholly at the… — Kingman Brewster, Jr.
We must create a history of India in living terms. Up to the present that history, as written by the English, practically begins with Warren… — Sister Nivedita
All the sciences came to exist in Arabic. The systematic works on them were written in Arabic writing. — Ibn Khaldun
So I be written in the Book of Love. I do not care about that Book Above. Erase my name, or write it as you… — Omar Khayyam
Everything I have written up to now is trifling compared to that which I would like to write and would write with great pleasureEither I… — Anton Chekhov
Nothing so sharpens the thought process as writing down one's arguments. Weaknesses overlooked in oral discussion become painfully obvious on the written page. — Hyman Rickover
All ancient history was written with a moral object; the ethical interest predominates almost to the exclusion of all others. — Tacitus
I could say that all my books were conceived by the time I was twenty, although they were not to be written for another thirty… — Marguerite Yourcenar
Every one of my books is written from the viewpoint of cops, with the exception of my book Killer on the Road, which is written… — James Ellroy
If you equate the probability of the birth of a bacteria cell to chance assembly of its atoms, eternity will not suffice to produce one… — Christian de Duve
I have read all that has been written by the gravest authorities on political economy on the subject of rent, wages, taxes, tithes. — Robert Peel
I have heard of novels started in the middle, at the end, written in patches to be joined together later, but I have never felt… — C S Forester
Nothing is invented, for it's written in nature first. — Antonio Gaudi
I believe my voice is pretty much the same. I've written 75 books, so I'm better at it now than I was earlier in my… — Caroline B. Cooney
I was a Gordon Lightfoot fan before he ever had a song out. You just knew he was pure talent and he was going to… — Ronnie Hawkins
The history of civilization could actually be written in terms of the level of its women. — Fulton J. Sheen
The one thing I would like more credit for is being part of a movement which involves recognising the importance of plot and asserting that… — Scott Turow
No poet will ever take the written word as a substitute for the spoken word; he knows that it is on the spoken word, and… — Lascelles Abercrombie
The history of life is written in terms of negative entropy. — James Gleick

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