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The movie Fifty Shades of Grey is considerably better written than the book. It is also sort of classy-looking, in a generic, TV-ad-for-bath-oil way. Dakota… — Lisa Schwarzbaum
When the Holy Spirit is in full control of our lives, He will expect our obedience to the written Word of God. But it is… — Aiden Wilson Tozer
Our Cosmic Habitat is certain to be widely quoted and widely read. It is beautifully written, using inspiring and stimulating analogies. While the book is… — John N. Bahcall
I've certainly learned a great deal from my husband, though, and could never have written a book like Liquor without him and the people he… — Poppy Z. Brite
The American Constitution was not written to protect criminals; it was written to protect the government from becoming criminals. — Lenny Bruce
The Constitution was not written to restrain the citizen's behavior, it was writtne to restrain the government's behavior. — Rand Paul
Take the time you need to learn the craft. Then sit down and write. When you hand over your completed manuscript to a trusted reader,… — Kathleen Grissom
I don't think it's necessary to put your feelings about photography in words. I've read things that photographers have written for exhibitions and so forth… — Eliot Porter
Written things are not for speech; their form is literary; they are stiff, inflexible, and will not lend themselves to happy and effective delivery with… — Mark Twain
Ordered by subject, by importance, ordered according to whether the book was penned by God or by one of God's creatures, ordered alphabetically or by… — Alberto Manguel
A curse on every wish that blurs the sight, paralyzes the tongue, cramps the hand, and prevents the truth being seen, said, and written. — Theodor Haecker
I have even written a book about Wine called The Grapes of Ralph. — Ralph Steadman
Free Speech in the College Community is a very timely book written by a dedicated scholar of the First Amendment. Challenging and readable it should… — Nancy Kassebaum
Some books seem to have been written, not to teach us anything, but to let us know that the author has known something. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
For eighteen hundred years, though perchance I have no right to say it, the New Testament has been written; yet where is the legislator who… — Henry David Thoreau
You're sincere, but in order not to upset your views you avoid talking with people who think differently. You pick your thoughts from conversations with… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
I hope that no one present will suspect me of offering my personal criticism of the Western system to present socialism as an alternative. Having… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
We recently had a referendum in New York about extending the forest preserve. The city voted for it by a large majority; yet as I… — Learned Hand
The sermon which I write inquisitive of truth is good a year after, but that which is written because a sermon must be writ is… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
You have set up in New York Harbor a monstrous idol which you call Liberty. The only thing that remains to complete that monument is… — George Bernard Shaw
If all the music written since Bach's time should be lost, it could be reconstructed on the foundation which Bach laid. — Charles Gounod
I'm not sure I had ever written a fan letter before to a poet I had not met, but that's what I did when I… — Thom Gunn
The Bible was written in tears, and to tears it yields its best treasures. — Aiden Wilson Tozer
Because I have conducted my own operas and love sheep-dogs; because I generally dress in tweeds, and sometimes, at winter afternoon concerts, have even conducted… — Ethel Smyth
And I think I'm an adrenaline junkie, and there's nothing that will spike your adrenaline more than sitting in a theater and listen to an… — Diablo Cody

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