Written Quotes
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I've written probably over 200 songs that have a verse and a chorus and that's it.
Hunter Parrish
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History is not what happened but what is written down
Kathleen McGowan
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A scholar is like a book written in a dead language. It is not every one that can read in it.
William Hazlitt
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So many good songs get written fast, because you know exactly what has to work.
Stephen Sondheim
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What really put me over the top was receiving a packet of hundreds of hand-written thank you notes, telling me how the kids were inspired and excited about the Cube project.
Scott Cohen
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I say this often, THINK. There is something in life called common sense. Webster's says common sense is sound and prudent judgment based on a simple perception of the situation or facts. Perhaps this is why in 1776, Thomas Paine used these words as a title for the most famous pamphlet ever written.
Jack White The White Stripes
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To move from the oral to the written is to immobilise the body, to take control to possess it.
Edouard Glissant
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You're every love song ever written.
Rod Stewart
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He suddenly announced that he could not write any more since "All that I have written seems like straw to me."
Thomas Aquinas
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It's just a matter of me opening up the page and whatever is written on the page, that's what I'm here to do.
Anthony Anderson
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Look rather at the teachings of history, true history, not the history written by Party hacks: genuine democracy, the only valid democracy, is nourished with the blood of martyrs and with the blood of tyrants.
Wei Jingsheng
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The written word is everything.
John Drinkwater
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Everything that is written merely to please the author is worthless.
Blaise Pascal
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I've written some poetry, but...songs have to be more poetic, and I've really gotten to this non-poetic sort of writing.
Mike Gordon
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I think there is a great tendency toward autobiography among women today. It is perhaps facile - and I say that even though I have written one myself.
Simone de Beauvoir
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A lot of people have told me, you know, that what I've written about, they identify with strongly.
Carrie Fisher
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Take time to listen to what is said without words, to obey the law too subtle to be written, to worship the unnameable and to embrace the unformed.
Lao Tzu
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No theory, no ready-made system, no book that has ever been written will save the world. I cleave to no system. I am a true seeker.
Mikhail Bakunin
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This book could not have been written without the people of Mongolia, who allowed me to live among them for a time and who taught me their history over salted tea and vodka while the winter eased into spring.
Conn Iggulden
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I've written just about everything for the sake of putting shoes on the children's feet - and a bottle of gin in the cupboard.
Ray Guy
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It's all written out, you know. Everything is fate. All written out in Heaven, or written out in Hell.
Bill Roorbach
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I have people constantly come up to me telling me that I have written their life. When I wrote the story I thought it was a pretty good story but I had no idea that many people felt like that.
Blackie
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The true word of God is written in our heart.
Lawrence "Kris" Parker Boogie Down Productions
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I have written a bunch of scripts that have not gotten produced, much more so early in my career than later.
Tony Gilroy