Written Quotes
- Page 13The purpose that brought the fourteenth amendment into being was equality before the law, and equality, not separation, was written into the law.
Robert Bork
The books one has written in the past have two surprises in store: one couldn't write them again, and wouldn't want to.
Jean Rostand
Something's that written out is okay, but it's not always a clear indication of what a person means.
Debbie Harry
I don't think any industry was ever as closely scrutinized and written about and constantly in the public eye as television.
Roone Arledge
All good music, whatever its date, is ageless - as alive and significant today as it was when it was written.
Peter Warlock
I mean, the Constitution of this country was written 200 years ago. The house I was living in in Madrid is 350 years old! America is still a project, and you guys are working on it and bringing new things to it every day. That is beautiful to watch.
Antonio Banderas
When you try to unravel something you've written, you belittle it in a way. It was created as a mystery.
Don DeLillo
Everything that Traffic ever did, I'd give Steve a complete lyric, titled, written out with the verse, the bridge, the shape and rhyme and then Steve had to figure out how the meter of the words would fit musically.
Jim Capaldi
There is also poetry written to be shouted in a square in front of an enthusiastic crowd. This occurs especially in countries where authoritarian regimes are in power.
Eugenio Montale
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 career.
Caroline B. Cooney
I'd love to see a good script of one of my books, in these years of animations and comic book sequels, and had so many written over the years, but none quite clicked.
Carl Hiaasen
The trouble with the jokes is that once they're written, I know how they're supposed to work, and all I can do is not hit them. I'm more comfortable improvising. If I have just two or three ideas and I know how the character feels, what the character wants, everything in between is like trapeze work.
Stephen Colbert
Temper your enjoyments with prudence, lest there be written on your heart that fearful word "satiety."
Francis Quarles
I might go on discussing this subject at great length, but after all is said, done, and written, my own book of experiences will best show what these obstacles are, and how I managed to overcome them to some extent.
Major Taylor
There's so many great songs already written, it's kind of really wonderful you don't have to write your own.
Katey Sagal
The first 20 stories written about a public figure set the tone for the next 2,000 and it is almost impossible to reverse it.
Charles W. Colson
If Moses had been paid newspaper rates for the Ten Commandments, he might have written the Two Thousand Commandments.
Isaac Bashevis Singer
I've never written about my husband, Steve, or any of my children because I know them all too well. I see them in all their complexities which makes them impossible to render on the printed page.
Sue Grafton
Somewhere, everywhere, now hidden, now apparent in what ever is written down, is the form of a human being. If we seek to know him, are we idly occupied?
Virginia Woolf
It's like they had a backlash the first 11 years. I think the reason why it always seems like there's a backlash is because when bands are unknown, they only get written about by fans.
Kim Deal
From lies to forgeries the step is not so long, and I have written technical essays on the logic of forgeries and on the influence of forgeries on history.
Umberto Eco
I've had songs written during the Falklands war, and during the first Gulf war I got letters from soldiers saying they were listening to these songs, like Island of no return.
Billy Bragg
Never believe people in this business who say they don't read what's written about them.
Ryan Seacrest
Thompson and Ritchie were among the first to realize that hardware and compiler technology had become good enough that an entire operating system could be written in C, and by 1978 the whole environment had been successfully ported to several machines of different types.
Eric S. Raymond