Written Quotes

I am convinced that when the history of international law comes to be written centuries hence, it will be divided into two periods: the first being from the earliest times to the end of the nineteenth century, and the second beginning with the Hague Conference.

I cry very easily. It can be a movie, a phone conversation, a sunset - tears are words waiting to be written.

The living Church of the redeemed is his book. He founded a religion of the living spirit, not of a written code, like the Mosaic law. Yet his words and deeds are recorded by as honest and reliable witnesses as ever put pen to paper.

Here is the operating motto of the Obama White House: 'So let it be written, so let it be done!' Like Yul Brynner's Pharaoh Ramses character in Cecil B. DeMille's 'The Ten Commandments,' the demander in chief stands with arms akimbo issuing daily edicts to his constitution-subverting minions.

Right from day one, you know when you've written a good song.

I've written some great things. That's a gift, but there's consequences. Yeah, you get this great work, but you suffer. You really, really suffer.

It had been startling and disappointing to me to find out that story books had been written by people, that books were not natural wonders, coming of themselves like grass.

And then I wrote my first autobiography when I - well, it was 23 years ago. And since then I've written about one book every two years.

It is to be deeply regretted that the clergymen would oppose an effort to teach the people the Bible truths; nevertheless, we find much opposition everywhere, and many clergymen will attempt to prevent the people from reading what is here written.

It's funny, when I'm not on the road or doing stuff with Bad Company - or whatever- I've always written songs galore... a lot of stuff people don't even hear.

Don't get it right, just get it written.

I have also written some poems which have not been collected in a volume.

I've written many nonfiction books, but that's a special gift.

When Byrd came out of there, he had written a lot things while he was in the hospital.

No poems can please for long or live that are written by water drinkers.

Lots of people want to have written; they don't want to write. In other words, they want to see their name on the front cover of a book and their grinning picture on the back. But this is what comes at the end of a job, not at the beginning.

The current Michigan Constitution was written in 1961 and '62.

What you're doing is putting into professional play the way that you relate to other people, the way that you analyze and relate to a written text, the way that you would persuade anybody to do anything. It has to do with listening, with humility and a sense of yourself.

Trust me, I have never written a speech in my life, and if I have my way, I never will.

If the best man's faults were written on his forehead, he would draw his hat over his eyes.

I loved to read, but I always thought that the dream was too far away. The person who had written the book was a god, it wasn't a person.

We've written something like 900 songs in all.

It's not a case of: 'Read this book and then you'll think differently. I've written this book, and I don't think differently.

After the advent of the written word, the masses who could not - or were not permitted to - read, were given sermons by the few who could.

It is only what is written upon the soul of man that will survive the wreck of time.

I still have a feeling that I haven't written the best that I can write. I think all poets must feel this: that there is constantly something new to be discovered in the language. It's like a thrilling encounter, and you can find things.

But the vast majority of books ever written are not accessible to anyone except the most tenacious researchers at premier academic libraries. Books written after 1923 quickly disappear into a literary black hole.

I have never started a novel - I mean except the first, when I was starting a novel just to start a novel - I've never written one without rereading Victory. It opens up the possibilities of a novel. It makes it seem worth doing.

Then I found books that were written much later, as late as 15 years ago. It was very superficial material, but enough to tell me that the genesis of this story was worth exploring.

People recognize certain things, like 'D' means 'this dialogue stinks.' We're dealing with shows that are written here, shot in New York and posted back here. Accurate communication is a necessity.