Written Quotes

The history of progress is written in the blood of men and women who have dared to espouse an unpopular cause, as, for instance, the black man's right to his body, or woman's right to her soul.

My Life in CIA is the first time that I've ever written a story in my own name.

I have written two medical novels. I have never studied medicine, never seen an operation.

I met the Colonel when Elvis was recording some song I'd written for one of his movies. Elvis was just having fun with the gang and all the Memphis boys and Colonel Parker was sitting over here in like a theater seat.

I probably spend 90% of my time revising what I've written.

Maybe some people have written us off, but I think the new music today has also invigorated us.

I have written a raucous valentine to a poet's dream and agony.

But I honestly don't read critics. My dad reads absolutely everything ever written about me. He calls me up to read ecstatic reviews, but I always insist that I can't hear them. If you give value to the good reviews, you have to give value to the criticism.

The thing that I like about the way characters are written on the show these days is that nobody's perfect. Everyone has made a lot of mistakes and bad choices.

I've written a lot of books which are written from the moon - the view from nowhere.

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.