Written Quotes

Those who say that life is worth living at any cost have already written an epitaph of infamy, for there is no cause and no person that they will not betray to stay alive.

Scholars have long dreamed of a universal library containing everything that has ever been written.

I don't think anything you've written is immortal as yet.

It is no exaggeration to say that the English Bible is, next to Shakespeare, the greatest work in English literature, and that it will have much more influence than even Shakespeare upon the written and spoken language of the English race.

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 introduces me to and the stories he brings home.

I've never written a political song. Songs can't save the world. I've gone through all that.

Once I've written a song, I sometimes refine them.

If you start writing to an audience you're talking down to them. I've never written for any age group, I just write character. If you can capture that you'll get the audiences, and it will be a wide range, as it is for 'Twilight,' it's a pretty wide range.

Distinctly American poetry is usually written in the context of one's geographic landscape, sometimes out of one's cultural myths, and often with reference to gender and race or ethnic origins.

I've written for every medium except poetry, at which I suck.

America is just the country that how all the written guarantees in the world for freedom are no protection against tyranny and oppression of the worst kind. There the politician has come to be looked upon as the very scum of society.

So many good songs get written fast, because you know exactly what has to work.

Fate is written in the face.

I've always kind of ripped from real life to some degree or at least how I'm feeling in the moment. In fact, maybe that's really it. In anything I've ever written, all the characters sound like me, which I don't think is a bad thing.

The sacred rights of mankind are not to be rummaged for among old parchments or musty records. They are written, as with a sunbeam, in the whole volume of human nature, by the hand of the divinity itself; and can never be erased.

The attitude of the actor is his interpretation of what he reads, and the written word is what creates the role in the actor's mind, and I guess in reading the things that were given to me, I reacted as you guys saw me, you know.

A lot of the songs are written on piano or guitar, so I contribute, and I have done so since the beginning. So it's been good to be involved completely musically as well.

No one has ever written, painted, sculpted, modeled, built, or invented except literally to get out of hell.

Even when laws have been written down, they ought not always to remain unaltered.

I like films to be complete in their written form.

A few years ago, I bought an old red bicycle with the words Free Spirit written across its side - which is exactly what I felt like when I rode it down the street in a tie-dyed dress.

The very best impromptu speeches are the ones written well in advance.

I stand behind all the lyrics I've ever written; I don't have a problem with that.

It's bad writing, however naturalistic it's written, that's where you have to do your best acting.

The art of interpretation is not to play what is written.

Income tax returns are the most imaginative fiction being written today.

I have written a few children's books. The first book that I wrote was for children. It was called "The Package", and it was a mystery story in pictures. It had no words.

It is to be regretted that few persons who have arrived at any degree of eminence or fame, have written Memorials of themselves, at least such as have embraced their private as well as their public life.

I play keyboards and sing. I've written a couple of songs too.

Everything I've written is personal - it's the only way I know how to write.