Written Quotes

But, sir, they have written me down upon the history of the country as worthy of expulsion, and in no unkindness I must tell them that for all future time my self-respect requires that I shall pass them as strangers.

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.

I write sets of books, but I've also written a lot of orphans.

In The Touch, the love scenes are the same as they were in The Thorn Birds or anything else I've ever written. I find a way of saying that either it was heaven or hell but in a way that still leaves room for the reader to use their own imagination.

I haven't been the kind of writer about whom book-length academic studies have been written.

The tax laws are written by men with considerable net worth, and with little understanding of what wage-earners must do to make ends meet.

Of the individual poems, some are more lyric and some are more descriptive or narrative. Each poem is fixed in a moment. All those moments written or read together take on the movement and architecture of a narrative.

I've written three books you could think of as memoirs.

It is not worth the paper it is written on unless it is backed by the kind of force that will make the other side consider the penalties too heavy to break the agreement.

Our Constitution was not written in the sands to be washed away by each wave of new judges blown in by each successive political wind.

One gets the impression that this is how Ernest Hemingway would have written had he gone to Vassar.

If a man wishes to truly not be written about, he would do well not to write letters to 18-year-old girls, inviting them into his life.

I'm not really satisfied with anything I have written to date.

The United States Constitution has proved itself the most marvelously elastic compilation of rules of government ever written.

I think male roles are generally much better written. So for actresses, we're always dealing with trying to inject a role with more truth than the writer possibly had in mind.

I earned two Emmy nominations for writing, and two of the shows I had written were nominated for best in their category.

You write it down because finally, when it's written down you do get it out of your system somewhat.

I sit down and draw from my lyric book. I sit down and start looking through it and see if there is anything that strikes me that I've written.

Among the American contemporaries I read with most enjoyment are several North Carolinians. I think the best poetry being written these days is being written by Southerners.

Although, I am proud of all my Symphonies as they all have something special to say, my particular favourite is the Fifth. As the great Mahler expert Donald Mitchell said that if Mahler had written another Symphony, it would have been my Fifth!

I kept looking to do songs that were written years ago and would live or outlive all of us, and the one thing they had in common was Sinatra.

Conducting! A subject, truly, concerning which much might be written, yet scarcely anything of real importance is to be found in books.

I genuinely don't feel that anything that's been written or said about me has overshadowed my music, and that's the most important thing as far as I'm concerned.

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.