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Quotes About Written

Words on the page don't have the same impact as somebody saying the words to you.
~ Rik Mayall
Written pages are something that can be returned to, reclaimed, and when they are marvelous, never lose their power.
~ James Salter
People think I'm crazy, and it's been written in the papers that I'm off my rocker.
~ Tommy Morrison
As Chairman of the Ways and Means committee, I am proud to have written about half of the American Health Care Act that passed the House so we can finally provide Americans with patient-centered healthcare that fits your family's needs.
~ Kevin Brady
America is just the country that shows how all the written guarantees in the world for freedom are no protection against tyranny and oppression of the worst kind.
~ Peter Kroptkin
The construction of 'Sekiro''s world is based on that of traditional Sengoku, or medieval Japan. To that end, we made sure to reference a lot of written materials on that period as well as actually visit several locations.
~ Hidetaka Miyazaki
I'm not a huge kind of visual director. For me, it's all about the acting. There's no greater buzz than working with actors and seeing what they can do and how much they can improve on what you'd written. That will always be on the top of my list. It's a real privilege to see it live before anyone else sees it.
~ Peter Mullan
It's pretty hard to measure influence of written or visual material.
~ Ben Shahn
I understand the visual media very well, as I used to write comic books for Walt Disney, and I've written a graphic novel.
~ Diana Gabaldon
As a young actor, I would be invited to the CBC radio drama department to do voices for different characters, and I found that I could do quite a few of them. I wasn't a visual presence, and I found it easier to construct a voice from the written page.
~ Peter Cullen
'Wake Up Sid' was a very special script. It was director Ayan Mukherjee's first film and it was beautifully written.
~ Konkona Sen Sharma
It wasn't easy to learn about Gustave LeBon. For being the father of such an enduring theory, almost nothing has been written about him. Only one man has ever tried to piece his life story together—Bob Nye, a professor of European intellectual history at Oregon State University.
~ Jon Ronson
The certitude that everything has been written negates us or turns us into phantoms.
~ Jorge Luís Borges
para los antiguos la palabra escrita no era otra cosa que un sucedáneo de la palabra oral.
~ Jorge Luís Borges
The spoken word is ephemeral. The written word, eternal. A symphony, timeless.
~ A.E. Samaan
Jeremiah 17 it is written, "The heart is deceitful above all things and beyond cure, and who can understand it?
~ Abraham Verghese
there is no contemporary evidence even for the existence of Jesus Christ, arguably the most influential man in history. Most of our tales about his life were written in the decades after his death by people who had never met him.
~ Adam Rutherford
Written poetry is different. Best thing is to see it in performance first, then read it. Performance is more provocative.
~ Adrian Mitchell
Whenever you see shrinks on television, they're so clearly written by patients. They're either idealized or they're demonized or they love their patients. All they ever think about is their patients.
~ Amy Bloom
As an actor, I've always found that my job is not to judge the content in which I've agreed to perform in. What I try to do is just find the truth in every moment that they've written.
~ David Zayas
The nature of the beast is that film is a director's medium. It's not a Tracy Letts play, it's a John Wells film. 'August: Osage County,' as a play, is done. Written. On the shelf. It'll be performed in its entirety for years.
~ Tracy Letts
So we must work at our profession and not make anybody else's idleness an excuse for our own. There is no lack of readers and listeners; it is for us to produce something worth being written and heard.
~ Pliny the Younger
I may like the Blizzard best, of all the songs I have written.
~ Judy Collins
Most books on management are written by management consultants, and they study successful companies after they've succeeded, so they only hear winning stories.
~ Ben Horowitz