Quotes About Written

Subjects locked away in institutions and written off as casualties of peace.

1Pet 1:15 But as he which hath called you is holy, so be ye holy in all manner of conversation; 1Pet 1:16 Because it is written, Be ye holy; for I am holy.

Each of us, desperately clutching his identity amid the impalatable onward pour of Time and Thought, finds only in art-and chiefly in written art- means to halt that ceaseless, cruel drift.

As I said, history is written by the victors. The truth is, the villains were less villainous, and the heroes less heroic, than you've been told.

I think about Shakespeare. Because there have been hundreds of variations of Shakespeare's plays since they've been written, and I believe it's because they're important. They're still relevant today. 'Roots' is still relevant today. The idea that we shouldn't tell this story again is very strange to me.

You can't lick a murder weapon, Lincoln." "Where's that written down, Mel? I don't remember reading that.

You okay?" "The worst movie line ever written," Victoria replied.

Even though I now speak the language fairly well, the spoken language doesn't help me. A conversation involves a sort of collaboration and, often, an act of forgiveness. When I speak I can make mistakes, but I'm somehow able to make myself understood. On the page I am alone. The spoken language is a kind of antechamber with respect to the written, which has a stricter, more elusive logic.

VCE exams do not showcase students' abilities. By this, I mean that the system fails to recognise the diversity of skills, and most subjects do not allow students to demonstrate skills in a form other than a written exam.

If you need proof of how the oral relates to the written, consider that many great novelists, including Joyce and Hemingway, never submitted a piece of work without reading it aloud.

I notice that many people trust the written word more than the spoken word.

Moreover, nothing less than both written evidence and recorded deeds from Washington himself will be sufficient to explain how he could simultaneously explicitly advocate Christian missionary evangelism, and yet as a Deist deny the teachings of Christianity.

In the gleaming briefcase I carried ten typewritten pages I had written for International Relations the year before on the Balfour Declaration.

The brief transcript of moments, written on the body, is so deeply satisfying to read.

Skaz is a rather appealing Russian word (suggesting jazz and scat, as in scat-singing, to the English ear) used to designate a type of first-person narration that has the characteristics of the spoken rather than the written word.

Latin – if increasingly debased and diluted – continued to be the spoken and written language, used by the invaders and the native populations alike.

Fate is a quantity very much like TV: an unstoppable narrative, written, produced and directed by somebody else.

But in life there is only one love. So all discussions of feelings, written or oral, can be summed up by these two questions: Is it a passion? Is it love?

The Written Word is a Fairy, as mocking and elusive as Willy Wisp, speaking lying words to us in a feigned voice. So let all readers of books take warning!

No verse can give pleasure for long, nor last, that is written by drinkers of water.

The primordial Torah was written with black fire on white fire. It was fire mixed with fire, cut from fire, given from fire.

Was it all inevitable, John?" Reeve was pushing his fingers across the floor of the cell, seated on his haunches. I was lying on the mattress. Yes," I said. "I think it was. Certainly, it's written that way. The end of the book is there before the beginning's hardly started.

The reason is that till date, in spite of advances in information technology and strategies of information, the written word in the form of books still remains one of humanity's most enduring legacies.

I started posting initially because I just wanted to get my voice heard. I sang cover versions of show tunes and got such nice feedback that I began singing songs I had written.