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Oh, m'encanta Kafka, diu la mare. Un llibre hauria de ser una destral per trencar el mar de gel de dins nostre. Penso que és una de les coses més boniques que s'han escrit mai.
~ Ali Smith
that history almost always repeats itself. And it is almost always written by men.
~ Ally Carter
Judge Sotomayor is a liberal judicial activist of the first order who thinks her own personal political agenda is more important that the law as written.
~ Wendy Long
Members of Congress and their staffs should be the first to feel the negative consequences of poorly written legislation, not the last.
~ Jeff Duncan
It is difficult to understand the fortunes of an instrument. There was music written for the guitar until the mid-19th century. Then the instrument declined in popularity.
~ Julian Bream
I'm very proud of it. 'Hunchback' contains some of my favorite music I've ever written in my life.
~ Dennis DeYoung
I've always covered some Dylan songs. I do one or two. And I do them because they're great songs. You know some people cover songs they wish they could have written, not me. I like to cover songs I know I could not have ever written.
~ Sixto Rodriguez
'Crush' is probably the most honest project I've ever written. It's my voice.
~ Ravyn Lenae
Where Christ's laws are written in the heart, there all other good laws are best obeyed. None despise man's law but those that despise Christ's first.
~ Richard Sibbes
And you play along because it's funny, because it's written down, you've memorized it, it's all you know. I say the phrases that keep it all going, and everybody plays along.
~ Richard Siken
Some people live by images, some by sounds. It's words for me. Words said to me. Words not meant for me but picked up by me in any case. Words in their written form. Words that make sense and words that make nonsense.
~ Yiyun Li
Dreams are but prologue to days, epilogue to other days, written by our faltering minds.
~ Yiyun Li
The cuts were the truth, written in blood, and no one must ever read it. Rulers were ruthless. They did not show weakness or fear. They did not cry. They made others cry. Hadn't her stepmother told her that a thousand times?
~ Jennifer Donnelly
Engrave this Quote Psychic automatism in its pure state, by which one proposes to express -- verbally, by means of the written word, or in any other manner -- the actual functioning of thought. Dictated by the thought, in the absence of any control exercised by reason, exempt from any aesthetic or moral concern.
~ Andre Breton
Psychic automatism in its pure state, by which one proposes to express ? verbally, by means of the written word, or in any other manner ? the actual functioning of thought. Dictated by the thought, in the absence of any control exercised by reason, exempt from any aesthetic or moral concern.
~ Andre Breton
A style is the consequence of recurrent habits, restraints, or rules invented or inherited, written or overheard, intuitive or preconceived.
~ Paul Rand
Technology giants have taken advantage of tax codes written for an industrial age.
~ Charles Duhigg
The purpose that brought the fourteenth amendment into being was equality before the law, and equality, not separation, was written into the law.
~ Robert Bork
Somewhere Dostoevsky has written, "Without God, all things are possible." I can amend that. "To the invisible man, all things are possible—and uninteresting.
~ Robert Silverberg
They do not use lasers, they do not use radio, they do not use hyperwave. What are they using for communication? Telepathy? Written messages? Big mirrors? Parrots, Louis suggested. He got up to join them at the door to the control room. Huge parrots, specially bred for their oversized lungs. They're too big to fly. They just sit on hilltops and scream at each other.
~ Larry Niven
Nature's great book is written in mathematics.
~ Galileo Galilei
The subject-matter of Archaeology is threefold-the Oral, the Written and the Monumental.
~ Charles Thomas Newton
Howsoever we classify enactment arguments—whether we view them as historical, or textual, or structural—we need to see that the written Constitution and the unwritten Constitution cohere to form a single system. While
~ Akhil Reed Amar
Rage is caused by a conviction, almost comic in its optimistic origins (however tragic in its effects), that a given frustration has not been written into the contract of life.
~ Alain de Botton