Quotes About Written

I feel the best scripts are those that are originally written to be films: that is film in its purest sense.

Founders go wrong when they start to believe their business plan will materialize as written. I advise entrepreneurs to burn their business plan - it's simply too dangerous to the health of your business.

The great thing about books was the solidity of the written word. You might change and your reading might change as a result, but the book remained whatever it had always been. A good book was surprising the first time through, less so the second.

For them, 'mektub al mellah', as the Fremen say. The thing was written with salt, Irulan translated.

All the old history was written for the amusement of the ruling classes. The lower classes couldn't read, and their rulers didn't care about remembering what happened to them. — My Dad (something he told me when I was a kid)

You must not pay too much attention to opinions. The written word is unalterable, and opinions are often only an expression of despair.

History is not just written by the winners; it's written about them.

The first thing I read was of my character on the phone talking to Sydney's fiance. Though short, it was so beautifully written, and it made me laugh. I thought if I wanted to play a character, this would be it.

Television theatre, as is implied in its name, should rely on adaptations of scripts written for the theatre.

In The Sentence, books are matters of life and death, and readers reach through unknowable realms to maintain some connection to the written word. So with the bookstore.

Poverty, her mother has written, makes you clever, and Honora knows that this is true.

For pronunciation the best general rule is, to consider those as the most elegant speakers who deviate least from the written words.

Hearts quaking with cheap and feeble charity or oozing potato love have not written history.

but even such apparently universal texts as the Ten Commandments were written for and presuppose a society utterly different from our own, and cannot be applied today without extensive interpretation.

the Word of God we read is written not so much with ink as with the blood of the Son of God; or

The spoken language is a symbolization of something that happened, could have happened, or is in the process of happening, while the written language is a symbolization of the spoken language. James Joyce, for example, dedicated his life to trying to close the gap between the two systems. In Finnegans Wake, Joyce portrays in writing the workings of the verbal parts of the brain.

Today carries two life histories; the written one as Yesterday and the unwritten as Tomorrow; both travel continuously.

Orthodoxy is, in a sense, halacha in a straitjacket. Having had to transform the Oral Tora into a new written one, we have become Karaites of this new Written Tora.

I don't know who in my family thinks very fast at all, including me. The things that people see me do onstage are written, so it doesn't have to be very quick if you have all day with a pen.

I think there is this rage on campuses about Donald Trump and - as someone who has written pretty explicitly about my disapproval of Trump - I can sympathize with that.

Men are like so many books issuing from the Divine press, and if nothing else be written on them, at least the name of the Author is indissolubly engraved on the title page. God is like the watermark on paper, which may be written over without ever being obscured.

I've already composed and written a letter to the House administration telling them to withhold my paycheck in the event of a lapse of appropriations.

The living Church of the redeemed is his book. He founded a religion of the living spirit, not of a written code, like the Mosaic law. Yet his words and deeds are recorded by as honest and reliable witnesses as ever put pen to paper.

I got interested in the Vikings, and then you realize that there isn't much to be read about them because they did not write their history. It was written by hostile witnesses, by Christian monks and so on. From what I could see and understand, I was really excited about it. I loved their culture and loved their gods.