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Quotes About Written

The advantage of the gypsy language, even though I don't understand it that much, the language is perfect melody. So if you propose the movie the way I do, then the language is just one part of the melody. Orchestrating all inside, and the language is following the meaning of what they say, and it's never the same as written.
~ Emir Kusturica
Something like 'Dr. Thirteen,' which features no big characters, was probably the most fun thing I've worked on because the story was so great, and it was written so well.
~ Cliff Chiang
Ah! Como as entrelinhas são importantes! É nelas que estão escritas as coisas que só a alma pode entender.
~ Rubem Alves
It was a philosophy which was supposedly fully expounded in Excalibur, an unpublished book Ron was first said to have written in 1938.
~ Russell Miller
It would be a narrow conception of jurisprudence to confine the notion of "laws" to what is found written on the statute books, and to disregard the gloss which life has written upon it.
~ Felix Frankfurter
Even if the script's well written there's something about the life of an improvisation that resonates better than a written word, sometimes.
~ John Travolta
Though alien to modern thinking, we need to reckon with the possibility that written forms are not necessarily significantly more enduring or reliable. In other words, it may be wrong to presume that Jesus' words suddenly became more permanent when recorded in written form, as if our textual culture is better at preserving truth than their oral culture.
~ John H. Walton
Never ask me what I have said, or what I have written; but if you will ask me what my present opinions are, I will tell you".
~ John Hunter
Thus Scandinavian mythology was, with virtually no exception, written down by Christians, and there is no reason to believe that Christianity in Iceland was any different from Christianity anywhere else in western Europe during the High Middle Ages.
~ John Lindow
the particular phraseology of the Constitution of the United States confirms and strengthens the principle, supposed to be essential to all written constitutions, that a law repugnant to the Constitution is void; and that courts, as well as other departments, are bound by that instrument.
~ John Marshall
When we had miserably defaced the Law of nature originally written in our hearts so that many of its commandments were no longer legible, it seemed good unto the Lord to transcribe that Law in the Scriptures—and in the Ten Commandments we have a summary of the same.
~ Arthur W. Pink
Those Ten Words, and they alone, were written by the finger of God upon tables of stone, and they alone were deposited in the holy ark for safe keeping.
~ Arthur W. Pink
Life is written in each thing and each word
~ Arturo Pérez-Reverte
And I think it's very rare to have good stories, well written comedies.
~ Sophie Marceau
My brothers each reacted differently to 'Blood Sandwich.' It's a very specific type of odd feeling when there's a song written about you. People react to it differently.
~ Aesop Rock
More often than not, whenever gossip has been written about me, the gossip is more interesting than the reality. I know some public figures hate gossip, but personally I like it because it makes my life sound more glamorous and interesting than it really is.
~ Moby
And if I am further pressed to declare straightforwardly whether I mean to disparage these authorities [who criticize Ibsen], I reply, pointedly, that I do. I affirm that such criticisms are written by men who know as much of political life as I know of navigation.
~ George Bernard Shaw
It's rare to get a really truly wonderfully written, acted and produced sci-fi show, period.
~ Richard Hatch
And if we had learned anything from this story it was to be cautious of paper--to be mindful of its fragile construction and sharp edges, but mostly to be cautious of what is written on it.
~ Salvador Plascencia
A verbal contract isn't worth the paper it's written on.
~ Samuel Goldwyn
A verbal contract is worth about as much as the paper it's written on.
~ Samuel Goldwyn
I did answer the letter
~ Samuel Pepys
Lesson number one, she muttered, love is beyond your grasp. Lesson two: nowhere is it written that you're guaranteed fairness. And three: there's only right and wrong.
~ Sandy Blair
It is the only time that I can ever remember the Prime Minister reading out the conclusions of a meeting that did not take place. They were already written before it started.
~ Michael Heseltine