Top 1200 Writing Code Quotes & Sayings - Page 16

It is the restrictions placed on vice by our social code which makes its pursuit so peculiarly agreeable.

On the one blind date I went on, I had a backup. If I texted you the code word, you call and say my dogs are sick.

It is as if the ordinary language we use every day has a hidden set of signals, a kind of secret code.

It's really just my Hammurabi code of journalism ethics, that I don't want to ask someone to do something that I won't do myself.

Nonprofit status is what created the Bible Belt. The tax code brought religion back to this country.

To some,Islam is nothing but a code of rules and regulations.But,to those who understand,it is a perfect vision of life

The military code of justice sets out exactly what type of charges are available for specific acts.

Written on the body is a secret code only visible in certain lights; the accumulations of a lifetime gather there

I've spent most of my life writing and developing everything that I've wanted to be in - which is why I started writing in the first place.

I do labor - it's part of the process. Writing is no easier today than it was in the beginning: writing well is very hard to do. Always.

Obviously Linux owes its heritage to UNIX, but not its code. We would not, nor will not, make such a claim.

I bet that if you actually read the entire vastness of the U.S. Tax Code, you'd find at least one sex scene . . .

There's exceptional work being done on television. Some of our great writers are writing for television. When you have things to choose from, you typically go after the writing - unless you're going after the money. There are fewer opportunities in film to make money with good writing, unless you're an action hero.

The best kind of writing, and the biggest thrill in writing, is to suddenly read a line from your typewriter that you didnt know was in you.

When I turned to writing fantasy, and writing for young people, it was joyous. It was like discovering an underground lake of ideas that went on forever.

As American taxpayers know too well, the tax code is incredibly complex and compliance is all to expensive.

I think it's dangerous to think you know what you're writing. I usually don't know, and usually I just discover it in the course of writing. I envy those writers who can outline a beginning, a middle, and end. Fitzgerald supposedly did it. John Irving does. Bret Easton Ellis does. But for me, the writing itself is the process of discovery. I can't see all that far ahead.

I suppose I often think of my writing as quite impersonal. But it turned out, when my father died, writing was exactly what I wanted to do.

Once I get my writing done, then I can turn my attention elsewhere - and not the other way around. The writing has to be the foundation.

As a genre-bending blend of police procedural and science fiction, The Silk Code delivers on its promises.

I don't know why anyone would prefer a more complicated tax code instead of a simpler one.

I have always believed that writing advertisements is the second most profitable form of writing. The first, of course, is ransom notes.

I did not have a black coat to wear to the Oscars. It was a mandatory dress code, that was the reason I gave it a miss.

There was certainly an old law code which stands behind the earliest form of Deuteronomy. Presumably that is what was lost.

If, in the Judaic perception, the language of the Adamic was that of love, the grammars of fallen man are those of the legal code.

The mark of a mature programmer is willingness to throw out code you spent time on when you realize it's pointless

Even with multiple instruction books, maneuvering the maze of the tax code is costly and time-consuming.

When the accumulation of wealth is no longer of high social importance, there will be great changes in the code of morals.

It's up to the reader to decipher the code, or the words, based on everything they know about life and emotions.

As you continue writing and rewriting, you begin to see possibilities you hadn't seen before. Writing a poem is always a process of discovery.

The mark of a mature programmer is willingness to throw out code you spent time on when you realize it's pointless.

It seemed really amazing that you could write a few lines of code and have it learn to do interesting things.

It's insane to be a writer and not be a reader. When I'm writing I'm more likely to be reading four or five books at once, just in bits and pieces rather than subjecting myself to a really brilliant book and thinking, "Well what's the point of me writing anything?" I'm more likely to read a book through when I take a break from writing.

I auditioned specifically for Cyborg, but at the time, they were using a code name for the character... I think it was Oscar.

I continually remind myself to live by a code. It's very important to me. I've got a bad temper.

News writing and sports writing have become synonymous. And it started with, you know, free agency, and now it's in the concussion debate.

What I hope is that those with the knowledge of the humanities break into the closed society where code gets written: invade it.

The ribosome is a machine that gets instructions from the genetic code and operates chemically in order to produce the product.

Through all this other stuff I was doing, I always went back to the writing, and it was writing that made me feel whole, complete.

Chief Keef makes me proud that there are other young niggas out there who are about that code.

Writing a whole series was a crash course in screenwriting, which is a very different muscle to standup comedy writing.

Writing is one way to go about thinking, and the practice and habit of writing not only drain the mind but supply it, too.

My father always told me I should be a writer, and I found I loved writing my autobiography; writing is such an interesting process.

I think it's a really admirable thing to be very sure of your own moral code and not waver from that.

No code of ethics and no effort are justifiable a priori in the face of the cruel mathematics that command our condition.

There's no place for the state in the bedrooms of the nation. What's done in private between adults doesn't concern the Criminal Code.

We will be a state that puts hardworking Georgians - no matter their ZIP code or political preference - first.

My job is to work at song writing and singing and telling the truth in song writing. My job is to be courageous enough to go on stage and tell the truth, the same truth that's gone into my song writing.

When you are writing, of course, you have to do all that writing and correcting for yourself. When I was a librarian it was expected that I would know about a wide range of books.

When primitive law has once been embodied in a Code, there is an end to what may be called its spontaneous development.

I love writing fiction because I can totally lose myself and I get to make up the rules of the world that I'm writing.

I was someone who wanted to be a writer but who wasn't writing. I was someone buying books on writing. I was someone telling people that I was writer. But I was not writing.

We're facing an enemy today in the Islamic State that knows no national boundaries. It doesn't have a moral code of conduct.

There is a sort of an unwritten code in Washington, among the underworld and the hustlers and these other guys that I am their friend.

I've always been an all around creative person. Song writing and writing are great ways for me to express myself.

We have a legal system, and we have a penal code. We have the death penalty in Saudi Arabia, and people should respect this.

Code-sharing, alliances, and connections are all about "how do we screw the poor customer for more money?"

Writing is a form of talking, although writing is such an odd thing in and of itself. People go about it in such different ways.

The ethical code of my upbringing was be good to people and try not to hurt them. You don't need a god to tell you that.

What's the challenge in writing a novel that few people will read? I'm more than happy writing what I do and have no plans to change that.