Top 1200 Written Word Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

The Overlook was still not done with him. Written on the mirror, not in lipstick but in blood, was a single word: REDRUM

The use of language around drugs is really important. So we find that it's increasingly difficult in our society to find the word "drug" not connected to the word "abuse." The notion of a responsible use of drugs is written out in the language of our culture.

Nobody these days holds the written word in such high esteem as police states do.

Going from the written, flat word to the three-dimensional object, that was one of the more enriching things that I've done.

I believe the Bible to be the written Word of God and to contain in it the whole rule of faith and manners.

I love the written word so much, I know it's gonna flow naturally.

Littera scripta manet - 'The written word will remain'. That's true, but it won't be that much comfort to me.

All epoch-making revolutionary events have been produced not by the written, but by the spoken word.

If I looked at some of these pieces as if this project was not spoken-word but just short anthology, I probably would have fussed with some of the sentences, you know? Syllabication and prosody and such crap. Because the printed word is etched in stone. But for reading purposes I accepted this book of texts in the manner in which I wrote them, no need to fuss. Most of the shorter stuff was written as poetry. Meaning lots of white space on the page.

Read the Word. Consume the Word until it consumes you. Believe the Word. Act on the Word.

All of my books are about researching. I do all the research and I give it to a writer who can put it in the written word better than I could.

Every soldier in the course of time exists only in the breath of written word.

The written word is redundant on the high seas. Why? Because paper gets wet too easily.

We are in love with the word. We are proud of it. The word precedes the formation of the state. The word comes to us from every avatar of early human existence. As writers, we are obliged more than others to keep our lives attached to the primitive power of the word. From India, out of the Vedas, we still hear: On the spoken word, all the gods depend, all beasts and men; in the world live all creatures...The word is the name of the divine world.

Frankly, reviews aremostly for peoplewho still read.Like most of the written word, it isgoing the way of the dinosaur.

Nine books have been written about me, and there's not a word of truth in any of them.

Remember, a word is an invention, a symbol for an idea. Written text began as an artistic representation of a thought or event.

Do you desire security? Here you have it. The Lord says to you, "I will never abandon you, I will always be with you." If a good man made you such a promise, you would trust him. God makes it, and do you doubt? Do you seek a support more sure than the word of God, which is infallible? Surely, He has made the promise, He has written it, He has pledged His word for it, it is most certain.

You are more than entitled not to know what the word 'performative' means. It is a new word and an ugly word, and perhaps it doesnot mean anything very much. But at any rate there is one thing in its favor, it is not a profound word.

Word which the finger of God has written on the brow of every man — hope!

I've never written one note or word of music simply because I think it will make money.

I've written this song called 'Insania' - it's a mix of Insane and Mania, and even though it's a made up word you instantly know what it means!

The picture alone, without the written word, leaves half the story untold.

In the speech sound wave, one word runs into the next seamlessly; there are no little silences between spoken words the way there are white spaces between written words. We simply hallucinate word boundaries when we reach the end of a stretch of sound that matches some entry in our mental dictionary.

I haven't read a single word that a critic has written about me since 1994.

Calvaryites are sometimes a little too heavily oriented to the written Word.

The one thing that I always got positive reinforcement for from teachers, who really changed my life, was the written word.

I have met so many people who say they've got a book in them, but they've never written a word.

What a strange world it is, where prisoners are left their weapons and the written word is a mortal danger.

I was like, "This is a new thing that the gay people have decided? That's the gayest thing I've ever heard in my life." You can't do that. You can't decide that a word is forbidden now collectively amongst your group of human beings, that the word is a slanderous evil nasty word about homosexuals. It's not, the word doesn't mean that. And sometimes it's a good word to use in comedy. That's what your friend has to realize when he's at a bar just yelling out the word.

Richard Burton had a tremendous passion for the English language, especially the spoken and written word

In my opinion, the greatest sin in the church of Jesus Christ in this generation is ignorance of the Word of God. Many times I have heard a church officer say, "Well I don't know much about the Bible, but..." and then he gives his opinion, which often actually contradicts the Word of God! Why doesn't he know much about the Bible? These things were written aforetime for our learning. God wants you to know His Word.

When the written and spoken word is censored, the urban landscape becomes a nation's only physical link to the past.

The written word may be man's greatest invention. It allows us to converse with the dead, the absent, and the unborn.

Advice to aspiring ministers: Get in the Word. Stay in the Word. Master the Word. And for heaven's sake, preach the Word!

The Word of God is so much broader than people are giving it credit for. Look at Proverbs, a book written on how to live.

My Dear Reader Chum, a very hearty hello to you. What an honour and privilege it is to have you perusing my written word.

I start writing at 7.30 A.M. and write till noon. I've never written a single word after 5.00 P.M.

Whatever may be said about the doctrine of election, it is written in the Word of God as with an iron pen, and there is no getting rid of it.

I feel the written word, poetry and literature is just one of the most beautiful things that human beings do. So we have to fight for it.

Prefer the familiar word to the far-fetched. Prefer the concrete word to the abstract. Prefer the single word to the circumlocution. Prefer the short word to the long. Prefer the Saxon word to the Romance.

Paul commands: 'Therefore, brethren, stand fast and hold the Traditions which you have been taught, whether by word or by our letter.' From this it is clear that they did not hand down everything by letter, but there is much also that was not written. Like that which was written, the unwritten too is worthy of belief. So let us regard the Tradition of the Church also as worthy of belief. Is it a Tradition? Seek no further.

No greater mistake can be made than to imagine that what has been written latest is always the more correct; that what is written later on is an improvement on what was written previously; and that every change means progress.

Hope is the word which God has written on the brow of every man.

A word aptly uttered or written cannot be cut away by an axe.

The written word has this advantage, that it lasts and can await the time when it is allowed to take effect.

The best advice I can give you: Look unto Jesus, beholding his beauty in the written word.

Words are substance strange. Speak one and the air ripples into another's ears. Write one and the eye laps it up. But the sense transmutes, and the spoken word winds through the ear's labyrinth into a sense that is no longer the nerve's realm. The written word unfolds behind the eye into the world, world's image, and the imagination sees as the eye cannot see-thoughtfully.

Galileo wrote that 'the book of nature is written in the language of mathematics; without its help it is impossible to comprehend a single word of it.'

Preaching, in the first sense of the word, ceased as soon as ever the gospel was written.

When I first encountered Shakespeare as a boy, I read every word this man has written. To me, he is like an African storyteller.

I have a couple of thousand books in my personal library. Choosing a favorite is next to impossible. But I do love the written word.

In 1988, before I'd written a word for a car magazine or stood in front of a camera, I was a subeditor on 'The Engineer.'

I don't love the word "quirky." I think it's a word that's a catchall. It's a word that doesn't stand in empathy with the person, it stands in judgment of them. It's a very externalized word.

'Success' is a seductive word. Thousands of books have been written on the subject. They promise money, freedom, leisure, and luxury.

The written word still enjoyed a certain prestige here. It was a sluggish country.

...the temptation, which consisted of a single word written on the cemetary of the defeated: Sleep.

WIDE, the margin between carte blanche and the white page. Nevertheless it is not in the margin that you can find me, but in the yet whiter one that separates the word-strewn sheet from the transparent, the written page from the one to be written in the infinite space where the eye turns back to the eye, and the hand to the pen, where all we write is erased, even as you write it. For the book imperceptibly takes shape within the book we will never finish. There is my desert.

Science is the ultimate tool to reveal the laws of nature, and the one word written on its banner is Truth.

Things spoken can be forgotten and forgiven, but the written word has the power to change the course of history, to alter our lives.