Written Quotes

Feathers shall raise men even as they do birds towards heaven :- That is by letters written with their quills.

All knowledge which ends in words will die as quickly as it came to life, with the exception of the written word: which is its mechanical part.

Reconnaissance memoranda should always be written in the simplest style and be purely descriptive. They should never stray from their objective by introducing extraneous ideas.

History is written by the victors.

The last Simply Red album, 'Stay,' was good, but the first three tracks were designed for radio play. They were written to meet people's expectations of Simply Red.

We're in the last days, man - I truly, in my heart, believe that. It's written. I could go on with biblical situations and things my grandma told me. But it's about being at peace with myself and making good with the people around me.

Nothing anybody's said or written about me ever bothers me, except when it does.

And every one of them words rang true and glowed like burnin' coal. Pourin' off of every page, like it was written in my soul from me to you.

The first song that I ever recorded was written by my mother.

I've never written a political song. Songs can't save the world. I've gone through all that.

Every single one of the guys that I've written songs about has been tracked down on MySpace by my fans.

Each song is a child I nourish and give my love to. But even if you have never written a song, your life is a song. How can it not be?

That's why I hate to take credit for the songs I've written. I feel that somewhere, someplace, it's been done and I'm just a courier bringing it into the world.

Human knowledge consists not only of libraries of parchment and ink - it is also comprised of the volumes of knowledge that are written on the human heart, chiselled on the human soul, and engraved on the human psyche.

Well, we all know about "Yesterday. I have had so much accolade for "Yesterday. That is Paul's song, of course, and Paul's baby. Well done. Beautiful - and I never wished I had written it.

Evolution is written on the wings of butterflies.

I know that fewer people are won over by the written word than by the spoken word and that every great movement on this earth owes its growth to great speakers and not to great writers.