Write Quotes - page 6

Portability is for people who cannot write new programs. (Linus Torvalds)
Even when I have to write a simple letter I'm scared stiff as if faced with looming seasickness. View quote
Gustav Klimt
Those who write clearly have readers, those who write obscurely have commentators. View quote
Albert Camus
Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing. View quote
Benjamin Franklin
Our live experiences, fixed in aphorisms, stiffen into cold epigrams. Our heart's blood, as we write it, turns to mere dull ink. View quote
F. H. Bradley
I have always wanted to write a book that ended with the word 'mayonnaise. View quote
Richard Brautigan
The pages are still blank, but there is a miraculous feeling of the words being there, written in invisible ink and clamoring to become visible. View quote
Vladimir Nabokov
We are much beholden to Machiavel and others, that write what men do, and not what they ought to do. View quote
Francis Bacon
For an author to write as he speaks is just as reprehensible as the opposite fault, to speak as he writes; for this gives a pedantic effect to what he says, and at the same time makes him hardly intelligible. View quote
Arthur Schopenhauer
The so-called lessons of history are for the most part the rationalizations of the victors. History is written by the survivors. View quote
Max Lerner
Give a critic an inch, he'll write a play. (John Steinbeck)
The discipline of the written word punishes both stupidity and dishonesty. View quote
John Steinbeck
Brahms' Variations are better than mine, but mine were written before his. View quote
Franz Liszt
Lovers who love truly do not write down their happiness. View quote
Anatole France
I must write it all out, at any cost. Writing is thinking. It is more than living, for it is being conscious of living. View quote
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Someone who can write aphorisms should not fritter away his time in essays. View quote
Karl Kraus
Female artists are the perfect example of a creator: They know how to make life and art with their bodies. Life comes from their bodies, so on a very basic level, they have more to write about. View quote
Brandon Boyd
Looking Backward was written in the belief that the Golden Age lies before us and not behind us. View quote
Edward Bellamy
Income tax returns are the most imaginative fiction being written today. View quote
Herman Wouk
May I make a suggestion, hoping it is not an impertinence? Write it down: write down what you feel. It is sometimes a wonderful help in misery. View quote
Robertson Davies
I write to discover what I think. After all, the bars aren't open that early. (Daniel J. Boorstin)
Don't pay any attention to what they write about you. Just measure it in inches. View quote
Andy Warhol
Every man's life is a fairy tale written by God's fingers. View quote
Hans Christian Andersen
It's easier to write about Socrates than about a young woman or a cook. View quote
Anton Chekhov
Every program has two purposes: The one for which it was written and another for which it wasn't. View quote
Alan Perlis