Unwritten Quotes - Page 5

• Live your life with arms wide open. Today is where your book begins. The rest is still unwritten.

  Natasha Bedingfield

  Happy Birthday, Book, Live Your Life

  Song: Unwritten, Album: Unwritten, 2004

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• The future is unwritten.

  Joe Strummer

  Reality

  "Joe Strummer: The Future Is Unwritten". Documentary, Biography, Music, 2007.

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• I wonder if we are all wrong about each other, if we are just composing unwritten novels about the people we meet?

  Rebecca West

  People, Wonder, Novel

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• There was, in my view, an unwritten contract with the reader that the writer must honour. No single element of an imagined world or any of its characters should be allowed to dissolve on an authorial whim. The invented had to be as solid and as self-consistent as the actual. This was a contract founded on mutual trust.

  Ian Mcewan

  Character, Self, Views

  FaceBook post by Ian McEwan from Dec 19, 2012

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• Every love relationship rests on an unwritten agreement unthinkingly concluded by the lovers in the first weeks of their love. They are still in a kind of dream but at the same time, without knowing it, are drawing up, like uncompromising lawyers, the detailed clauses of their contract. O lovers! Be careful in those dangerous first days! Once you've brought breakfast in bed you'll have to bring it forever, unless you want to be accused of lovelessness and betrayal.

  Milan Kundera

  Dream, Betrayal, Drawing

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• It's an unwritten rule - girl friends' boyfriends are off limits, even after they break up.

  Kristin Cavallari

  Moving On, Break Up, Girl

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• Motherhood is the greatest potential influence either for good or ill in human life. The mother's image is the first that stamps itself on the unwritten page of the young child's mind. It is her caress that first awakens a sense of security; her kiss, the first realization of affection; her sympathy and tenderness, the first assurance that there is love in the world.

  David O. McKay

  Mother, Children, Kissing

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• Our lives were just beginning, our favorite moment was right now, our favorite songs were unwritten.

  Rob Sheffield

  Song, Moments, Right Now

  Rob Sheffield (2007). “Love Is a Mix Tape: Life, Loss, and What I Listened To”, p.90, Crown Archetype

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• To put it another way, every love relationship is based upon unwritten conventions rashly agreed upon by the lovers during the first weeks of their love. On the one hand, they are living a sort of dream; on the other, without realizing it, they are drawing up the fine print of their contracts like the most hard-nosed of lawyers. O lovers! Be wary during those perilous first days! If you serve the other party breakfast in bed, you will be obliged to continue same in perpetuity or face charges of animosity and treason!

  Milan Kundera

  Dream, Party, Drawing

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• There's a basic rule which runs through all kinds of music, kind of an unwritten rule. I don't know what it is. But I've got it.

  Ronnie Wood

  Music, Running, Kind

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• Economic theorists, like French chefs in regard to food, have developed stylized models whose ingredients are limited by some unwritten rules. Just as traditional French cooking does not use seaweed or raw fish, so neoclassical models do not make assumptions derived from psychology, anthropology, or sociology. I disagree with any rules that limit the nature of the ingredients in economic models.

  George Akerlof

  Economic Models, Psychology, Cooking

  "An Economic Theorist's Book of Tales". Book by George Akerlof, October 26, 1984.

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• 'Take offense at the drop of a hat' is the unwritten eleventh commandment.

  Richard Dawkins

  Doubt, Atheism, Hats

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• I'm so grateful to grab hold of something that wants to be a play. It doesn't happen very often. I don't have unwritten plays waiting for their turn.

  Tom Stoppard

  Grateful, Play, Waiting

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• When they were making black films in the '60s and the '70s, everyone knew their place, if you get my drift. You understand? Everyone knew the rules, and everyone knew their place. Everyone knew what to say. They had the written rules in Hollywood film, and the unwritten rules.

  Paul Mooney

  Hollywood Films, Black, Ifs

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• I love silent films. The future is unwritten.

  Jim Jarmusch

  Silent Films, Film, Silent

  Source: thequietus.com

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• Until the day we die, our lives are unwritten, which is sometimes a terrifying thought.

  Emily Haines

  Sometimes, Dies, Our Lives

  Source: www.killahbeez.com

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• Thank heaven, though, one of the few mistakes I haven't made is to talk about the unwritten book.

  John le Carre

  Mistake, Book, Writing

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• The unwritten rules of behaviour are infinite in number, finely shaded, and subtle to the last fraction of a degree. They are not to be broken. If broken, the rules of forgiveness leading to re-establishment are equally of air and iron. I learn these rules with rather less ease than my contemporaries because, in the back streets of my being, a duel is developing and increasing in fervour between my instinct which knows why something is so, and my hen-pecking intelligence which wishes to analyse why something is so.

  Hal Porter

  Art, Air, Iron

  Hal Porter, Mary Lord (1980). “Hal Porter”, Univ of Queensland Pr

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• The spiritual quality of earth: eternally pregnant and containing in its fertility the unwritten cipher of cosmic lore.

  Lady Frieda Harris

  Spiritual, Quality, Ciphers

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• Steiner has here transformed the vaporous conceptions of his life, the vapors of what never was and never will be, from their aeriform state to a fine and ethereal substantiality. My Unwritten Books is a gathering of shades, an elegant and eloquent gathering of mind, feeling, and autumnal passion. (...) And that is the lovely irony of this unique little book. None of these unwritten books should have been written. They are better here, as they are, untamed and errant phantoms of a brilliance whose emanations no one mortal lifetime could ever accommodate in full.

  Nick Tosches

  Book, Passion, Unique

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• I cannot too often repeat that Democracy is a word the real gist of which still sleeps, quite unawakened, notwithstanding the resonance and the many angry tempests out of which its syllables have come, from pen or tongue. It is a great word, whose history, I suppose, remains unwritten because that history has yet to be enacted.

  Walt Whitman

  Real, Sleep, Historical

  Walt Whitman, Floyd Stovall (2007). “Prose Works 1892, Volume II: Collect and Other Prose”, p.393, NYU Press

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• For the whole earth is the tomb of famous men; not only are they commemorated by columns and inscriptions in their own country, but in foreign lands there dwells also an unwritten memorial of them, graven not on stone but in the hearts of men.

  Pericles

  Country, Heart, Men

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• For there is but one essential justice which cements society, and one law which establishes this justice. This law is right reason, which is the true rule of all commandments and prohibitions. Whoever neglects this law, whether written or unwritten, is necessarily unjust and wicked.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Law, Justice, Wicked

  Marcus Tullius Cicero, Charles Duke Yonge (1853). “The Treatises of M.T. Cicero: On the Nature of the Gods; On Divination; On Fate; On the Republic; On the Laws; and On Standing for the Consulship”, p.417, London : H.G. Bohn

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• The difference between de jure and de facto segregation is the difference between open, forthright bigotry and the shamefaced kind that works through unwritten agreements between real estate dealers, school officials, and local politicians.

  Shirley Chisholm

  Real, School, Agreement

  Shirley Chisholm (2010). “Unbought and Unbossed: Expanded 40th Anniversary Edition”, p.172, Take Root Media

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• I'd trapped myself in a script.... But to be scripted at all is to be prepackaged, programmed, pinned to a page. Only the unwritten can truly live a life. So who I was, what I was, had to be unwritten.

  David James Duncan

  Pages, Scripts, Trapped

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