#written

The history of free men is never really written by chance but by choice; their choice! ↗

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

#choice #free #free men #history #men

I've always found it easy and natural and, more importantly, necessary to articulate thoughts and feelings, and fierce emotions, through the written word. Fantasy and horror came to me when I was very young. ↗

— Kim Elizabeth

#articulate #came #easy #emotions #fantasy

As things are, and as fundamentally they must always be, poetry is not a career, but a mug's game. No honest poet can ever feel quite sure of the permanent value of what he has written: He may have wasted his time and messed up his life for nothing. ↗

— T. S. Eliot

#career #ever #feel #fundamentally #game

I've written more songs for this record than I ever have in the past so I'm trying to give it a lot of special attention to be sure my ideas really get translated right. ↗

— Suzy Bogguss

#ever #get #give #i #ideas

A classic is a book that doesn't have to be written again. ↗

— W. E. B. Du Bois

#book #classic #written

Sporadic thoughts will pop into my head and I'll have to go write something down, and the next thing you know I've written a whole song in an hour. ↗

— Eminem

#go #head #hour #i #into

Let no man write my epitaph... When my country takes her place among the nations of the earth, then shall my character be vindicated, then may my epitaph be written. ↗

— Robert Emmet

#character #country #earth #epitaph #her

I do sometimes look back at things I've written in the past, and think, 'I just don't remember being the person who wrote that.' ↗

— Brian Eno

#being #i #i do #in the past #just

Somewhere it is written that parents who are critical of other people's children and publicly admit they can do better are asking for it. ↗

— Erma Bombeck

#asking #better #children #critical #other

Ever since I've become chairman, there have been profiles of me in People, George, The Washington Post, The Detroit News, and all of them could have been written by the same person. ↗

— Julian Bond

#been #chairman #could #detroit #ever