#written

The reason is that till date, in spite of advances in information technology and strategies of information, the written word in the form of books still remains one of humanity's most enduring legacies. ↗

— Ibrahim Babangida

#books #date #enduring #form #humanity

I wasn't a normal professor. I had worked in government. I hadn't written nine zillion books. I was a hands-on professor. ↗

— Madeleine Albright

#government #had #hadn #hands-on #i

But I honestly don't read critics. My dad reads absolutely everything ever written about me. He calls me up to read ecstatic reviews, but I always insist that I can't hear them. If you give value to the good reviews, you have to give value to the criticism. ↗

— Fiona Apple

#absolutely #always #calls #criticism #critics

A few years ago, I bought an old red bicycle with the words Free Spirit written across its side - which is exactly what I felt like when I rode it down the street in a tie-dyed dress. ↗

— Drew Barrymore

#ago #bicycle #bought #down #dress

Most victims of my autobiographical verse are either far too polite, remarkably understanding unaware that I have written poems about them. ↗

— John Barton

#autobiographical #either #far #i #most

Israel is still the only country in the world against which there is a written document to the effect that it must disappear. ↗

— Menachem Begin

#country #disappear #document #effect #israel

Biography should be written by an acute enemy. ↗

— Arthur Balfour

#biography #enemy #should #written

Once you've invested hundreds of hours in creating a coherent universe, your story's grown to around a half-million words and can't be written as anything less than a trilogy. ↗

— Lynn Abbey

#around #coherent #creating #grown #half-million

It's been a long time since I've written old-fashioned sword and sorcery; I'm hoping it's like riding a bicycle. ↗

— Lynn Abbey

#bicycle #hoping #i #like #long

Each country its cost analysis is going to be different. So what we are you seeing in Syria, for example, is different than what's going on in Jordan. The maps are being rewritten. ↗

— Abdallah II

#be different #being #cost #country #different