#unwritten

The future? Like unwritten books and unborn children, you don't talk about it. ↗

— Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

#books #children #future #like #talk

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. ↗

— Ron Wood

#got #i #kind #kinds #know

Perhaps the best definition of progress would be the continuing efforts of men and women to narrow the gap between the convenience of the powers that be and the unwritten charter. ↗

— Nadine Gordimer

#between #charter #continuing #convenience #definition

It was an unwritten law that black comics were not permitted to work white nightclubs. You could sing and you could dance, but you couldn't stand flat-footed and talk; that was a no-no. ↗

— Dick Gregory

#comics #could #dance #law #nightclubs

There is a misleading, unwritten rule that states if a quote giving advice comes from someone famous, very old, or Greek, then it must be good advice. ↗

— Bo Bennett

#comes #famous #giving #good #good advice

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

— John le Carre

#book #few #haven #heaven #i

No written law has ever been more binding than unwritten custom supported by popular opinion. ↗

— Carrie Chapman Catt

#binding #custom #ever #law #more

It is no longer an unwritten law of American capitalism that industry will attempt to maintain wages at a level that allows a single wage to support a family. ↗

— Christopher Lasch

#american #attempt #capitalism #family #industry

There's an unwritten law that you cannot have a Jewish character in a film who isn't 100 percent perfect, or you're labeled anti-Semitic. ↗

— Spike Lee

#cannot #character #film #jewish #labeled

There's that unwritten schism that literary writers get all the awards and commericals writers get all the success. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#get #literary #schism #success #unwritten