If the Confederacy fails, there should be written on its tombstone: Died of a Theory.
Jefferson Davis

It was one of those evenings when men feel that truth, goodness and beauty are one. In the morning, when they commit their discovery to paper, when others read it written there, it looks wholly ridiculous.
Aldous Huxley

The sacred rights of mankind are not to be rummaged for among old parchments or musty records. They are written, as with a sunbeam, in the whole volume of human nature, by the hand of the divinity itself; and can never be erased.
Alexander Hamilton

I never know what I think about something until I read what I've written on it.
William Faulkner

If I had not existed, someone else would have written me, Hemingway, Dostoevski, all of us.
William Faulkner

Everything goes by the board: honor, pride, decency to get the book written.
William Faulkner

Chaos is the score upon which reality is written.
Henry Miller

Our perception of songs that we've written... the meaning changes from day to day... to whatever stage we're at in our life and careers.
Layne Staley

Go on thinking that you don't need to be read and you'll find that it may become quite true: no one will feel the need tom read it because it is written for yourself alone; and the public won't feel any impulse to gate crash such a private party.
Dylan Thomas

These poems, with all their crudities, doubts, and confusions, are written for the love of Man and in praise of God, and I'd be a damn' fool if they weren't.
Dylan Thomas

Your mind, while blessed with permanent memory, is cursed with lousy recall. Written goals provide clarity. By documenting your dreams, you must think about the process of achieving them.
Gary Ryan Blair

If Shakespeare had to go on an author tour to promote Romeo and Juliet, he never would have written Macbeth.
Joyce Brothers

All the good music has already been written by people with wigs and stuff.
Frank Zappa

The United States is a nation of laws: badly written and randomly enforced.
Frank Zappa

Hope is the word which God has written on the brow of every man.
Victor Hugo

I've never written a song in my life. It's all a big hoax.
Elvis Presley

A serious and good philosophical work could be written consisting entirely of jokes.
Ludwig Wittgenstein

Other men wear white suits in summer and it doesn't seem to bother them. But my white suit seems to be a little whiter than theirs. I think also that it may have something written on the back of it, although I can't find it when I take the suit off.
Robert Benchley

Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.
Truman Capote

The history of progress is written in the blood of men and women who have dared to espouse an unpopular cause, as, for instance, the black man's right to his body, or woman's right to her soul.
Emma Goldman