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writing hair fire
Prowling about the rooms, sitting down, getting up, stirring the fire, looking out the window, teasing my hair, sitting down to write, writing nothing, writing something and tearing it up... Charles Dickens
writing numbers gold
Genius, in one respect, is like gold; numbers of persons are constantly writing about both, who have neither. Charles Caleb Colton
writing language nonsense
It is curious that some learned dunces, because they can write nonsense in languages that are dead, should despise those that talk sense in languages that are living.
writing men profound
He that knows himself, knows others; and he that is ignorant of himself, could not write a very profound lecture on other men's heads.
writing faces privacy
The society of dead authors has this advantage over that of the living: they never flatter us to our faces, nor slander us behind our backs, nor intrude upon our privacy, nor quit their shelves until we take them down.
writing men three
There are three difficulties in authorship: to write anything worth publishing, to find honest men to publish it, and to find sensible men to read it.
writing should-have fire
We should have a glorious conflagration, if all who cannot put fire into their works would only consent to put their works into the fire.
writing self hints
The awkwardness and embarrassment which all feel on beginning to write, when they themselves are the theme, ought to serve as a hint to author's that self is a subject they ought very rarely to descant upon.
writing two style
When I meet with any persons who write obscurely or converse confusedly, I am apt to suspect two things; first, that such persons do not understand themselves; and secondly, that they are not worthy of being understood by others.
criticism merit motive
Criticism discloses that which it would fain conceal, but conceals that which it professes to disclose; it is therefore, read by the discerning, not to discover the merits of an author, but the motives of his critic.
criticism done looks
Until you look forward to all criticism, your Work's not done. Byron Katie
criticisms quite tries
Anyone who tries to diss me in comparison to Queen, it just renders all their criticisms completely futile. That's quite pleasurable. Mika
criticism critics-and-criticism event following reduced teams top
We started the event with 12 teams but reduced it to a 10-team event following criticism there was too much disparity between the top 10 and the 11th and 12th teams. Malcolm Speed
criticism glitter weak-points
After all, one knows one's weak points so well, that it's rather bewildering to have the critics overlook them and invent others. Edith Wharton
criticism want i-can
I can't see why anyone would want to be in politics because you get so much criticism. David Walliams
criticism tables might
A film is just like a muffin. You make it. You put it on the table. One person might say, Oh, I don't like it. One might say it's the best muffin ever made. One might say it's an awful muffin. It's hard for me to say. It's for me to make the muffin. Denzel Washington
criticism together foolishness
Foolishness and criticism are so apt, do so naturally go together! Elizabeth Barrett Browning
criticism ready ifs
If there's criticism of my work that's legitimate. I'm ready to hear of it. Edward Klein
censure children folly husband man since virtuous whose
Since that ,time the virtuous censure that ,man who in his folly appoints a woman, whose husband died, to ,bear children ,to another man . Guru Nanak
censure eminent man pays public tax
Censure is the the tax a man pays to the public for being eminent Jonathan Swift
censure considers flourish itself qualified rhetoric vigilance
No place in the world prides itself more on its vigilance and realism, no place considers itself more qualified to censure any flourish of rhetoric or extravagance of aspiration. Seamus Heaney
censure congress deep deserves disdain rebuke
I have a deep disdain for the president's actions, ... He deserves the admonishment and the censure and the rebuke of the Congress ... Not only is this the public's preference, but it is the right thing to do. Rick Boucher
censure certainty failed great resolution
I can tell you with great certainty that a censure resolution would have failed in the House, Tom DeLay
censure congress deal facing maybe move ought president problems proper punishment
I think we ought to be forgiving. The president said he's sorry. I think we need to have a proper punishment -- maybe censure by the Congress -- and move on and deal with the problems facing this county.
censure communication efforts history
History has demonstrated that efforts to censure and control communication will not succeed.
censure hard people route talking white
I think that it would be pretty hard to do this -- the censure route --without ... talking at all with the White House, the people who are going to be censured, John Chafee
censure votes
You know, there were 29 Democratic votes for censure in the Senate. And if the Republicans had any sense, they would have censured him before the '98 midterm election, and they would have won the election. Chris Matthews