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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.
purpose hell christ
The purpose of God isn't to save us from Hell. The purpose of God is to make us like Christ. Aiden Wilson Tozer
purpose use language
It is as though the ancestors who made language and knew from what bestiality its use rescued them are saying to us: Beware of interfering with its purpose! For when language is seriously interfered with, when it is disjoined from truth, be it from mere incompetence or worse, from malice, horrors can descend again on mankind. Chinua Achebe
purpose assumption
We were created for a purpose and when our underlying assumptions don't reflect this deeper purpose, we begin to whither as human beings. David Kim
purpose kind
On the flip side, when we connect our work with a greater sense of purpose and calling beyond the paycheck, we begin to see the kind of flourishing that we were called to create.
purpose slave
Aristotle [would] probably conclude most Americans, for all intents and purposes, are slaves. David Graeber
purpose trends advertising
Infiniti ads are part of an exciting new trend called "Advertising Whose Sole Purpose Is to Irritate You." Dave Barry
purpose growing lost
But we have to ask ourselves, what's the purpose of the stock market? It's supposed to be a source of capital for growing business. It's lost that purpose. Mark Cuban
purpose miserable persons
Miserable are the persons who do not have something beyond themselves to search for. Charles L. Allen
purpose strange comedy
Comedy is very strange to me and I don't fully understand it's purpose or function. Bo Burnham
now-and-then series
Now and then I find a kitschy series I love. Adam Pascal
now-and-then willing propositions
We must be willing to be guided of God, not merely now and then, but as a life proposition. E. Stanley Jones
now-and-then glamour folks
A good hanging now and then -- that entertains folk in the provinces and robs death of its glamour. Jean-Paul Sartre
now-and-then
Between now and then, after 43 years of European marriage, the whole body of legislation will therefore have to be disentangled. That entails a whole range of specific and very complex questions: what will be the future legal status of the millions of EU citizens in the UK and the millions of Britons on the continent? Jean-Claude Juncker
now-and-then has-beens governors
I have been governor every now and then, but I am a forester all the time. Gifford Pinchot
now-and-then trash reader
A bit of trash now and then is good for the severest reader. It provides the necessary roughage in the literary diet. Phyllis McGinley
now-and-then shoulders chips
I really had a chip on my shoulder, ... and it still comes out every now and then. John Lennon
now-and-then bad-movies seeing
I love that experience of seeing a bad movie or a movie that you don't even know, and then experiencing it with your friend. Paul Scheer
now-and-then okay
It's okay to be sad. Everyone gets sad now and then. Even me. Nicholas Sparks