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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.
generations stills popping
You know I've got a generator that's still popping. Chita Rivera
generations my-generation
My generation is under-entertained. Dave Chappelle
generations theme endure
I'm interested in themes that endure from generation to generation. David Guterson
generations next problem
The problems that agitate one generation are exstinguished for the next, not because they have been solved but because the general lack of interest sweeps them away. Cesare Pavese
generations ethics tendencies
It is not new for the older generation to bewail the indolence of the young, and there is a tendency for the latter to maintain much of the older ethic screened by a new semantics and an altered ideology. David Riesman
generations fine
[W]ords are fine, but it has to be what a generation reads into those words. Edward Kennedy
generations ants holes
The immense profundity of thought in vulgar locutions, like holes dug by generations of ants. Charles Baudelaire
generations hearing damage
The 2011 riots in England, which left five dead and caused more than $300 million in property damage, were fueled by a generation of young Brits who grew up without ever hearing the word No. Bob Barr
generations machines rage
The younger generation is supposed to rage against the machine, not for it. They're supposed to question authority, not question those who question authority. Bill Maher
substance belief behavior
Behavior is the substance of religion. Belief is the substance of relationship. Charles Stanley
substance english-words culture
Some of the substance of English words, I just don't understand at all because the culture's so strange to me Chow Yun-Fat
substance obsessed fats
This is true; virtually all edible substances, and many automotive products, are now marketed as being low-fat or fat-free. Americans are obsessed with fat content. Dave Barry
substance literature lilies
Misfortune had made Lily supple instead of hardening her, and a pliable substance is less easy to break than a stiff one. Edith Wharton
substance degradation recycling
In nature, no organic substance is synthesized unless there is provision for its degradation; recycling is enforced. Barry Commoner
substance source concerned
We are authors, all of us, concerned with beginning, with making, with sources and substance. Diane Wakoski
substance matter cabinets
Disputing the commonsense notion that all events require the prior existence of some underlying matter or substance. There is no antecedent static cabinet. Alfred North Whitehead
substance mathematics mathematical
Before you generalize, formalize, and axiomatize there must be mathematical substance. Hermann Weyl
substance way hinduism
Hinduism is like the Ganga, pure and unsullied at its source but taking in its course the impurities in the way. Even like the Ganga it is beneficent in its total effect. It takes a provincial form in every province, but the inner substance is retained everywhere. Mahatma Gandhi