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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.
mind colour new-thought
New thoughts and hopes were whirling through my mind, and all the colours of my life were changing.
mind body weakness
Physicians must discover the weaknesses of the human mind, and even condescend to humor them, or they will never be called in to cure the infirmities of the body.
mind gout body
As the gout seems privileged to attack the bodies of the wealthy, so ennui seems to exert a similar prerogative over their minds.
mind yoke foals
It is adverse to talent to be consorted and trained up with inferior minds and inferior companions, however high they may rank. The foal of the racer neither finds out his speed nor calls out his powers if pastured out with the common herd, that are destined for the collar and the yoke.
mind pay talent
Gross and vulgar minds will always pay a higher respect to wealth than to talent; for wealth, although it be a far less efficient source of power than talent, happens to be far more intelligible.
mind toadstools insult
Insults are engendered from vulgar minds, like toadstools from a dunghill.
mind needed ifs
You know, if I tried to change the minds of everyone who I thought needed changing, I'd never have time to do anything else. Charles Stross
mind christianity holy
When filled with holy truth the mind rests. Charles Spurgeon
mind states state-of-mind
We are in a wrong state of mind if we are not in a thankful state of mind.
mechanic conviction should
I am coming more and more to the conviction that the necessity of our geometry cannot be demonstrated, at least neither by, nor for, the human intellect...geometry should be ranked, not with arithmetic, which is purely aprioristic, but with mechanics. Carl Friedrich Gauss
mechanics until
We want him completely healthy, and we want his mechanics sound. Until that happens, he won't pitch. Bryan Price
mechanic focused
I hadn't focused on mechanics since I signed professionally. Barry Zito
mechanical plane sat seattle sent waited
The plane to Boise had some kind of mechanical problem; we were actually on the plane before they sent us back. And then we just sat and waited and there was no other way to get us to Boise, so they sent us to Seattle and put us up for the night.
mechanic mere poetry tune
Made poetry a mere mechanic art; / And every warbler has his tune by heart. William Cowper
mechanics smart
She's amazing. She locates well, and her mechanics are unbelievable. She's a smart pitcher.
mechanics simple
I don't know what adjustments I could make. My mechanics to me are about as simple as you could get. Mark Prior
mechanics movement today wild
He's going to be a little wild anyway, because he had such movement on his fastball, but today his mechanics were off, so it was really flying. Mike Lieberthal
mechanics taught
Anthony Powell taught me to write; he has such brilliant control of the mechanics of the novel. Alan Furst