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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.
months dislocation
I don't like the dislocation of being away for months at a time. It's not conducive to having a life. Bob Mould
months strange provocative
It is true that I am often startled and even angered and repulsed by the strange directions and provocative content of new forms that seem to pop up every few months. David Rockefeller
months six
We were blazing. Six months after we opened, 9/11 happened. Bruce Smith
months honest losing
Losing gets old. It's just been a heck of a month, to be honest with you. Alan Trammell
months takes weeks whether
Whether it takes two months or two weeks whatever, Gary Griffin
months lips three
I'm a terrible lip-syncer anyway because I have to be in the moment, and I can't lip-sync to something I recorded three months before. Barbra Streisand
months lasts cold
If I get a cold, it lasts for a month. Delta Goodrem
months glee projects
There was this project I really wanted before 'Glee' and I didn't get cast - I went in about 13 times and I was so bummed when I didn't get it. But then a month later I got cast on 'Glee,' and I felt like it was meant to happen. Dianna Agron
months next pope
The pope said he will go in the first months of next year. Shimon Peres
topics until
Until a few years ago, the topics in my Ph.D. were unfashionable, but they are very popular today. Benoit Mandelbrot
topics knows
Americans know more about religion than almost any other topic. Bruce Feiler
topics philosopher boring
...somehow the old philosophers could make even the most salacious topics seem boring. Brandon Sanderson
topics
I talk to teens everyday about topics that are often extraordinarily uncomfortable. Rosalind Wiseman
topics curious exciting
I feel like if you read something, and it makes you so curious about a topic that you then go read something else, that's exciting. Curtis Sittenfeld
topics constitution economy
If you are a friend of the Constitution as I am, I hope you will consider engaging me in the topics of my posts whether you agree or disagree with my position on a particular subject. John Jay Hooker
topics poor should
Let us waive that agitated national topic, as to whether such multitudes of foreign poor should be landed on our American shores;let us waive it, with the one only thought, that if they can get here, they have God's right to come. Herman Melville
topics size survivor
In the 1950s, I proposed the survivor method of determining the efficient sizes of enterprises, and worked on delivered price systems, vertical integration, and similar topics. George Stigler
topics boring ireland
There is no topicmore soporific and generally boring than the topic of Ireland as Ireland, as a nation. Ezra Pound