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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.
description elsewhere
But there was happiness elsewhere which no description can reach. Jane Austen
description distortion used
Every word, every image used for God is a distortion more than a description. Anthony de Mello
description subjects objects
Empirical description involves enslavement to the object by decreeing passivity on the part of the subject. Gaston Bachelard
description
The description is not the described. Jiddu Krishnamurti
description multiple
Multiple descriptions are better than one. Gregory Bateson
description chains
I knew words were like chains, they held me back . . . the act of description taints the description. John Fowles
description explanation
We must do away with all explanation, and description alone must take its place. Ludwig Wittgenstein
description observation left
The observer cannot be left out of the description of the observation. John Archibald Wheeler
description
A picture is never anything but its own plural description. Roland Barthes
delightful french-writer happiness pleasure starts tainted worm
Pleasure only starts once the worm has got into the fruit, to become delightful happiness must be tainted with poison. Georges Bataille
delightful healthy paper reads uses walker
She is pretty healthy for her age; she doesn't have anything major. She uses a walker by herself. She reads the paper from her hometown. She can really be a delightful person to be around. Sandra Moore
delightful marked presence remain taught though
Though Nathalie Dupree did not remember much about my presence in her class, it marked me forever. I remain her enthusiast, her evangelist, her acolyte, and her grateful student. She taught me that cooking and storytelling make the most delightful coconspirators. Pat Conroy
delightful nature rich shall spread turn
Nature has spread for us a rich and delightful banquet. Shall we turn from it? ... We are still in Eden. Thomas Cole
delightful director funny room work
I loved being in the room with Mamet as a director - he is the most generous, funny, delightful person to work for every day. Richard Thomas
delightful
Bill Cosby, you know, he's a delightful guy. Barry Corbin
delightful god hope prayers thousand throne
It is a most delightful reflection that if I come to the throne of God in prayer, I may feel a thousand defects, but yet there is hope. I usually feel more dissatisfied with my prayers than with anything else I do. Charles Spurgeon
delightful
There is no place more delightful than one's own fireplace. Marcus Tullius Cicero
delightful disappears next odd possess san seen
It is an odd thing, but every one who disappears is said to be seen at San Francisco. It must be a delightful city, and possess all the attractions of the next world. Oscar Wilde