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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. Charles Caleb Colton
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. Charles Caleb Colton
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. Charles Caleb Colton
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. Charles Caleb Colton
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. Charles Caleb Colton
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. Charles Caleb Colton
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. Charles Caleb Colton
speaks-out abuse excess
We must take the best from the left and the best from the right to devise new strategies for the global twenty-first century. The reluctance of liberal professors to speak out against rampant abuses committed on their side (e.g., suppression of free speech, the excesses of women's studies and French theory) has simply increased the power of the right. Camille Paglia
speaks-out willing direct
I've always been me. I've always been very direct and have told the truth and have been very willing to stand up and speak out. Bev Perdue
speaks-out water long
When people refuse to speak out for too long, it's like water that's stagnant and starts to rot! August Strindberg
speaks-out rights people
And my approach has always been to stand up and speak out on behalf of the economic rights of people. Dennis Kucinich
speaks-out political secret
The foolish wish to speak out what was spoken in secret by the master. Chanakya
speaks-out careers voice
It's time for those of us who have a voice to speak out for life, for love and for justice using the same media we've used throughout our careers. Chaka Khan
speaks-out leader want
I am not a national leader. If I am a national leader I can speak out all that I want. Ban Ki-moon
speaks-out opposites goal
Failure is not the opposite to success, it's a stepping stone to success. If our primary goal is to be approved of, then we are not going to take risks, we are not going to speak out, we are going to try to blend in. Arianna Huffington
speaks-out firsts speak
Anytime you're the first to speak out against something, there's going to be a backlash. Eli Roth
tasks advertising easy
It is an easy and vulgar thing to please the mob, and no very arduous task to astonish them. Charles Caleb Colton
tasks generations embrace
Every generation must recognize and embrace the task it is peculiarly designed by history and by providence to perform. Chinua Achebe
tasks reader
As a reader you have a task to do, you have something to do. You bring your experience to it. It's not all inherit in the poem. Edward Hirsch
tasks illusion principal
The principal task of friendship is to foster one`s friends` illusions. Arthur Schnitzler
tasks artistic solutions
That is the artistic task: To choose the best from these solutions. Arne Jacobsen
tasks may architecture
In addressing a task, one almost always has several possible options, sometimes only a few, and they may all be practical and functional. But they lack the aesthetic aspect that raises it to architecture. Arne Jacobsen
tasks
Unfortunately, I'm an engineer. I'm always thinking about, what's the task and how do I get it done? And some of my tasks are pretty broad, and pretty fuzzy, and pretty funky, but that's the way I think. Michael Porter
tasks problem states
The task of a writer is not to solve the problem but to state the problem correctly. Anton Chekhov
tasks holy knows
While it is good that we seek to know the Holy One, it is probably not so good to presume that we ever complete the task. Dietrich Bonhoeffer