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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
language description hard
It is hard indeed to notice anything for which the languages available to us have no description. Alan Watts
language programming programming-languages
In English every word can be verbed. Would that it were so in our programming languages. Alan Perlis
language english-language programming-languages
In English every word can be verbed. Alan Perlis
language individual should
Language should fulfill your individual existence as a wholesome human being... Language should be more than just getting by. Chogyam Trungpa
language disturbing
The language you are about to hear... is disturbing. Dave Chappelle
language prison foreign-language
Maybe then you comprehend, speaking one language only is a prison! David Mitchell
language internet mediums
The internet is an amazing medium for languages, David Crystal
language internet process
Language itself changes slowly but the internet has speeded up the process of those changes so you notice them more quickly. David Crystal
language stifling resignation
resignation, perhaps the most stifling word in the language. Caitlin Thomas
nonsense choke
I tried to swallow his nonsense without choking. Carlos Ruiz Zafon
nonsense
Everything in life in nonsense. it's just a question of persepctive Carlos Ruiz Zafon
nonsense
in nonsense is strength Kurt Vonnegut
nonsense remains
Nonsense remains nonsense even when we talk it about God. C. S. Lewis
nonsense charm
As charms are nonsense, nonsense is a charm. Benjamin Franklin
nonsense seems
Nonsense, seems to sum up everything. Albert Einstein
nonsense
Confidence in nonsense is required. Burt Rutan
nonsense preacher make-sense
If you're a preacher, you talk for a living, so even if you don't make sense, you learn to make nonsense eloquently. Andrew Young
nonsense excellent dictionary
Nonsense, n. The objections that are urged against this excellent dictionary. Ambrose Bierce