![[The writer] must essentially draw from life as he sees it, lives it, overhears it or steals it, and the truer the writer, perhaps the bigger the blackguard. He lives by biting the hand that feeds him.](/assets/img/quote-photos/the-writer-must-essentially-draw-from-life-as-he-sees-it-lives-it-overhears-i.jpg)
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hands knowing want
We are too kind, too willing--too unwilling too--reaching out blindly with a grasping hand but not knowing how to ask for what we don't even know we want. Carol Shields
hands forever slavery
Your thoughts and your actions are fixed forever in their terms. That is slavery. I, on the other hand, brought you freedom. Freedom is expensive, but the price is not impossible. So, fear your captors, your masters. Don't waste your time and your power fearing me. Carlos Castaneda
hands understanding guardian
A guardian is broad-minded and understanding. A guard, on the other hand, is a vigilante, narrow-minded and most of the time despotic.
hands want
I don't want to hold you hand! C. S. Lewis
hands i-can
I can clap with one hand. Aaron Tveit
hands law government
It is a travesty, in my mind, for the state and local governments on the one hand to expect the Federal government to reimburse them for costs attributable to illegal immigrants, when on the other hand the State and local governments prohibit their own law enforcement and other officials from cooperating with the Immigration and Naturalization Service to locate or apprehend or expel illegal aliens. Alan K. Simpson
hands leader success-or-failure
Our success or failure is not in the hands of our leaders. It is in our hands. Alan Keyes
hands answers rochester
I mentally shake hands with you for your answer, despite its inaccuracy." Mr. Rochester Charlotte Bronte
hands heaven gold
... and she held out a pretty gold ring. 'Put it,' she said, 'on the fourth finger of my left hand, and I am yours and you are mine; and we shall leave Earth and make our own Heaven yonder.'
biting certainly exactly feeds hand reason scientific space species survive travel
There is no scientific reason to think that we, even with space travel, are going to survive as a species for ever, certainly not by biting off the hand that feeds us, which is exactly what we are doing. Lynn Margulis
biting message rates shut
There is no message out there that rates are biting enough to shut anything down. James Paulsen
biting glamour love work
Yes, I love the glamour industry. I love the work that I've done so far. But it's not as if I have this biting ambition to be at the top. Malaika Arora Khan
biting licking writers
Writers divide into those who write biting their nails and those who don't. Some writers write licking their finger. Italo Calvino
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Frankly we're a little concerned here about the popularity of the interest-only and no or low down payment loans. Everyone's situation is different, and they may be a good fit for some. But these kinds of loans can, I think, lead to people biting off more than they can chew. Scott Walker
biting headline joined people reply
I joined Twitter and you read a lot of the comments. You're biting your lip and you want to reply but you know a headline will be made from it and you don't want to give people the satisfaction. Michael Owen
biting corners night routes running saw short
We were running short routes all night and we saw their corners biting up,
biting gotten keeps steadily
Robots have gotten steadily more capable, but humans' expectations that robots should have minds keeps biting robot developers.
biting comments demand enormous expressed fall figures good homely otherwise pressures public puts radio screen video
Our demand for good looks, expressed in the biting comments that ensue when public figures fall short of perfection, puts enormous pressures on these individuals and may screen out the otherwise qualified. If video killed the radio star, it may also be doing away with the homely politician. Virginia Postrel
stealing great-writers good-writers
Good writers borrow from other writers. Great writers steal from them outright. Aaron Sorkin
stealing
Everyone steals from something or someone. Janice Dickinson
stealing share limelight
You steal the limelight, you steal the market share Barbara Corcoran
stealing
All writers steal from their own lives. Brad Meltzer
stealing immoral
It's immoral to steal, but you can take things. Anton Chekhov
stealing taxpayer
We do take this seriously. It's like stealing taxpayer dollars.
stealing-things stealing honestly
Honestly, I love stealing things. Creed Bratton
stealing paid every-second
You paid for every second of beauty you managed to steal. Janet Fitch
stealing composer
Good composers don't borrow, they steal Igor Stravinsky