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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
primitive type
We often see that in this type of primitive operation. Kevin Doll
primitive shout
It doesn't really shout out tyrannosaurus when you first see it. That's because it is really a primitive tyrannosaur. James Clarke
primitive
There were some long games. There was some city-by-city emotion. There was a lot of anger. There was a lot of high-spirited competition. It was down to its most primitive level. Ken Hitchcock
pens
A pen on paper is the ideal way for me. I am not really very comfortable with machines; I never learned to type very well. Chinua Achebe
pension
I would expect, eventually, they will have to terminate the pension plan. Philip Baggaley
pens writers
Comedians are really writers who don't have pens and pencils about them, but they riff. Carl Reiner
pens replace throw
I get used to my fountain pens and my clothes, and I can never throw them away. I replace them only when I see that they are broken or embarrassing to wear. Orhan Pamuk
pension quite
Quite truthfully, I have no idea (how much the pension is worth) because I have never contemplated retiring. Anne McLellan
pensions protect social ways worst
Privatization is the worst idea to try to protect Social Security. It's nuts. We have to find ways to keep pensions secure, as well as Social Security. Judy Aydelott
pensions saving
What they'd be saving on pensions is a pittance. Roger Toussaint
pensions struck trust
What struck me the most was he said he's going to try to keep Delphi pensions solvent. And I was struck that he would think that any of us would trust that. Gregg Shotwell
pension ready worried
I'm just worried about pension and medical, ... when I do get ready to retire, it is set up for me. John Jenkins