Related Quotes
All quotes about:
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.
retrospect revolution
Revolutions are something you see only in retrospect. Alan Greenspan
retrospect complicated sometimes
The complicated thing about friends is that sometimes they are totally wrong about us and sometimes they are totally right and it's almost always only in retrospect that we know which is which. Cheryl Strayed
retrospect ethics easy
Righteousness is easy in retrospect. Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.
retrospect way kind
My ability to notice that kind of thing, the sanctity of the bubble that you create, has not been so good in a way, in that I notice it concurrently with actually doing the thing. I always notice it in retrospect. Andy Richter
retrospect turned
I actually think in retrospect our decision-making turned out very well, Robert Holsworth
retrospect lasts doing-you
You know, 'Peepshow,' in retrospect that seems like a good fit for me, but in the beginning, I'm sure you remember, nobody was sure if the show was going to last. Everybody was like, 'What are you doing? You can't sing, and you can't dance. What are you doing in this show? Holly Madison
retrospect void impossible
You can't explain success in retrospect. The moment you leap into the void, that moment is impossible to negate, after success. Guillermo del Toro
retrospect
There are many things we only see clearly in retrospect. Haruki Murakami
retrospect becoming realising
In retrospect, it seems like everything in my life led to me becoming a writer. I just didn't realise it at the time. Kate Morton
versions
Yes, I am aware that I am the gayer version of Jeff Lewis. Daniel Tosh
versions
We've done so many versions of this song. Nancy Wilson
versions
The truth doesn't have versions, it just is. Phil McGraw
versions
Everything is a version of something else. Patrick Marber
versions
It is never the thing but the version of the thing. Wallace Stevens