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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
world surprise enough
I know enough of the world now to have almost lost the capacity of being much surprised by anything Charles Dickens
world affection should
Our affections, however laudable, in this transitory world, should never master us; we should guide them, guide them. Charles Dickens
world lines facts
Christ is the great central fact in the world's history. To Him everything looks forward or backward. All the lines of history converge upon Him. Charles Spurgeon
world crosses remedy
The world's one and only remedy is the cross. Charles Spurgeon
world causes christ
Anything which you have in this world, which you do not consecrate to Christ's cause, you do rob the Lord of. Charles Spurgeon
world looks christ
There is somebody in the world whom you have to bring to Christ. I do not know where he is, or who he is; but you had better look out for him. Charles Spurgeon
world whole
The whole point of Zen is to suspend the rules we have superimposed on things and to see the world as it is Alan Watts
world victim define-yourself
Do you define yourself as a victim of the world? Or, as the world? Alan Watts
world forget
In looking out upon the world, we forget that the world is looking at itself. Alan Watts
chaotic million people
One in four sub-Saharan Africans is Nigerian, and it has 140 million dynamic people - chaotic people - but very interesting people. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala
chaotic lives period serve takes
We're going to do what it takes to serve these children, ... We're going to try to make a very chaotic period in their lives as transitional as possible. Dennis Thompson
chaotic coming freedom teenager
Being a teenager is chaotic because you're kind of coming into your own, but you're not an adult; you're fighting with your parents over responsibilities and freedom. Troian Bellisario
chaotic computer except friday games homework less reserved saturday sunday time turn video
We turn off the TV, video games and computer - except for homework - during the week. The TV's reserved for Friday night, Saturday and Sunday just because that's the time to do homework, and it makes it that much less chaotic in our house. Candace Cameron Bure
chaotic heart ideas liked love loved poetry seemed wild wrote
I liked Yeats! That wild Irishman. I really loved his love of language, his flow. His chaotic ideas seemed to me just the right thing for a poet. Passion! He was always on the right side. He may be wrongheaded, but his heart was always on the right side. He wrote beautiful poetry. Chinua Achebe
chaotic computer village
There's a village in my computer - friends, fans, readers, and colleagues. It's a populous, sometimes chaotic little burg always bustling with news, gossip, opinions and potential excitement. Lisa Unger
chaotic court further half people speaking three time today
Today we had further evidence. The court was chaotic about the half the time (with) two people, three people speaking at the same time. Ramsey Clark
chaotic laboratory students wants works
One works in one's laboratory - one's chaotic laboratory - with students and colleagues, doing what one most wants to do - then all this happens! It is overwhelming. Haldan Keffer Hartline
chaotic outside static television turn
For your health's sake, turn on your television and turn off your mind. Shut-out the chaotic static of the outside world. Boyd Rice