Related Quotes
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.
departure may able
There may be some changes in building codes, but I don't see any stylistic departure that you'll be able to attribute to Sept. 11. Cesar Pelli
departure strikes torn
...it strikes me with terror and anguish to feel I absolutely must be torn from you for ever. I see the necessity of departure; and it is like looking on the necessity of death. Charlotte Bronte
departure far knows needs
There are too many homicides that go unsolved, and far too many of them in these neighborhoods. Something needs to be done about it. Unfortunately, with the departure of the chief, who knows what's going to happen. Ron Edwards
departure perfume arrivals
Perfume heralds a woman’s arrival and prolongs her departure. Coco Chanel
departure information modest recent since strong variation
Since month-to-month variation is anticipated, the most recent information suggests only a modest departure from the strong upward trend.
departure today unexpected
In life there is nothing more unexpected and surprising than the arrivals and departures of pleasure. If we find it in one place today, it is vain to seek it there tomorrow. You can not lay a trap for it. Alexander Smith
departure effect expect future spoken
From having spoken to the team, we don't expect Adrian's departure to have an effect on our future world championship campaigns, Kimi Raikkonen
departure littles way
Faith which refuses to face indisputable facts is but little faith. Truth is always gain, however hard it is to accommodate ourselves to it. To linger in any kind of untruth proves to be a departure from the straight way of faith. Albert Schweitzer
departure kevin loss management result seen senior turner within
Kevin Turner was seen as an up-and-comer within senior management ranks, so the departure does result in a loss of talent.
metaphor insight supreme
Any supreme insight is a metaphor. Charles Henry Parkhurst
metaphor masters
The greatest thing by far is to be a master of metaphor. Aristotle
metaphor halfway commonplace
Metaphor is halfway between the unintelligible and the commonplace.
metaphor
The metaphors exist for the stories. Kurt Busiek
metaphor transitory
All that is transitory is but a metaphor. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
metaphor strain
Writers who have nothing to say always strain for metaphors to say it in. Florence King
metaphor
The metaphor is~ an origin, the origin of an image which acts directly, immediately. Gaston Bachelard
metaphor myth walt
Walt Kelly was much more interested in allegory and politics, and I'm much more interested in metaphors and myth. Jeff Smith
metaphor red state
Branson is a metaphor for red state America,