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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.
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.
sculpture income source
The main source of my income is through the commissions of the large-scale works and big sculptures, the projects. Andy Goldsworthy
sculpture work
I did my sculpture as a painter. I did not work as a sculptor. Henri Matisse
sculpture
I don't do sculpture in the traditional sense, Julie Mitchell
sculpture photograph i-can
Why talk about sculpture when I can photograph it? Constantin Brancusi
sculpture titles floating
I have titles floating around in my head; I have sculptures floating around in my head. It's like a collage. Damien Hirst
sculpture splinters pieces
I lay there silently, hoarding my small dignity. I did not ask about the gate or the closet. I did not question the bedtime ritual where, on the cold bathroom tiles, I was spread out daily and examined for flaws. I did not know that my bones, those solids, those pieces of sculpture would not splinter. Anne Sexton
sculpture grew marble
Then marble, soften'd into life, grew warm. Alexander Pope
sculpture viewers
So, in other words, how you respond to a sculpture, how a viewer sees the sculpture, is vital. Anthony Caro
sculpture woods painting
The paintings to me are always canvas; sculpture has always been metal, though I have made sculpture in wood, also. Ellsworth Kelly
dozen littles imagine
Floyd could imagine a dozen things that could go wrong; it was little consolation that it was always the thirteenth that actually happened. Arthur C. Clarke
dozen half six
Six of one, half dozen of another. Oh, well, half of one, six dozen of the other. Joe Garagiola
dozens employers four mainly offenders report sex states talking
We are talking dozens and dozens of sex offenders - mainly from just four states that report the employers names.
dozen enjoys fact few night people reminder street thursday
The people in the street -- a few dozen on Thursday night -- are a reminder of the fact that Milosevic still enjoys substantial support,
dozens expensive pairs
I lost dozens of pairs of expensive glasses because I'd put them down and then not be able to find them again. Bonnie Tyler
dozens literary nature rather second
I've summarized dozens of books in my literary career; it's become rather second nature. Rick Perlstein
dozen govern managers prosperous republic undergoing united war wink
World War II made prosperous the United States, which had been undergoing a depression for a dozen years, and made very rich those magnates and their managers who govern the republic - with many a wink - in the people's name. Gore Vidal
dozen psychotic themselves
The only way to be a novelist, to think that you can create something others will give themselves up to for a dozen hours or more, is to have psychotic self-belief. Nicola Griffith
dozen heard maybe people proposal
The proposal has been panned by everyone I've heard comment. There have been maybe a dozen people in all.