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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
thousand conscience
Conscience is a thousand swords. William Shakespeare
thousand
To-morrow? - Why, To-morrow I may be / Myself with Yesterday's Sev'n Thousand Years. Edward Fitzgerald
thousand right-words ifs
One word is worth a thousand pictures. If it's the right word. Edward Abbey
thousands
For thousands of years, there have been lies about being gay or not being gay. If you know they're lies, you're free. Don Miguel Ruiz
thousand
A word is worth a thousand pictures. Elie Wiesel
thousand
A word is worth a thousand images. Andreas Gursky
thousands
There are tens of thousands in there who are probably going hungry, Ron Redmond
thousands wrestling
He's doing a lot more wrestling now. But sometimes it comes back because he's drilled in thousands and thousands of times. Jake Shulaw
thousand yards
I would give up one thousand yards to get a win. Derrick Brooks