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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.
railroads periods
I bought a railroad during this period of time. Bill Janklow
railroads gongs critics
A critic is a gong at a railroad crossing clanging loudly and vainly as the train goes by. Christopher Morley
railroads mexico west-coast
Oh, the Irish were building the railroads down through Mexico, through Chihuahua. They finished the railroads when they finished out in the West Coast, and they went down and put the trains into Mexico. Anthony Quinn
railroads underground-railroad conductor
I was the most famous conductor on the Underground Railroad. Harriet Tubman
railroads stories internet
Sooner or later the Internet will become profitable. It's an old story played before by canals, railroads and automobiles. Paul Samuelson
railroads benefits half
Benefit of clergy: Half-rate on the railroad. Mark Twain
railroads abandoned stations
I never lived in an abandoned railroad station. Peter Dinklage
railroads
When railroading time comes you can railroad—but not before. Robert A. Heinlein
steel
I thought and dreamed of nothing else but the steel works. Charles M. Schwab
steel dry splits
An old earthen pipe like myself is dry and thirsty and so a most voracious drinker of life at its source; I'm no more to be split by the vital stream than if I were stone or steel. Elinor Wylie
steel touch
so I can feel the steel and be more in touch with the workout. Annika Sorenstam
steel stones dominion
Stone, steel, dominions pass, Faith too, no wonder; So leave alone the grass That I am under. A. E. Housman
steel
Steel is prince or pauper. Andrew Carnegie
steel nerves neurotic
It takes nerves of steel to stay neurotic. Herb Kelleher
steel nerves normal
If you make films, you're changing rhythm the whole time. You go from a quiet life to an absolutely turbulent life which is typical of moviemaking. And then you get back to your normal life and you have to have nerves of steel. Geraldine Chaplin
steel ruins fangs
Tell me again how great you are, asshole. Nothing like a steel enema to ruin even your best day. (Fang) Sherrilyn Kenyon
steel rage x-men
I am not made of steel. Rage. I...am made... of RAGE!!!! Joss Whedon