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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.
finding-the-one littles interest
You will soon find that I am a bit obsessive about my work. And that is a little sad, one often feels strangely restricted, not finding time to simmer, although one actually has many interests. Arne Jacobsen
finding-the-one creating stories
With movies, you are always in search is a good story, one that everyone will relate to and love. I love finding those stories and creating a visual world to tell the story. Don Bluth
finding-the-one feelings share
Finding the one is not just a feeling, it's an educated guess. I feel like I chose someone to share my life with who is my friend. America Ferrera
finding-the-one literature disillusionment
Disillusionment in living is finding that no one can really ever be agreeing with you completely in anything. Gertrude Stein
finding-the-one doubt literature
There is no rule more invariable than that we are paid for our suspicions by finding what we suspect. Henry David Thoreau
finding-the-one car literature
The greatest pleasure when I started making money was not buying cars or yachts but finding myself able to have as many freshly typed drafts as possible. Gore Vidal
finding-the-one worry next
I've done almost 20 films and I still worry about not finding the next one. Joshua Leonard
finding-the-one mistress next
Next to the pleasure of finding a new mistress is that of being rid of an old one. William Wycherley
finding-the-one giving true-religion
True religion... is giving and finding one's happiness by bringing happiness into the lives of others. William J. H. Boetcker
phrases fit educated
I have been, as the phrase is, liberally educated, and am fit for nothing.
phrases uncertain temper
…a lady of what is commonly called an uncertain temper --a phrase which being interpreted signifies a temper tolerably certain to make everybody more or less uncomfortable.
phrases fancy virtue
There are few things more wearisome in a fairly fatiguing life than the monotonous repetition of a phrase which catches and holds the public fancy by virtue of its total lack of significance. Agnes Repplier
phrases speech accepted
Neatness of phrase is so closely akin to wit that it is often accepted as its substitute.
phrases used wells
Well I've never used that phrase before, but yes she is bootylicious. Ben Affleck
phrases selling form
Telling is not selling; never make a statement if you can phrase it in the form of a question. Brian Tracy
phrases may said
You may be right,' she said, a phrase which here meant 'I’m wrong, but I don’t have the courage to say so. Daniel Handler
phrases repetition again-and-again
a meaningless phrase repeated again and again begins to resemble truth. Barbara Kingsolver
phrases annoying told-you-so
There's nothing I find quite as annoying as the phrase 'I told you so.' Ayelet Waldman