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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.
good-things cruelty
A good thing can't be cruel.
good-things rapture knows
What rapture, oh, it is to know A good thing when you see it And having seen a good thing, oh, What rapture 'tis to flee it. Bertolt Brecht
good-things shelves public-life
It's a good thing to get poetry off the shelves and more into public life. Billy Collins
good-things born
It's a good thing God chose me before I was born, because he surely would not have afterwards. Charles Spurgeon
good-things stupid-sports dumb-sports
Therapy can be a good thing; it can be therapeutic. Alex Rodriguez
good-things
I do good things in my life, too. It's just that none of them are funny. Doug Stanhope
good-things interest live-by
A good thing to live by is to go after what truly interests you. Crispin Glover
good-things knows deserve
I know that I do deserve good things. Amanda Beard
good-things
Being a celebrity at a very high level is a good thing. Donald Trump
bad-things happens bad-things-happen
When you do bad things, bad things happen to you. Farrah Fawcett
bad-things
But there it is: Everyone is alone, for life, and maybe that's not such a bad thing. Julianna Baggott
bad-things happened defined
Every bad thing that's happened to me has defined me, has shaped, has moulded me. Natalia Kills
bad-things
It is a bad thing to have love and nowhere to put it. Kate DiCamillo
bad-things
It passed, though. That was the bad thing. It always passed. Sarah Dessen