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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
preference
I have a preference for rough architecture, real, inexpensive, unfinished. Thom Mayne
preference mathematician indifferent
Nature is probably quite indifferent to the aesthetic preferences of mathematicians. Alfred North Whitehead
preference rights stick
If they are successful, they will be doing a very chunky rights issue. Our preference is that they stick to what they've got and do that better. James Lindsay
preference strong
I have a strong preference for being alive. Alan Alda
preference
Our preference would be to have a seven-day recovery. Mark Thompson
preference return striking strong work workers
Our strong preference is to have our striking workers return to work. Bud Grebey
preference
My preference would be to deploy them as warriors, (rather than peacekeepers), Dick Cheney
preference wear
Wear comfortable clothes when you fly; my preference is T-shirt and jeans. Orlando Bloom
preference strong
You'll see it in the newspapers. Oracle's strong preference is to do everything hostilely. Larry Ellison