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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.
tasks advertising easy
It is an easy and vulgar thing to please the mob, and no very arduous task to astonish them.
tasks generations embrace
Every generation must recognize and embrace the task it is peculiarly designed by history and by providence to perform. Chinua Achebe
tasks reader
As a reader you have a task to do, you have something to do. You bring your experience to it. It's not all inherit in the poem. Edward Hirsch
tasks illusion principal
The principal task of friendship is to foster one`s friends` illusions. Arthur Schnitzler
tasks artistic solutions
That is the artistic task: To choose the best from these solutions. Arne Jacobsen
tasks may architecture
In addressing a task, one almost always has several possible options, sometimes only a few, and they may all be practical and functional. But they lack the aesthetic aspect that raises it to architecture.
tasks
Unfortunately, I'm an engineer. I'm always thinking about, what's the task and how do I get it done? And some of my tasks are pretty broad, and pretty fuzzy, and pretty funky, but that's the way I think. Michael Porter
tasks problem states
The task of a writer is not to solve the problem but to state the problem correctly. Anton Chekhov
tasks holy knows
While it is good that we seek to know the Holy One, it is probably not so good to presume that we ever complete the task. Dietrich Bonhoeffer
wheat bakers fixed
The wheat bought by a farmer to sow is comparatively a fixed capital to the wheat purchased by a baker to make into loaves. David Ricardo
wheat wrote
As I remember, the first real poem I wrote was about the wheat fields between Spokane and Pullman, to the south. Carolyn Kizer
wheat aging
As you get older, you find that often the wheat, disentangling itself from the chaff, comes out to meet you. Gwendolyn Brooks
wheat looks sin
He that lives in sin and looks for happiness hereafter is likehimthat soweth cockleand thinkstofill hisbarnwith wheat or barley. John Bunyan
wheat use lord
The Lord uses his flail of tribulation to separate the chaff from the wheat.
wheat kernel
Faith is like a kernel of wheat. Joe Bob Briggs
wheat wonder grain
If you could understand a single grain of wheat you would die of wonder. Martin Luther
wheat
You feel almost a part of the wheat when you're sitting in a combine. Cynthia Kadohata
wheat lord said
The Lord said 'let there be wheat' and Saskatchewan was born Stephen Leacock