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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.
special trophies ifs
If everyone is special, then no one is. If everyone gets a trophy, trophies become meaningless. David McCullough
special records world
It's something special to break the world record at the Olympics. David Rudisha
special routine crime
Like Richard Price and the late, great Elmore Leonard, Matt Burgess is one of those cool, quick and funny writers who can turn a seemingly routine crime caper into something special. Carl Hiaasen
special
Everyone tells you how they are going to be "special", but few do the work to get there. Do the work. Mark Cuban
special radio fascination
As far back as I can remember, the radio held a special fascination for me. Charley Pride
special realizing results
Beauty is the result of realizing what is special about you and not focusing on the things you don't like. Bobbi Brown
special scripts actors
I'm not one of these actors who can make a bad script good. Some actors, a script can be terrible, and they can bring something to it and make it really special. I can't. Eddie Marsan
special progress tools
There is not a tool, an implement, or a machine that has not resulted in a decrease in the contribution of human labor. Labor is not made permanently idle [though]; when replaced in one special category... it turns its attack against other obstacles on the main road to progress. Frederic Bastiat
special used call-me
Jim Cameron used to call me 'Special Ed.' Edward Furlong
disease herbs
A disease that has never been seen before cannot be cured with every-day herbs. Chinua Achebe
disease flooding hope none pandemic planning preparing
We are preparing for fire, flooding and pandemic disease right now. We hope that none of it happens, but we are planning so when it does we are ready. Ellen Anderson
disease orderliness dirt
We have, instead (of soot and dirt), disorganization. We have this proliferation of goods. It's the disease of the time. Cheryl Mendelson
disease saying scaring
What's scaring us now is the disease they are saying is coming,
disease bears sickness
A temperate Diet frees from Diseases; such are seldom ill, but if they are surprised with Sickness, they bear it better, and recover sooner; for most Distempers have their Original from Repletion. Benjamin Franklin
disease herbs lack-of-knowledge
There are no incurable diseases — only the lack of will. There are no worthless herbs — only the lack of knowledge. Avicenna
disease terrorism symptoms
Terrorism is the symptom, not the disease. Arundhati Roy
diseases opportunity scale treat tremendous
We've never done anything on this scale before. This is a tremendous opportunity for us to treat one of the most disabling disfiguring diseases in the world. James Hill
diseases opportunity scale treat tremendous
We've never done anything on this scale before, ... This is a tremendous opportunity for us to treat one of the most disabling disfiguring diseases in the world.