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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.
veins want wannabes
If you're going to be a wannabe, make sure you 'wannabe' something great. The most shocking thing about wannabes, is they largely want to be something irrelevant, vein, or just plain petty. Andrew Williams
veins acid batteries
I ran. I ran until my muscles burned and my veins pumped battery acid. Then I ran some more. Chuck Palahniuk
veins lessons
The lesson one can learn from Firbank is that of inconsequence. There is the vein which he tapped and which has not yet been fully exploited. Cyril Connolly
veins poisonous
Poisonous jealousy thrummed through my veins. Holly Black
veins exhausted
Work your vein till it is exhausted, or conducts you to a broader one. Henry David Thoreau
veins venus obsession
It's no longer a warmth hidden in my veins: it's Venus entire and whole fastening on her prey. Jean Racine
veins slides kind
He that is drunken * * * Is outlawed by himself; all kind of ill Did with his liquor slide into his veins. George Herbert
veins language wave
I have seafoam in my veins, I understand the language of waves. Jean Cocteau
veins hitting mainstream
I prefer to be subcultural rather than mass-cultural. I'm not interested in hitting the vein of the mainstream. Jim Jarmusch
down-and fraud gross
The more gross the fraud the more glibly will it go down, and the more greedily be swallowed, since folly will always find faith where impostors will find imprudence.
down-and firsts cameras
My first concern is that when you go to a show, you should be present. It's much more exciting to put the camera down and lose yourself in it. Bo Burnham
down-and maximum-effort
Just keep your head down and do your best. Charlie Munger
down-and way sometimes
Sometimes I feel that life has passed me by... Do you ever feel that way, Charlie Brown?" "I feel that it has knocked me down and walked all over me! Charles M. Schulz
down-and infinity
I screamed, and--lo!--Infinity Came down and settled over me Edna St. Vincent Millay
down-and imagine streets
Imagine if your business burned down and you had to walk across the street and start again, what would you do differently? Brian Tracy
down-and intense-emotions deals
My own approach has always been to push intense emotions down and attempt to deal with them later. Alanis Morissette
down-and bigs stuck
If I'm stuck, I'll sit down and read. That's a big thing. Craig Finn
down-and way dollars
Nobody's profitable at this moment, because recession is on; advertising dollars are down, and expenses are way up. So that kind of belies the situation that you would expect, because the ratings are way up everywhere. Brit Hume