![…[Thomas Wolfe] says that we are the sum of all the moments of our lives, and that, uh, anybody who sits down to write is gonna use the clay of their own life, that you can’t avoid that.](/assets/img/quote-photos/thomas-wolfe-says-that-we-are-the-sum-of-all-the-moments-of-our-lives-and-tha.jpg)
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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.
use ham radio
HAM radio is very inexpensive, it is nearly unlimited and free to use. The only limitation is that you can only talk for five minutes to any given person because the station gets out of range within that time. Charles Simonyi
use lord preacher
I know perfectly well that, wherever I go and preach, there are many better preachers ... than I am; all that I can say about it is that the Lord uses me. Charles Spurgeon
use saint sickness
Sickness has frequently been of more use to the saints of God than health has.
use equipment
Audiophiles don't use their equipment to listen to your music. Audiophiles use your music to listen to their equipment. Alan Parsons
use way helping
I'm very interested in the improvisation because one of the things I do is to help train scientists to communicate in a better way and more personal way when they're making a presentation, and I use improvisation to do that. Alan Alda
use tests
God never uses anyone greatly until He tests them deeply. Aiden Wilson Tozer
use ifs who-you-are
If you truly own who you are, no one can use you against you. Chris Colfer
use energy should
We should see money in terms of the expenditure of energy and how we are going to transmute that energy into a proper use. Chogyam Trungpa
use world pay
The price a world language must be prepared to pay is submission to many different kinds of use. Chinua Achebe
clay dirty gotta paint rough
I like dirty boys. Mechanics, construction workers, artists who get paint and clay everywhere. They gotta have rough hands. Tamara Feldman
clay
Time is clay; make something. Barbara Sher
clay sun
The same sun that hardens the clay softens the wax. Adam Clarke
clay fields gets holds mow soil stay unsafe vicious water
Right now it's very clay-like soil that holds a lot of water and gets real spongy. The clay soil holds the water so the fields stay wet. We can't mow it and then it's unsafe to play on. It's a vicious cycle.
clay felt played spite
I am satisfied, I felt very well in spite of not having played on clay for a long time. Gaston Gaudio
clay county fairly full goal regional summer water
I anticipated we'd have had it done in November. But it will be fairly soon. Our goal is to have full water service, with Clay County Regional Water by the summer months.
clay coming evident felt good grass last match transition week
I felt pretty good coming off of last weekend. The transition coming off grass last week to clay was pretty evident in this match but I thought if I could get through this one I'd be all right. Andy Roddick
clay creation building
In building a statue, a sculptor doesn't keep adding clay to his subject. Actually, he keeps chiseling away at the nonessentials until the truth of his creation is revealed without obstruction. Bruce Lee
clay stones
You cannot expect stone to be as pliable as clay. Anne Bronte