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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.
misunderstood bankers ive-learned
Since I've become a central banker, I've learned to mumble with great incoherence. If I seem unduly clear to you, you must have misunderstood what I said. Alan Greenspan
misunderstood investing should
I guess I should warn you, if I turn out to be particularly clear, you've probably misunderstood what I've said.
misunderstood kind failing
Failure's relative. I've always felt, even early on, if I lose the freedom to fail, something's not right about that. It's how you treat failure, too. There's something to learn from it. I've had movies that have failed colossally, so you kind of analyze your failures: What kind of failure was it? A failure because it's misunderstood by others? A failure because you misunderstood it yourself? Al Pacino
misunderstood sometimes i-can
Sometimes I can be misunderstood. I'm really competitive. Ed Belfour
misunderstood matter facts
She, too, had worn a mask in assuming a contempt for him, whilst, as a matter of fact, she completely misunderstood him Baroness Orczy
misunderstood genius misunderstood-genius
I'm a misunderstood genius. Bill Watterson
misunderstood idiot politically-correct
I am greatly misunderstood by politically correct idiots. Brigitte Bardot
misunderstood facts fine
I sort of enjoy the fact that I'm misunderstood most of the time. That's fine. Billie Joe Armstrong
misunderstood underdog fans
I'm a big fan of the misunderstood, the vilified, the underdog, the breaking of myths. Dominic Monaghan
understood havens
We fear only what we haven’t understood. Byron Katie
understood known
We are frequently understood the least by those who have known us the longest. Arthur Helps
understood van
I've never really understood the term 'Post-Impressionism' as more than a label for Cezanne, Gauguin and van Gogh. Nigel Hamilton
understood
What air is to the body, to feel understood is to the heart. Stephen Covey
understood
On 'Idol,' I understood that everyone wanted to hear my vocals, so I stuck with the ballads. Jessica Sanchez
understood known
Music was known and understood before words were spoken. Charles Darwin
understood
My God was never happiness, but to understand and be understood. Elie Wiesel
understood
To understand and be understood is to be free. Daniel Johnston
understood whole universe
Ultimately, the entire universe...has to be understood as a single undivided whole... David Bohm