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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.
thinking hiking feet-and-walking
If I could not walk far and fast, I think I should just explode and perish.
thinking vanity
None of us are so much praised or censured as we think.
thinking two glory
There are two things which ought to teach us to think but meanly of human glory; the very best have had their calumniators, the very worst their panegyrists.
thinking enemy frankness
He that openly tells, his friends all that he thinks of them, must expect that they will secretly tell his enemies much that they do not think of him.
thinking people remember
A thorough-paced antiquary not only remembers what all other people have thought proper to forget, but he also forgets what all other people think is proper to remember.
thinking daring finished
Those who have finished by making all others think with them, have usually been those who began by daring to think with themselves.
thinking mind wish
I never thought before, that there was a woman in the world who could affect me so much by saying so little. But don't be hard in your construction of me. You don't know what my state of mind towards you is. You don't know how you haunt and bewilder me. You don't know how the cursed carelessness that is over-officious in helping me at every other turning of my life WON'T help me here. You have struck it dead, I think, and I sometimes wish you had struck me dead along with it.
thinking greed words-of-wisdom
"As I think I told you once before," said I, "it is you who have been, in your greed and cunning, against all the world. It may be profitable to you to reflect, in future, that there never were greed and cunning in the world yet, that did not do too much, and overreach themselves. It is as certain as death."
thinking words-of-wisdom secret
Don't you think that any secret course is an unworthy one?
balls bounce district kids played playing strong though took wrong
We started playing well in the district tournament. Even though we lost, we played a strong game. Had some balls bounce the wrong way. I think the kids took something out of that. Steve Hudson
balls bring fall happen level looking places player short unlikely
We are looking to bring someone in on a short-term loan. But that's unlikely to happen before the weekend. At this level a lot of balls have got to fall into the right places for you to get a player you want short term, Glenn Hoddle
balls bat certain coming good guys head jumps
There are certain guys who get good jumps on balls, and there are other guys who see the bat head coming through and they know where the ball's going. That's Adam. You just take it for granted. Craig Biggio
balls cricket helmet
If I've to bowl to Sachin, I'll bowl with my helmet on. He hits the ball so hard. Dennis Lillee
balls gets leaves
When he gets in trouble, it's when he leaves balls up, over the plate. He didn't do that today. Aaron Boone
balls parks chance
I always dreamed about scoring at St. James' Park. I fancied my chances and the ball flew into the net. I was ecstatic. Alan Shearer
balls dark dinner holes nine steak
We're going to play nine holes, have a steak dinner and then play nine holes in the dark with glow-in-the-dark balls.
balls good ground job strikes throwing
What he does a good job of doing is throwing strikes and getting ground balls. He got a lot of ground balls today. Matt Smith
balls believing dropped grew last stopped
We grew up even a lot from last week. Even with all the dropped balls and fumbled, we never stopped believing in ourselves.