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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.
paper stressful
Put your stressful thoughts on paper, question them, and have a great life. Byron Katie
paper faces pieces
It's curious how easy it is to tell a piece of paper what you don't dare say to someone's face. Carlos Ruiz Zafon
paper economics paper-money
Neither a state nor a bank ever have had unrestricted power of issuing paper money without abusing that power. David Ricardo
paper examination six
The Ten Commandments should be headed like an examination paper: No more than six to be attempted. Bertrand Russell
paper littles holding-on
In the little hall leading to it was a rack holding various Socialist or radical newspapers, tracts, and pamphlets in very small print and on very bad paper. The subjects treated were technical Marxist theories. Agnes Smedley
paper nobody-knows knows
There are things in that paper that nobody knows but me, or ever will. Charlotte Perkins Gilman
paper littles buying
If all you succeed in doing in life is getting rich by buying little pieces of paper, it's a failed life. Life is more than being shrewd in wealth accumulation. Charlie Munger
paper standards higher
I'd like to see cartoonists measuring their work by higher standards than how many papers their strips are in and how much money they make. Bill Watterson
paper towels firsts
Automatic paper towel dispensers are a solution to something that was never a problem in the first place. Demetri Martin
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.
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