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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.
eight packages
I was surprised, the triple-stack package produced eight to 15 more bushels. Alan Hansen
eighty
At eighty things do not occur; they recur. Alan Bennett
eight streets-of-paris parent
My parents were extreme left so everything was against the system. I was walking barefoot in the streets of Paris when I was eight. When I started to DJ they hated it, because for them, nightclubs, and all of this life, was terrible and fake. David Guetta
eight age littles
I loved music from the age of eight. Jazz and blues. But also Little Richard and Elvis Presley. Bryan Ferry
eight twenties adults
I wrote eight full-length adult novels in my twenties. None of them were published Caroline B. Cooney
eight body members
Deliberative bodies become decreasingly effective after they pass five to eight members. C. Northcote Parkinson
eighty goes market percent stocks
The percentages say that the day after Christmas, the market goes up. Eighty percent of the time, stocks rise. Jim Waggoner
eight legs lost team
We are a team of (13 players) and we lost eight back-to-backs? It can't be that hard. The legs help, but it's in the head, too. Manu Ginobili
eighth ninth
We stole one in the eighth and then we stole one in the ninth with the squeeze. It was kind of nice.
player games profound
As in the game of billiards, the balls are constantly producing effects from mere chance, which the most skillful player could neither execute nor foresee, but which, when they do happen, serve mainly to teach him how much he has still to learn; so it is in the most profound and complicated game of politics and diplomacy. In both cases, we can only regulate our play by what we have seen, rather than by what we have hoped; and by what we have experienced, rather than by what we have expected.
play skills needs
It needs more skill than I can tell To play the second fiddle well. Charles Spurgeon
play done form
To play so as to be relaxed and refreshed for work is not to play, and no work is well and finely done unless it, too, is a form of play. Alan Watts
play forget notes
You must not be afraid of playing wrong notes. Just forget it, play it wrong! But play!
play what-matters bargaining
Fair play doesn't pertain in bargaining. What matters there is leverage. Alan Rosenberg
player sight league
It's important that top clubs don't lose sight of the fact that it's the English Premier League and English players should be involved. Alan Pardew
play who-i-am people
Who I am gets in the way of people looking innocently at the parts I play. Alan Rickman
play careers america
I never expected to have any kind of film career, to be honest. It was all a bit of a surprise. But I was in a big hit play on Broadway. America, as many people will say, says yes more often than we do. And so I was suddenly surrounded by people saying yes. But I was aware that was 'cause of what I was in. It had a big impact.
play interesting people
I don't play villains, I play very interesting people