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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.
next generations products
The next generation product almost never comes from the previous generation. Al Ries
next causes steps
I love to just go to the movies, watch movies, listen to the scores and all that 'cause that's, like, the next step for me. Akon
next
We want to see who we're going to keep around next season. Mike Butters
next want knows
I don't want to go bald, I don't know what's coming up next. Chris Cooper
next performances improving
Everything I do is geared towards improving my next performance. Carolina Kluft
next performance sequels stock store
The performance of the stock is going to come down to the movies. It's that simple. And there are no sequels in store for next year.
next percent spending total
We are making a dent, but we are not going to be at 10 percent of total spending by next year.
next night parking spent until
We spent the night at a parking lot until the next morning. David Foster
next faces realization
In the face of impermanence, if your next thought is good, this is what we call the realization body. Bill Porter
pits causes lost
The Bible teaches that there are no lost causes. No permanent pit-dwellers except those who refuse to leave. Beth Moore
pits world born
I had been born shoved to the margins of the world, sure, but I had volunteered for the pits. Daniel Woodrell
pits fruit reason
That's the hard part of overdosing on cherries-you have all the pits to tell you exactly how many you ate. Not more or less. Exactly. One-seed fruits really bother me for that reason. That's why I'd always rather eat raisins than prunes. Prune pits are even more imposing than cherry pits. Andy Warhol
pits life-is cherries
If Life is a Bowl of Cherries, What Am I Doing in the Pits? Erma Bombeck
pits hollywood different
I got very depressed. Hollywood can be a terrible place when youre depressed. The pits. I decided I had to change my life and do different things. Jeff Conaway
pits prophet precedence
Beware of those who would pit the dead prophets against the living prophets, for the living prophets always take precedence. Ezra Taft Benson
pits world littles
When you're in the pits, all the faith in the world won't get you out of it. But just a little faith in God will get you through it. Ken Hutcherson
pits charity dollars
The system of volunteerism is divisive. It pits one charity against the others for the charity dollar. Phil Donahue
pits matter no-matter-what
No matter what you’re going through there's no pit so deep that God can’t reach in and get you out. Joyce Meyer