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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.
elephants had-enough different
I've always had enough, even if my enough and your enough are as different as an elephant and a minaret. Catherynne M. Valente
elephants faces complaining
I have a face like the behind of an elephant. Charles Laughton
elephants tongue turns
I don't know where I learned elephants like their tongues slapped. Whatever turns you on. Betty White
elephants looks stories
How can we satisfy ourselves without going on in infinitum? And, after all, what satisfaction is there in that infinite progression? Let us remember the story of the Indian philosopher and his elephant. It was never more applicable than to the present subject. If the material world rests upon a similar ideal world, this ideal world must rest upon some other; and so on, without end. It were better, therefore, never to look beyond the present material world. David Hume
elephants long doe
We already live a very long time for mammals, getting three times as many heartbeats as a mouse or elephant. It never seems enough though, does it? David Brin
elephants rats
It is better to own 10% of an elephant than 100% of a rat. Arthur Mutambara
elephants never-forget forget
You know...they say an elephant never forgets. What they don't tell you is, you never forget an elephant. Bill Murray
elephants track missing
It is in some ways more troublesome to track and swat an evasive wasp than to shoot, at close range, a wild elephant. But the elephant is more troublesome if you miss. C. S. Lewis
elephants wicked-world
Words are cheap. The biggest thing you can say is 'elephant'. Charlie Chaplin
chinese helped human jail police
We want them to see that they helped the Chinese police to jail people, human beings. Julien Pain
chinese commit ifs
If the Chinese commit cyberwarfare against us, they are going to see cyberwarfare like they have never seen before. Chris Christie
chinese guilty clinton
Hillary Clinton: putting big government spending financed by the Chinese ahead of good-paying jobs for middle-class Americans. Is she guilty or not guilty?
chinese nine tone
Cantonese, which has up to nine tones as opposed to the five in Mandarin, is much more versatile and one of the richest dialects in Chinese. David Tang
chinese culinary
Never eat Chinese food in Oklahoma.
chinese concern
We appreciates the Jordanian side's concern with the Chinese people.
chinese culture proud
We are proud to have things that show the Chinese culture.
chinese states united
Where is the responsibility? I think it's very clear. The pronouncements of the United States are unacceptable to the Chinese people.
chinese exchange expression filtered free global government seen shown west
The Internet has been seen in the West as the quintessential expression of the free exchange of ideas and information, untrammeled by government interference and increasingly global in reach. But the Chinese government has shown that the Internet can be successfully filtered and controlled. Martin Jacques