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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.
lasts remember there-is-hope
Remember, to the last, that while there is life there is hope.
lasts fool firsts
Ridicule is the first and last argument of a fool. Charles Simmons
lasts dubbing spokes
I have just returned from the dubbing studio where I spoke into a microphone as Severus Snape for absolutely the last time. Alan Rickman
lasts eloquent last-time
We looked at each other for the last time; nothing is as eloquent as nothing. David Mitchell
lasts records haircuts
You're only as good as your last record. David Sanborn
lasts female worship
The last western society to worship female powers was Minoan Crete. And significantly, that fell and did not rise again. Camille Paglia
lasts needs kind
I need some kind of... like... last minute, poorly-set-up deus ex machina!! Bryan Lee O'Malley
lasts ancient tales
This act is an ancient tale new told; And, in the last repeating, troublesome, Being urged at a time unseasonable. William Shakespeare
lasts action remember
I can't remember the last live-action, non-animated Christmas movie. Bob Newhart
occupation today consumers
Today the future occupation of all moppets is to be skilled consumers. David Riesman
occupation humdrum easier
Of course some days are easier than others, but my worst day is better than being in most humdrum occupations. Bernard Cornwell
occupation interest thankless
Politics is a thankless occupation; I have no interest in it at all. Ben Stein
occupation my-favorite
LIFE: My favorite occupation. Dirk Benedict
occupation way parks
We cleared all traces of our occupation out of M6 and moved to M7, and it's been quite smooth over there. We chose a place all the way at the end of an industrial park. Adam Savage
occupation humiliation reader
Most readers, then and now, have at some time experienced the humiliation of being told that their occupation is reprehensible. Alberto Manguel
occupation systematic research
Research is not a systematic occupation but an intuitive artistic vocation. Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
occupation nuisance world
A human being must have occupation if he or she is not to become a nuisance to the world. Dorothy L. Sayers
occupation may fit
Don't be concerned that you have no position; be concerned how you may fit yourself to occupy one. . Confucius