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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.
pages three reason
If a scene is longer than three pages, it better be for a good reason. Alan Ball
pages social results
[O]ne could translate the 555 pages of The Social System into about 150 pages of straightforward English. The result would not be very impressive. C. Wright Mills
pages passports extras
I travel a lot. A lot, a lot. I don't have a single passport that doesn't have extra pages on it. Bo Derek
pages addresses computer
I went to a website the other day and right at the top of the page it showed me my ip address. It was the most disturbing moment I have ever experienced. This website even told me what internet browser I was using, and what day it was. Computers can do anything. Edward Snowden
pages murder made
Another murder I committed made the front page. Eazy-E
pages way celebrate
As I continued through Cicero's pages, I found much more material celebrating my way of life ... Charlie Munger
pages percent total web
There are only 100-million Web pages right now in Arabic, and that's nothing. It's only 0.2 percent of the total worldwide. Hermann Havermann
pages baltimore sun
I don't pay any attention to what the 'Baltimore Sun' editorial page says about anything. Bob Ehrlich
pages cinema finished
The page has turned. Cinema is finished for me. Brigitte Bardot
matter
Meaning, however, is no great matter. Charles Stuart Calverley
matter remember
Can I remember "I remember lots," I say. How much of what I remember is true is another matter. Charles Stross
matter
Work is work, but family is for life. That's what really matters to me. Akshay Kumar
matter poor succeed
We want to show the world that no matter where you're born, no matter how poor you are, that you can succeed in life. Frank Stronach
matter no-matter-what problem
There's no solution to life, there's going to be problems no matter what. Chris Colfer
matter opponents cry
I wouldn't like to make anybody cry, I don't dislike anybody. It doesn't even matter - the opponent is always faceless. Chris Bosh
matter faces defining-moments
But in life we don't usually get to choose the time of our defining moments. We just have to stand and face them when they come, no matter what sort of a state we're in. Darren Shan
matter truth-is trails
- This isn't an interrogation or a trail. Your version of the truth is the only thing that matters. -Truth is singular. It's 'versions' are mistruths. David Mitchell
matter needs back-to-work
What I need is a search engine that, no matter what I type in, comes back with GO BACK TO WORK. Dave Barry