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writing hair fire
Charles Dickens 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...
writing numbers gold
Charles Caleb Colton Genius, in one respect, is like gold; numbers of persons are constantly writing about both, who have neither.
writing language nonsense
Charles Caleb Colton 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
Charles Caleb Colton 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
Charles Caleb Colton 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
Charles Caleb Colton 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
Charles Caleb Colton 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
Charles Caleb Colton 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.
trying sometimes failing
Charles Dickens Try to do unto others as you would have them do to you, and do not be discouraged if they fail sometimes. It is much better that they should fail than you should.
trying want scripture
Charles Spurgeon Dear friends, whenever you want to understand a text of Scripture, try to read the original
trying littles reason-why
Charles Spurgeon The great reason why we have so little good preaching is that we have so little piety. To be eloquent one must be in earnest; he must not only act as if he were in earnest, or try to be in earnest, but be in earnest.
trying world term
Alan Watts A myth is an image in terms of which we try to make sense of the world.
trying world
Alan Watts But we try to pretend, you see, that the external world exists altogether independently of us.
trying way hurrying
Alan Watts Hurrying and delaying are alike ways of trying to resist the present.
trying rooms natural
Alan Parsons That Beatle euphoria has always been there, and it's hard to be in a room with a Beatle and try to be totally natural. You never shake that off.
trying entertainment television
Alan Moore I try to do things in comics that cannot be repeated by television, by movies, by interactive entertainment.
trying acting together
Alan Arkin Improvisation sometimes seemed more like jazz than acting, like verbal jazz, with the actors playing a theme back and forth, and then introducing another theme, incorporating it, somehow trying to work their way all together to a meaning of some kind, or at least a conclusion.
pieces paper littles
Eartha Kitt I have been nominated three times. I have the little pieces of paper to prove it.
pieces advantage existence
David Hume Nothing is pure and entire of a piece. All advantages are attended with disadvantages. A universal compensation prevails in all conditions of being and existence.
pieces finest sells
Beatrice Wood I don't like to sell my finest pieces.
pieces silent refuse
Audre Lorde to that piece in each of us that refuses to be silent.
pieces sometimes used
Derek Bailey Charlie Appleyard can be anybody; but Ive used him sometimes in chat pieces, and these are all chat pieces about the history of Charlie Appleyard.
pieces reinterpretation materials
Denzel Washington Any good piece of material like Shakespeare ought to be open to reinterpretation.
pieces
Charlotte Moore We started off with a lot of different things, pieces here and there,
pieces time together trying
Karl Eikenberry When you're trying to put the pieces back together again, you need a lot of time and a lot of patience,
pieces
Alan Shepard I must admit, maybe I am a piece of history after all.