Letters Quotes

There were a lot of people who were willing to write a letter for me. Not because I was academically inclined, but because I worked hard.

I've got to have something. I want to stop it all, the whole monumental grotesque joke, before it's too late. But writing poems and letters doesn't seem to do much good.

We live our lives from A-Z, but forget the other 24 letters in between.

Ambition is not a four-letter word and women have to embrace that.

Never demean yourself by talking back to a critic, never. Write those letters to the editor in your head, but don't put them on paper.

[Mark Twain] is still the rough, awkward, good-natured boy who swore at the deck hands when he was three years old. Thoroughly likeable as a good fellow, but impossible as a man of letters.

Mr Witwould: "Pray, madam, do you pin up your hair with all your letters? I find I must keep copies." Mrs Millamant: "Only with those in verse.... I never pin up my hair with prose."

Write to me frequently & the longest letters possible; never mind whether you have facts or no to communicate; fill your paper with the breathings of your heart.

Letters, like compilation tapes, were really vehicles for unexpressed emotions and she was clearly putting far too much time and energy into them.

I've found myself moved by letters and diaries in archives as well as trashy, summer blockbusters. It's possible to make a connection with any kind of writing - as long as the writing is good.

Would you please do me the honor of telling me WHAT THE BLAZES IS GOING ON?

I’m bored to death. Perhaps I should pillage one of my neighbors for my own amusement. It seems to work for Drowden.

I took all of my rejection letters - there must have been thousands of them in a huge box - and I went out on the curb and burned them all, crying.

Don't get down on yourself when you get rejection letters.

The test of a good letter is a very simple one. If one seems to hear the other person talking as one reads, it is a good letter.

For me, like, the more interesting a letter is I just get more excited and I know that this going to be great for my friends who are looking forward to reading that in my comic.

Letters form a by-path of literature, a charming, but occasional, retreat for people of cultivated leisure.

I think I'm equally as abusive as the editors normally are for the "Letters and Tomatoes" column, which is the fan mail part of MAD Magazine and an ongoing feature.

I've thought of publishing a book of my hate mail, but I don't own the rights to the letters.

I grew up treating a life as a writer as a career in letters, one devoted to many kinds of writing. And so it seemed normal to study both fiction writing and the literary essay as an undergrad.

The cabinets of the sick and the closets of the dead have been ransacked to publish private letters and divulge to all mankind the most secret sentiments of friendship.

Heav'n first taught letters for some wretch's aid, Some banish'd lover, or some captive maid.

Some time all kinds of letters will be published to the ineffable delight of endless readers.

Do not allow your daughters to be taught letters by a man, though he be a St. Paul or St. Francis of Assissium. The saints are in Heaven.

Our favorites are few; since only what rises from the heart reaches it, being caught and carried on the tongues of men wheresoever love and letters journey.

I like extravagance. Letters which give the postman a stiff back to carry, books which overflow from their covers, sexuality which bursts the thermometers.

I'd like to be rich enough so I could throw soap away after the letters are worn off

He who receives a great many letters demanding answer, sees himself as if engaged in a hopeless struggle of one man against the rest of the world.

Letters of the condemned. Last words scratched on a cell’s wall. To write like that.

I never really got over the fun of making letters.

E-mail is a modern Penny Post: the world is a single city with a single postal rate.

... writing letters is thinking, just as talking to you is thinking.

Letters are false really - they are expressions of the way you wish you were instead of the way you are.

That's all that death is ... Just a going away into another country ... Only the separation is harder to bear because there can be no letters to bridge the silence.

There is nothing sadder than the cheerful letters of the dead, expressing hopes that were never fulfilled, ambitions that were never achieved, dreams cut off before they could come to fruition.

And anyway, the first three letters in the word diet should tell you what I want it to do.

It may be that these loan arrangements conform to the letter of the law, but they do not conform to the spirit of the law and to the principle of transparency on which it is based.

Letters should be easy and natural.

Words matter. Especially ones with four letters.

Since I was 20 years old, I've been a kind of corporation. I'd wake up in the morning and my job was to be 'Bonnie Raitt' in capital letters.

The number of e-mails and letters that I get from choreographers, from sculptors, from composers who are being inspired by science is huge.

Being from a divorced family almost felt like a scarlet letter at times. And I denied it for a long time.

That something extra, I believe, is a certain humanity that comes from upbeat and positive human interest letters and success stories. Advertisers like to be associated with those qualities.

The stories are success stories. The letters from listeners often touch the heart and can be inspiring.

To my son, If you are reading this letter, then I am dead.

Truly, Autumn is my season,” the scarlet beast chorted. “Spring and Summer and Winter all begin with such late letters! But Autumn and Fall, I have loved best, because they are best to love.

Love letters lack taste. No restraint: falling off cliffs, going up in flames.

I miss THE WALLFLOWERS. Great band. Wrote my first Fan letter to them. No response.

If someone took the 'F' letter off me, I'd be ucked.

The thing with that word "establishment" is a four-letter word in the 2016 politics, so toxic, so pejorative that pretty much no one wants to be associated with it.