The Letters Quotes
A profusion of fancies and quotations is out of place in a love-letter. True feeling is always direct, and never deviates into by-ways to cull flowers of rhetoric.
If you want to act, you have to devote yourself to it. Send out letters and photos every day, work all the hours under the sun, whatever it takes. If you're not determined, you won't get anywhere.
This is the worst problem with living history museums. They always leave the best parts out. Like typhus. And opium. And scarlet letters. Shunning. Witch-burning.
We made an amazing video about Newtown's struggle to figure out what to do with all the letters and art sent to the town.
It has long been a theory of mine and I am known, if I do say so, for my long theories that authors, generally speaking, are rotten letter writers.
Giant letters march across the dome of the sky: HOME NOT FOUND. Huw, who knows Comic Sans when she sees it, winces in mild disgust.
People would write me hate letters. How dare I try to represent Hispanics when I was so white? I tried to make them see it was racism.
What we conceal Is always more than what we dare confide. Think of the letters that we write our dead.
For fiction, Im not particularly nationalistic. Im not like the Hugo Chavez of Latin American letters, you know? I want people to read good work.
But it's far too late for us; ring, hair, letters, photographs - all traces of our love will be scattered then, like an anagram.
Someday, I'm gonna write a poem in a letter; Someday, I'm gonna get that faculty together.
You can email me, but I prefer letters that come through conventional mail. I like letters that have been licked by strangers.
Mitt Romney has a fund-raiser. He's going to get in the ring and fight Evander Holyfield. This is the dumbest thing Republicans have done since they wrote that open letter to Iran.
I receive about 10,000 letters a year from readers, and in the first year after a book is published, perhaps 5,000 letters will deal specifically with that piece of work.
One has to get through a big pile of mail every day. I don't pass my letters on to a secretary; rather, I try to take care of all of them myself.
There's a lot of letters, and a lot of people come say "hi" at book signings, but I'm amazed at how normal everybody is.
The Germans and Austrians are very polite, the Swiss are very reserved and the Spanish usually kiss me. The Brits write me letters.
Nothing is more vulgar than a careful avoidance of beginning a letter with the first person singular.
All letters, methinks, should be free and easy as one's discourse, not studied, as an oration, nor made up of hard words like a charm.
Why' is the only question that bothers people enough to have an entire letter of the alphabet named after it. The alphabet does not go 'A B C D What? When? How?' but it does go 'V W X Why? Z.
Capital Letters Were Always The Best Way Of Dealing With Things You Didn't Have A Good Answer To.
Capitalization implies a hierarchy, that some letters are more special than others.
In the beginning was the word, the word That from the solid bases of the light Abstracted all the letters of the void.
A nasty letter or a sarcastic one can make you righteously angry, but what can you do about a polite letter of rejection? Nothing, really, except cry.
Science is Christian, not when it condemns itself to the letter of things, but when, in the infinitely little, it discovers as many mysteries and as much depth and power as in the infinitely great
And if kisses in these words could travel too, Madam, you'd read this letter with your lips.
If a woman is worth remembering,' said my grandmother, 'there is no need to have her name carved in letters.
I keep getting these extraordinary letters, really weird ones from American sports stars - I've always thought you were one pretty lady and now that you're single I want to meet you for a drink.
Poignant, earthy, intensely human, Letters From A Stranger is a love story that is as unusual and courageous as its characters.
Hope was supposed to be a good thing, but it was starting to feel like every other four-letter word you're not supposed to say.
I get letters. I get several a week, I think. A lot of people want a picture, a lot of people just want an autograph.
Belshazzar had a letter,-- He never had but one; Belshazzar's correspondence Concluded and begun In that immortal copy The conscience of us all Can read without its glasses On revelation's wall.
The biggest problem is that people want to tell the whole story, and they write letters that are way longer than anything I could possibly run.
I've never gotten a letter where I thought I knew the person. But I have heard from people who think they know the letter writer.
The sadness from reading letters that you know you can't help because it's a person who's in extremis and their problems are not soluble by an advice column.
I have been surrounded by love letters you two have built each other for years, encased in tents.
Harvey Publications hired me as a letterer, and they found out six seconds after I got the job that I couldn't letter. I still can't letter. So, they hired me to draw.
The literary wiseacres prognosticate in many languages, as they have throughout so many centuries, setting the stage for new hautmonde in letters and making up the public's mind.
It was my study of the two Corinthian letters that first caused me to concentrate my attention more directly on the relation of the apostle Paul to the older apostles.
An Eagle Scout deserves a letter of congratulations, but not a proclamation, ... That's a normal process. It's not a heroic process.
There is no letter of the law to follow in Zen. There is a lot of etiquette, but there are no rules.
Thus they went on living in a reality that was slipping away, momentarily captured by words, but which would escape irremediably when they forgot the values of the written letters.