The Letters Quotes
I had many, many, many death threats. I couldn't open letters for a long time, because they all had to be opened by either the FBI or somebody.
I consider it a good rule for letter-writing to leave unmentioned what the recipient already knows, and instead tell him something new.
I am a being comprised of letters, a character created by sentences, a figment of imagination formed through fiction.
About Newton: Nature to him was an open book, whose letters he could read without effort.
If you want to know your true opinion of someone, watch the effect produced in you by the first sight of a letter from him.
I wrote poems in my corner of the Brooks Street station. I sent them to two editors who rejected them right off. I read those letters of rejection years later and I agreed with those editors.
This is a free country. Folks have a right to send me letters, and I have a right not to read them.
Saki says that youth is like hors d'oeuvres: you are so busy thinking of the next courses you don't notice it. When you've had them, you wish you'd had more hors d'oeuvres.
Letters are something from you. It's a different kind of intention than writing an e-mail.
I write a story as if it were a letter to someone and essentially, that's what you do.
Woe to the makers of literal translations, who by rendering every word weaken the meaning! It is indeed by so doing that we can say the letter kills and the spirit gives life.
The difference between helping and selling is just two letters. But those two letters are critically important to the success of business today.
X, n. In our alphabet being a needless letter has an added invincibility to the attacks of the spelling reformers, and like them, will doubtless last as long as the language.
It's amazing how email has changed our lives. You ever get a handwritten letter in the mail today? 'What the? Has someone been kidnapped?'
Letters are among the most significant memorial a person can leave behind them.
Letters are just pieces of paper," I said. "Burn them, and what stays in your heart will stay; keep them, and what vanishes will vanish.
Sir Alec Douglas-Home, when he was British Foreign Secretary, said he received the following telegram from an irate citizen: "To hell with you. Offensive letter follows."
I often get letters, quite frequently, from people who say how they like the programmes a lot, but I never give credit to the almighty power that created nature.
I get some female attention from fans, but mostly it's people asking for advice about a situation with their ex or their boyfriend, so it's not all love letters and fan mail!
Never take any notice of Anonymous letters, unless you get a few thousand on the same subject.
The only thing I'd rather own than Windows is English. Then I'd be able to charge you an upgrade fee every time I add new letters like N and T.
Truth is not only a man's ornament but his instrument; it is the great man's glory, and the poor man's stock: a man's truth is his livelihood, his recommendation, his letters of credit.
Vowels are the most illuminated letters in the alphabet. Vowels are the colors and souls of poetry and speech. (1976 Penthouse interview)
I'm intrigued that the same letters from the alphabet are used in the word silent and in the word listen. Perhaps it's evidence that the most important part of listening involves remaining silent.
I get a lot of letters. Not only from children but from adults, too. Almost every week, every month, clippings come in from some part of the world where ducks are crossing the street.
Letters do love one another. However, due to their anatomical differences, some letters have a hard time achieving intimacy.
There are no letters in the mailbox And there are no grapes upon the vine And there are no chocolates in your boxes anymore And there are no diamonds in the mine
When I was a kid in Houston, we were so poor we couldn't afford the last 2 letters, so we called ourselves po'.
As I grow old I hate the writing of letters more and more, and like getting them better and better.
There are certain families whose members should all live in different towns - different states, if possible - and write each other letters once a year.
May I kiss you then? On this miserable paper? I might as well open the window and kiss the night air.
Feathers shall raise men even as they do birds towards heaven :- That is by letters written with their quills.
Don't be too precious about your craft... there's only 26 letters and 12 notes, and Shakespeare and Beethoven said it all better than any of us ever will
A letter is an unannounced visit, the postman the agent of rude surprises. One ought to reserve an hour a week for receiving letters and afterwards take a bath.
She nodded, wondering why couldn't she have been named Mary. Or Sue. Butno , she had to be nine-letter Elizabeth.
Zen is a special transmission outside the scriptures,With no reliance on words and letters.A direct pointing to the human mind,And the realization of enlightenment.
I used to get letters saying, 'I didn't know black children and white children were the same.'
