Letters Quotes

Nature is a book, a letter, a fairy tale (in the philosophical sense) or whatever you want to call it.

We have to play it longer because there are no numbers or letters.

I've been accused of deliberately hamming up my accent and dropping letters, but that's just how I speak - I used to be a chav.

This letter really touched my heart. Sabrina says when she lost all her hair during chemo, she wore the cap I gave her.

And if I had not a letter to write myself, I might sit by you and admire the evenness of your writing, as another young lady once did. But I have an aunt too, who must not be longer neglected.

To pick up a cigarette wrapper or wine label or an old letter or the end of a carton is my way of dealing with those things that do not originate in me, in my I.

Every man should follow the bent of his nature in art and letters, always provided that he does not offend against the rules of morality and good taste.

Scope movies shown on TV letter-boxed are always the big budget movies.

Just another four-letter word.

Clarity is the politeness of the man of letters.

I would like to emphasize again that right prayer leads to right action, that faith without works is dead. An excellent way to put thoughts into action is to write a letter for peace.

The four-letter word for psychotherapy is Talk.

A typical agent in New York gets 400 query letters a month. Of those, they might ask to read 3-4 manuscripts, and of those, they might ask to represent 1.

All fanmail is a bit of fun. We do get some nice letters and some fanatical mail too. There's one woman who thinks me and her are married and has asked when she can come home. That's a bit spooky.

The post office has a great charm at one point of our lives. When you have lived to my age, you will begin to think letters are never worth going through the rain for.

Such a letter was not to be soon recovered from. . . . Every moment rather brought fresh agitation. It was an overpowering happiness.

Writers spend three years rearranging 26 letters of the alphabet. It's enough to make you lose your mind day by day

Good works are the seals and proofs of faith; for even as a letter must have a seal to strengthen the same, even so faith must have good works.

I get nice letters, but really I have no idea. I just try to enthuse people. You've been married for 31 years.

Fine manners are like personal beauty,--a letter of credit everywhere.

I began in an era where four-letter words were not allowed.

We all begin life as parasites within the mother, and writers begin their existence imitatively, within the body of letters.

A man of letters is often a man with two natures,--one a book nature, the other a human nature. These often clash sadly.

A comic script is basically a love letter from you to your artist.

Rejection slips, or form letters, however tactfully phrased, are lacerations of the soul, if not quite inventions of the devil-but there is no way around them.

When a man sends you an impudent letter, sit right down and give it back to him with interest ten times compounded, and then throw both letters in the wastebasket.

The letter . . . What did your lords make of it, I wonder?” Stannis snorted. “Celtigar pronounced it admirable. If I showed him the contents of my privy, he would declare that admirable as well.

Venerable are letters, infinitely brave, forlorn, and lost.

Never write a letter while you are angry.

Chain letters are the postal equivalent of intestinal flu: you get it and pass it along to your friends.

You say love is just a four letter word.

Reverend Fathers, my letters did not usually follow each other at such close intervals, nor were they so long.... This one would not be so long had I but the leisure to make it shorter.

The present letter is a very long one, simply because I had no leisure to make it shorter.

The best letters of our time are precisely those that can never be published.

There was a day when I liked writing letters -- it has gone. Unfortunately the passion for getting them remains.

Green in nature is one thing, green in literature another. Nature and letters seem to have a natural antipathy; bring them together and they tear each other to pieces.

As small letters hurt the sight, so do small matters him that is too much intent upon them; they vex and stir up anger, which begets an evil habit in him in reference to greater affairs.

A letter is a risky thing; the writer gambles on the reader's frame of mind.

It takes two to write a letter as much as it takes two to make a quarrel.

There are things that you can't do - like writing letters to a part of yourself. To your feet or hair. Or heart.

I never smoke grass and drive my car because, for one thing, no matter how many letters I write to the road commissions, they still refuse to start designing highways with second-chance exits.

When an actor has money he doesn't send letters, he sends telegrams.

A Letter is a Joy of Earth - It is denied the Gods

But for a few phrases from his letters and an odd line or two of his verse, the poet walks gagged through his own biography.

Nothing in the world is like this- a bright white page with pale blue lines. The smell of a newly sharpened pencil the soft hush of it moving finally one day into letters.

I don't mind how many letters I receive from one who interests me as much as you do. The receptive part of correspondence I can carry on with much alacrity. It is writing answers that I groan over.

When I receive letters from girls that say, 'You give me confidence,' I think, 'Wow, this is amazing.' That's my goal: to let people know it's truly what's on the inside that counts.

I get letters from little girls begging me to adopt them.

The first newspaper I worked on was the 'Springfield Union' in Springfield, Massachusetts. I wrote over a hundred letters to newspapers asking for work and got three responses, two no's.

I mean I appreciate fan mail and that the people like what I am doing but I can't answer it. If I would answer 25 letters a day I would be just a guy answering mail and not an artist anymore.