The Letters Quotes

I like writing letters and receiving letters. It's a shame that we've lost the art of letter-writing and saving correspondence. I mourn that.

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.

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.

I get some letters from girls that if their mothers knew what they were writing me in these letters, they'd get their butts whipped.

Ah, you're the one who wrote the letter. So you can write then.

If I had more time, I would have written a shorter letter.

If I had more time I would write a shorter letter.

I am sorry for people who can't write letters. But I suspect also that you and I ... love to write them because it's kind of like working without really doing it.

I know of no sorrow greater than that occasioned by a delay of the post.

Those who cultivate letters must be supplied with the books necessary for their purpose; and until this supply is secured I shall not rest.

A student can win twelve letters at a university without learning how to write one.

I get a lot of letters from people. They say "I want to be a writer. What should I do?" I tell them to stop writing to me and to get on with it.

There are only two words with four letters which can make us fly: Wing and Love.

When I was 12 I cried to my mom, because I never got my letter to Hogwarts.

There's so much stuff said about me that's not true, so now if something is hurtful and wrong, I send an e-mail or letter immediately, saying, This is not true.

There’s always a stigma attached to the word ‘ambition’ and women. I’ve embraced it. Ambition is NOT a four-letter word and women have to embrace that.

It seems to me that if there were any logic to our language, trust would be a four letter word.

I'm making records, my fans they can't wait. They write me letters, tell me I'm great.

Yes, letter writing is antiquated - though there remain a few renegades who still so treasure the luxury of contemplating their lives in letters that they would rather write than call.

Decline of the letter, the rise of the notebook! One doesn't write to others any more; one writes to oneself.

I am a painter with letters. I want to restore everything, mix everything up and say everything.

Dear, I can't write, it's all a fantasy: a kind of circling obsession.

We didn't say good bye. But we knew it would be the end if we were apart. There was no reason to call or write letters. As it would have been meaningless, if we couldn't hold each other tight.

Suspicion often creates what it suspects.

It is always the novice who exaggerates.

I like the storytelling and reading the letters, the long-distance dedications.

The true character of epistolary style is playfulness and urbanity.

A letter has distinct advantages. You can say all you want to say before the other person has a chance to put in a word.

Why is it that you can sometimes feel the reality of people more keenly through a letter than face to face?

For in every particular of the Word there is an internal sense which treats of things spiritual and heavenly, not of things natural and worldly, such as are treated of in the sense of the letter.

It got so that when he closed his eyes, letters and words danced in his mind. He thought of little else during that time.

I became a connoisseur of that nasty thud a manuscript makes when it comes through the letter box.

I get letters from women, and they say, 'I love your Roman nose.' If I weren't on TV and I walked past that same woman, she'd go, 'Did you see the beak on that guy?'

Books and opinions, no matter from whom they came, if they are in opposition to human rights, are nothing but dead letters.

'Y' is about the weakest letter of all. 'Y' can't make up its mind if it's a vowel or a consonant, can it?

There are fewer things more thrilling in life than lumpy letters. That rattle.

I love all those girls the same as they love me. I get thousands of letters a week from girls who love me.... Every time I sing a song, I make love to them. I'm a boudoir singer.

You can't open your presents 'til you write your thank-you letters.

Never answer anonymous letters.

Write letters to your grandmother. She will love it. And leave you money in her will.

Feedback is a pleasant thing. I get a lot of letters from unexpected people in unexpected places.

Who writes your name in letters of smoke among the stars of the south? Oh let me remember you as you were before you existed.

The red-letter days, now become, to all intents and purposes, dead-letter days.

Some of the secret joys of living are not found by rushing from point A to point B, but by inventing some imaginary letters along the way.

When we did 'Dynasty', it was the clothes. I think the clothes affected every woman around the world. I got so many letters, I think we made the designer a millionaire!

The better part of one's life consists of his friendships. ABRAHAM LINCOLN, letter to Joseph Gillespie, July 13, 1849 Friendship is insipid to those who have experienced love.

The man of science, like the man of letters, is too apt to view mankind only in the abstract, selecting in his consideration only a single side of our complex and many-sided being.

Never answer an anonymous letter.

I can imagine in years to come that my papers and memorabilia, my journals and letters, will find themselves always in the company of people who care about many of the things I do.

Let not a single day pass without your learning a verse, half a verse, or a fourth of it, or even one letter of it; nor without attending to charity, study and other pious activity.