The Letters Quotes

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.

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

Kind messages, that pass from land to land; Kind letters, that betray the heart's deep history, In which we feel the pressure of a hand,-- One touch of fire,--and all the rest is mystery!

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.

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.

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!

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.

Never answer an anonymous letter.

A letter depends on how you read it, a melody on how you sing it.

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

Some providences, like Hebrew letters, must be read backwards.

I tell writers to keep reading, reading, reading. Read widely and deeply. And I tell them not to give up even after getting rejection letters. And only write what you love.

Whoever dreamed up Scrabble had an exaggerated idea of how many 7-letter words have five i's.

The ten most powerful two-letter words in the English language are: If it is to be, it is up to me.

Music has seven letters, writing has twenty-six notes

There is bad in all good authors: what a pity the converse isn't true!

I sometimes think one of the great blessings we shall enjoy in heaven, will be to receive letters by every post and never be obliged to reply to them.

Laws are a dead letter without courts to expound and define their true meaning and operation.

I receive a lot of letters on tour, and read about a lot of people hurting.

Reading functions as hallucinating a meaning between letters and lines.

How could I go on my travels without that sweet soul waiting at home for my letters?

Texting is very loose in its structure. No one thinks about capital letters or punctuation when one texts, but then again, do you think about those things when you talk?

...mysticism and empiricism go together in opposition to scholasticism...they base themselves on the non-linear world of experience rather than the linear world of letters.

We lay aside letters never to read them again, and at last we destroy them out discretion, and so disappears the most immediate breath of life, irrecoverably for ourselves and for others.

Read Ben Graham and Phil Fisher read annual reports, but don't do equations with Greek letters in them.

I started getting letters from college in the tenth grade.

If man ever comes to perfect equilibrium with the environment, we'll all be redundant, perhaps because you won't need art or letters.

We already know that anonymous letters are despicable. In etiquette, as well as in law, hiring a hit man to do the job does not relieve you of responsibility.

I looked into Mr. Putin's eyes, and I saw three letters, a "K," a "G," and a "B."

Pick at random any three letters from the alphabet, put them in any order, and you will have an acronym designating a federal agency we can do without.

Judging from the letters I've received from obviously feeble-minded persons who wish I would write another These Old Shades, it ought to sell like hot cakes.

I've got fans and letters from Israel, France Germany, Sweden, London, Africa. They all saying pretty much the same thing, 'Yo, we love you, we need you, put some more music out, please!'

I would like to make something that is real in itself that does not remind anyone of any other things, and that does not have to be explained like the letter A, for instance.

Good traders trade. Good letter writers write letters.

The humans live in time but our Enemy (God) destines them for eternity.

When I was very little, we would get letters from China, in Chinese, and they' be censored. We were a very insular little family.

My knowledge of the letter of the Shastras is better, but of true religion they are able to give me but little.

I was treated much better in Africa than I was treated in America. And you see, often I get letters like this: "Go back to Africa."

I received a letter from the Reich Ministry of Sports. They want me to split from Joe Jacobs, my manager since 1928.... I really need Joe Jacobs. I owe all my success in America to him.

Letters have to pass two tests before they can be classed as good: they must express the personality both of the writer and of the recipient.

To read, write, and converse in due proportions, is, therefore, the business of a man of letters.

Every week I get letters from people worldwide who feel that the possibilian point of view represents their understanding better than either religion or neo-atheism.

Your mind is your invisible talisman. The letters PMA (positive mental attitude) are emblazoned on one side, and NMA (negative mental attitude) on the other. These are powerful forces.

Eating in a hurried or unconscious way, as so many of us have learned to do, is like receiving a love letter from the earth, but never taking the time to carefully read it.

Critics are sentinels in the grand army of letters, stationed at the corners of newspapers and reviews, to challenge every new author.

Every week we ought to have one hour for recieving letters, then go take a bath.

Then there's the joy of getting your desk clean, and knowing that all your letters are answered, and you can see the wood on it again.

Ale, not beer, in a pewter mug was comme il faut, the only thing for a gentleman of letters, worthy of the name, to drink.

There are only 17,000 three-letter acronyms.

Letters remind us that when we write we can bring back the best of times, even make time stand still, if only for a few minutes.