The Letters Quotes

With the benefit of hindsight, the content of that letter has bothered me since her death.

I didn't mean to send love letters, but that is what they became. On their way to you, my words turned into heartbeats on the page.

To be a philosophical sceptic is, in a man of letters, the first and most essential to being a sound, believing Christian.

I don't have the Tom Hanks fans. When you make the kind of movies I make, you get weird letters from people.

My mother could make anybody feel guilty - she used to get letters of apology from people she didn't even know.

The love of letters is the forlorn hope of the man of letters. His ruling passion is the love of fame.

The letters in 'Brace Beemer' can be arranged to spell 'Embrace Beer.'

Letter writing is the only device combining solitude with good company.

Oftentimes, when people write me 4,000-word letters, I write them back and tell them if their problem's that complicated, they probably need a lawyer or a cop, and not me.

One serious drawback about letters is that, in order to get them, one must send some out. When it comes to the mail, I feel it is better to receive than to give.

In a moment, when I'm ready, I will turn off this computer and that will be it. This letter will be finished. A part of me doesn't want to stop writing to you, but I need to. For both of us.

I couldn't believe when I first got a fan letter from Al Pacino, it was unreal.

To acknowledge the receipt of letters is always proper, to remove doubts of their miscarriage.

His letter was like the shock produced by a cold bath.

I used to think that once a writer became a man of letters, if only for a half hour, he was done for. And here I am now, at the very moment of such an odious, though respectable, danger.

The creative act is like writing a letter. A letter is a project; you don't sit down to write a letter unless you know what you want to say and to whom you want to say it.

Your grades are not your destiny: they're just letters and numbers which rate how well you performed in one artificial arena, once.

You don't carry in your countenance a letter of recommendation.

It is now only in letters I write what I feel: not in literature any more, and I seldom say it, because I keep trying to be amusing.

I've gotten a lot of livid letters about the awfulness of my work. I've never known what to make of it. Why do people bother to write if they hate what I do?

Hope is the most important four-letter word in the language.

there are lots of ways of answering a letter - and writing doesn't happen to be mine.

If I could only write, I'd write a nasty letter to the mayor, if he could only read.

We were very kindly received by the English merchants to whom my companion had letters, and we set ourselves to learn what was the real state of things in Mexico.

Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain unless you've used up all the other four-letter words.

There is wishful thinking in Hell as well as on Earth.

Prosperity knits a man to the world.

He wants them to learn to walk and must therefore take away His hand.

I want a real take-home quality to the sermon, so I built the whole sermon series around the word grace, those five letters.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

The four-letter word for psychotherapy is Talk.

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.

Clarity is the politeness of the man of letters.

Just another four-letter word.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

If you must reread old love letters, better pick a room without mirrors.