"You don't really know a woman until she writes you a letter."

-- Ada Leverson

#Writing Quotes #Letters Quotes

“The desire to be different from the people we live with is sometimes the result of our rejection- real or imagined- by them.”
“Ever more people are alert to the challenge of global poverty and global warming. We know that solutions are at hand. We will not sleepwalk into catastrophe. We have the capacity to forsee and forestall, and I believe we will find the will to act”
“The best songs are stories, and the best singers storytellers. Great singers can make you care about what they're feeling. You have a sense of knowing them.”
“To think I need a gun to protect against those who'd kill me for being Muslim ... It's too bad they don't know about my true religion of noodling - a reason to get their nuts in a snit.”
“Anytime a child is born, the old people look in his face and ask him if he's the One.”
“Design principle: Take things away until the design breaks, then put that last thing back in.”
“[Lockyer]... sometimes forgets he is only the editor and not the author of Nature. [Lockyer was the first editor of Nature.]”
“I believe that these extra-terrestrial vehicles and their crews are visiting this planet from other planets, which obviously are a little more technically advanced than we are here on earth.”

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