Letters famous quotes

My spelling is Wobbly. It's good spelling but it Wobbles, and the letters get in the wrong places.
-- A. A. Milne

#Writing #Letters #Spelling

The test of a good letter is a very simple one. If one seems to hear the other person talking as one reads, it is a good letter.
-- A. C. Benson

#Simple #Talking #Letters

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!
-- Aaron Spelling

#Thinking #Clothes #Letters

The calligraphic letter is not entirely a letter, but something that sits between writing and music
-- Abdelkebir Khatibi

#Writing #Letters

You don’t know a woman until you have had a letter from her.
-- Ada Leverson

#Letters

You don't really know a woman until she writes you a letter.
-- Ada Leverson

#Writing #Letters

Whatever is unnamed, undepicted in images, whatever is omitted from biography, censored in collections of letters, whatever is misnamed as something else, made difficult-to-come-by, whatever is buried in the memory by the collapse of meaning under an inadequate or lying language - this will become, not merely unspoken, but unspeakable.
-- Adrienne Rich

#Memories #Lying #Letters

I, myself, was always recognized . . . as the “slow one” in the family. It was quite true, and I knew it and accepted it. Writing and spelling were always terribly difficult for me. My letters were without originality. I was . . . an extraordinarily bad speller and have remained so until this day.
-- Agatha Christie

#Writing #Letters #Originality

Letters form a by-path of literature, a charming, but occasional, retreat for people of cultivated leisure.
-- Agnes Repplier

#People #Literature #Letters

There was no escape from the letter-writer who, a hundred or a hundred and twenty-five years ago, captured a coveted correspondent. It would have been as easy to shake off an octopus or a boa-constrictor.
-- Agnes Repplier

#Years #Octopus #Letters

Just know what is happening in your mind - not happy or sad about it, not attached. If you suffer see it, know it, and be empty. It's like a letter - you have to open it before you can know what's in it.
-- Ajahn Chah

#Mind #Suffering #Letters

Scared and sacred are spelled with the same letters. Awful proceeds from the same root word as awesome. Terrify and terrific. Every negative experience holds the seed of transformation.
-- Alan Cohen

#Roots #Negative #Letters

The position of modern science, as far as an ignorant man of letters can understand it, seems not a step in advance of that held by Huxley and Romanes in the last century.
-- Albert J. Nock

#Men #Ignorant #Letters

Socrates affirmed that only that which the reader already knows can be sparked by a reading, and that the knowledge cannot be acquired through dead letters.
-- Alberto Manguel

#Reading #Letters #Reader

There are people who would rather choke than go see my movies. They write me letters all the time.
-- Alec Baldwin

#Writing #People #Letters

What happened to romance? Sappy, soppy longhand love letters.
-- Alex Flinn

#Romance #Letters #Love Letter

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

#Law #Letters #Operations

Heav'n first taught letters for some wretch's aid, Some banish'd lover, or some captive maid.
-- Alexander Pope

#Maids #Letters #Firsts

The cabinets of the sick and the closets of the dead have been ransacked to publish private letters and divulge to all mankind the most secret sentiments of friendship.
-- Alexander Pope

#Sick #Secret #Letters

Thank you, darling, for learning to play chess. It is an absolute necessity for any well organized family. (in a letter to his wife)
-- Alexander Pushkin

#Play #Wife #Letters

Survival is a four letter word.
-- Alexis De Veaux

#Survival #Four #Letters

The word 'listen' contains the same letters as the word 'silent.'
-- Alfred Brendel

#Silence #Letters #Silent

In love matters; keep your pen from paper.
-- Alfred de Musset

#Paper #Letters #Matter

Iran welcomes dialogue with any other states. I wrote a letter to the three European states inviting them to resume talks, but, they cancelled it. They had thought that Iran would no longer resume talks with them.
-- Ali Larijani

#Iran #Three #Letters

Some time all kinds of letters will be published to the ineffable delight of endless readers.
-- Alice B. Toklas

#Delight #Letters #Kind

A query letter should be like a skirt.  Long enough to cover everything, but short enough to be exciting.
-- Andrea Brown

#Long #Letters #Skirts

I'd like to be rich enough so I could throw soap away after the letters are worn off
-- Andy Rooney

#Letters #Soap #Rich

One of the sweetest things in life: a letter from a friend.
-- Andy Rooney

#Letters #Sweetest

E-mail is a modern Penny Post: the world is a single city with a single postal rate.
-- Anne Fadiman

#Cities #World #Letters

A pleasant letter I hold to be the pleasantest thing that this world has to give.
-- Anthony Trollope

#Giving #World #Letters

I'm a poet. I distrust anything that starts with a capital letter and ends with a full stop because people don't think in full, clear sentences.
-- Antjie Krog

#Thinking #People #Letters

Scriptures are Letters from Home. Can you imagine getting a letter from home and not even bothering to open it?
-- Ardeth Kapp

#Home #Letters #Scripture

Personal beauty is a greater recommendation than any letter of reference.
-- Aristotle

#Beauty #Letters #Recommendations

A manifesto, a diary, a crumpled suicide note, and a still relevant love letter.
-- Art Spiegelman

#Suicide #Diaries #Letters

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.
-- Arthur Dove

#Real #Doe #Letters

If you want to know your true opinion of someone, watch the effect produced in you by the first sight of a letter from him.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer

#Sight #Watches #Letters

To find out your real opinion of someone, judge the impression you have when you first see a letter from them.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer

#Real #Judging #Letters

Letters couldn't care less whether what is written with them is true or false.
-- Augusto Roa Bastos

#Care #Letters

When I awake dramatically I start off my day by reciting aloud a fan letter.
-- Austin Mahone

#Fans #Letters #Awake

Chance has something to say in everything, even how to write a good letter
-- Baltasar Gracian

#Writing #Letters #Chance

The best thing Clinton could do — I think I wrote him a letter about this, but I'm not sure — is to shut up. He has no discipline.
-- Barry Goldwater

#Thinking #Discipline #Letters

And anyway, the first three letters in the word diet should tell you what I want it to do.
-- Becca Fitzpatrick

#Firsts #Three #Letters

Truth is not only a man's ornament but his instrument; it is the great man's glory, and the poor man's stock: a man's truth is his livelihood, his recommendation, his letters of credit.
-- Benjamin Whichcote

#Men #Credit #Letters

If I had a girlfriend I would write her letters instead of using Twitter.
-- Bill Kaulitz

#Girlfriend #Writing #Letters

It may be that these loan arrangements conform to the letter of the law, but they do not conform to the spirit of the law and to the principle of transparency on which it is based.
-- Bill Vaughan

#Law #Principles #Letters

The thing is, acoustic could be like a four-letter word to a lot of kids.
-- Billie Joe Armstrong

#Kids #Four #Letters

A Train was born without any effort - if was like writing a letter to a friend.
-- Billy Strayhorn

#Writing #Effort #Letters

If I had more time I would write a shorter letter.
-- Blaise Pascal

#Inspirational #Writing #Letters

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

#Long #Letters #Leisure

So, I got a lot of recruitment letters from track.
-- Bo Jackson

#Track #Letters #Recruitment

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

#Letters #Flu #Chains

Sure, women sportswriters look when they're in the clubhouse. Read their stories. How else do you explain a capital letter in the middle of a word?
-- Bob Uecker

#Women #Letters #Looks

In my first stand-up acts there wasn't material even. You know, I'd go on stage and cry and read a Dear John letter or gut fish on stage. I could be odd - and it's what interested me as a comedian.
-- Bobcat Goldthwait

#Comedian #Goes On #Letters

Howbeit, though no scholar, I am not one of those who misuse the English speech, and, being foolishly led by the hasty custom of scriveners and printers to write the letters "T" and "H" joined together, which resembleth a "Y," do incontinently jump to the conclusion the THE is pronounced "Ye,"--the like of which I never heard in all England.
-- Bret Harte

#Writing #Together #Letters

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

#People #Letters #Unexpected

A comic script is basically a love letter from you to your artist,
-- Brian K. Vaughan

#Artist #Letters #Scripts

Use testimonial letters from satisfied customers at every opportunity.
-- Brian Tracy

#Opportunity #Use #Letters

Compare sending someone a text message and getting a love letter delivered by carrier pigeon. No contest.
-- Bryan Callen

#Letters #Pigeons #Messages

This is an apology letter to the both of us for how long it took me to let things go.
-- Buddy Wakefield

#Apology #Long #Letters

Don't fear anything for your letters, they are burnt one by one and I hope you do the same with mine.
-- Camille Claudel

#Letters

Never write a letter and never destroy one.
-- Cardinal Richelieu

#Writing #Letters

Write," he said. "I'll write to you as soon as I get there," answered Julian. "No. Not to me. Write books. Not letters. Write them for me, for Penelope.
-- Carlos Ruiz Zafon

#Book #Writing #Letters

Love letters lack taste. No restraint: falling off cliffs, going up in flames.
-- Cathleen Schine

#Fall #Flames #Letters

a letter ... changes utterly the moment it slips inside an envelope. It stops being mine. It becomes yours. What I mean is gone. What you understand is all that remains.
-- Cathleen Schine

#Mean #Gone #Letters

Truth! why shall every wretch of letters Dare to speak truth against his betters! Let ragged virtue stand aloof, Nor mutter accents of reproof; Let ragged wit a mute become, When wealth and power would have her dumb.
-- Charles Churchill

#Truth #Dumb #Letters

After the pleasure of possessing books there is hardly anything more pleasant than that of speaking of them, and of communicating to the public the innocent richness of thought which we have acquired by the culture of letters.
-- Charles Nodier

#Book #Culture #Letters

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

#Destiny #Numbers #Letters

If plan A fails, remember there are 25 more letters.
-- Chris Guillebeau

#Money #Letters #Remember

The Internet is a fantastic, strange place where you can write an open letter and be reasonably assured that people are going to read it.
-- Chris Weitz

#Writing #People #Letters

If you want to act, you have to devote yourself to it. Send out letters and photos every day, work all the hours under the sun, whatever it takes. If you're not determined, you won't get anywhere.
-- Christopher Parker

#Letters #Want #Sun

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

#Believe #Fans #Letters

If plan A doesn't work, the alphabet has 25 more letters - 204 if you're in Japan.
-- Claire Cook

#Determination #Japan #Letters

In politics women type the letters, lick the stamps, distribute the pamphlets and get out the vote. Men get elected.
-- Clare Boothe Luce

#Men #Letters #Politics

Realities disguised as symbols are, for me, new realities that are immeasurably preferable. I make an effort to take them at their word. To grasp, to carry out the diktat of images to the letter.
-- Claude Cahun

#Reality #Effort #Letters

I hold that the parentheses are by far the most important parts of a non-business letter.
-- D. H. Lawrence

#Important #Letters #Parentheses

What we conceal Is always more than what we dare confide. Think of the letters that we write our dead.
-- Dana Gioia

#Writing #Thinking #Letters

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

#People #Fans #Letters

Don't be too precious about your craft... there's only 26 letters and 12 notes, and Shakespeare and Beethoven said it all better than any of us ever will
-- David Foster

#Crafts #Letters #Notes

I once got a letter from a woman who told me she was 90. She said if she were 30 years younger, I would have had to watch out. I guess 60 seems really young when you're 90. She said she would eat me with a spoon.
-- David James

#Years #Letters #Watches

In small letters, someone has written NEVER FORGET on one of the slats. I know it's supposed to be a pledge, but it feels like a curse. Don't we have to forget some of it? Don't we have to forget this feeling? If we don't, how will we live?
-- David Levithan

#Feelings #Letters #Never Forget

I've given some money to the scholarships in the District of Columbia, to the best students in D.C... many of the students have written me letters telling me they could not have afforded to go to college without the scholarship and money I've given them.
-- David Rubenstein

#College #Letters #Students

Inspiration comes from the heart. The letter ‘I’ is the heart of F”I”RST… (F Inspiration R S T).
-- Dean Kamen

#Inspiration #Heart #Letters

Love After Love all your life, whom you have ignored for another, who knows you by heart. Take down the love letters from the bookshelf, the photographs, the desperate notes, peel your own image from the mirror. Sit. Feast on your life.
-- Derek Walcott

#Heart #Mirrors #Letters

As usual, the note occupied less than a page and included neither salutation nor closing, Uncle Hal's opinion being that since the letter had a direction upon it, the intended recipient was obvious, the seal indicated plainly who had written it, and he did not waste his time in writing to fools.
-- Diana Gabaldon

#Uncles #Writing #Letters

I love the rebelliousness of snail mail, and I love anything that can arrive with a postage stamp. There's something about that person's breath and hands on the letter.
-- Diane Lane

#Hands #Letters #Mail

Out all of these zillions of letters, one of the first ones that came was, as it turned out from Johnny Carson within the last five or six weeks of his life. I had worked with him. He lost a son who had worked for me.
-- Dick Ebersol

#Son #Letters #Lasts

One has to get through a big pile of mail every day. I don't pass my letters on to a secretary; rather, I try to take care of all of them myself.
-- Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

#Trying #Care #Letters

Books are love letters (or apologies) passed between us, adding a layer of conversation beyond our spoken words.
-- Donalyn Miller

#Book #Apology #Letters

The Germans and Austrians are very polite, the Swiss are very reserved and the Spanish usually kiss me. The Brits write me letters.
-- Donna Leon

#Writing #Kissing #Letters

Will the kindness of this letter excuse the shortness of it?
-- Dorothy Osborne

#Kindness #Letters #Excuse

All letters, methinks, should be free and easy as one's discourse, not studied, as an oration, nor made up of hard words like a charm ...
-- Dorothy Osborne

#Letters #Easy #Charm

Capitalization implies a hierarchy, that some letters are more special than others.
-- Douglas Coupland

#Special #Letters #Hierarchy

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

#Heart #Letters #Baths

So long as we govern our nation by the letter and spirit of the Bill of Rights, we can be sure that our nation will grow in strength and wisdom and freedom.
-- Dwight D. Eisenhower

#Rights #Long #Letters

A nasty letter or a sarcastic one can make you righteously angry, but what can you do about a polite letter of rejection? Nothing, really, except cry.
-- E. L. Konigsburg

#Sarcastic #Rejection #Letters

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.
-- E. M. Forster

#Two #Personality #Letters

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

#Important #Four #Letters

Science is Christian, not when it condemns itself to the letter of things, but when, in the infinitely little, it discovers as many mysteries and as much depth and power as in the infinitely great
-- Edgar Quinet

#Christian #Depth #Letters

And if kisses in these words could travel too, Madam, you'd read this letter with your lips.
-- Edmond Rostand

#Kissing #Letters #Lips

If a good face is a letter of recommendation, a good heart is a letter of credit.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

#Heart #Credit #Letters