Letters Quotes
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I've never gotten a letter where I thought I knew the person. But I have heard from people who think they know the letter writer.
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"On my honor" - what an ennobling phrase! Three short words, nine letters, but the summation of all we call character. From the Boy Scout's Oath.
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Words? I tell you not to write me letters; I command you. Is it not enough to want you so in vain, but you send me what evokes you here before me - this paper, all along whose lines your hand has lain?
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Have you an unexpurgated copy of Hannah More's 'Letters to a Village Maiden'?
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Every week we ought to have one hour for recieving letters, then go take a bath.
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Good traders trade. Good letter writers write letters.
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When I was 12 I cried to my mom, because I never got my letter to Hogwarts.
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Proper evaluations of words and letters in their phonetic and associated sense can bring the people of earth to the clear light of pure cosmic wisdom.
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There are people all over the world who like to write fan letters in the voice of their pet: 'Hello, my name is Fifi and I'm a labrador and I think you're great. Paw paw!'
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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.
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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.
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As small letters hurt the sight, so do small matters him that is too much intent upon them; they vex and stir up anger, which begets an evil habit in him in reference to greater affairs.
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The best letters of our time are precisely those that can never be published.
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(Joan,1941) She wrote me a letter asking,"How can I read it?,Its so hard." I told her to start at the beginning and read as far as you can get until you're lost. Then start again at the beginning and keep working through until you can understand the whole book. And thats what she did
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The telephone is a great knee-jerk machine, but if you really want to tell someone how you feel, you need the slowness of the letter. In a society where everything is fast, it's like going out in the country and looking up at the stars.
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I taught myself to read when I was three by comparing the letters in my Mother Goose book with the rhymes I had memorised.
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I receive a lot of letters on tour, and read about a lot of people hurting.
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A great typeface is not a collection of beautiful letters, but a beautiful collection of letters.
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Those who cultivate letters must be supplied with the books necessary for their purpose; and until this supply is secured I shall not rest.
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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.
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Writers spend three years rearranging 26 letters of the alphabet. It's enough to make you lose your mind day by day.
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I have received so many letters, messages, emails, testimonies of women whom I meet in international conferences, wherever it may be, who tell me, 'It's great that you have balanced life and work so successfully.' I now think I have underestimated that, the 'role model' aspect of my life, I must say.
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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.
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In order to know somebody through their words, I mean, it has to be an, it has to be a letter, you know? It has to be a long e-mail. It has to be a five-page hand-written letter, you know, it has to be overwhelming and messy and sloppy as humans are.
