Letters Quotes
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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.
Sherman Alexie -
Keeping her man well fed and fucked are number one priorities that she can’t slack on because you can never know when a woman dressed to the nines with a blond wig, long legs and a high fat ass that should have been equal to you in almost every way may decide to hop on the first southbound Greyhound and end up looking at you through whispering letters on a dusty storefront window.
Bernice L. McFadden
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Death to all modifiers, he declared one day, and out of every letter that passed through his hands went every adverb and every adjective.
Joseph Heller -
Those who cultivate letters must be supplied with the books necessary for their purpose; and until this supply is secured I shall not rest.
Aldus Manutius -
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.
Sun Ra -
Good traders trade. Good letter writers write letters.
Ed Seykota -
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?
Anne Reeve Aldrich -
The biggest problem is that people want to tell the whole story, and they write letters that are way longer than anything I could possibly run.
Emily Yoffe
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Scriptures are Letters from Home. Can you imagine getting a letter from home and not even bothering to open it?
Ardeth Kapp -
Chain letters are the postal equivalent of intestinal flu: you get it and pass it along to your friends.
Bob Garfield -
Now I know that that is just the phenomena of eating this way. Most all of my letters say I hit a plateau and then one morning I woke up and the melt had happened.
Suzanne Somers -
Books and opinions, no matter from whom they came, if they are in opposition to human rights, are nothing but dead letters.
Ernestine Rose -
A great typeface is not a collection of beautiful letters, but a beautiful collection of letters.
Walter Tracy -
Reverend Fathers, my letters did not usually follow each other at such close intervals, nor were they so long.... This one would not be so long had I but the leisure to make it shorter.
Blaise Pascal
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The proper definition of a man is an animal that writes letters.
Lewis Carroll -
The Bible is the truest utterance that ever came by alphabetic letters from the soul of man, through which, as through a window divinely opened, all men can look into the stillness of eternity, and discern in glimpses their far-distant, long-forgotten home.
Thomas Carlyle -
Early on, people invested in me because of my letters and then, somehow, after they invested, they stopped reading them.
Michael Burry -
I never really got over the fun of making letters.
Anne Carson -
To substitute Scripture for the self-revealing Spirit is to put the dead letter in the place of the living Word.
Sebastian Franck -
I taught myself to read when I was three by comparing the letters in my Mother Goose book with the rhymes I had memorised.
Rebecca Makkai
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I receive a lot of letters on tour, and read about a lot of people hurting.
Alex Gaskarth All Time Low -
You and your friends could plan the trip of a lifetime in 6-18 months to visit the completed school, teeming with dozens or hundreds of students who greet you with smiles and thank you letters. You'll know it's your school because your names will be on the door.
Tim Ferriss -
Were all the letters sun, I could not see one.
William Shakespeare -
It's not easy to start over in a new place,' he said. 'Exile is not for everyone. Someone has to stay behind, to receive the letters and greet family members when they come back.
Edwidge Danticat