Letter Quotes
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I got a letter from 13-year-old Ryan from Belfast. Now, Ryan, if you're out in the crowd tonight, here's the answer to your question. No, as far as I know, an alien spacecraft did not crash in Roswell, New Mexico, in 1947. And, Ryan, if the United States Air Force did recover alien bodies, they didn't tell me about it, either, and I want to know.
Bill Clinton
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My knowledge of the letter of the Shastras is better, but of true religion they are able to give me but little.
Mahatma Gandhi
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Tell a thousand people to draft a letter, let them debate every phrase, and see how long it takes and what you get.
Catherine the Great
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Even toward the middle of the century, there were occasions when the London mailbag for Edinburgh was found to contain only a single letter.
Bernard Bailyn
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I have made this letter longer than usual, only because I have not had the time to make it shorter.
Blaise Pascal
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For some time I lived in fear of receiving a letter signed 'S. Gollum'. That would have been more difficult to deal with.
J. R. R. Tolkien
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Theron had in fact written to Sophia, but his sister had not sent the letter. She did not think it would reassure his mother to be invited to witness the ceremony of his union with his wizard and lover, on the steps of the Great Hall, at the Festival of the Spring Sowing.
Ellen Kushner
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And when he saw the letter, her first letter, the first bit of her handwriting, by his plate at breakfast, he seized it so quickly and turned so red that Lewes was painfully clear as to who had written it. Poor Chris. Cumfrit. Clutches….
Elizabeth von Arnim
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The calligraphic letter is not entirely a letter,
but something that sits between writing and music
Abdelkebir Khatibi
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Read the heart and not the letter for the pen cannot draw near the good intent.
Michelangelo
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I'm a very careful, slow writer, and I think a lot of that comes from the care required to be a hand-printer, where if something isn't spaced out enough, you take little slivers of brass or copper and put them between each letter.
Paul Fleischman
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How can I explain to this woman—I thought—that from the age of six I've been a slave to letters and numbers, that my mood depends on the success of their combinations, that the joy of having done well is rare, unstable, that it lasts an hour, an afternoon, a night?
Elena Ferrante
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A pleasant letter I hold to be the pleasantest thing that this world has to give.
Anthony Trollope
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You always try and make a film that is a letter that will be read and we are so glad that it is being read by the right people in the right place and is inspiring change. It is also gratifying that the survivors are finding it healing and transformative. That's been really great.
Amy Ziering
