Sir Alec Douglas-Home, when he was British Foreign Secretary, said he received the following telegram from an irate citizen: "To hell with… — William Safire Copy Share Image
Leonard Woolf in a letter to Lytton Strachey said he hated John Maynard Keynes "for his crass stupidity and hideous face". — Leonard Woolf Copy Share Image
(My proudest moment as a child was the time I beat my uncle Pierre at Scrabble with the seven-letter word FARTING.) — Tina Fey Copy Share Image
What do we do with a president who can basically change what Congress passed by attaching a letter saying I don't agree… — Trey Gowdy Copy Share Image
I could never read the letters on the blackboard or anything at school, but I could run around and play football. — Chris McCausland Copy Share Image
Creating legislation is a tough process. But watering down legislation? Strangling it with lawsuits and comment letters and blue-ribbon committees? Not so… — Matt Taibbi Copy Share Image
Letters had always defeated distance, but with the coming of e-mail, time seemed to be vanquished as well. — Thomas Mallon Copy Share Image
The heart with letters on it shining like a light bulb through the trim hole painted in the chest, art history. — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
We may expect answers to prayer, and should not be easy without them any more than we should be if we had… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
The art of art, the glory of expression, is simplicity. Nothing is better than simplicity, and the sunlight of letters is simplicity.… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
Letters were first invented for consoling such solitary wretches as myself. Having lost the substantial pleasures of seeing and possessing you, I… — Heloise Copy Share Image
In the English language, it all comes down to this: Twenty-six letters, when combined correctly, can create magic. Twenty -six letters form… — John Grogan Copy Share Image
My alphabet starts with this letter called yuzz. It s the letter I use to spell yuzz a ma tuzz. You ll… — Dr. Seuss Copy Share Image
My first serious attempts at writing were made in 1868, and I took up two very different lines of composition; I wrote… — Annie Besant Copy Share Image
After telephone, kinematograph and phonograph had replaced newspaper, book schoolmaster and letter, to live outside the range of the electric cables was… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I started on computers with 'Billy Bathgate,' a little orange screen with black letters. I thought it was really cool, but it… — E. L. Doctorow Copy Share Image
Nothing will turn you into a Civil War buff like five years of reading. Some of the letters that people wrote from… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
“ My Sabine, I just left your room. You were so beautiful lying there sound asleep that I couldn’t bear to wake… — Jessica Shirvington Copy Share Image
I think there's a lot of benefit in letting people vent. When I was on the Manchester Evening News, we got 500… — Harold Evans Copy Share Image
This is all very fine, but it won't do-Anatomy-botany-Nonsense! Sir, I know an old woman in Covent Garden, who understands botany better,… — Thomas Sydenham Copy Share Image
Paul commands: 'Therefore, brethren, stand fast and hold the Traditions which you have been taught, whether by word or by our letter.'… — Saint John Chrysostom Copy Share Image
For at least twenty minutes she handed out the story. The youngest kids were soothed by her voice, and everyone else saw… — Markus Zusak Copy Share Image
No nation can be really great unless it is great in peace, in industry, integrity, honesty. Skilled intelligence in civic affairs and… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
But what I really long to know you do not tell either: what you feel, although I've given you hints by the… — Gail Carson Levine Copy Share Image
It's an honor to stand for God, and if we want to know where we should be standing, the red letters in… — Monica Johnson Copy Share Image
Never demean yourself by talking back to a critic, never. Write those letters to the editor in your head, but don't put… — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
In 1795, I sent him another letter, telling him, that danger still stood before us, and that the truth of what I… — Joanna Southcott Copy Share Image
Another nice thing was that I would type out letters home for the admiral's stewards. They would then feed me the same… — Jack Adams Copy Share Image
I don't read the "letters" section of Time magazine. I think it's just my habit as a reader. I don't read comments… — Joel Stein Copy Share Image
I am a being comprised of letters, a character created by sentences, a figment of imagination formed through fiction. — Tahereh Mafi Copy Share Image
For 'tis sweet to stammer one letter Of the Eternal's language; - on earth it is called Forgiveness! — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
In almost all my work, I try to re-invent Christian images and stories and themes. You'd be amazed by the letters I… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
You deserve a longer letter than this; but it is my unhappy fate seldom to treat people so well as they deserve. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Someday she might replace whatever of her had gone away by some prosthetic device, a dress of a certain color, a phrase… — Thomas Pynchon Copy Share Image
I have boxes of letters about the generous things people have done for other people. Numerous people have adopted children. I have… — Leigh Anne Tuohy Copy Share Image
And if kisses in these words could travel too, Madam, you'd read this letter with your lips. — Edmond Rostand Copy Share Image
Letters, like compilation tapes, were really vehicles for unexpressed emotions and she was clearly putting far too much time and energy into… — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
When I read Andrew Motion's biography, I wept. It's something about the purity of the story and how fresh it was because… — Jane Campion Copy Share Image
What I didn't say was that each time I picked up a German dictionary or a German book, the very sight of… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
“It is rather frightening to be able to write so revoltingly, yet so successfully. All these letters are works of art, except,… — Stella Gibbons Copy Share Image
