Letters Quotes · Page 34

To this day, we get letters at Alternative Tentacles from young teenagers who hide their Dead Kennedys albums behind their mirror or…

— Jello Biafra

It is the custom of the Roman Church which I unworthily serve with the help of God, to tolerate some things, to…

— Pope Gregory VII

there are lots of ways of answering a letter - and writing doesn't happen to be mine.

— Edith Wharton

We call the slope of a line m because the word "slope" begins with the letter m.

— Howard Whitley Eves

I'm much more into old-world, intimate conversations on the phone. I like to write letters.

— Kimora Lee Simmons

The brain is the most complicated organ in the universe. We have learned a lot about other human organs. We know how…

— Francis Collins

I get letters from kids from all over the country. I always try to answer them because there were people I looked…

— Condoleezza Rice

“There is something about that burning of all those letters that gives me pause: why should everything be made clear and be…

— Edmund de Waal

I have now attained the true art of letter-writing, which we are always told, is to express on paper exactly what one…

— Jane Austen

When I'm really involved or getting towards the end of a novel, I can write for up to ten hours a day.…

— Joyce Carol Oates

Everybody was strange. In a fit of frustration, she scratched out strange and wrote the word CRACKPOTS in big letters.

— Kristin Cashore

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

— Duff Green

He [Uncle Vernon] held up the envelope in which Mrs. Weasley’s letter had come, and Harry had to fight down a laugh.…

— Anonymous

The wise man is but a clever infant, spelling letters from a hieroglyphical prophetic book, the lexicon of which lies in eternity.

— Thomas Carlyle

Harriet Jones: When they fart, if you'll pardon the word, it doesn't smell like a fart, pardon the word, it's like something…

— Russell T Davies

Early in my career I began receiving letters from a woman in the Midwest who claimed to be my mother.

— Charley Pride

Rebukes are easy from our betters, From men of quality and letters; But when low dunces will affront, What man alive can…

— Jonathan Swift

We often dream about people from whom we receive a letter by the next post. I have ascertained on several occasions that…

— Anonymous

Try writing...a list, a letter, a journal, a novel, a declaration.

— Sir David Baird, 1st Baronet

I'm a scientist. We don't talk about the spirit. Soul is a four letter word in our tradition.

— Candace Pert

The traditional spokespersons for the Evangelicals, such as Chuck Colson and James Dobson, have become alarmed about this drift away from the…

— Tony Campolo

The one good thing about not seeing you is that I can write you letters.

— Svetlana Alliluyeva

There are only 17,000 three-letter acronyms.

— Paul Boutin

Most well-known serial killers have victims numbering in the dozens, have sent taunting letters to the police or have done bizarre things…

— Pat Brown

But what can you say in a letter?

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn