True greatness is when your name is like ampere, watt, and fourier-when it's spelled with a lower case letter. — Richard Hamming Copy Share Image
And it's a pity too that I've no right to open your letters. I hope you don't get many, or my conscience… — Diana Wynne Jones Copy Share Image
“atque illi artifices corporis simulacra ignotis nota faciebant; quae uel si nulla, nihilo sint tamen obscuriores clari uiri.” — Cicero Copy Share Image
If a tax hike makes it to my desk, I'll veto it in less time than it takes Vanna White to turn… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
but paper and ink have conjuring abilities of their own. arrangements of lines and shapes, of letters and words on a series… — Lynda Barry Copy Share Image
I received thousands of letters of support from all around the world, all because I wanted to go to school. — Ryan White Copy Share Image
“Today a young poet brought me 75 poems, some of them many pages long, I shall no doubt make an enemy of… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
“Books are love letters (or apologies) passed between us, adding a layer of conversation beyond our spoken words.” — Donalyn Miller Copy Share Image
When I think of the library of Alexandria and of the fact that, although it burnt down, people continue to sort the… — Alexander Kluge Copy Share Image
Sending a handwritten letter is becoming such an anomaly. It's disappearing. My mom is the only one who still writes me letters.… — Steve Carell Copy Share Image
Philosophy is written in this grand book, the universe, which stands continually open to our gaze. But the book cannot be understood… — Galileo Galilei Copy Share Image
Times have changed since 2002 when I won a spot in the group 'Popstars.' Back in the day we would get fan… — Josh Henderson Copy Share Image
I've read some of Kurt Vonnegut letters from when he was young. He was a prisoner of war, and even when he… — Susan Sarandon Copy Share Image
People were buying milk, or filling their cars with petrol, or even posting letters. And what no one else knew was the… — Rachel Joyce Copy Share Image
Iran welcomes dialogue with any other states. I wrote a letter to the three European states inviting them to resume talks, but,… — Ali Larijani Copy Share Image
If anybody thinks they should listen to me because I'm a professor at MIT, that's nonsense. You should decide whether something makes… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
There was a blithe certainty that came from first comprehending the full Einstein field equations, arabesques of Greek letters clinging tenuously to… — Gregory Benford Copy Share Image
“I don't want to get landed in an affair which might get beyond my control before I knew where I was. [...]… — Vita Sackville-West Copy Share Image
I have tried to teach my siblings not to detest insult or berate, but I cannot follow my own advice when I… — Tiana Webb Copy Share Image
As I never saw my father or my mother, and never saw any likeness of either of them (for their days were… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
As a rule, you see, I'm not lugged into Family Rows. On the occasions when Aunt is calling Aunt like mastodons bellowing… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I still think about the letter you asked me to write. It nags at me, even though you're gone and there's no… — Rebecca Stead Copy Share Image
“Dear you, Yes, you. The person reading this right now. If you're anything like me, sometimes you might feel like you don't… — Emily Trunko Copy Share Image
The act of sending a letter is an act of generosity, even if, in retrospect, it might seem reckless. Why regret one's… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
And anyway, the first three letters in the word diet should tell you what I want it to do. — Becca Fitzpatrick Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
In the ancients, one sees the accomplished letter of entire poetry: in the moderns, one has the presentiment of the spirit in… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
There is no letter of the law to follow in Zen. There is a lot of etiquette, but there are no rules. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“It was through words I found you. Through words, I reach you. And through words, I beg to keep you close.” — Caroline George Copy Share Image
When you do not accept the insult some one casts on you, it goes back to the person who indulged in it… — Sathya Sai Baba Copy Share Image
For fiction, I'm not particularly nationalistic. I'm not like the Hugo Chavez of Latin American letters, you know? I want people to… — Daniel Alarcon Copy Share Image
I get nice letters, but really I have no idea. I just try to enthuse people. You've been married for 31 years. — Alan Titchmarsh Copy Share Image
Harvey Publications hired me as a letterer, and they found out six seconds after I got the job that I couldn't letter.… — Ernie Colon Copy Share Image
Amongst the friends of Allah (Awliya), the Qur'an is considered as a love letter from Allah, which inevitably is read continuously to… — Muhammad Tahir-ul-Qadri Copy Share Image
I have tried to be a man of letters in love with ideas in order to be a wiser and more loving… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
You know you're getting old when a four-letter word for something pleasurable two people can do in bed together is R-E-A-D. — Denis Norden Copy Share Image
The neurotic lies awake at night, composing letters to those he hates. He seldom thinks of dropping a line to those he… — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
She nodded, wondering why couldn't she have been named Mary. Or Sue. Butno , she had to be nine-letter Elizabeth. — J.R. Ward Copy Share Image
To preserve my brains I want food and this is now my first consideration. Any sympathetic letter from you will be helpful… — Srinivasa Ramanujan Copy Share Image
Never take any notice of Anonymous letters, unless you get a few thousand on the same subject. — Robert Menzies Copy Share Image
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