Children make better readers than adults. They read as carefully as I write; adults read as a means of getting off to… — Daniel Pinkwater Copy Share Image
I still get a lot of letters from kids and parents who face different challenges and disabilities. I share some of the… — Jim Abbott Copy Share Image
In business a reputation for keeping absolutely to the letter and spirit of an agreement, even when it is unfavorable, is the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I had hoped I would have some definitive news to give you by now, but I've heard (unofficially) that they need/will take… — Sundiata Acoli Copy Share Image
letters are venerable; and the telephone valiant, for the journey is a lonely one, and if bound together by notes and telephones… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
I want my thoughts to be an incentive for the reader to give his or her own thoughts. After I wrote 'Proust… — Maryanne Wolf Copy Share Image
We hope that the elected officials will respond positively to a ground swell of letters, phone calls, e-mails and visits from parents.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Weren’t all books ultimately related? After all, the same letters filled them, just arranged in a different order. Which meant that, in… — Cornelia Funke Copy Share Image
…the interesting thing was that the Roman Catholic monks and the Buddhist monks had no trouble understanding each other. Each of them… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
I really think kids should understand that music is like learning the alphabet. You put small letters together to make words, and… — Terry Bozzio Copy Share Image
This Administration also puts forward a false choice between the liberties we cherish and the security we demand... That means no more… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
I knew Pluto was popular among elementary schoolkids, but I had no idea they would mobilize into a 'Save Pluto' campaign. I… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
If a picture, which is but a mute representation of an object, can give such pleasure, what cannot letters inspire? They have… — Heloise Copy Share Image
I saved letters from my boss. There are things in there that are directly transcribed. I was so glad I did that.… — Melissa Febos Copy Share Image
“For these reasons, as soon as my age permitted me to pass from under the control of my instructors, I entirely abandoned… — René Descartes Copy Share Image
“Letters are, of course, quite special in my view, for when a reader has been sufficiently moved (or even perturbed) by a… — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
I am trying to persuade my family to spend more time in China. It's no fun to be in exile. I can't… — Ma Jian Copy Share Image
I hear from readers a good deal, and I try to answer every letter. I think, because of my commitment to issues… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
I'm receiving 300 to 500 letters every week from people telling me that God used my stories to save their marriage or… — Karen Kingsbury Copy Share Image
My name came from me wanting a 'double-letter' artist name. In search of the ultimate L-word to put in front of my… — Laidback Luke Copy Share Image
If atoms do, by chance, happen to combine themselves into so many shapes, why have they never combined together to form a… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
“I write - poignantly, in the most heartfelt way - about how I miss her and how I detest my life in… — William Boyd Copy Share Image
Never forget that you must die; that death will come sooner than you expect... God has written the letters of death upon… — John Furniss Copy Share Image
a letter, by its arrival, defrauds us of a whole secret region of our existence, the only region indeed in which the… — Vita Sackville-West Copy Share Image
Math-thinking, I would say, encourages flipping and substituting letters in words (in the novel, one of the boys double-majors in math and… — Mary Kay Zuravleff Copy Share Image
I do feel haunted by some of the letters and the suffering people have endured. But I keep in mind that the… — Emily Yoffe Copy Share Image
The Bible is not just one book, but an entire library, with stories, songs, poetry, letters and history, as well as literature… — John Drane Copy Share Image
[John Adams] diary, of course, is even more revealing of his feelings. Both his letters to [his wife] Abigail and his diary… — Gordon S. Wood Copy Share Image
“An inspired letter can be as riveting as a stare. It can move us to tears, spur us to action, provoke us,… — Alexandra Stoddard Copy Share Image
Sometimes I go, “What am I doing with my life?” But then I get letters from young women, or people come up… — Helena Bonham Carter Copy Share Image
If you're building a startup or any sort of organization, take a few moments to reflect on the qualities that the people… — Matt Mullenweg Copy Share Image
“I don't know what you have against the girl's letter. Its purpose, to make you a bit jealous, it did after all… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
People no longer write letters. Lacking the leisure, and, for the most part, the ability, they dictate dispatches, and scribble messages. When… — Joel Chandler Harris Copy Share Image
For me the process works best with no interruptions, no breaks in the steady application, no letters to be answered, very little… — Patrick O'Brian Copy Share Image
“Rising up he put the box containing all of Mack’s words down on the table, pushed it forward with the very tips… — Mandy Baggot Copy Share Image
I get some letters from a lot of people. Sometimes it's nice, with letters from kids or from parents of kids who… — Jo-Wilfried Tsonga Copy Share Image
Mitt Romney has a fund-raiser. He's going to get in the ring and fight Evander Holyfield. This is the dumbest thing Republicans… — David Letterman Copy Share Image
“When you can’t run and deliver like you used to, make sure your letters still bleed with imagery under the stampede of… — Curtis Tyrone Jones Copy Share Image
One of the things that's pretty unique about nu shu, when you look especially at these old letters and stories that have… — Lisa See Copy Share Image
What are letters?” “Kinda like mediaglyphics except they’re all black, and they’re tiny, they don’t move, they’re old and boring and really… — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image