To put it one way, a collection of Shakespeare's plays is richer than a phone book that uses the same number of… — Hans Christian von Baeyer Copy Share Image
[Mark Twain] is still the rough, awkward, good-natured boy who swore at the deck hands when he was three years old. Thoroughly… — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
It is well enough, when one is talking to a friend, to lodge in an odd word by way of counsel now… — Mary Lamb Copy Share Image
Letter-writing I imagine is counted as 'work' from which you must abstain, and I scribble this letter simply from the self-satisfied notion… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
I had the easiest publishing experience in the entire world. I sent out fifteen courier letters to agents, got five no replies,… — Stephenie Meyer Copy Share Image
These days a typical netizen has dozens of online accounts. If you really want to be safe, you need to have a… — Daniel Lyons Copy Share Image
Reading is not just about learning to recognize and pronounce words, but also about how to hear and understand them... It is… — Marcus Borg Copy Share Image
It is certainly accurate, as it has often been said and as his letters reveal, that Grandpa supplied his tenth college reunion… — Jean Kennedy Smith Copy Share Image
“Dilly, do not ever forget your own people.” My brother came with me to wait for the mail car. He took off… — Edna O'Brien Copy Share Image
I've always had a very developed superego. I also had a very powerful id, but there was no ego in the middle.… — Etgar Keret Copy Share Image
Most feminists in France came to feminism after '68 as a result of the hypocrisy they experienced in leftist movements. In these… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
“In January 1912 Leonard proposed marriage. She was unable to answer directly and he pressed further in a passionate letter: ‘It isn’t,… — Jane Goldman Copy Share Image
Sir, Your letter of the 15th is received, but Age has long since obliged me to withhold my mind from Speculations of… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The American Constitution is remarkable for its simplicity; but it can only suffice a people habitually correct in their actions, and would… — Francis Grund Copy Share Image
There are stories within stories, whispered in the quiet of the night, shouted above the roar of the day, and played out… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“Dear 2600: …So, in the interest of information gathering and because I am a subscriber, are you going to be checking me… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If you remember the shape of your spoon at lunch, it has to be the wrong shape. The spoon and the letter… — Adrian Frutiger Copy Share Image
I receive a lot of letters like yours. Most go on in length, describing all sorts of maddening situations and communications in… — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
I am in no doubt that if you use the term 'luv' in a letter or text message then you are incapable… — Jon Richardson Copy Share Image
“This sounds crazy, but it is so. Nor is it perhaps really love when I say that for me you are the… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
How obvious it is now--the gift you gave him. All those letters, they were you... All those beautiful powerful words, they were… — Edmond Rostand Copy Share Image
I suffer panic attacks which has made me really conscious about my fitness and I have become addicted to jogging. It might… — Ellie Goulding Copy Share Image
I have what I came to find in my research is a mild form of synesthesia, though I never would have labeled… — Leni Zumas Copy Share Image
I get letters from young people telling me that they're broke and download my albums for free. They ask me what I… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
I got four volumes of the letters and speeches of Oliver Cromwell. He is prominent among the great unread, and treated so… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
We may compare the Bible to the Old Testament Tabernacle in the wilderness with its three courts. The outer court is the… — Arthur Tappan Pierson Copy Share Image
Never listen to a phone call that isn't meant for you. Never read a letter that isn't meant for you. Never pay… — Edward Kennedy Copy Share Image
In 1938, I. G. Farben sent a letter to (a major drug firm), one of its American subsidiaries, (that)..all advertising contracts must… — G. Edward Griffin Copy Share Image
The Minotaur unstrapped his axe and swung it around. It was beautiful in a harsh I’m~going~togut~you~like~a~fish kind of way. Each of its… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
A good play is a good play. If you want to chalk up your rejection letters to the fact that you're a… — Jane Anderson Copy Share Image
By an epiphany he meant a sudden spiritual manifestation, whether in the vulgarity of speech or of gesture or memorable phrase of… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
If you're looking for reps, write letters that are short and professional. Make sure you have a really great reel of yourself.… — Zawe Ashton Copy Share Image
The value of money has been settled by general consent to express our wants and our property, as letters were invented to… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
Sometimes girls write me. One girl in Yugoslavia sent me a whole slew of love letters. I don't know how she got… — Bobby Fischer Copy Share Image
More than two years after Mad About the Boy was published, the [Bridget Jones's Baby: The Diaries ] movie started coming together.… — Helen Fielding Copy Share Image
My wife and I, we knew each other back in 2001 but had fallen out of touch. One day, I had a… — David Lowery Copy Share Image
I’m a screwed-up person who no longer knows how to communicate with the people I love. But I meant everything I told… — Matthew Quick Copy Share Image
I read Naoko's letter again and again, and each time I read it I would be filled with the same unbearable sadness… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I have thousands of tapes, and photos and fliers, letters, posters, artwork - basically everything that ever happened, I kept. I'm not… — Ian MacKaye Copy Share Image
I am proposing to you as a rallying emblem the letter V, because V is the first letter of the words 'Victoire'… — Victor de Laveleye Copy Share Image