And the fury in my community was just staggering. The young priests in the parish were behind the message. The older priests… — Sara Paretsky Copy Share Image
My mother used to do all the things that were important to her after midnight. ... Sometimes I'd sneak downstairs and see… — Marita Golden Copy Share Image
Apart from letters, it is the vulgar custom of the moment to deride the thinkers of the Victorian and Edwardian eras; yet… — Ellen Glasgow Copy Share Image
“Reverend Fathers, my letters do not customarily follow one another so closely, nor are they usually so extensive. The little time I… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
I am furious at all the letters to answer, when all I want to do is think and write poems. ... I… — May Sarton Copy Share Image
Back in the day, fans wrote letters to groups - you'd get them, although it could take a while. Now, artists can… — Geddy Lee Copy Share Image
I like to joke that I probably hold the world record for rejection letters. Yes, the truth is that I was fed… — Ashwin Sanghi Copy Share Image
I'm sure I would have been considered a more significant artist if I was a singer-songwriter. It's just not the way I… — Bonnie Raitt Copy Share Image
There’s an old writing rule that says ‘Don’t have two character names start with the same letter’, but I knew at the… — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
I get letters from kids from all over the country. I always try to answer them because there were people I looked… — Condoleezza Rice Copy Share Image
Those who marry God can become domesticated too - it's just as hum-drum a marriage as all the others. The word Love… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
Our phone bills were astronomical, and when I found the letters Frank wrote me the other day, the total could fill a… — Ava Gardner Copy Share Image
Cliche refers to words, commonplace to ideas. Cliche describes the form or the letter, commonplace the substance or spirit. To confuse them… — Remy de Gourmont Copy Share Image
George Smiley: [quoting an old letter from Bill Haydon about Jim Prideaux] He has that heavy quiet that commands. He's my other… — John le Carre Copy Share Image
Let us begin this letter, this prelude to an encounter, formally, as a declaration, in the old-fashioned way: I love you. You… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
What I'm thinking about are the millions of people, many of whom write me very personal letters :"Dear Mr. President: I did… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
I was sending off my plays almost like an 8-year-old would send letters to Santa Claus. So it was a bit of… — Stephen Karam Copy Share Image
If the portraits of our absent friends are pleasant to us, which renew our memory of them and relieve our regret for… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“And I have no intention of going out with him just because he's "in love" with me. Which he's probably not. Because… — Louise Rozett Copy Share Image
My father is my biggest literary influence. Recently, I've been looking through his letters. He was in the National Guard when I… — Louise Erdrich Copy Share Image
The pen is an instrument of discovery rather than just a recording implement. If you write a letter of resignation or something… — Billy Collins Copy Share Image
“I will be gone from here and sing my songs/ In the forest wilderness where the wild beasts are,/ And carve in… — Virgil Copy Share Image
For me, like, the more interesting a letter is I just get more excited and I know that this going to be… — Adrian Tomine Copy Share Image
Someday I would love to write about Vincent van Gogh - his paintings and letters continue to inspire me very much. But… — Henri Nouwen 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
I'm not a political thinker, but I've just always thought of myself as a Labour supporter. I was a great fan of… — David Walliams 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
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
“They say no one reads anymore, but I find that's not the case. Prisoners read. I guess they're not given much access… — Rivka Galchen 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
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
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
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
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
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