Letters Quotes · Page 96

The true character of epistolary style is playfulness and urbanity.

— Joseph Joubert

Predictions that unit cohesion could not survive honesty about sexual orientation were simply wrong. What does threaten morale arethe prolonged investigations, the…

— Anna Quindlen

Interestingly, 'October Sky' is an anagram of 'Rocket Boys', the same letters just moved around. This was discovered by director Joe Johnston…

— Homer Hickam

Christmas cards ... are technically only junk mail from people you know.

— Patricia Marx

I'm a poet. I distrust anything that starts with a capital letter and ends with a full stop because people don't think…

— Antjie Krog

Love letters are supposed to be private. [Eva Braun] was very secretive about all that.

— Gretl Braun

We get letters a few times a year from people that write papers on the show. You know, like, 'Oh, my psychology…

— James Murray

I loved them all the way one loves at any age -- if it's real at all -- obsessively, painfully, with wild…

— May Sarton

My faith grew strong, and I sent a letter (as I was ordered) to the Rev. Dignitary of the Cathedral of Exeter.…

— Joanna Southcott

I don't celebrate because I'm only doing my job. When a postman delivers letters, does he celebrate?

— Mario Balotelli

My mother found a letter, though, that I wrote her when I was 8 years old and it was a letter where…

— Kristen Stewart

[A formula for answering controversial letters -- without even reading the letters:] Dear Sir (or Madame): You may be right.

— H. L. Mencken

I have always hated flying. I mainly pass the time writing letters. I am very old school and I still keep many…

— Vaginal Davis

I knew [Eva Braun] wrote to [Adolf Hitler], I would see her writing to him and I would see her reading his…

— Gretl Braun

Clinton's team used a technology called BleachBit, which is basically acid, and this is going to acid wash her emails. Who would…

— Donald Trump

I hadn't heard the Gary Cooper thing so I'm not grounded now. I feel pretty good. That's incredibly nice. When I met…

— John Krasinski

Spelling mistakes in a letter is like a bug on a white shirt.

— Faina Ranevskaya

I have what I came to find in my research is a mild form of synesthesia, though I never would have labeled…

— Leni Zumas

I have so fixed the habit in my own mind that I never raise a glass of water to my lips without…

— Stonewall Jackson

Books are frozen voices, in the same way that musical scores are frozen music. The score is a way of transmitting the…

— Margaret Atwood

Did you really JUST fall, Jeffrey? Why does everybody in my family talk in these dramatic CAPITAL LETTERS all the time? Why…

— Jordan Sonnenblick

At the end of the 1950s, I started working at a publishing company, Estudios Cor, as production manager, so returning, but not…

— Jose Saramago

According to the letter of the Gita, it is possible to say that warfare is consistent with renunciation of fruit.

— Mahatma Gandhi

I get a lot of letters. Not only from children but from adults, too. Almost every week, every month, clippings come in…

— Robert McCloskey

Then there's the joy of getting your desk clean, and knowing that all your letters are answered, and you can see the…

— Lady Bird Johnson