Letter Quotes

942 Letter quotes by 752 unique authors

Penning an advice column for the literary website The Rumpus, [Strayed] worked anonymously, using the pen name Sugar, replying to letters from readings suffering everything… — Leigh Newman
A comic script is basically a love letter from you to your artist, — Brian K. Vaughan
I'm speaking of the pursuit of excellence in all things. All things! Presence of mind and devotion to craft. A great artist has these. A… — Scott Lynch
To substitute Scripture for the self-revealing Spirit is to put the dead letter in the place of the living Word. — Sebastian Franck
I know that when a door closes, it can feel like all doors are closing. A rejection letter can feel like everyone will reject us.… — Tama J. Kieves
To preserve my brains I want food and this is now my first consideration. Any sympathetic letter from you will be helpful to me here… — Srinivasa Ramanujan
How endless is that volume which God hath written of the world! Every creature is a letter, every day a new page. — Joseph Hall
A piece of simple goodness--a letter gushing from the heart; a beautiful unstudied vindication of the worth and untiring sweetness of human nature--a record of… — Douglas William Jerrold
Leonard Woolf in a letter to Lytton Strachey said he hated John Maynard Keynes "for his crass stupidity and hideous face". — Leonard Woolf
I have known many an instance of a man writing a letter and forgetting to sign his name, but this is the only instance I… — Henry Ward Beecher
Preferment goes by letter and affection, And not by old gradation, where each second Stood heir to th's first. — William Shakespeare
PERFECTION, n. An imaginary state of quality distinguished from the actual by an element known as excellence; an attribute of the critic. The editor of… — Ambrose Bierce
In April, I asked my staff to determine if Senate rules and relevant laws would allow me to direct the trustees to sell any remaining… — Bill Frist
Today's comics use four-letter words as a shortcut to thinking. They're shooting for that big laugh and it becomes a panic thing, using four-letter words… — Red Skelton
When you do not accept the insult some one casts on you, it goes back to the person who indulged in it first; a registered… — Sathya Sai Baba
Everyday, the mail brings the thousands of letters, and you hand over to Me personally hundreds more. Yet, I do not take the help of… — Sathya Sai Baba
To pick up a cigarette wrapper or wine label or an old letter or the end of a carton is my way of dealing with… — Robert Motherwell
everyone who is human has something to express. Try not expressing yourself for twenty-four hours and see what happens. You will nearly burst. You will… — Brenda Ueland
When my first child was born in 1962, I wrote a letter to my grandfather telling him how happy I was but how concerned; concerned… — Harri Holkeri
An Eagle Scout deserves a letter of congratulations, but not a proclamation, ... That's a normal process. It's not a heroic process. — Frank Bruno
Work is a four-letter word. — Steven Morrissey
Typing is an essential skill, but it can be painful. Some children just don't know where the letters are. Typing a three-page story, when they… — Susan Mitchell
This is my letter to the world, that never wrote to me, the simple news that nature told, with tender majesty. Her message is committed,… — Emily Dickinson
And there I saw in the night the vision of a man....coming as it were from Ireland, with countless letters. And he gave me one… — Saint Patrick
I've become a collector of stories about unlikely returns: the sudden reappearance of the long-lost son, the father found, the lovers reunited after forty years.… — Karen Thompson Walker

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