Letter Quotes
942 Letter quotes by 752 unique authors
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Maybe we all need to leave our children with a value legacy, and not a financial one. A value for things with a personal touch…
— Lakshmi Pratury
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Love was like rain: it turned into ice, or it disappeared. Now you saw it, now you couldn't find it no matter how hard you…
— Alice Hoffman
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I'm not a tweeter or a Facebooker or a Grammer. I'm a real grump when it comes to technology. I'm like, come on, just write…
— Matt Smith
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Chickenshit refers to behavior that makes military life worse than it need be: petty harassment of the weak by the strong; open scrimmage for power…
— Paul Fussell
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Amongst the friends of Allah (Awliya), the Qur'an is considered as a love letter from Allah, which inevitably is read continuously to remind them of…
— Muhammad Tahir-ul-Qadri
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The difference between the casual impression and the intensified image is about as great as that separating the average business letter from a poem. If…
— Harry Callahan
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In a scene [where the improvisers must interact] without the letter S, the audience is waiting for you to lose - so they can laugh…
— Keith Johnstone
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The shelves of books we haven't written, like those of books we haven't read, stretches out into the darkness of the universal library's farthest space.…
— Alberto Manguel
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Each letter of the alphabet is a steadfast loyal soldier in a great army of words, sentences, paragraphs, and stories. One letter falls, and the…
— Vera Nazarian
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Sending a handwritten letter is becoming such an anomaly. It's disappearing. My mom is the only one who still writes me letters. And there's something…
— Steve Carell
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Friends will write me letters. They run out of room on the front of the letter. They write 'over' on the bottom of the letter.…
— Ellen DeGeneres
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The most disgusting four letter word in the English language is 'cage'.
— Philip Wollen
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One of the key pleasures of receiving a letter is the act of holding and entering the envelope - a sort of cross between Christmas…
— Nick Bantock
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The telephone is a great knee-jerk machine, but if you really want to tell someone how you feel, you need the slowness of the letter.…
— Nick Bantock
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One can take a neon tube and simply paint it black on the front. So it would read as a black letter or a line,…
— Glenn Ligon
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Instruction does much, but encouragement everything." (Letter to A.F. Oeser, Nov. 9, 1768)
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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The letter we all love to receive is one that carries so much of the writer’s personality that she seems to be sitting beside us,…
— Emily Post
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It is when one begins to lose the consciousness of freedom, and when the idea of necessity enters the world at all, when there is…
— Isak Dinesen
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As someone who grew up in the Bronx, I certainly learned my share of four-letter words, but none are more powerful than nice.
— Linda Kaplan Thaler
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A letter is always better than a phone call. People write things in letters they would never say in person. They permit themselves to write…
— Alice Steinbach
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To cash paid for saddlery, a letter case, maps, glasses, etc etc etc. for the use of my Command: 29 pounds 13 shillings and sixpence...…
— George Washington
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I was haunted always by my other life-my drab room in the Bronx, my square foot of the subway, my fixation upon the day's letter…
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
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I had to wait nine days for a letter that said a lot of very silly things.
— Unknown Author
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While the government can tell you that I am an innocent man, the government's letter cannot give me back my good name or my reputation.
— Richard Jewell
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On an iPhone, you touch on the digital keyboard and you know how the letter pops up and shows up bigger so you're making sure…
— Stephen Elop
Who Wrote These Letter Quotes
752 authors contributed a total of 942 Letter Quotes, led by these top contributors: