Letters Quotes

1592 Letters quotes by 1184 unique authors

The material of typography is the black, and it is the designer’s task with the help of this black to capture space, to create harmonious… — Adrian Frutiger
Letters of the condemned. Last words scratched on a cell’s wall. To write like that. — Anna Kamienska
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
The stars are like letters that inscribe themselves at every moment in the sky. Everything in the world is full of signs. All events are… — Plotinus
Since that deluge of newspaper articles I have been so flooded with questions, invitations, suggestions, that I keep dreaming I am roasting in Hell, and… — Albert Einstein
When things are going well, you do have the sense that what you’re writing is being fed to you in some way. Auden compared writing… — Martin Amis
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
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
I think I was born with a sense of instantaneous connection between the things I perceived in the world and my feelings about those things… — Wendy Lesser
To me, reading through old letters and journals is like treasure hunting. Somewhere in those faded, handwritten lines there is a story that has been… — Sara Sheridan
I've found myself moved by letters and diaries in archives as well as trashy, summer blockbusters. It's possible to make a connection with any kind… — Sara Sheridan
Letters to absence can a voice impart, And lend a tongue when distance gags the heart. — Horace Walpole
The most disgusting four letter word in the English language is 'cage'. — Philip Wollen
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
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
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
Instruction does much, but encouragement everything." (Letter to A.F. Oeser, Nov. 9, 1768) — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Socrates called beauty a short-lived tyranny; Plato, a privilege of nature; Theophrastus, a silent cheat; Theocritus, a delightful prejudice; Carneades, a solitary kingdom; Aristotle, that… — Francis Quarles
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
For ages past the Genius of Literature and the Genius of Art have walked together hand in hand. For the Goddess of letters is blind,… — Howard Pyle
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
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
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
Nothing so needs reforming as other people's habits. Fanatics will never learn that, though it be written in letters of gold across the sky. It… — Mark Twain
The age of technology has both revived the use of writing and provided ever more reasons for its spiritual solace. Emails are letters, after all,… — Anna Quindlen

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