Best 885 quotes in «letters quotes» category

We were very kindly received by the English merchants to whom my companion had letters, and we set ourselves to learn what was the real state of things in Mexico.

What about e-mail? It is e-mail, yes?" Morley asked, leaning even closer. "E-mail is a kind of electronic letter. It travels through the air." He seemed very smug that he knew that. "Well, not exactly, and would you please either BACK OFF or go find a shower?

What did the letter O say to Q? Dude, your dikk is hanging out.

Whatever is unnamed, undepicted in images, whatever is omitted from biography, censored in collections of letters, whatever is misnamed as something else, made difficult-to-come-by, whatever is buried in the memory by the collapse of meaning under an inadequate or lying language - this will become, not merely unspoken, but unspeakable.

What happened to romance? Sappy, soppy longhand love letters.

What is this gypsy passion for separation, this readiness to rush off when we've just met? My head rests in my hands as I realize, looking into the night that no one turning over our letters has yet understood how completely and how deeply faithless we are, which is to say: how true we are to ourselves.

When a robot dies, you don't have to write a letter to its mother.

When I'm really involved or getting towards the end of a novel, I can write for up to ten hours a day. At those times, it's as though I'm writing a letter to someone I'm desperately in love with.

When griefs are genuine, I find, there is nothing more vacuous, more burdensome, or even more impertinent, than letters of consolation.

When I first began to combine letters other than Hebrew, I read every book in German that came my way, and from these I certainly received according to the nature of my soul.

When I went to jail, I was a trained lawyer. And when the wardens received letters of demands or summonses, they didn't have the resources to go to an attorney to help them. I would help them settle their cases, so they became attached to me and the other prisoners.

When it comes to bombshells, there are few that can be more effective than that small, flat, frail thing, a letter.

When John Adams - when - James Madison was writing - pretty much writing the Constitution, he got a letter from Thomas Jefferson, who was then-ambassador to France. And Jefferson said - I am paraphrasing - `Do not forget to keep habeas corpus and strengthen it.' That - in - that's the oldest English-speaking right. It goes back to the Magna Carta in 1215.

When I read Andrew Motion's biography, I wept. It's something about the purity of the story and how fresh it was because of the love letters Keats wrote.

When I was a kid in Houston, we were so poor we couldn't afford the last 2 letters, so we called ourselves po'.

When you find you don't like a character, you just type four letters and he's dead.

When Yoko [Ono] and I got married, we got terrible racialist letters - you know, warning me that she would slit my throat. Those mainly came from Army people living in Aldershot. Officers.

When you get arrested it's in big letters. When you get acquitted it's in small letters.

When the film was presented in New York, the distributor reproduced the fountain scene on a billboard as high as a skyscraper. My name was in the middle in huge letters, Fellini's was at the bottom, very tiny. Now the name of Fellini has become very great, mine very little.

When we separate the word business into its component letters, B-U-S-I-N-E-S-S, we find that U and I are both in it. In fact, if U and I were not in business, it would not be business. Furthermore, we discover that U comes before I in business and the I is silent-it is to be seen, not heard. Also, the U in business has the sound of I, which indicates it is an amalgamation of the interests of U and I. When they are properly amalgamated, business becomes harmonious, profitable, and pleasant.

When you travel to the Celestial City, carry no letter of introduction. When you knock, ask to see God,--none of the servants.

When you see a handwritten envelope addressed to you in your packet of mail when you get your mail out of the mailbox - when you see a personal letter waiting for you - it's exciting. It touches you. You say "Oh, somebody really thought of me and didn't just slap a mailing label across an envelope. Somebody wrote something to me.

While [Domald] Trump chose a running mate, [Mike] Pence, who wrote [a letter to an Indianapolis newspaper] about how women shouldn't work because it's bad for the family. So we're really facing such a stark contrast between the candidates. Not to mention the vulgarity that Trump has been spouting about women for his entire life and continues to throughout his campaign. It's just a different world that we'd be living in [if he won].

Where there is no market economy, the best intentioned provisions of constitutions and laws remain a dead letter.

Whoever dreamed up Scrabble had an exaggerated idea of how many 7-letter words have five i's.

Why' is a crooked letter and can't be made straight.

Without the letters of condolence, telegrams of congratulations and even occasional postcards, the friendship of a separated friend is not a social reality. It has no existence without the rites of friendship. Social rituals create a reality which would be nothing without them.

Why' is the only question that bothers people enough to have an entire letter of the alphabet named after it. The alphabet does not go 'A B C D What? When? How?' but it does go 'V W X Why? Z.

Will the kindness of this letter excuse the shortness of it?

With the benefit of hindsight, the content of that letter has bothered me since her death.

Write: write letters. Keep journals. Besides your children, there is no surer way of achieving immortality.

Woman--with a capital letter--should by now have ceased to be a specialty. There should be no more need of "movements" on her behalf, and agitations for her advancement and developmentthan for the abolition of negro slavery in the United States.

Words are the source of all power. And names are more than just a collection of letters.

Write letters to your grandmother. She will love it. And leave you money in her will.

Woe to the makers of literal translations, who by rendering every word weaken the meaning! It is indeed by so doing that we can say the letter kills and the spirit gives life.

Words had started swimming off the page, circling my head, the letters doing one-eighties as if they were riding skateboards.

Words matter. Especially ones with four letters.

Write letters to your editors, write to your members of Congress, and write to your news stations.

Writers spend three years rearranging 26 letters of the alphabet. It's enough to make you lose your mind day by day

Yeah, I've gotten a few letters from prison.

Writing is, in the end, that oddest of anomalies: an intimate letter to a stranger.

Writing a good query letter has very little to do with writing a good novel. But if you can't write the one, it makes it really hard to get the other published.

'Y' is about the weakest letter of all. 'Y' can't make up its mind if it's a vowel or a consonant, can it?

You can email me, but I prefer letters that come through conventional mail. I like letters that have been licked by strangers.

You are a fool in four letters, my son.

You can send people letters, and show them photos, but they can never come to visit where you live. Unless you love them. And then they can burn it down.

You cannot ... transmute some incoherent mixture of words into sense merely by introducing the three-letter word "God" to be its grammatical subject.

You can write a letter with a typewriter, a pencil, or a crayon. What you have to say is the important thing.

You know what a fan letter is - it's just an inky raspberry.

You grow up watching certain films or admiring certain filmmakers, and to write a love letter to one and have them validate it, it's extraordinary.