12 Letter Sayings

#1. When I was 12 I cried to my mom, because I never got my letter to Hogwarts.

Sara Paxton

#2. In a letter from Bath to her sister, Cassandra, one senses her frustration at her sheltered existence, Tuesday, 12 May 1801. Another stupid party ... with six people to look on, and talk nonsense to each other.

Jane Austen

#3. No more I do, your Majesty. But what's that got to do with it? I might as well die on a wild goose chase as die here.

C.S. Lewis

#4. The resume focuses on you and the past. The cover letter focuses on the employer and the future. Tell the hiring professional what you can do to benefit the organization in the future. (12)

Joyce Lain Kennedy

#5. I expect to think that I would rather be author of your book [The Origin of Species] than of any other on Nat. Hist. Science.
[Letter to Charles Darwin 12 Dec 1859]

Joseph Dalton Hooker

#6. My parents told me any and every fairy-tale from all around the world. I usually gravitated towards ones with interesting, strong heroines.

Sarah J. Maas

#7. In 1795, I sent him another letter, telling him, that danger still stood before us, and that the truth of what I had written in 1792 was to be proved by 12 men.

Joanna Southcott

#8. The Tanzanian told her that all fiction was therapy, some sort of therapy, no matter what anybody said.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

#9. If I'd had a man of my own, I'd have followed him ... down to hell.

Honore De Balzac

#10. We weep,
tears of blood,
we weep,
In despair, crying,
we weep;
the sun forever has stolen
the light from his eyes.
No more his face do we see,
no more his voice do we hear,
nor will his affectionate gaze
watch over his people.

Jane Bierhorst

#11. If you don't got endz, you won't be gettin' no skinz,
And if you don't got money, you won't scoop a honey.
If you don't got cash, you won't be gettin' no ass,
And if you don't got loot, you won't be knockin' no boots.

Big L

#12. I'm talking to you and it's basically a direct communication, whereas if I'm writing a letter to you and you read the letter, there are like 12 extra deconstruction and reconstruction steps in the communication.

Kevin J. Anderson