7 Letters Quotes

#1. The pages turned by themselves as the fan moved through its arc and then stopped to reveal the crossword puzzle page. The answer to four across - '7 letters. Caesar's crossing caused certain war?' - had been neatly completed in blue ink. 'Rubicon.

Duncan Simpson

#2. 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.

Anita Ekberg

#3. Stammering is different than stuttering. Stutterers have trouble with the letters, while stammerers trip over entire parts of a sentence. We stammerers generally think of ourselves as very bright.

Bob Newhart

#4. The tear-stained letters of my regret will remain forever unread, for I am never going to be strong enough to give them to you.

Courtney M. Privett

#5. Venerable are letters, infinitely brave, forlorn, and lost.

Virginia Woolf

#6. The earth is God's book but in our blindness, we have obliterated letters so we may say God has abandoned us. It is we who are illiterate.

Erica Jong

#7. What I didn't say was that each time I picked up a German dictionary or a German book, the very sight of those dense, black, barbed-wire letters made my mind shut like a clam.

Sylvia Plath

#8. Letters are no matter of indifference; they are generally a very positive curse.

Jane Austen

#9. When I was in the Peace Corps I never made a phone call. I was in Central Africa; I didn't make a phone call for two years. I was in Uganda for another four years and I didn't make a phone call. So for six years I didn't make a phone call, but I wrote letters, I wrote short stories, I wrote books.

Paul Theroux

#10. Letters to absence can a voice impart, And lend a tongue when distance gags the heart.

Horace Walpole

#11. I like extravagance. Letters which give the postman a stiff back to carry, books which overflow from their covers, sexuality which bursts the thermometers.

Anais Nin

#12. Letter writing is an excellent way of slowing down this lunatic helterskelter universe long enough to gather one's thoughts

Nick Bantock

#13. That's the way to come to the Word of God. Read it as though it were His love letter to you.

Howard G. Hendricks

#14. You're gone. No mailing address.
But I send you letters anyway.

Joseph Gordon-Levitt

#15. Sometimes I have to compromise my views, but I never compromise on issues like the death penalty and the arm trade laws, despite what the readers or letters may say.

Jonathan Shapiro

#16. In a day and age when, unfortunately, so few write letters or keep a diary any longer, the Wright Papers stand as a striking reminder of a time when that was not the way and of the immense value such writings can have in bringing history to life.

David McCullough

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

Robert Breault

#18. Grammar is the grave of letters.

Elbert Hubbard

#19. Knowing that history carried itself in the body and soul, not a physical location, not in letters burned in a fire or a magazine trapped beneath the rubble,

Kristen Simmons

#20. Has he written to you?'
'He writes frequently.'
'Shew me his letters this instant, I order you'; and M. de Renal added six feet to his stature.

Stendhal

#21. This sentence consists of eleven words, twenty-three syllables and seventy-four letters.

Charles Pearson

#22. I read somewhere that dedications are like coded love letters,
but I always seem to lay us out bare.

Sorry for the poems.

Unknown

#23. Jack, I know I'm not perfect, but I'm really hoping you're not ready to give up on me yet. I don't have gifts or love letters or anything like you had. But what I can give you is my word, my promise, my vow to you. Which I will back up with actions, by the way.

J. Sterling

#24. Letters
I've never sent.

This life
we're only renting.

Battered the world is -
bartered -
wander over it
the stars finding

us wanting.

Kevin Young

#25. It is, no doubt, impossible to prevent his praying for his mother, but we have means of rendering the prayers innocuous. Make sure they are always very 'spiritual', that he is always concerned with the state of her soul and never with her rheumatism.

C.S. Lewis

#26. Leonard Woolf in a letter to Lytton Strachey said he hated John Maynard Keynes "for his crass stupidity and hideous face".

Leonard Woolf

#27. I took the one letter he had for us. It was from the Switchblade Gas & Electric Company. I didn't know I had admirers there too, but I wasn't that surprised. I threw it in the trash with the IRS's love letters and closed the door without reply.

The Harvard Lampoon

#28. A letter is an unannounced visit, the postman the agent of rude surprises. One ought to reserve an hour a week for receiving letters and afterwards take a bath.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#29. Does it matter that people and things
Have words,
Have names?
If not,
Why read any book?
A litany of useless letters
Detached from bone, muscle.
Or are words the only things that make the muscle, bone, memory, movement,
Person
Real?

Stasia Ward Kehoe

#30. But what can you say in a letter?

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

#31. Now I know that that is just the phenomena of eating this way. Most all of my letters say I hit a plateau and then one morning I woke up and the melt had happened.

Suzanne Somers

#32. Proper evaluations of words and letters in their phonetic and associated sense can bring the people of earth to the clear light of pure cosmic wisdom.

Sun Ra

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

Richard Price

#34. I miss u i love you
there's no second ive lived you can't call your own

Mark Z. Danielewski