Top 100 Quotes About A Letter
#1. It was frighteningly close to what he believed of his father at the worst moments - that he really was the kind of man who would send a letter signed "Sincerely, Cpl. Peter Vilmos" to someone he'd seen naked.
Tad Williams
#2. From Alexander the Platonic, not frequently nor without necessity to say to any one, or to write in a letter, that I have not leisure; nor continually to excuse the neglect of duties required by our relations to those with whom we live, by alleging urgent occupations.
Marcus Aurelius
#3. I think that if you want to pass emotion, you have to write a letter. Emotions do not pass in SMS or in e-mail.
Alber Elbaz
#4. Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error that provoked it.
Alvin Toffler
#5. The U.S. Postal Service should hire him for an ad campaign. If he were at the mailbox every time you sent a letter, no one would use email ever again.
Cara Lynn Shultz
#6. I have known many an instance of a man writing a letter and forgetting to sign his name, but this is the only instance I have ever known of a man signing his name and forgetting to write the letter.
Henry Ward Beecher
#7. A letter, timely writ, is a rivet to the chain of affection;
And a letter, untimely delayed, is as rust to the solder.
Martin Farquhar Tupper
#8. Jerry thought about what a letter of recommendation from a council of wizards would look like in his resume file.
"Totally secret," he said firmly.
Rick Cook
#9. You get a letter from her agency embracing you into the family that says, 'It is our goal now to help you achieve your dream of being a songwriter, in John's memory.'
Arthur Godfrey
#10. I dinna trust that Q, that's a letter than has it in for a man. That's a letter with a sting, that one!
Terry Pratchett
#11. A piece of simple goodness
a letter gushing from the heart; a beautiful unstudied vindication of the worth and untiring sweetness of human nature
a record of the invulnerability of man, armed with high purpose, sanctified by truth.
Douglas William Jerrold
#12. Her conviction that love that did not find its expression in a letter was not perfect.
Ian McEwan
#13. I did write a letter to the archdiocese who'd banned the song, Only the Good Die Young, asking them to ban my next record.
Billy Joel
#14. I have about a dozen cassettes lying about which I use in random order. Very often, I pick up a cassette to dictate a letter, and I find my voice coming back at me with the lines of plays three years old.
Tom Stoppard
#15. In a letter, Martin Luther, one of the leaders of the Protestant Reformation, wrote to Hans von Rechenberg in 1522 about the possibility that people could turn to God after death, asking: Who would doubt God's ability to do that?
Rob Bell
#16. I would like to emphasize again that right prayer leads to right action, that faith without works is dead. An excellent way to put thoughts into action is to write a letter for peace.
Peace Pilgrim
#17. Scriptures are Letters from Home. Can you imagine getting a letter from home and not even bothering to open it?
Ardeth Kapp
#18. A good face they say, is a letter of recommendation. O Nature, Nature, why art thou so dishonest, as ever to send men with these false recommendations into the World!
Henry Fielding
#19. Does it help?" he asks. "The e-mailing."
She nods. "A tiny bit. It's strange. You're writing a letter to someone who's never going to read it, so it kind of frees you up a bit.
Melina Marchetta
#20. Look at Austen. In her novels, you get a dance, followed by an encounter, followed by a letter, then a period of solitude. No flashbacks and no backstory. Let's have no more back story!
Colm Toibin
#21. They went outside and stood where a sign used to say Taxi and now said Taxi/Tacsi for the benefit of Welsh people who had never seen a letter X before.
Kingsley Amis
#22. If you want to send a manuscript, send it to an agent. And send a letter first, asking permission. Launch it into the real world of cold-blooded commercial response, not into the fantasyland of wishful thinking, cowardice and surrender to Resistance.
Steven Pressfield
#23. Everybody is waiting for cooler weather
and I am just waiting for you
. (Bob Dylan in a letter)
Suze Rotolo
#24. We inadvertently bombed the Chinese Embassy. But Clinton now is working very hard. He has sent a letter of apology to the Chinese. And, he's also given them a gift certificate for future nuclear secrets.
David Letterman
#25. You don't carry in your countenance a letter of recommendation.
Charles Dickens
#26. It's one thing for a courier service transport letters and documents from one city to another at a cost that only big business can afford; but it's another thing to take a letter from an Indian boy studying at the University of Ottawa to his mother in Old Crow.
Jean Chretien
#27. Typing and read receipts make a lot of sense for messaging. You write a letter, you put it in an envelope, you send it to a friend, and you want to know when they get it. It's like FedEx - they let you know when the package gets dropped off.
Evan Spiegel
#28. What had brought me to New York in the autumn of 1972 was a letter of recommendation written by Norman Mailer, the author of 'The Naked and the Dead' and American literature's leading heavyweight contender, to Dan Wolf, the delphic editor of 'The Village Voice.'
James Wolcott
#29. An editorial of the Journal AMA, Jan 8, 1949, discussed the Gerson Therapy under the heading 'Frauds and Fables'. At that time, Dr. Gerson's lawyer wrote a letter to the JAMA, threatening a suit for libel ... The editorial was withdrawn ... (leaving) columns which were blank.
Charlotte Gerson
#30. Write the best thing you can, whatever it is. It is deeply moving to read a letter from Spain or somewhere that says they read my book and fell in love with my daughter. Or that a book I wrote changed their life. It is amazing to be on the receiving end of that. Don't deny yourself that.
Dan Alatorre
#31. I sent The World Well Lost to one editor who rejected it on sight, and then wrote a letter to every other editor in the field warning them against the story, and urging them to reject it on sight without reading it.
Theodore Sturgeon
#32. 48-point type, a letter size that big-city newspapers probably reserve for special occasions such as Armageddon. Out here in the heartland, we are not waiting that long. Our local paper's stance on the great big headline letters is: You got 'em, you use 'em.
Barbara Kingsolver
#33. In a real poem a sound does not swallow a letter, but a letter swallows a sound.
Dejan Stojanovic
#34. For the most part they were dead by rumor. A yellowed scrap of newsprint. A letter. A telegram.
Cormac McCarthy
#35. People have tremendous power, more than the average person understands, and certainly more than even I understood before I came to Congress. When any of my constituents writes me a letter, I promise you, we're listening.
Charlie Norwood
#36. I told her I'd made a huge mistake and that sparkles was definitely a letter. The kindergarten teacher was like, please don't ever talk about the alphabet again.
Audrey Bell
#37. The sending of a letter constitutes a magical grasp upon the future.
Iris Murdoch
#39. She longed for a letter that was for her and her alone, a letter which would give her some glimpse into his heart.
Daisy Goodwin
#40. Edgar Allan Poe, an earlier UVA student, once complained in a letter that his stepfather spoke to him as if Poe were one of the black slaves; some of the students at UVA surely felt the same about being told what to do by faculty.
Matthew Pearl
#41. Taking a single letter from the alphaber," he said, "should make life simpler."
"I don't see why. Take the F from life and you have lie. It's adding a letter to simple that makes it simpler. Taking a letter from hoarder makes it harder.
James Thurber
#43. Well, did Owl always have a letter-box in his ceiling?"
"Has he?"
"Yes, look."
"I can't," said Pooh. "I'm face downwards under something, and that, Piglet, is a very bad position for looking at ceilings."
"Well, he has, Pooh."
"Perhaps he's changed it," said Pooh. "Just for a change.
A.A. Milne
#44. My faith grew strong, and I sent a letter (as I was ordered) to the Rev. Dignitary of the Cathedral of Exeter. I was assured, before I sent it, he would not answer it.
Joanna Southcott
#45. Why is it that you can sometimes feel the reality of people more keenly through a letter than face to face?
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
#46. The buildings line the canals like long sentences each house a word, each window a letter, each gap a punctuation.
David Levithan
#47. You will not mistake the newspaperman - looks like a big turtle - published a letter meant to embarrass me.
George Hearst
#48. One of the features of the Enigma machine was its inability to encipher a letter as itself, which was a consequence of the reflector. The letter a could never be enciphered as A, the letter b could never be enciphered as B, and so on.
Simon Singh
#49. I enjoy getting any kind of mail. Like, for me, like, the more interesting a letter is, I just get more excited, and I know that this going to be great for my friends who are looking forward to reading that in my comic.
Adrian Tomine
#50. She had typed A Murder of Quality under protest, but this time she declined, so David had to rely on the Embassy secretaries instead. In a letter to Ann written in June, he complained that 'the new book drags along but the girls are all away and there's no one to type it'.35
Adam Sisman
#51. Man hates something in himself. He has been able to defeat every natural obstacle but himself he cannot win over unless he kills every individual. And this self-hate which goes so closely in hand with self-love is what I wrote about. - in a letter to George Albee
John Steinbeck
#52. When sitting down to write a letter, it always pays to calm one's mood, collect one's thoughts, and have a plan.
Fennel Hudson
#53. I write a story as if it were a letter to someone and essentially, that's what you do.
Theodore Sturgeon
#54. You can write a letter with a typewriter, a pencil, or a crayon. What you have to say is the important thing.
Paul Strisik
#55. Saving a letter from an old friend doesn't exist anymore. Everything is texted or emailed.
James Caan
#56. Good works are the seals and proofs of faith; for even as a letter must have a seal to strengthen the same, even so faith must have good works.
Martin Luther
#57. About four or five weeks after it was publicly announced I was no longer breastfeeding, I got a letter from the NHS saying they were being supportive of me, but basically, they were very disappointed I'd stopped.
Denise Van Outen
#58. How endless is that volume which God hath written of the world! Every creature is a letter, every day a new page.
Joseph Hall
#59. Write a letter, refresh your habit.
Seyh Galip
#60. Tell a thousand people to draft a letter, let them debate every phrase, and see how long it takes and what you get.
Catherine The Great
#61. You don't know a woman until you have had a letter from her.
Ada Leverson
#62. The publishers, as I remember at the very beginning of my career, wrote letters with their fountain pens. A letter is different from a phone call or fax. It's a different kind of intimacy. That pervaded the entire business of writing and publishing.
James Salter
#63. I love the written word; I love when someone takes the time or leaves you a note or sends a letter.
Sandra Bullock
#64. It is no small comfort that God hath written some Scriptures to you which He hath not to others. Read these, and think God is like a friend who sendeth a letter to a whole house and family, but who speaketh in His letter to some by name that are dearest to Him in the house.
Samuel Rutherford
#65. You know, men do nearly all die laughing, because they know death is very terrible, and a thing to be forgotten till after it has come. T. E. LAWRENCE, IN A LETTER TO HIS MOTHER, 1916
Scott Anderson
#66. I think e-mail is kind of a cheap way to communicate. It's a lazy way of writing a letter, you know.
Peyton Manning
#67. Once in a while you start having second thoughts, then you read a letter from someone that lifts your spirits so much - it really makes a huge difference. I love reading them.
Corbin Bleu
#68. Someone who does an act. In a democratic society, you're supposed to be an activist; that is, you participate. It could be a letter written to an editor.
Studs Terkel
#69. I still want to write Clint Eastwood a letter saying, 'I'm sorry, I'm sorry for all us wimp actors. You're the truth.' I guarantee he's not the person you want to fight, even now! You look at him, and you don't want to mess with him. He would still take you down.
Channing Tatum
#71. Eleven pages - this is a letter! Have courage. I'm going to stop.
Jean Webster
#72. In a letter to a friend the thought is often unimportant, and the feeling, if it be only a desire to entertain him, every thing.
Walter Raleigh
#73. (Surprisingly, the term has been around since at least 1782, when Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire, wrote in a letter to her mother that her "feels" made her cry and gave her insomnia, similar to how a modern fangirl might feel after finishing the Mass Effect trilogy.) Feels
Sam Maggs
#74. If you write a letter of resignation or something with an agenda, you're simply using a pen to record what you have thought out. In a poem, the pen is more like a flashlight, a Geiger counter, or one of those metal detectors that people walk around beaches with.
Billy Collins
#75. Write her a letter, send her a flower, love only gets old if you let it.
William Chapman
#76. I do not know what to say, how to tempt you. If you had a price, I would pay it. If you desired particular words, I would say them. I would be anything you want, Jane. Just come back. Please come back.
- Matthew in a letter to Jane.
Charlotte Featherstone
#77. An Eagle Scout deserves a letter of congratulations, but not a proclamation, ... That's a normal process. It's not a heroic process.
Frank Bruno
#78. Well when I was a kid, I asked Santa Claus for some toys. Santa Claus wrote me a letter that he lost his bag. He said he'd get back to me next year.
Benicio Del Toro
#80. All these tales of people sitting down and composing symphonies just as though they were writing a letter are very much exaggerated; at least, it isn't that way in my work.
George Gershwin
#82. He removed his unvaluable valuables and dumped his shirt, pants, and skivvies into a letter slot.
Stephen King
#83. When the first 'Hellboy' series came out, in the same batch of fan mail I got a letter from somebody from the Church of Satan, and I got a letter from a minister, and they both liked it. And I thought, 'What am I doing that I'm making both these guys happy?'
Mike Mignola
#84. Someday, I'm gonna write a poem in a letter; Someday, I'm gonna get that faculty together.
David Bowie
#85. Hands down, the biggest thrill is to get a letter from a kid saying, I loved your book. Will you write me another one?
Kate DiCamillo
#86. Exit is a letter away from Exist.
A part, just a space away from Apart.
Noor Iskandar
#87. Just as you say, sir. There is a letter on the tray, sir."
"By Jove, Jeeves, that was practically potry. Rhymed, did you notice?
P.G. Wodehouse
#88. In order to start our mythic journey to end our suffering, we need to enter into a real and dynamic dialogue with our hearts. Start by writing a letter to your heart, telling it all that's going on with you now and asking it for guidance.
Carolyn Elliott
#89. When a robot dies, you don't have to write a letter to its mother,
P. W. Singer
#90. The mystery of writing advertisements consists mainly in saying in a few plain words exactly what it is desired to say, precisely as it would be written in a letter or told to an acquaintance.
George P. Rowell
#91. When one is writing a letter, he should think that the recipient will make it into a hanging scroll.
Tsunetomo Yamamoto
#92. Journalism's ultimate purpose is to inform the reader, to bring him each day a letter from home and never to permit the serving of special interests.
Arthur Ochs Sulzberger
#93. Your legacy will be the world's inheritance, and the laughter you left us with will be the birthright of a new generation.
from a letter to Robin Williams
Michelle Franklin
#94. Vermeer's woman reading a letter is as full of latent or subliminal kitsch as Tolstoy's War and Peace.
John Bayley
#95. They would go back to their homes and put me to rest, a letter from the past never reopened or reread.
Alice Sebold
#96. I always think about the settlers who moved to New Zealand in the 1800s. They hadn't even been to the place before. They just packed their bags and shipped over knowing they'd never see their family again or be able to speak to them - they'd maybe get a letter if they were lucky.
Rose McIver
#97. He sent Zuckerberg a letter proposing Viacom would pay $1.5 billion to buy the two-year-old company.
David Kirkpatrick
#98. Even when not in the act of writing Muscatine a letter, I was often composing one in my mind, situating the words just so, plunking one here, then one there, gauging how to sound worthy of his regard.
Timothy Schaffert
#99. Nor eye in a letter, nor hand in a purse, nor ear in the secret of another.
Benjamin Franklin
#100. A new world will be won not by those who stand at a distance with their arms folded, but by those who are in the arena, whose garments are torn by storms and whose bodies are maimed in the course of the contest. From a letter to Winnie Mandela,
Nelson Mandela
