Quotes About Receiving A Letter

#1. For some time I lived in fear of receiving a letter signed 'S. Gollum'. That would have been more difficult to deal with.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#2. One of the key pleasures of receiving a letter is the act of holding and entering the envelope - a sort of cross between Christmas and sex.

Nick Bantock

#3. I feel greatly honored to have a ballpark named after me, especially since I've been thrown out of so many.

Casey Stengel

#4. Jesus, Captain, you look like shit.

James S.A. Corey

#5. Trees don't live in the sky, and clouds don't swim
In the salt seas, and fish don't leap in wheatfields,
Blood isn't found in wood, nor sap in rocks.
By fixed arrangement, all that live and grows
Submits to limit and restrictions.

Titus Lucretius Carus

#6. Asking questions not only makes an order more palatable; it often stimulates the creativity of the persons whom you ask. People are more likely to accept an order if they have had a part in the decision that caused the order to be issued.

Dale Carnegie

#7. After the writer's death, reading his journal is like receiving a long letter.

Jean Cocteau

#8. Eating in a hurried or unconscious way, as so many of us have learned to do, is like receiving a love letter from the earth, but never taking the time to carefully read it.

John Robbins

#9. 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

#10. Thank you for coming into my life and giving me joy, thank you for loving me and receiving my love in return. Thank you for the memories I will cherish forever. But most of all, thank you for showing me that there will come a time when I can eventually let you go.

Nicholas Sparks

#11. Instead of receiving any such letter of excuse from his friend, as Elizabeth half expected Mr. Bingley to do, he was able to bring Darcy with him to Longbourn before many days had passed after Lady Catherine's visit.

Jane Austen

#12. Enough work to do, and strength enough to do the work.

Rudyard Kipling

#13. she would fill the silence with her own sweet voice.

Chas Newkey-Burden

#14. Even though I am a mathematician, I look at [fetal development] with marvel: How do these instruction sets not make mistakes as they build what is us?

Alexander Tsiaras

#15. peroration. He had left his opponents with nothing to say and nowhere to

Hilary Mantel

#16. Ever since Poltergeist terrified me when I was 12, I can't watch horror films, I'm a real wuss.

Josh Hartnett

#17. Alongside my 'no email' policy, I resolve to make better use of the wonderful Royal Mail, and send letters and postcards to people. There is a huge pleasure in writing a letter, putting it in an envelope and sticking the stamp on it. And huge pleasure in receiving real letters, too.

Tom Hodgkinson

#18. He's put her through so much ... so goddamn much. Karma's a bitch, though, and that bitch had better get to work.

Melissa Brown

#19. I like writing letters and receiving letters. It's a shame that we've lost the art of letter-writing and saving correspondence. I mourn that.

Elizabeth McGovern

#20. Choosing a new book was like looking for treasure.

Kit Pearson

#21. 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