Quotes About Receiving Letters

#1. 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

#2. Early in my career I began receiving letters from a woman in the Midwest who claimed to be my mother.

Charley Pride

#3. 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

#4. Stories are like genies ... They can carry us into and though our sorrows. Sometimes they burn, sometimes they dance, sometimes they weep, sometimes they sing. Like genies, everyone has one. Like genies, sometimes we forget that we do.
Our stories can set us free ... When we set them free.

Francesca Lia Block

#5. No," said Magnus. "Nor do I intend to tear my whole life into strips and rearrange it because of a baby." What he said sounded eminently reasonable to him. He was stunned when Robert and Maryse both laughed.

Cassandra Clare

#6. Well, getting behind the camera is something I've always wanted to get involved with. Ever since I was doing movies like 'Zathura' I was very interested in all the different jobs on set and kind of soaking all the information up like a sponge.

Josh Hutcherson

#7. When I experience something or feel something, that's kind of transferred to the audience. There's a lot of great breakthrough moments that come out of that.

Morgan Spurlock

#8. I am rather of the opinion that in England a gentleman's dreams are his own private concern. I fancy there is a law in that effect and, if there is not, why, Parliament should certainly be made to pass one immediately! It ill becomes another man to invite himself into them.

Susanna Clarke

#9. 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

#10. I write as the birds sing, because I must, and usually from the same source of inspiration.

Gene Stratton-Porter

#11. Have fun. Especially while you're still young, you gotta keep the spark up. Even when things get boring, just remember to have fun.

Jessica Sanchez

#12. I think reading Shakespeare's plays when I was young was extremely important. He had the ability to make utter strangers come alive.

Rita Dove

#13. Once any group in society stands in a relatively deprived position in relation to other groups, it is genuinely deprived.

Margaret Mead

#14. I am receiving what I suppose to be the usual number of threatening letters on the subject. Assassination can be no more guarded against than death by lightning; it is best not to worry about either.

James A. Garfield

#15. I'm receiving 300 to 500 letters every week from people telling me that God used my stories to save their marriage or to introduce them to Christ or to heal a relationship that had been broken.

Karen Kingsbury

#16. 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

#17. The greater the emotional intensity, the greater the simplicity.

Alan Hovhaness

#18. One of my favorite things about basketball is that you can't break it down into some sort of science that makes total sense.

Bill Simmons

#19. Regarding alien beings and UFO sightings,
They're less about 'where' or 'when' to find,
more about 'how' or using 'what' to identify.

Toba Beta

#20. 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

#21. The truth is mightier than eloquence, the Spirit greater than genius, faith more than education.

Martin Luther

#22. Children have a way of forcing you back into the present moment.

Lorna Luft

#23. Women in general want to be loved for what they are and men for what they accomplish.

Theodor Reik