Quotes About The Art Of Letter Writing

#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. Not everyone has so much deep knowledge and understanding of God's relationship with the Hebrew Nation. Even some of the Christians have no deep understanding of the whole matter. I think we should make it our priority to educate them not to condemn them.

Euginia Herlihy

#3. We are all broken shards of glass, rejected building stones, being fitted into a temple we cannot fully even imagine.

Russell D. Moore

#4. Lots of things are more than what they seem in a purely physical sense.

Jim Butcher

#5. What is said of man is nothing; the point is, who says it.

Oscar Wilde

#6. I have a lot of stands on a lot of political issues. I'm very big on campaign finance reform. I still think most Americans aren't aware of how the dumping of big corporate dollars and private donor dollars has totally corrupted the political system and taken it away from them.

Morgan Fairchild

#7. Defensive backs are the best players on the field. But when you get an exceptional player like a Deion Sanders or a Darrell Green - these guys are fast and they have very good technique. You have to work a little harder.

Jerry Rice

#8. I make a fair amount of my food choices for environmental-type reasons than nutrition or taste. I'm trying to minimize impact, which is something most people don't necessarily think about when they're shopping.

Alex Honnold

#9. I have now attained the true art of letter-writing, which we are always told, is to express on paper exactly what one would say to the same person by word of mouth.

Jane Austen

#10. A good journal entry- like a good song, or sketch, or photograph- ought to break up the habitual and life away the film that forms over the eye, the finger, the tongue, the heart. A good journal entry ought to be a love letter to the world.

Anthony Doerr

#11. Turin is a city which entices a writer towards vigor, linearity, style. It encourages logic, and through logic it opens the way towards madness.

Italo Calvino

#12. I think writing letters is a lost art, but nowadays it's something that means even more, because it's so easy to communicate in so many different ways. But I find a love letter can even be a little post-it note stuck in your pocket, with a sentence or a few words.

Hilary Swank

#13. Don't succumb to excuses. Go back to the job of making the corrections and forming the habits that will make your goal possible.

Vince Lombardi

#14. We will all, someday, experience death, and become obsolete as a dead leaf falling from a tree, crushed by passersby to ashes underlying the earth.

Kim Elizabeth

#15. I'm the youngest of four kids. There's something in me that will always be the youngest child, will always look up to people when they don't necessarily need it.

David Morrissey

#16. When new artists come out and they're not being cosigned or some company doesn't have a stake in it, or someone's not getting paid under the table to produce the whole record or bring it to video, the artist really suffers.

Pharoahe Monch

#17. Where was I? in remarking that me is the envelopes and not nearly so much so, the often foolish letters inside.

Edward Gorey

#18. Ideas are all around you - everything gives you ideas. But the real source is the part of your brain that dreams.

Bruce Coville

#19. I will take you from him, Scotlyn," he said with quiet confidence.
"I think about you every fucking minute of the day, and I will not let you slip out of my life. I will take you from him.

Tess Oliver

#20. NEXT LIFE. My embroidery studio on the main street of Bayeux will be just one part of my Institute of Slow Information. I will also teach letter writing, listening, miniature portrait painting, and the art of doing one thing at a time.

Vivian Swift

#21. In the digital future, texts will be annotated visually, animated and illustrated like never before. The austere 'prayer book' paper that permitted the space for Shepard's illustrations to Pepys' diaries is now being recreated in the digital era.

Chris Riddell