Top 65 Quotes About Words And Letters
#1. I find, that, in general, alliances based on friendship are the only things that last. Not alliances based on words and letters.
Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
#2. I would always be embarrassed to read out loud in class because I would transpose words and letters and things.
Charlie Trotter
#3. Kids made fun of me because I was dark skinned, had a wide nose, and was dyslexic. Even as an actor, it took me a long time to realize why words and letters got jumbled in my mind and came out differently.
Danny Glover
#4. Look not so deeply into words and letters; for this Mystery hath been hidden by the Alchemists. Compose the sevenfold into a fourfold regimen; and when thou hast understood thou mayest make symbols; but by playing child's games with symbols thou shalt never understand.
Aleister Crowley
#5. 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
#6. And I have no intention of going out with him just because he's "in love" with me. Which he's probably not. Because why would he be? I'm not pretty, and I like to use words with a lot of letters in them - two big turn-offs for guys.
Louise Rozett
#7. I love reading Warren Buffett's letters, and I love contrasting his words with his actions. He's a very wise guy.
Daniel S. Loeb
#8. These letters, and then words, and then sentences, that are written on your manuscript are all answers to questions. Writing is nothing but a long journey of confronting questions. Accomplishment will bring you peace, but will not make a writer of you.
Rabisankar Bal
#9. Let the letters clash forming an invisible meaning of a sunny night, freezing chimney, and silent screams. When words betray you, hold on to your imagination.
Mona Naqi
#10. As the border between physical and digital gets more permeable, a new kind of literacy emerges. And that literacy is built on a foundation of code - whether it's the codes of letters and words, or the code of bits and algorithms.
John Battelle
#11. All letters, methinks, should be free and easy as one's discourse, not studied, as an oration, nor made up of hard words like a charm ...
Dorothy Osborne
#12. Words are the source of all power. And names are more than just a collection of letters.
Rick Riordan
#13. Character starts with the alphabet. Letters: words: sentences Character is a function of language - a collection of errors and deviations that resonate with certain behaviors. As with every other element in fiction, it is a record of a writer's decisions.
Noy Holland
#14. And if kisses in these words could travel too, Madam, you'd read this letter with your lips.
Edmond Rostand
#15. Two words. Three vowels. Four constenants. Seven letters. It can either cut you open to the core and leave you in ungodly pain or it can free your soul and lift a tremendous weight off you shoulders. The phrase is: It's over.
Maggi Richard
#16. Once I asked my dad how you know when you're in love. He said you just know, and that if you have to ask the question then you haven't been in love yet. And he's right. Because there aren't words for this. No combination of letters could ever represent what she is to me.
Mindy McGinnis
#17. Telling your story out loud is the way human beings communicate. We don't normally think up words, translate how to spell them and then move our fingers up and down over this randomly arranged set of keys to make the same letters appear on a screen.
Kevin J. Anderson
#18. We are all the authors of our own fates; but we have gotten so lost in the technicalities of forming letters and stringing words together that we've forgotten what it really means to write.
Cristen Rodgers
#19. Letter make words. Words make stories. And stories can be changed with strong enough magic.
Joan Holub
#20. I had been writing poems and stories since I learned to make letters. I had placed poems in a hardcover anthology at the age of 6. And I knew more big words than anyone else in the 10th grade.
Jeff Lindsay
#21. Books are full of words and they are the most influential tools in the world. These seemingly innocent things strung together by letters have the power to ignite ideas, to spark a dying motivation, to fuel a passion.
Sarah Noffke
#22. You string some letters together, and you make a word. You string some words together, and you make a sentence, then a paragraph, then a chapter. Words have power.
Chloe Neill
#23. Coincidentally, the words RELIGION and BULLSHIT both have eight letters.
Daya Kudari
#24. What are letters?"
"Kinda like mediaglyphics except they're all black, and they're tiny, they don't move, they're old and boring and really hard to read. But you can use 'em to make short words for long words.
Neal Stephenson
#25. And in his dream, Coyotito was reading from a book as large as a house, with letters as big as dogs, and the words galloped and played on the book.
John Steinbeck
#26. He thought again of the watch in the window. It had twelve black numbers on its moon face and there was magic to that. For these were numbers that were not really numbers at all but letters like in words. He shivered at the possibilities of such untold magic.
Davis Grubb
#27. And maybe a ghost, trying to hear your words,/ Peered from the broken mullions/ And was stilled. Or was suddenly aflame/ With the scorch of doubled envy. Only/ Gradually quenched in understanding.
Ted Hughes
#29. Math-thinking, I would say, encourages flipping and substituting letters in words (in the novel, one of the boys double-majors in math and myth, for example, and his twin cracks a joke about the father's handwriting that morphs "cacography" into "dadography").
Mary Kay Zuravleff
#30. The books we read in literature classes
just innocuous letters and symbols on paper, until we run the words through our brains and allow the fiction to manifest in the real world.
Matthew Quick
#31. Algebra messed up one of those divisions between things that help you make sense of the world and keep it tidy. Letters make words; figures make numbers. They had no business getting tangled up together.
Mal Peet
#32. Letters are meaningless unless put together correctly. Words are worthless unless backed by truth. Sentences are handed out and judged accordingly, but only genuinely honest men or women can create writings that change the world forever.
Paul Morabito
#33. Lonely is when the language outside
isn't the language inside
and words are made of just 26 letters
Holly Thompson
#34. Love could be immortalized. It could be remembered and written forever into the world, inscribed on some inanimate object. It could be wonderful words given by a loved one, or simple letters combined to show an unbroken bond." Alexis from "The Shoreline
Lindsay Chamberlin
#35. When I was younger, I loved math. Everything about math. But in school, math now has letters. Like what does x equal? There are also long stories with characters, and although the story is supposed to end with some number, all the words block my path to getting there.
Lynda Mullaly Hunt
#36. It is no coincidence that the words 'trying' and 'dying' are only a few letters apart.
Mitch Albom
#37. 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
#38. This sentence consists of eleven words, twenty-three syllables and seventy-four letters.
Charles Pearson
#39. Live. If you mix the letters up in the words like and love, you get live.
Colleen Hoover
#40. It is interesting to note that the words silent and listen contain all of the same letters, just rearranged.
Suzanne Marsh
#41. Everyone in their life has his own particular way of expressing life's purpose - the lawyer his eloquence, the painter his palette, and the man of letters his pen from which the quick words of his story flow. I have my bicycle.
Gino Bartali
#42. But paper and ink have conjuring abilities of their own. arrangements of lines and shapes, of letters and words on a series of pages make a world we can dwell and travel in.
Lynda Barry
#43. Now I'm thinking about letters, the molecules of sentences and songs, the bricks of words.
Paul Tremblay
#44. As a boy, I used to marvel that the letters in a closed book did not get scrambled and lost overnight.
Jose Luis Borges
#45. There is a vibrational effect in every action, just as there is vibration that rings from every letter in every word.
Suzy Kassem
#46. The computer was primitive. It had the words 'Macbook Pro' on it, and a keypad full if letters and numbers, and a lot of arrows pointing in every possible direction. It seemed like a metaphor for human existence.
Matt Haig
#47. My world is one interwoven web of words, stringing limb to limb, bone to sinew, thoughts and images all together. I am a being comprised of letters,
Tahereh Mafi
#48. You will flicker in these words
and in the words of others
for a while and then go out.
Even if I send them,
you will never get these letters.
Even if I see you again,
I will never see you again.
Margaret Atwood
#49. The little words in the Republic of Letters, like the little folks in a nation, are the most useful and significant.
Samuel Richardson
#50. If you stop to think about it, you'll have to admit that all the stories in the world consist essentially of twenty-six letters. The letters are always the same, only the arrangement varies. From letters words are formed, from words sentences, from sentences chapters, and from chapters stories.
Michael Ende
#51. Present and future, Harry Potter ... ' He pulled Harry's wand from his pocket and began to trace it through the air, writing three shimmering words: TOM MARVOLO RIDDLE Then he waved the wand once, and the letters of his name rearranged themselves: I AM LORD VOLDEMORT
J.K. Rowling
#52. Only write to me, write to me, I love to see the hop and skip and sudden starts of your ink.
A.S. Byatt
#53. How circumstantial reality is! Facts are like individual letters, with their spikes and loops and thorns, that make up words: eventually they hurt our eyes, and we long to take a bath, to rake the lawn, to look at the sea.
John Updike
#54. Seduce me. Write letters to me. And poems, I love poems. Ravish me with your words. Seduce me.
Anne Boleyn
#55. Live free or die.
Four words. Thirteen letters. Ridges, bumps, swirls under my fingertips.
Another story. We cling tightly to it, and our belief turns it to truth.
Lauren Oliver
#57. How wonderful it is to be able to write someone a letter! To feel like conveying your thoughts to a person, to sit at your desk and pick up a pen, to put your thoughts into words like this is truly marvelous.
Haruki Murakami
#58. Neither said anything while they embraced. Sometimes words didn't go far enough, the vessels of letters and the ladles of grammar incapable of holding the heart's sentiments.
J.R. Ward
#60. Despite the raging wrath of our foes the holy souls of your brothers and sisters will remain alive. These evil ones scheme to blot out their names from the face of the earth; but a man cannot destroy letters. For words have wings; they mount up to the heavenly heights and they endure for eternity.
Neil Gaiman
#61. There are only two words with four letters which can make us fly: Wing and Love.
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#62. M is for magic. All the letters are, if you put them together properly. You can make magic with them, and dreams, and, I hope, even a few surprises ...
Neil Gaiman
#63. It got so that when he closed his eyes, letters and words danced in his mind. He thought of little else during that time.
Christopher Paolini
#64. Books contain a special magic. Letters and words - side by side - able to speak and sing to us.
This allows the reader to enter the story.
Jason Ellis
#65. Figures are the most shocking things in the world. The prettiest little squiggles of black looked at in the right light and yet consider the blow they can give you upon the heart.
H.G.Wells
