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People are told their rights when they're arrested. Consumers getting collection letters are entitled to the same courtesy.
If you want to know your true opinion of someone, watch the effect produced in you by the first sight of a letter from him.
There are certain people whom one feels almost inclined to urge to hurry up and die so that their letters can be published.
Letter writing is an excellent way of slowing down this lunatic helterskelter universe long enough to gather one’s thoughts
Now I have notebooks that are filled up, mostly with Doom Patrol, but also angry letters to myself mixed in with the comic.
Books and opinions, no matter from whom they came, if they are in opposition to human rights, are nothing but dead letters.
On the very same day that I ordered an iPad 2, I went shopping to buy myself a letter opener. I like to cover all my bases.
The mysterious does not spell itself out in capital letters, as many writers believe, but is always between, an interstice.
But for a few phrases from his letters and an odd line or two of his verse, the poet walks gagged through his own biography.
The pleasure of reading biography, like that of reading letters, derives from the universal hunger to penetrate other lives.
I'm really in touch with my fans. Through their emails, letters and stories is how I decide what music I'm going to perform.
We all begin life as parasites within the mother, and writers begin their existence imitatively, within the body of letters.
Personally I've never put much store by honesty- I mean how can you trust a word whose first letter you don't even pronounce
Don't you like to write letters? I do because it's such a swell way to keep from working and yet feel you've done something.
Letters are like wine; if they are sound they ripen with keeping. A man should lay down letters as he does a cellar of wine.
The most dazzling aspect of 'Possession' is Ms. Byatt's canny invention of letters, poems and diaries from the 19th century.
My brother's researched our early family history. He found a letter from a fella who said he used to be in love with my mum.
My dear Isa, I now sit down on my botom to answer all your kind and beloved letters which you was so good as to write to me.
I used to get a lot of letters from prisoners. It used to get on my nerves. Especially family members. Everybody's innocent.
[A formula for answering controversial letters -- without even reading the letters:] Dear Sir (or Madame): You may be right.
I want to look back. To look over my shoulder and see the Stop sign with huge reflective letters, pleading with Hannah. Stop!
My dear Tom, Delighted to get your letter. Do write again. This life is terrible and I don't understand how it can be endured.
Back in the 70s and 80s, women felt the discrimination of being overweight. And now 35% of the letters I receive are from men.
When you travel to the Celestial City, carry no letter of introduction. When you knock, ask to see God,--none of the servants.
You can email me, but I prefer letters that come through conventional mail. I like letters that have been licked by strangers.
Lives of great men oft remind us as we o'er their pages turn, That we too may leave behind us - Letters that we ought to burn.
Every word of Holy Scripture was a love letter from God directed very personally to us and he asked us whether we loved Jesus.
And it's a pity too that I've no right to open your letters. I hope you don't get many, or my conscience will give me no peace.
Chutzpah' is best defined as a small boy peeing through someone's letter box, then ringing the doorbell to ask how far it went.
I have a P.O. Box that I get about 50 letters a day that my mom picks up, and a lot of weird gifts I like to show on my videos.
I've been accused of deliberately hamming up my accent and dropping letters, but that's just how I speak - I used to be a chav.
I might not use capital letters. But I would definitely use an apostrophe…and probably a period. I’m a huge fan of punctuation.
There's show business, and the business is sometimes in capital letters. You just have to give it your best shot when up at bat.
Letters remind us that when we write we can bring back the best of times, even make time stand still, if only for a few minutes.
Three letters send a chill down the spine of the enemy: SAS. Those letters spell out one clear message. Don't mess with Britain!
It is pleasant to have a kind word now and then when one is not near enough to have a kind glance or a hearty shake by the hand.
The test of a good letter is a very simple one. If one seems to hear the other person talking as one reads, it is a good letter.
I was networking every day from 21 to 28 years old. I sent 10 letters a day, which means I reached out to 3,000 people in a year.
When I was very little, we would get letters from China, in Chinese, and they' be censored. We were a very insular little family.
The name Albert Murray was never household familiar. Yet he was one of the truly original minds of 20th-century American letters.
But in all despotic governments, though a particular prince may favour arts and letter, there is a natural degeneracy of mankind.
'Letters From Home' is a 90,000-word WWII love story with a twist, aptly summarized as 'The Notebook' meets 'Saving Private Ryan.'
A hundred years ago Hester Prynne of The Scarlet Letter was given an A for adultery; today she would rate no better than a C-plus.
Numerical logistic is that which employs numbers; symbolic logistic that which uses symbols, as, say, the letters of the alphabet.
Never underestimate the effect you can have on certain sections of the audience, though. You should see some of the letters I get.
I plodded conscientiously through the twenty-six letters, and the only malady I could conclude I had not got was housemaid's knee.
I have had a number of threatening letters each week, some telling me the actual time and method of my death, and I don't like it.
Southerners love a good tale. They are born reciters, great memory retainers, diary keepers, letter exchangers . . . great talkers.
In a heavy oppressive atmosphere, when the spirits sink too low, the best cordial is to read over all the letters of one's friends.
Your grades are not your destiny: they're just letters and numbers which rate how well you performed in one artificial arena, once.