Letters Quotes - Page 11

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.

The best time to frame an answer to the letters of a friend, is the moment you receive them. Then the warmth of friendship, and the intelligence received, most forcibly cooperate.

The love of letters is the forlorn hope of the man of letters. His ruling passion is the love of fame.

If I could only write, I'd write a nasty letter to the mayor, if he could only read.

Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain unless you've used up all the other four-letter words.

Venerable are letters, infinitely brave, forlorn, and lost.

The best letters of our time are precisely those that can never be published.

Endings are the hardest part. I find there's a great relief that at the end of every episode, every hour of TV you produce, while you want a proper and satisfying ending, it doesn't have to end The Story, in capital letters.

Just another four-letter word.

Now I know that that is just the phenomena of eating this way. Most all of my letters say I hit a plateau and then one morning I woke up and the melt had happened.

I have had nothing to do in any way, shape or form with the mailing of these anthrax letters, and it is extremely wrong for anyone to contend or suggest that I have.

To substitute Scripture for the self-revealing Spirit is to put the dead letter in the place of the living Word.

My most cherished possessions are my grandma's letters and my vintage Martha Washington cookbook.

I get a lot of letters - a lot of letters saying, who knew that you were funny?

Very often, people who actually pick up a book of mine for the first time are kind of surprised. And I get these letters saying, well, who knew that you were good, you know?

Law without education is a dead letter. With education the needed law follows without effort and, of course, with power to execute itself; indeed, it seems to execute itself.

Writers spend three years rearranging 26 letters of the alphabet. It's enough to make you lose your mind day by day

I never read anything concerning my work. I feel that criticism is a letter to the public which the author, since it is not directed to him, does not have to open and read.

Writing is, in the end, that oddest of anomalies: an intimate letter to a stranger.

I would like to emphasize again that right prayer leads to right action, that faith without works is dead. An excellent way to put thoughts into action is to write a letter for peace.

With the benefit of hindsight, the content of that letter has bothered me since her death.

I began in an era where four-letter words were not allowed.

A real love letter is absolutely ridiculous to everyone except the writer and the recipient.

If you must reread old love letters, better pick a room without mirrors.

Petty vexations may at times be petty, but still they are vexations. The smallest and most inconsiderable annoyances are the most piercing. As small letters weary the eye most, so the smallest affairs disturb us most.