Letters Quotes - Page 15

You grow up watching certain films or admiring certain filmmakers, and to write a love letter to one and have them validate it, it's extraordinary.

A short letter to a distant friend is, in my opinion, an insult like that of a slight bow or cursory salutation - a proof of unwillingness to do much, even where there is a necessity of doing something.

Any one who chooses will set up for a literary critic, though he cannot tell us where he went to school, or how much time was spent in his education, and knows nothing about letters at all.

He is a letter to everyone. You open it. It says, Live.

A dream ignored is like a letter unopened.

I would LOVE to be in the Star Trek sequel! Yeah! I would love to! I better write that letter to J.J.[Abrahams]

We cling to the letter because the spirit is so much harder to master.

The pleasure of reading biography, like that of reading letters, derives from the universal hunger to penetrate other lives.

I got stood up by the letter Y, he was hanging around with his X.

And I refuse to feel guilty about not letter-writing either. There are times when one can, times when one can't. In the times when an enormous amount of living is going on, one can't.

Where there is no market economy, the best intentioned provisions of constitutions and laws remain a dead letter.

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

In fact I'm in too much of a mental muddle to know where I am - an idealist or not. I'm a mere man of letters, and I do what I can with those subjects.

Did you really JUST fall, Jeffrey? Why does everybody in my family talk in these dramatic CAPITAL LETTERS all the time? Why am I the only calm one?

In England, philosophers are honoured, respected; they rise to public offices, they are buried with the kings... In France warrants are issued against them, they are persecuted, pelted with pastoral letters: Do we see that England is any the worse for it?

As with anything you set out to learn in life, you don't get from point A to point Z without touching upon all those letters in between.

I plodded conscientiously through the twenty-six letters, and the only malady I could conclude I had not got was housemaid's knee.

We call the slope of a line m because the word "slope" begins with the letter m.

Keep up your patient's spirits by music of viols and ten-stringed psaltery, or by forged letters describing the death of his enemies, or by telling him he has been elected to a bishopric, if a churchman.

I believe in sending a lot of letters and notes to friends.

Jane Austen is the feminine Peter Pan of letters. She never grew up.

What did the letter O say to Q? Dude, your dikk is hanging out.

Though my own life is filled with activity, letters encourage momentary escape into other lives, and I come back to my own with greater contentment.

In small letters, someone has written NEVER FORGET on one of the slats. I know it's supposed to be a pledge, but it feels like a curse. Don't we have to forget some of it? Don't we have to forget this feeling? If we don't, how will we live?

I love the silent era because you can see the rules being written, the grammar of film being created. Most of my films are in some way love letters to the silent era.