Letters Quotes - Page 16

Spelling is difficult because there are too many rules. Silent letters only exist to make it harder for illegal immigrants to learn English.

a letter ... changes utterly the moment it slips inside an envelope. It stops being mine. It becomes yours. What I mean is gone. What you understand is all that remains.

The letter I received said you had need of my particular talents, but I must confess that I have so many talents that I am not sure which one you require.

I now see that I spent most of my life in doing neither what I ought nor what I liked.

Whenever all men are...hastening to be slaves or tyrants we make Liberalism the prime bogey.

Pilate was merciful till it became risky.

Use testimonial letters from satisfied customers at every opportunity.

In my first stand-up acts there wasn't material even. You know, I'd go on stage and cry and read a Dear John letter or gut fish on stage. I could be odd - and it's what interested me as a comedian.

So, I got a lot of recruitment letters from track.

Scriptures are Letters from Home. Can you imagine getting a letter from home and not even bothering to open it?

My songs are just little letters to me.

I'd like to be rich enough so I could throw soap away after the letters are worn off

The position of modern science, as far as an ignorant man of letters can understand it, seems not a step in advance of that held by Huxley and Romanes in the last century.

Mr Witwould: "Pray, madam, do you pin up your hair with all your letters? I find I must keep copies." Mrs Millamant: "Only with those in verse.... I never pin up my hair with prose."

I observe to the letter all laws that make sense but combat those that are obsolete or absurd.

Human intelligence discovered a way of perpetuating itself, one not only more durable and more resistant than architecture, but also simpler and easier. Architecture was dethroned. The stone letters of Orpheus gave way to the lead letters of Gutenburg. The book will kill the edifice.

Ambition is not a four-letter word and women have to embrace that.

No arts, no letters - no society.

But writing poems and letters doesn't seem to do much good.

I've got to have something. I want to stop it all, the whole monumental grotesque joke, before it's too late. But writing poems and letters doesn't seem to do much good.

There were a lot of people who were willing to write a letter for me. Not because I was academically inclined, but because I worked hard.

Someone who goes with a half a loaf of bread to a small place that fits like a nest around him, someone who wants no more, who is not himself longed for by anyone else. He is a letter to everyone. You open it. It says, Live.

To me, letters have always been a robust medium of sublimation. I don't remember what I was like before I learned my ABC's, but for as long as I can remember I have made them with my fingers and felt them in my bones.

I have gotten everything from a one-page letter written in pencil to a 50-page computer generated masterpiece.

Lou Piniella only argues on days ending with the letter 'y'.