Letters Quotes - Page 17

I literally knew nothing when I did that show ["Tony Flanagan"]. It was the first time I signed an autograph, it was the first time I got fan letters, it was the first time people screamed when I came out.

I love the dark hours of my being. My mind deepens into them. There I can find, as in old letters, the days of my life, already lived, and held like a legend, and understood.

God! How men of letters are stupid.

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 got four volumes of the letters and speeches of Oliver Cromwell. He is prominent among the great unread, and treated so oddly by history that I wanted to hear his side of things.

What will tell in the end will be character and not a knowledge of letters.

Together with my advisor, Manuel Blum, I co-invented CAPTCHAs, or computer-generated tests that humans are routinely able to pass but that computers have not mastered (they are the squiggly computer letters that are prevalent across the web).

Write: write letters. Keep journals. Besides your children, there is no surer way of achieving immortality.

The Grim Reaper, Gloria corrected herself - if anyone deserved capital letters it was surely Death. Gloria would rather like to be the Grim Reaper. She wouldn't necessarily be grim, she suspected she would be quite cheerful (Come along now, don't make such a fuss).

In the ancients, one sees the accomplished letter of entire poetry: in the moderns, one has the presentiment of the spirit in becoming.

How endless is that volume which God hath written of the world! Every creature is a letter, every day a new page.

There's a lot of letters in Ladanian Tomlinson

I have 800 books of just Samuel Beckett's work, tons of his correspondence, personal letters that he wrote. I have copies of plays he used when he directed, so all of his handwritten notes are in the corners of the page.

If love is like a possession, maybe my letters are like my exorcisms.

The sending of a letter constitutes a magical grasp upon the future.

The black revolt is as palpable in letters as it is in the streets.

That's the way to come to the Word of God. Read it as though it were His love letter to you.

Someday I would love to write about Vincent van Gogh - his paintings and letters continue to inspire me very much. But it remains hard to find the time and inner rest to write.

[A formula for answering controversial letters -- without even reading the letters:] Dear Sir (or Madame): You may be right.

I knew [Eva Braun] wrote to [Adolf Hitler], I would see her writing to him and I would see her reading his notes or letters. She kept all that in a safe at the Berghof and nobody got near that safe except Hitler or Eva.

Love letters are supposed to be private. [Eva Braun] was very secretive about all that.

At the end, [Eva Braun] begged me to spare these letters [to Adolf Hitler] and bury them. She specifically wrote to me and told me over the phone not to read any of the letters, she made me promise.

They [Eva Braun and Adolf Hitler] never entrusted their letters to the mail. There was always a courier, someone to hand deliver their letters.

Her handwriting was curious — small sharp little letters with no capitals (who did she think she was, e. e. cummings?).

... I have no letter from the dead, yet daily love them more.