Letters Quotes - Page 7

I don't have a Facebook or a Twitter account, and I don't know how I feel about this idea of, "Now, I'm eating dinner, and I want everyone to know that I'm having dinner at this time." or "I just mailed a letter and dropped off my kids." That, to me, is a very strange phenomenon.

(Joan,1941) She wrote me a letter asking,"How can I read it?,Its so hard." I told her to start at the beginning and read as far as you can get until you're lost. Then start again at the beginning and keep working through until you can understand the whole book. And thats what she did

The true character of epistolary style is playfulness and urbanity.

Music has seven letters, writing has twenty-six notes

Texting is very loose in its structure. No one thinks about capital letters or punctuation when one texts, but then again, do you think about those things when you talk?

There are fewer things more thrilling in life than lumpy letters. That rattle.

I became a connoisseur of that nasty thud a manuscript makes when it comes through the letter box.

A letter depends on how you read it, a melody on how you sing it.

I have received no more than one or two letters in my life that were worth the postage.

A graceful and pleasing figure is a perpetual letter of recommendation.

For in every particular of the Word there is an internal sense which treats of things spiritual and heavenly, not of things natural and worldly, such as are treated of in the sense of the letter.

'Y' is about the weakest letter of all. 'Y' can't make up its mind if it's a vowel or a consonant, can it?

It got so that when he closed his eyes, letters and words danced in his mind. He thought of little else during that time.

Let not a single day pass without your learning a verse, half a verse, or a fourth of it, or even one letter of it; nor without attending to charity, study and other pious activity.

Why is it that you can sometimes feel the reality of people more keenly through a letter than face to face?

I pray you, in your letters, When you shall these unlucky deeds relate, Speak of me as I am; nothing extenuate, Nor set down aught in malice. Then must you speak Of one that loved not wisely but too well; Of one not easily jealous, but being wrought, Perplexed in the extreme. . .

Life would split apart without letters.

A Mantra is composed of certain letters arranged in definite sequence of sounds, of which the letters are the representative signs. To produce the designed effect, Mantra must be intoned in the proper way, according to rhythm and sound...a Mantra is a potent compelling force, a word of power.

To read, write, and converse in due proportions, is, therefore, the business of a man of letters.

Whoever dreamed up Scrabble had an exaggerated idea of how many 7-letter words have five i's.

Write letters to your grandmother. She will love it. And leave you money in her will.

Ask yourself my love whether you are not very cruel to have so entrammelled me, so destroyed my freedom. Will you confess this in the Letter you must write immediately, and do all you can to console me in it — make it rich as a draught of poppies to intoxicate me —write the softest words and kiss them that I may at least touch my lips where yours have been. For myself I know not how to express my devotion to so fair a form: I want a brighter word than bright, a fairer word than fair.

Some providences, like Hebrew letters, must be read backwards.

The ten most powerful two-letter words in the English language are: If it is to be, it is up to me.

Reading functions as hallucinating a meaning between letters and lines.