Sure, women sportswriters look when they're in the clubhouse. Read their stories. How else do you explain a capital letter in the middle of a word?
Even when I have to write a simple letter I'm scared stiff as if faced with looming seasickness.
To substitute Scripture for the self-revealing Spirit is to put the dead letter in the place of the living Word.
I became a connoisseur of that nasty thud a manuscript makes when it comes through the letter box.
Chain letters are the postal equivalent of intestinal flu: you get it and pass it along to your friends.
I consider it a good rule for letter-writing to leave unmentioned what the recipient already knows, and instead tell him something new.
It does me good to write a letter which is not a response to a demand, a gratuitous letter, so to speak, which has accumulated in me like the waters of a reservoir.
Life is too precious to be spent in this weaving and unweaving of false impressions, and it is better to live quietly under some degree of misrepresentation than to attempt to remove it by the uncertain process of letter-writing.
The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity.
I get a lot of letters from people.
A letter is an unannounced visit, the postman the agent of rude surprises. One ought to reserve an hour a week for receiving letters and afterwards take a bath.
I hold that the parentheses are by far the most important parts of a non-business letter.
If you are in doubt whether to write a letter or not, don't. And the advice applies to many doubts in life besides that of letter writing.
In a man's letters you know, Madam, his soul lies naked, his letters are only the mirror of his breast, whatever passes within him is shown undisguised in its natural process. Nothing is inverted, nothing distorted, you see systems in their elements, you discover actions in their motives.
Friends will write me letters. They run out of room on the front of the letter. They write 'over' on the bottom of the letter. Like I'm that much of a moron. Like I need that there. Because if it wasn't there, I'd get to the bottom of the page: 'And so Kathy and I went shopping and we--' That's the craziest thing! I don't know why she would just end it that way.
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.
Helvetica is the jeans, and Univers the dinner jacket. Helvetica is here to stay.
I have been committed to carrying out my duties... in accordance with both the letter and spirit of all applicable rules of ethics and canons of conduct.
The thing is, acoustic could be like a four-letter word to a lot of kids.
Censorship feeds the dirty mind more than the four-letter word itself.
After the writer's death, reading his journal is like receiving a long letter.
You don't carry in your countenance a letter of recommendation.
All the plots of hell and commotions on earth have not so much as shaken God's hand to spoil one letter or line he has been drawing.
Somebody just back of you while you are fishing is as bad as someone looking over your shoulder while you write a letter to your girl.
Good authors, too, who once knew better words now only use four-letter words writing prose... anything goes.
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