Letters Quotes - Page 21

• A man inserted an 'ad' in the classifieds: "Wife wanted". Next day he received a hundred letters. They all said the same thing: "You can have mine."

  Brad Pitt

  Men, Next Day, Wife

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• A doctrine-teaching, character-building university, the Brigham Young University is dedicated to the building of character and faith, for character is higher than intellect . . . . We are men of God first, men of letters second, men of science third, and noted men fourth, men of rectitude rather than academic competence. . . . Our academic training must be as impeccable as our lives.

  Spencer W. Kimball

  Teaching, Character, Men

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• Sometimes girls write me. One girl in Yugoslavia sent me a whole slew of love letters. I don't know how she got my address. She was in a crowd watching me play. She says when I left there the stars fell out of the sky over Yugoslavia, or something like that.

  Bobby Fischer

  Girl, Stars, Writing

  "Portrait of a Genius As a Young Chess Master". Interview with Ralph Ginzburg, 1961.

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• Dreams are letters from the book your life is writing.

  Paulo Coelho

  Dream, Book, Writing

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• I don't fall into the physical manifestation of a man of letters. So I guess people assume the scripts are delivered to me under the door.

  Sylvester Stallone

  Fall, Men, Doors

  "New Again: Sylvester Stallone". Interview with Pat Hackett, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 1985.

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• When Yoko [Ono] and I got married, we got terrible racialist letters - you know, warning me that she would slit my throat. Those mainly came from Army people living in Aldershot. Officers.

  John Lennon

  Army, People, Warning

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• Once you take away the struggle for food, clothing and shelter, work is the one four letter word that offends everyone.

  Lenny Bruce

  Struggle, Shelter, Four

  "The Lenny Bruce Interview, Jill Bourque’s How We First Met and Stage Time With Steven Alan Green". jewishjournal.com. April 7, 2013.

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• When we separate the word business into its component letters, B-U-S-I-N-E-S-S, we find that U and I are both in it. In fact, if U and I were not in business, it would not be business. Furthermore, we discover that U comes before I in business and the I is silent-it is to be seen, not heard. Also, the U in business has the sound of I, which indicates it is an amalgamation of the interests of U and I. When they are properly amalgamated, business becomes harmonious, profitable, and pleasant.

  Zig Ziglar

  Sound, Facts, Silent

  Zig Ziglar (2004). “Secrets of Closing the Sale”, p.91, Revell

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• The best gift for an actor is the love of the fans. Many make sweet cards, write letters and even come and meet me wherever I am in India. The love and blessings of your elders is also always cherished, but the extra mile that the fans go to is memorable.

  Abhishek Bachchan

  Sweet, Memorable, Writing

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• Early in my career I began receiving letters from a woman in the Midwest who claimed to be my mother.

  Charley Pride

  Mother, Careers, Receiving

  Charley Pride, Jim Henderson (1994). “Pride: the Charley Pride story”, William Morrow & Co

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• My laptop seems to know where I am, even if I don't. My cellphone asks me if I want directions to anywhere from the spot I am standing in. I buy a record online and Amazon.com sends me letters, telling me that people who bought what I bought also bought these other records.

  Henry Rollins

  People, Amazon, Records

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• From the moment that photography appeared, the descriptive genre began to invade Letters... In verse as in prose the décor and exterior aspects of life took an almost excessive place.

  Paul Valery

  Photography, Moments, Genre

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• When I was a kid and we used to play Post Office, I was the Dead Letter Office.

  Phyllis Diller

  Kids, Play, Office

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• I don't want anything. I don't want a job. I don't want to be respectable. I don't want prizes. I turned down the National Institute of Arts and Letters when I was elected to it in 1976 on the grounds that I already belonged to the Diners Club.

  Gore Vidal

  Art, Jobs, Diners

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• The simple combination of letters and sounds you select as a name for your baby can result in a life of carefree coolness or decades of expensive therapy. Hi, I'm Jake versus Hi, I'm... Tapioca

  Paul Reiser

  Baby, Simple, Names

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• Stammering is different than stuttering. Stutterers have trouble with the letters, while stammerers trip over entire parts of a sentence. We stammerers generally think of ourselves as very bright. My own private theory is that stammerers have so many ideas swirling around their brains at once that they can't get them all out, though I haven't found any scientific evidence to back that up.

  Bob Newhart

  Thinking, Ideas, Brain

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• When I went to college, my parents threw a going away party for me, according to the letter.

  Emo Philips

  Party, College, Parent

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• You know exactly what I think of photography. I would like to see it make people despise painting until something else will make photography unbearable. (In a letter to Alfred Stieglitz)

  Marcel Duchamp

  Photography, Thinking, People

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• Shut up before I drop yo ass off at Koreatown. Now hold on, America, don't start writing no letters. I'm just kidding. But am I lying?

  Bernie Mac

  Lying, Writing, America

  "Fictional character: Bernie 'Mac' McCullough". TV Series "The Bernie Mac Show", www.imdb.com. 2001-2006.

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• Do not listen to the killjoys who tell you never to eat oysters in months that do not contain the letter R: May, June, July, August, Octoba. You know.

  John Hodgman

  August, Oysters, June

  "Humorist John Hodgman Plays 'Not My Job'". "Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!" with Peter Sagal, www.npr.org. February 14, 2009.

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

  Rachel Weisz

  Stars, Writing, Yeah

  Source: collider.com

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• To this day, we get letters at Alternative Tentacles from young teenagers who hide their Dead Kennedys albums behind their mirror or in the mattress of their bed. Wouldn't it be better if the parents just discussed this with the kids instead of creating this culture of sneaking and dishonesty within the family? The moral of the story being, you don't hide reality from your kids because then they grow up to be smarter, more aware adults.

  Jello Biafra

  Growing Up, Teenager, Kids

  Interview with Jodi Vander Molen, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. February 1, 2002.

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• Words matter. Especially ones with four letters.

  Bob Saget

  Four, Matter, Words Matter

  Twitter post from Jan 18, 2013

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• I've got a lot of letters from prison. Lost was a big prison show. But it's really crazy when you get the letter that says, 'So, I'm getting out in three months, I've only been in for 17 years and I'd really like to meet you.'

  Ian Somerhalder

  Crazy, Years, Three

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• 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.

  Sam Smith

  Writing, People, Willing

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