Letters Quotes - Page 30

• Giant letters march across the dome of the sky: HOME NOT FOUND. Huw, who knows Comic Sans when she sees it, winces in mild disgust.

  Cory Doctorow

  Home, Sky, Giants

  Cory Doctorow, Charles Stross (2012). “The Rapture of the Nerds: A tale of the singularity, posthumanity, and awkward social situations”, p.124, Macmillan

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• I love the written word; I love when someone takes the time or leaves you a note or sends a letter.

  Sandra Bullock

  Notes, Written Word, Written

  "Sandra Bullock Talks The Lake House". "MovieWeb" Interview, movieweb.com. June 13, 2006.

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• I hear Jerry Falwell every Sunday here talking about the devil and Hollywood. . . . I'm gonna write him a letter. Hollywood wasn't built on filth and dirt - it was built on talent.

  Mickey Rooney

  Writing, Sunday, Talking

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• Never so long as you live, write a letter to a man - no matter who he is - that you would be ashamed to see in a newspaper above your signature.

  Emily Post

  Writing, Men, Long

  Emily Post (1922). “Etiquette in Society, in Business, in Politics and at Home”

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• Hypocrisy is the scarlet letter in politics.

  Mark McKinnon

  Hypocrisy, Scarlet

  "What Really Did Tom Daschle In". www.thedailybeast.com. February 3, 2009.

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• I'm not a collector. I don't keep letters, or books, or souvenirs. But I do keep one copy of each translation of my books into a foreign language. Have you ever seen a murder story printed in Singhalese? Wow!

  Rex Stout

  Book, Stories, Wow

  "Author Rex Stout vs. the F.B.I." by Sandra Schmidt in Life magazine (p. 132), December 10, 1965.

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• You are a fool in four letters, my son.

  Moliere

  Son, Four, Fool

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• I live alone, perhaps for no good reason, for the reason that I am an impossible creature, set apart by a temperament I have never learned to use as it could be used, thrown off by a word, a glance, a rainy day, or one drink too many. My need to be alone is balanced against my fear of what will happen when suddenly I enter the huge empty silence if I cannot find support there. I go up to Heaven and down to Hell in an hour, and keep alive only by imposing upon myself inexorable routines. I write too many letters and too few poems.

  May Sarton

  Writing, Rainy Day, Silence

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• You must get into the habit of looking intensely at words, and assuring yourself of their meaning, syllable by syllable-nay, letter by letter... you might read all the books in the British Museum (if you could live long enough) and remain an utterly "illiterate," undeducated person; but if you read ten pages of a good book, letter by letter, - that is to say, with real accuracy- you are for evermore in some measure an educated person.

  John Ruskin

  Real, Book, Museums

  John Ruskin, John D. Rosenberg (1964). “The Genius of John Ruskin: Selections from His Writings”, p.297, University of Virginia Press

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• To listen to some people in Politics, you'd think-nice-was a four-letter word.

  David Steel

  Nice, Thinking, People

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• Four. That's what I want you to remember. If you don't get your idea across in the first four minutes, you won't do it. Four sentences to a paragraph. Four letters to a word. The most important words in the English language all have four letters. Home. Love. Food. Land. Peace. . .I know peace has five letters, but any damn fool knows it should have four.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Home, Should Have, Land

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• The overall similarity is probably in the mentality of law enforcement officers. There's a sense of wanting to really uphold a sense of morality and make sure that the laws are enforced to the letter, whenever possible.

  Benjamin McKenzie

  Law, Enforcement, Morality

  Source: collider.com

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• Someday I'll be remembered for The phone calls I never made Letters I never mailed And the stories I never finished telling anyone.

  Yoko Ono

  Phones, Phone Calls, Stories

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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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• Good traders trade. Good letter writers write letters.

  Ed Seykota

  Writing, Traders, Trade

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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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• To aspiring writers, I would tell them that we live in a wonderful time where you're able to make your work visible, easily. If you think about it, even ten years ago or twenty years ago, there was a middle man, there was a publisher, there were studios, there was this world of rejection letters. Now, we're in a place where we have the technology and the ability to go shoot our own movies or to put stuff on YouTube or a blog, if you're a writer, or self-publish.

  Diablo Cody

  Men, Thinking, Technology

  "Diablo Cody Talks YOUNG ADULT, the EVIL DEAD Remake, SWEET VALLEY HIGH, Her Directorial Debut, and a Lot More". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. December 16, 2011.

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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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• Keep up your patient's spirits by music of viols and ten-stringed psaltery, or by forged letters describing the death of his enemies, or by telling him he has been elected to a bishopric, if a churchman.

  Henri de Mondeville

  Enemy, Spirit, Patient

  Chirurgie

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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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• I get letters from young people telling me that they're broke and download my albums for free. They ask me what I think about that. I now have a standard line. I tell them, 'I would rather be heard than paid.'

  Henry Rollins

  Thinking, People, Albums

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• In proportion as our inward life fails, we go more constantly and desperately to the post office. You may depend on it, that the poor fellow who walks away with the greatest number of letters, proud of his extensive correspondence, has not heard from himself this long while.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Numbers, Office, Long

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Essential Thoreau”, p.416, Simon and Schuster

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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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