Letters Quotes - Page 6

• To send a letter is a good way to go somewhere, without moving anything but your heart.

  Phyllis Grissim-Theroux

  Teacher, Appreciation, Moving

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• I find letters from God dropt in the street, and every one is sign'd by God's name.

  Walt Whitman

  God, Faith, Names

  Walt Whitman (2016). “Song of Myself: With a Complete Commentary”, p.170, University of Iowa Press

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• Letter writing is the only device combining solitude with good company.

  Lord Byron

  Writing, Solitude, Good Company

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• You don’t know a woman until you have had a letter from her.

  Ada Leverson

  Knows

  'Tenterhooks' (1912) ch. 7

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• It takes two to write a letter as much as it takes two to make a quarrel.

  Elizabeth Drew

  Writing, Two, Quarrels

  Elizabeth Drew (1964). “The Literature of Gossip”

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• Once in a while you start having second thoughts, then you read a letter from someone that lifts your spirits so much - it really makes a huge difference. I love reading them.

  Corbin Bleu

  Book, Reading, Differences

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• The creative act is like writing a letter. A letter is a project; you don't sit down to write a letter unless you know what you want to say and to whom you want to say it.

  Lukas Foss

  Writing, Creative, Want

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• Letters are expectation packaged in an envelope.

  Shana Alexander

  Expectations, Envelopes

  Shana Alexander (1970). “The feminine eye”, McCall Pub. Co

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• Letters are signs of things, symbols of words, whose power is so great that without a voice they speak to us the words of the absent; for they introduce words by the eye, not by the ear.

  Isidore of Seville

  Eye, Voice, Ears

  "An Encyclopedist of the Dark Ages: Isidore of Seville", by Ernest Brehaut New York: B. Franklin, 1964.

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• American culture is one that is so easily in denial. We have such a strange dichotomy, so hypocritical. The truth can be blaring in neon letters but our culture will find a reason not to hear what the truth is.

  RuPaul

  Culture, Denial, Neon

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• The education of youth belongs to the priests, yet they do not take so much care of instructing them in letters, as in forming their minds and manners aright; they use all possible methods to infuse, very early, into the tender and flexible minds of children, such opinions as are both good in themselves and will be useful to their country, for when deep impressions of these things are made at that age, they follow men through the whole course of their lives, and conduce much to preserve the peace of the government, which suffers by nothing more than by vices that rise out of ill opinions.

  Thomas More

  Country, Children, Men

  Thomas More (2010). “Utopia”, p.121, Bibliolis Books

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• With the benefit of hindsight, the content of that letter has bothered me since her death.

  Paul Burrell

  Benefits, Hindsight, Bothered

  Paul Burrell (2003). “A royal duty”

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• Our Lord God doeth work like a printer who setteth the letters backwards; we see and feel well his setting, but we shall see the print yonder - in the life to come.

  Martin Luther

  Lord, Print, Wells

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• To know nothing, or little, is in the nature of some husbands. To hide, in the nature of how many women? Oh, ladies! how many of you have surreptitious milliners' bills? How many of you have gowns and bracelets which you daren't show, or which you wear trembling?--trembling, and coaxing with smiles the husband by your side, who does not know the new velvet gown from the old one, or the new bracelet from last year's, or has any notion that the ragged-looking yellow lace scarf cost forty guineas and that Madame Bobinot is writing dunning letters every week for the money!

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Husband, Writing, Years

  William Makepeace Thackeray (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of William Makepeace Thackeray (Illustrated)”, p.1026, Delphi Classics

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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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• The hell with the newspapers. Nobody reads the letters to the editor column except the nuts. It's enough to get you down.

  Philip K. Dick

  Editors, Nuts, Hell

  Philip K. Dick (2012). “Confessions of a Crap Artist”, p.247, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I was a baseball player at North Central High School in Spokane, Washington even though I was all-city in basketball, even when I signed a letter of intent to play quarterback at Washington State.

  Ryne Sandberg

  Basketball, Baseball, School

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• A kiss! When all is said, what is a kiss? An oath of allegiance taken in closer proximity, a promise more precise, a seal on a confession, a rose-red dot upon the letter i in loving; a secret which elects the mouth for ear; an instant of eternity murmuring like a bee; balmy communion with a flavor of flowers; a fashion of inhaling each other's hearts, and of tasting, on the brink of the lips, each other's soul!

  Edmond Rostand

  Fashion, Flower, Taken

  Edmond Rostand (1899). “Cyrano de Bergerac”

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• There are only so many letters in the alphabet. When I talk to young musicians or authors and they ask for advice, I say, You gotta learn all the letters of your own personal alphabet. With music, you need to know all the different kinds of music and everything in and around your given instrument.

  David Lee Roth

  Advice, Musician, Different

  "David Lee Roth vents about Van Halen's future". Interview with Steve Baltin, www.usatoday.com. February 13, 2013.

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• Ambition is not a four-letter word and women have to embrace that.

  Tory Burch

  Ambition, Four, Embrace

  "TORY BURCH: 'Ambition Is Not A Four-Letter Word And Women Have To Embrace That'" by Kim Bhasin, www.businessinsider.com. May 21, 2012.

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• I don't see social media as lending my voice as much as I see it speaking my truth. If you look at my open letters, the one I wrote about Blue Ivy too - you see, I am always as the foundation, talking about us being a better humanity. I believe in that.

  India.Arie

  Believe, Blue, Media

  Source: www.ebony.com

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• You grow up watching certain films or admiring certain filmmakers, and to write a love letter to one and have them validate it, it's extraordinary.

  Simon Pegg

  Growing Up, Writing, Film

  "Simon Pegg on George Romero's phone call and holding Carrie Fisher in his arms". Interview with Will Harris, film.avclub.com. April 10, 2015.

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• If there's something that I really need to say that I can't say by speaking to someone, I usually write it in a song or a letter to someone.

  Joshua Radin

  Song, Writing, Needs

  Source: www.cnn.com

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• The hearts letter is read in the eyes.

  George Herbert

  Heart, Eye

  George Herbert, Christopher Harvey, George Gilfillan (1857). “The poetical works of George Herbert”, p.298

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• I wonder, what's in a book while it's closed. Oh, I know it's full of letters printed on paper, but all the same, something must be happening, because as soon as I open it, there's a whole story with people I don't know yet and all kinds of adventures, deeds and battles. And sometimes there are storms at sea, or it takes you to strange cities and countries. All those things are somehow shut in a book. Of course you have to read it to find out. But it's already there, that's the funny thing. I just wish I knew how it could be.

  Michael Ende

  Country, Book, Adventure

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