Quotes and Sayings About Letters
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My spelling is Wobbly. It's good spelling but it Wobbles, and the letters get in the wrong places.
-- A. A. Milne -
The test of a good letter is a very simple one. If one seems to hear the other person talking as one reads, it is a good letter.
-- A. C. Benson -
When we did 'Dynasty', it was the clothes. I think the clothes affected every woman around the world. I got so many letters, I think we made the designer a millionaire!
-- Aaron Spelling -
The calligraphic letter is not entirely a letter, but something that sits between writing and music
-- Abdelkebir Khatibi -
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You don’t know a woman until you have had a letter from her.
-- Ada Leverson -
You don't really know a woman until she writes you a letter.
-- Ada Leverson -
Whatever is unnamed, undepicted in images, whatever is omitted from biography, censored in collections of letters, whatever is misnamed as something else, made difficult-to-come-by, whatever is buried in the memory by the collapse of meaning under an inadequate or lying language - this will become, not merely unspoken, but unspeakable.
-- Adrienne Rich -
I, myself, was always recognized . . . as the “slow one†in the family. It was quite true, and I knew it and accepted it. Writing and spelling were always terribly difficult for me. My letters were without originality. I was . . . an extraordinarily bad speller and have remained so until this day.
-- Agatha Christie -
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Letters form a by-path of literature, a charming, but occasional, retreat for people of cultivated leisure.
-- Agnes Repplier -
There was no escape from the letter-writer who, a hundred or a hundred and twenty-five years ago, captured a coveted correspondent. It would have been as easy to shake off an octopus or a boa-constrictor.
-- Agnes Repplier -
Just know what is happening in your mind - not happy or sad about it, not attached. If you suffer see it, know it, and be empty. It's like a letter - you have to open it before you can know what's in it.
-- Ajahn Chah -
Scared and sacred are spelled with the same letters. Awful proceeds from the same root word as awesome. Terrify and terrific. Every negative experience holds the seed of transformation.
-- Alan Cohen -
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The position of modern science, as far as an ignorant man of letters can understand it, seems not a step in advance of that held by Huxley and Romanes in the last century.
-- Albert J. Nock -
Socrates affirmed that only that which the reader already knows can be sparked by a reading, and that the knowledge cannot be acquired through dead letters.
-- Alberto Manguel -
There are people who would rather choke than go see my movies. They write me letters all the time.
-- Alec Baldwin -
What happened to romance? Sappy, soppy longhand love letters.
-- Alex FlinnSource : "Fictional character: Lindy". "Beastly", www.imdb.com. 2011.
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Laws are a dead letter without courts to expound and define their true meaning and operation.
-- Alexander Hamilton -
Heav'n first taught letters for some wretch's aid, Some banish'd lover, or some captive maid.
-- Alexander Pope -
The cabinets of the sick and the closets of the dead have been ransacked to publish private letters and divulge to all mankind the most secret sentiments of friendship.
-- Alexander Pope -
Thank you, darling, for learning to play chess. It is an absolute necessity for any well organized family. (in a letter to his wife)
-- Alexander Pushkin -
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Survival is a four letter word.
-- Alexis De VeauxSource : Alexis De Veaux (1974). “Spirits in the street”
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The word 'listen' contains the same letters as the word 'silent.'
-- Alfred Brendel -
In love matters; keep your pen from paper.
-- Alfred de Musset -
Iran welcomes dialogue with any other states. I wrote a letter to the three European states inviting them to resume talks, but, they cancelled it. They had thought that Iran would no longer resume talks with them.
-- Ali Larijani -
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Some time all kinds of letters will be published to the ineffable delight of endless readers.
-- Alice B. Toklas -
A query letter should be like a skirt. Long enough to cover everything, but short enough to be exciting.
-- Andrea Brown -
I'd like to be rich enough so I could throw soap away after the letters are worn off
-- Andy Rooney -
One of the sweetest things in life: a letter from a friend.
-- Andy Rooney -
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E-mail is a modern Penny Post: the world is a single city with a single postal rate.
-- Anne Fadiman -
A pleasant letter I hold to be the pleasantest thing that this world has to give.
-- Anthony Trollope