Quotes with letter

  • You don't expect to get the letter saying, Her Majesty would like to appoint you Knight Commander of the British Empire! It was just a completely overwhelming and exciting day.
  • And so our mothers and grandmothers have, more often than not anonymously, handed on the creative spark, the seed of the flower they themselves never hoped to see - or like a sealed letter they could not plainly read.
  • You get a letter from her agency embracing you into the family that says, 'It is our goal now to help you achieve your dream of being a songwriter, in John's memory.'.
  • If you imagine b, d, p, and q, those are letter forms that all the children always mess up. They are mirror forms of one another. That feature is emphasized in a font like Arial, where the shapes are literally mirror forms.
  • A Train was born without any effort - if was like writing a letter to a friend.
  • I'm a strong nonbeliever in the Christmas letter where you don't really read it because it's just full of kind of meaningless information. It doesn't really resonate to the person reading it, but it means so much to the person that wrote it.
  • Woe to the makers of literal translations, who by rendering every word weaken the meaning! It is indeed by so doing that we can say the letter kills and the spirit gives life.
  • When people ask for time, it's always for time to say no. Yes has one more letter in it, but it doesn't take half as long to say.
  • If you want to know your true opinion of someone, watch the effect produced in you by the first sight of a letter from him.
  • Well, I'm not going to go into what the letter says, because the police are looking at that. But as you say it's in Bahasa. But of course that's not to suggest that the letter came from outside of Australia. It came from in Australia. It came from Victoria.
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  • Mark Twain refused to attend his funeral. But I wrote a very nice letter explaining that I approved of it.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Emily Dickinson A letter always feels to me like immortality because it is the mind alone, without corporal friend.
    Emily Dickinson
    American poet (1830 - 1886)
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  • Henry Fielding A good face they say, is a letter of recommendation. O Nature, Nature, why art thou so dishonest, as ever to send men with these false recommendations into the World!
    Henry Fielding
    English writer (1707 - 1754)
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  • Francis Bacon A graceful and pleasing figure is a perpetual letter of recommendation.
    Francis Bacon
    English philosopher and statesman (1561 - 1626)
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  • Marcus Tullius Cicero A letter does not blush.
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    Roman statesman and writer (106 - 43)
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  • Friedrich Nietzsche A letter is an unannounced visit, the postman the agent of rude surprises.
    Original: Der Brief ist ein unangemeldeter Besuch, der Briefträger der Vermittler unhöflicher Überfälle.
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    German poet and philosopher (1844 - 1900)
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  • E. B. White A man who publishes his letters becomes a nudist - nothing shields him from the world's gaze except his bare skin. A writer, writing away, can always fix himself up to make himself more presentable, but a man who has written a letter is stuck with it for all time.
    E. B. White
    American writer (1899 - 1985)
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  • Samuel Johnson A short letter to a distant friend is, in my opinion, an insult like that of a slight bow or cursory salutation - a proof of unwillingness to do much, even where there is a necessity of doing something.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Billy Strayhorn A Train was born without any effort - if was like writing a letter to a friend.
    Billy Strayhorn
    American jazz composer and pianist (1915 - 1967)
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  • Alice Walker And so our mothers and grandmothers have, more often than not anonymously, handed on the creative spark, the seed of the flower they themselves never hoped to see - or like a sealed letter they could not plainly read.
    Alice Walker
    American Author, Critic (1944 - 1982)
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  • Alvin Toffler Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error that provoked it.
    Alvin Toffler
    American writer, futurist, and businessman (1928 - 2016)
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  • Bryan Callen Compare sending someone a text message and getting a love letter delivered by carrier pigeon. No contest.
    Bryan Callen
    American stand-up comedian, actor, writer (1967 - )
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  • Blake Farenthold Do I have a reasonable expectation of privacy in any information that I share with a company? My Google searches? The emails I send? Do I have a reasonable expectation of privacy in anything but maybe a letter I hand deliver to my wife?
    Blake Farenthold
    American politician and lobbyist (1961 - )
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  • Cole Porter Good authors, too, who once knew better words now only use four-letter words writing prose... anything goes.
    Cole Porter
    American composer and songwriter (1891 - 1964)
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  • Mark Twain I did not attend his funeral; but I wrote a nice letter saying I approved of it. [About a politician who had recently died]
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Blaise Pascal I have made this letter a rather long one, only because I didn't have the leisure to make it shorter.
    Blaise Pascal
    French mathematician, physicist and philosopher (1623 - 1662)
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  • David Herbert Lawrence I hold that the parentheses are by far the most important parts of a non-business letter.
    David Herbert Lawrence
    English writer (1885 - 1930)
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  • Mark Twain I refused to attend his funeral. But I wrote a very nice letter explaining that I approved of it.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Abraham Pais I spent every night until four in the morning on my dissertation, until I came to the point when I could not write another word, not even the next letter. I went to bed. Eight o'clock the next morning I was up writing again.
    Abraham Pais
    Dutch-American physicist (1918 - 2000)
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  • B. D. Wong I'm a strong nonbeliever in the Christmas letter where you don't really read it because it's just full of kind of meaningless information. It doesn't really resonate to the person reading it, but it means so much to the person that wrote it.
    B. D. Wong
    American actor (1960 - )
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