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Quotes About Correspondence

I got mail from a prison once.
~ Chloe Kim
DMs are a lot like email - and should have the same privacy protections as a mailed letter.
~ Adam Cohen
When I was a kid, I wrote to the BBC, and the producers sent me a huge package through the post with 'Doctor Who' scripts. I'd never even seen a script and couldn't believe that they actually wrote this stuff down. It sort of opened a door.
~ Peter Capaldi
When writing a thank-you if you've had lunch with someone downtown, send an e-mail. If somebody is giving you a dinner party in his or her home and all the work that takes, that person deserves a written thank-you.
~ Letitia Baldrige
Ibíd., p. 59, el texto completo de la carta de hach Amin a Hitler, 20 enero 1941, se encuentra en el Apéndice B (pp. 202-5) del libro de Elpeleg.
~ Robert Fisk
in alignment. Their video matches their audio.
~ Robin S. Sharma
We were more alike than we were different, he and I.
~ Roger Zelazny
Jack wrote his mother how things couldn't proceed in New York in Pierpont's absence.
~ Ron Chernow
THE RETURN ADDRESS on Rutter's letter corresponded to a dingy storefront some blocks south of any hope of urban renewal.
~ Lee Child
It's a tough job being somebody's personal assistant. You have to anwser their phone, manage their correspondence, run their errands, pay their bills, arrange their schedule, and basically do whatever tasks, menial to major, they are too busy or self absorbed or distracted or pampered or disinterested to do themselves.
~ Lee Goldberg
El amor ansía ser correspondido; buscan las lágrimas lágrimas que les respondan. Y cuando el alma de un gran pueblo sufre, su vida entera acusa el dolor; tiembla toda alma viva y los de corazón puro van al sacrificio
~ Leonid Andreyev
A few more Rules may fitly be given here, for correspondence that has unfortunately become controversial . One is, don't repeat yourself . When once you have said your say, fully and clearly, on a certain point, and have failed to convince your friend, drop that subject : to repeat your arguments, all over again, will simply lead to his doing the same; and so you will go on, like a Circulating Decimal. Did you ever know a Circulating Decimal come to an end?
~ Lewis Carroll
I kept his letters in a sandalwood box and covered them every day with the flowers I gathered in the garden.
~ Lewis Carroll
Could you look again, please?" the woman asked in a clipped, slightly British accent. "It was sent parcel post two weeks ago from Miss Felicity Worthington and addressed to Mrs. Rao, Mrs. Gemma Doyle Rao.
~ Libba Bray
The fact that extremely diversified phenomena are explained in terms of laws having the same form or pattern gives us information... about the structure of the various levels of reality with which the mind deals; for presumably the pattern of a hypothesis must have some correspondence, if it works, with the pattern of the phenomena which it explains.
~ Aldous Huxley
Writing to someone is the only way to wait for him without hurting oneself.
~ Alessandro Baricco
Écrire à quelqu'un est la seule manière de l'attendre sans se faire de mal.
~ Alessandro Baricco
Scrivere a qualcuno è l'unico modo di aspettarlo senza farsi del male.
~ Alessandro Baricco
Von Igelfeld wondered whether there was a moral obligation to read a letter. Surely the moral principles involved were the same as those which applied when somebody addressed a remark to one. One does not have to answer; but inevitably does.
~ Alexander McCall Smith
I can't think of anything to send a memo about," he said. "And anyway, there was that memo we got the other day telling us not to send too many memos.
~ Alexander McCall Smith
Life would split apart without letters.
~ Virginia Woolf
Everything is a metaphor for everything else.
~ Jim Lawrence
What the younger generations don't have are letters." … "Why bother when you can e-mail, phone or text." … "As we contact each other more and more", … "there is, oddly, nothing to show for it.
~ Joan Bakewell
My faith grew strong, and I sent a letter (as I was ordered) to the Rev. Dignitary of the Cathedral of Exeter. I was assured, before I sent it, he would not answer it.
~ Joanna Southcott