Quotes About Letters

Capitals are called uppercase letters because typesetters would store them in the "upper case." Small letters were kept in the "lower case.

They spoke from a distant past when everyone read books and most people had hobbies, made things, played cards and chess, dressed up and played charades, sewed and painted and wrote letters and sent postcards.

Ro?ak Michael bio je prvi pokrovitelj škole, povu?eni ?ovjek koji je pisao gospo?i Harris o svemu što bi prema njegovu mišljenju moglo pomo?i bogatim nasljednicama koje poha?aju njenu školu. Madeline je osobito sumnjala da je ro?ak Michael vodio tako povu?en život kao što je tvrdio. No to vjerojatno nikada ne?e otkriti jer nitko nije znao njegov pravi identitet, pa ?ak ni gospo?a Harris.

Paul is our earliest New Testament author. All of his genuine letters were written before any of the gospels; his earliest ones are from around the year 50, and they predate Mark by about twenty years. Yet Paul says relatively little about the historical Jesus, so he is not a major source.

Older than the gospels themselves, this understanding of Jesus' death is central to the letters of Paul. It is also part of Paul's summary of the tradition he received when he became a follower of Jesus: "For I handed on to you as of first importance what I in turn had received: that Christ died for our sins in accordance with the Scriptures."4

I begin by noting that the books of the Bible were not sacred when they were written. Paul, for example, would have been amazed to know that his letters to his communities were to become sacred scripture. Rather, the various parts of the Bible became sacred through a process that took several centuries.

The heart with letters on it shining like a light bulb through the trim hole painted in the chest, art history.

His letters always begin without greeting and end without signature, as if they're part of one single letter, unrolling through time like an endless paper towel.

My letters! All dead paper, mute and white! And yet they seem alive and quivering Against my tremulous hands which loose the string.… —ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING, Sonnets from the Portuguese, 1850.

Printing meant arranging the letters into words, the words into perfectly straight lines, and the lines into even blocks of text to be inked and pressed onto paper or vellum. And each small step of the process, which sounds so mundane today, required invention.

Dreams are like letters from God. Isn't it time you answered your mail?

I have made this letter longer than usual, only because I have not had the time to make it shorter.

Does anyone write texts or emails as substantial or as telling as what we find in the letters of the past?

Mr. Bolkestein, the Cabinet Minister, speaking on the Dutch broadcast from London, said that after the war a collection would be made of diaries and letters dealing with the war. Of course, everyone pounced on my diary. Just imagine how interesting it would be if I were to publish a novel about the Secret Annex. The title alone would make people think it was a detective story.

He heard Julien's voice, with the fancy French accent illuminating the letters, just as surely as the old monks had illuminated letters when they painted them bright red or gold and decorated them with tiny figures and leaves.

From now on Anne saw herself as someone indelibly marked by suffering. Her letters to Sarah often ended with an allusion to her tragic history of bereavement, for she took to signing them your poor unfortunate faithful Morley.

The first rule of snooping is to come at it sideways--when you began writing me dizzy letters about Alexander, I didn't ask if you were in love with him, I asked what his favorite animal was. And your answer told me everything I needed to know about him--how many men would admit that they loved ducks?

The music of my youth was much better Than the music of yours. So was the weather. ... Back then, people wrote gorgeous letters And read more poetry. So did the weather. ... Of all issues, there was only one dissenter, But we loved him, too. So did the weather. ... We were guitar-players and inventors Of minor chords and antibiotics. So was the weather. From Terminal Nostalgia

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.

It is in a small village in the Pyrenees where no one knows me 7that my life will come to a close.... There is not enough time remaining for me to write all the letters I would like to write.

art is weaker than life - in the end I have a bag of letters to scrabble into order - rune tiles to cast my fate...

In the English language, it all comes down to this: Twenty-six letters, when combined correctly, can create magic. Twenty -six letters form the foundation of a free, informed society.

More negatives write than call. It's a cheap shot for me to go on the air with the critical letters or E-mail I get because the reaction of the listeners is always an instantaneous expression of sympathy for me and contempt for the poor critic.

The most perfect character is supposed to lie between those extremes; retaining an equal ability and taste for books, company, and business; preserving in conversation that discernment and delicacy which arise from polite letters; and in business, that probity and accuracy which are the natural result of a just philosophy.