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Quotes About Letters

I get some female attention from fans, but mostly it's people asking for advice about a situation with their ex or their boyfriend, so it's not all love letters and fan mail!
~ Matthew Hussey
Letters do love one another. However, due to their anatomical differences, some letters have a hard time achieving intimacy.
~ Ellen Lupton
The girl behind the scrawled letters. I loved you from the moment I read them. I love you still." - Will Herondale
~ Cassandra Clare
I love all those girls the same as they love me. I get thousands of letters a week from girls who love me.... Every time I sing a song, I make love to them. I'm a boudoir singer.
~ Frank Sinatra
Retirement without the love of letters is a living burial.
~ Seneca the Younger
Steven, I know I phrased that as a question, but it was really a command. Yes, but mine is…ummm…private. Private, Steven? Yes, Miss Palma. PRIVATE Steven? Again with the capital letters?
~ Jordan Sonnenblick
Figure, movement. Everything happens, says Pascal, from figure and movement. To say in this case that everything happens from movement, for every figure is no more than the lingering trace of a movement that has already ceased. Thus the letters that I am forming now, for example, are only the pen's lingering trace of the movement of my hand.
~ Joseph Joubert
In those parts of the world where learning and science has prevailed, miracles have ceased; but in such parts of it as are barbarous and ignorant, miracles are still in vogue ; which is of itself a strong presumption that in the infancy of letters, learning and science, or in the world's non-age, those who confided in miracles, as a proof of the divine mission of the first promulgators of revelation, were imposed upon by fictitious appearances instead of miracles.
~ Ethan Allen
I remember when I worked with Fassbinder in Germany, actors wrote letters to him. But you see, a director wants to discover you himself. He doesn't want the actor to say, 'oh, I'd love to work with you' - the actor says that to other people, too.
~ Udo Kier
I get lots of letters, and I reply to them all personally.
~ June Brown
People would write me hate letters. How dare I try to represent Hispanics when I was so white? I tried to make them see it was racism.
~ Cristina Saralegui
All of us are citizens in a republic much larger than the Republic of America. It is the Republic of Letters, a realm of the mind that extends everywhere, without police, national boundaries, or disciplinary frontiers.
~ Robert Darnton
I save her marked-up manuscripts as an unluckier husband might save love letters.
~ Will Allison
It is hardly fair to accuse us of ignorance when it was made a crime under the former order of things to learn enough about letters to even read the Word of God.
~ George H. White
Ignorance breeds antipathy. Until I got to know how computers worked, I didn't want anything to do with them. I said, 'Well, why do I need them? I write letters.' Which I still do.
~ Viggo Mortensen
It's very hard for politicians to ignore even just a handful of letters about the same issue.
~ Jo Swinson
I'm immensely proud to have been made a CBE, but I don't ever use the letters after my name unless someone has included them in correspondence.
~ Mary Berry
Scattò tutta la testa verso di lui e disse: «Come comincerai la tua prossima lettera? Fulvia dannazione?» Lui aveva scosso la testa, frusciando i capelli contro la corteccia del ciliegio. Fulvia si affannò. «Vuoi dire che non ci sarà una prossima lettera?» «Semplicemente che non la comincerò Fulvia dannazione. Non temere, per le lettere. Mi rendo conto. Non possiamo più farne ameno. Io di scrivertele e tu di riceverle».
~ Beppe Fenoglio
Al secondo appuntamento Fulvia gli disse che scriveva benissimo. «Sono... discreto». «Meravigliosamente, ti dico. Sai che farò la prima volta che andrò a Torino? Comprerò un cofanetto per conservarci le tue lettere. Le conserverò tutte e mai nessuno le vedrà. Forse le mie nipoti, quando avranno questa mia età». E lui non poté dir niente, oppresso dall'ombra della terribile possibilità che le nipoti di Fulvia non fossero anche le sue.
~ Beppe Fenoglio
My folks, checking their mailbox, were astounded to find thousands of letters awaiting them. How could they possibly
~ Bethany Hamilton
If you've never used Word, think of it as an add-in for people who can't seem to type their letters in Excel).
~ Bill Jelen
As historians, we spend days in archives, gazing at account books. We train would-be historians in the arts of deciphering letters and documents, early Latin, scribal handwriting, medieval French.
~ Kate Williams
I grew up listening in awe to stories of their wartime adventures. My granny, Joan, was a journalist and wrote amazing letters to my grandpa when he was a prisoner of war, while my nana, Mary, was a Land Girl, then a Wren. They were so independent, resilient and glamorous.
~ Laura Carmichael
Honest honey, I feel like crying every time I sit down to write you a letter... I am so unlucky.
~ Eddie Slovik