Quotes About Letters

No me parece que haya que confundir la correspondencia con una deuda bancaria, si bien es cierto que en algo están ligadas: las cartas son como letras que se reciben y se deben. Uno siempre tiene algún remordimiento por algún amigo al que le debe una carta y no siempre la alegría de recibirlas compensa la obligación de contestarlas. Por otro lado, la correspondencia es un género perverso: necesita de la distancia y de la ausencia para prosperar.

Mi abuela se marchó antes de que yo aprendiera la lección que enseñaban sus cartas: la supervivencia radica en la cordura, y ésta se encuentra en prestar atención.

Every few days the letters arrived, tattered and torn, from Lordsburg, New Mexico. Sometimes entire sentences had been cut out with a razor blade by the censors and the letters did not make any sense. Sometimes they arrived in one piece, but with half of the words blacked out. Always, they were signed, From Papa, With Love.

The intriguing thing about playing Scrabble is that as soon as the board is set up in front of me, I don't know any words. Other than cat and bat and rat, everything disappears from the language drawer in my brain. My mother, on the other hand, who normally speaks English like a regular person, spells things like qiviut (wool of the muskox) and hake.

Letters tell the truths a person will not speak. They contain the deepest of feelings, the wisest of stories. Letters are powerful. They contain messages of hope, love, change.

Writing letters...means to denude oneself before the ghosts, something for which they greedily wait. Written kisses don't reach their destination, rather they are drunk on the way by the ghosts. [Kafka to Milena]

Paul's letters were occasional responses to specific questions rather than a coherent account of a fully articulated theology.

The Grim Reaper, Gloria corrected herself - if anyone deserved capital letters it was surely Death. Gloria would rather like to be the Grim Reaper. She wouldn't necessarily be grim, she suspected she would be quite cheerful (Come along now, don't make such a fuss).

The love of letters is the forlorn hope of the man of letters. His ruling passion is the love of fame.

A man inserted an 'ad' in the classifieds: "Wife wanted". Next day he received a hundred letters. They all said the same thing: "You can have mine."

All men of genius, and all those who have gained rank in the republic of letters, are brothers, whatever may be the land of their nativity.

Our favorites are few; since only what rises from the heart reaches it, being caught and carried on the tongues of men wheresoever love and letters journey.

He who receives a great many letters demanding answer, sees himself as if engaged in a hopeless struggle of one man against the rest of the world.

The FBI is urging all Americans to beware of any letters or packages that have badly misspelled words. Man, this is going to be terrible news for the rap industry.

In celebration of Mother's Day yesterday, President Obama called three moms who had written him letters. Then kids who made their mom a macaroni necklace said, 'Thanks, Obama.'

Write letters to your grandmother. She will love it. And leave you money in her will.

When an actor has money he doesn't send letters, he sends telegrams.

I started writing letters home to my mother, saying that I wanted to come home, grandma won't let me sing.

Music has seven letters, writing has twenty-six notes

Every man should follow the bent of his nature in art and letters, always provided that he does not offend against the rules of morality and good taste.

People were usually much better in their letters than in reality. They were much like poets in this way.

I have no personal system of philosophy. I never attempt to do that. I am merely a man of letters.

A hug everyday mixed with just four sweet letters makes life joyful.

I want to whisper poetry into your mind and imprint love letters to your soul and dance with you in an empty white room of potential