Letters Quotes

Letters are expectation packaged in an envelope.
Shana Alexander

Envelope, Packaged

When I first began to combine letters other than Hebrew, I read every book in German that came my way, and from these I certainly received according to the nature of my soul.
Shmuel Y. Agnon

Nature, Book, Soul

There are people who would rather choke than go see my movies. They write me letters all the time.
Alec Baldwin

Time, Movies, Rather

The man of science, like the man of letters, is too apt to view mankind only in the abstract, selecting in his consideration only a single side of our complex and many-sided being.
James G. Frazer

Science, Single, View

I wish there was something that - I get all those wonderful letters and wonderful acknowledgments, and I wish I could be more appreciative of what I do. But it's hard for me.
Harvey Korman

Hard, Wish, Wonderful

I never wanted to write. I just wrote letters home from a kibbutz in Israel to reassure my parents that I was still alive and well fed and having a great time. They thought these letters were brilliant and sent them to a newspaper. So I became a writer by accident.
Maeve Binchy

Time, Great, Home

Writers spend three years rearranging 26 letters of the alphabet. It's enough to make you lose your mind day by day.
Richard Price

Mind, Enough, Lose

What I did, you know, being away from my family, letting so many people down. I let myself down, not being out on the football field, being in a prison bed, in a prison bunk, writing letters home, you know. That wasn't my life.
Michael Vick

Life, Family, Home

When I was in elementary school, I used to write letters to myself. I'd write letters and go 'Dear Kristen-at-16-years-old, happy birthday. I hope you're doing something.'
Kristin Kreuk

Birthday, Hope, Happy

Politeness is as much concerned in answering letters within a reasonable time, as it is in returning a bow, immediately.
Philip Stanhope

Time, Within, Concerned

I get about 25 letters a month, and I answer every one of them.
Mary Ann Mobley

I like the storytelling and reading the letters, the long-distance dedications. Anytime in radio that you can reach somebody on an emotional level, you're really connecting.
Casey Kasum

Emotional, Reading, Somebody

I'd like to feel that an advertiser gets something extra when they advertise with us - a certain humanity that comes from upbeat and positive human interest letters and success stories.
Casey Kasum

Success, Positive, Human

I have asked myself once or twice lately what was my natural bent. I have no doubt at all: It is to look at each day for the evil of that day and have a go at it, and that is why I have never failed to have an acute interest in each morning's letters.
Geoffrey Fisher

Morning, Evil, Doubt

I have 800 books of just Samuel Beckett's work, tons of his correspondence, personal letters that he wrote. I have copies of plays he used when he directed, so all of his handwritten notes are in the corners of the page.
John Larroquette

Work, Personal, Used

Actually, I bought one share of Warren Buffett's stock, probably 35 years ago, in order to read his letters.
Sam Wyly

Read, Actually, Order

I don't take part in texting and those other things myself, so I don't really know if people put as much thought into messaging as they used to into writing letters.
Tyne Daly

Writing, Thought, Put

The letters were universally complimentary, and we designers loved hearing that our games were being enjoyed, but if they weren't sending us a picture of their screens most of those writers would have spent their time playing the game rather than writing letters.
David Crane

Time, Game, Writing

It's not the most intellectual job in the world, but I do have to know the letters.
Vanna White

If you ever watched 'Hercules,' you can see that it was made in a comical way for the most part. I remember getting lots of letters from kids around the world saying that the show helped them curb their temper and not look for trouble and just walk away from it because that was the stronger thing to do.
Kevin Sorbo

Saying, Remember, Made

When I think of the library of Alexandria and of the fact that, although it burnt down, people continue to sort the letters of the alphabet according to that tradition, then that makes certain expressions of modernity, even of interventions on the textual level, possible.
Alexander Kluge

Down, Fact, Makes

Average Americans are going to win this, not me. And not just your organization, not just the providers of health care, but the American people are going to cause this to happen. But they have to keep sending those cards and letters.
Charlie Norwood

Health, Care, Win

I get letters from readers who say that they have always hated reading, but somebody suggested one of my books, they actually finished the book and enjoyed it, and they're going on to read another book. I'm thrilled that they have figured out that reading is fun.
Caroline B. Cooney

Fun, Book, Another

Out all of these zillions of letters, one of the first ones that came was, as it turned out from Johnny Carson within the last five or six weeks of his life. I had worked with him. He lost a son who had worked for me.
Dick Ebersol

Life, Lost, Him

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.
John Hall

Sympathy, Poor, Write

Feedback is a pleasant thing. I get a lot of letters from unexpected people in unexpected places.
Brian Aldiss

Unexpected, Places, Pleasant

I get letters from women, and they say, 'I love your Roman nose.' If I weren't on TV and I walked past that same woman, she'd go, 'Did you see the beak on that guy?
Matt Lauer

Love, Women, Past

I started painting graffiti in the classic New York style of big letters and characters but I was never very good at it.
Banksy

Good, Big, Started

I wrote that letter, and the one to Nixon. And I wrote more letters, and I thought it might be a magazine article. At that time I sent it to Esquire and Playboy, but anyway, I kept writing, and all of sudden I had enough and thought, well maybe it is a book.
Don Novello

Time, Book, Writing

I have like 250 letters that I have to whittle it down to 150. Only then do you have the whole overview of a book. When it was finally edited, at least my take was, everybody's lying. You know?
Don Novello

Book, Down, Whole

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