Quotes of: Letter Keyword

In the progressive growth of astronomy, physics or mechanical science was developed, and when this had been, to a certain degree, successfully cultivated, it gave birth to the science of chemistry.

Familiar Letters on Chemistry

Run. Flee. Fuck off. Vanish from my presence and take the foul stench of your sordid secret with you.

The Bizarre Letters of St John Morris

Had the facial plumage been of a paler hue it would have looked like a pile of horse crap on a winter’s day.

The Bizarre Letters of St John Morris

I cannot be critical of an infant whose only possible source of nourishment can be found in the dugs of a wolf.

In the Belly of the Beast: Letters From Prison

It would be easy to assume that the open letter is a symptom of the Internet age. Such is not the case. In 1774, Benjamin Franklin wrote an open letter to the prime minister of Great Britain, Lord North - a satirical call for the imposition of martia...

Roxane Gay

My theory is you shouldn't apologize for believing in an idea-channeling muse. You should just be sure to feed her.

22 Shelters: Lessons From Letters

Children know by instinct that hell is an absence of love, and they can pick out theirs without missing.

The Habit of Being: Letters of Flannery O'Connor

Dogma is the guardian of mystery. The doctrines are spiritually significant in ways that we cannot fathom.

The Habit of Being: Letters of Flannery O'Connor

The basis of all true cosmic horror is violation of the order of nature, and the profoundest violations are always the least concrete and describable.

Selected Letters III: 1929-1931

Far, far away something made a single ghostly howl, like a banshee in the dark.

Stolen: A Letter to My Captor

I'm a thousand different people. Every one is real.

My Face for the World to See: The Diaries, Letters, and Drawings of Candy Darling, Andy Warhol Superstar

My patience has dreadful chilblains from standing so long on a monument.

Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning to Mary Russell Mitford, 1836-1854

Whoever said money can't buy happiness didn't know where to shop.

The Letters of Gertrude Stein and Carl Van Vechten, 1913-1946

Cultivate simplicity or rather should I say banish elaborateness, for simplicity springs spontaneous from the heart.

The Letters of Charles and Mary Lamb, 1796-1820

Politics is the application of Sufism to earthlife...To refuse to act politically is to starve your children, destroy civilization.

Letters: Shamcher Beorse and Carol Sill, 1974-1977

In these times I don't, in a manner of speaking, know what I want; perhaps I don't want what I know and want what I don't know.

The Letters of Marsilio Ficino, Vol. 3

Friendship however is a plant which cannot be forced -- true friendship is no gourd spring up in a night and withering in a day.

The Letters of Charlotte Brontë

Because I think that by beauty, you don't just mean something that's pretty. You mean something that makes us human.

Love Letters to the Dead

Linnaeus and Cuvier have been my two gods, though in very different ways, but they were mere schoolboys to old Aristotle.

The Life & Letters of Charles Darwin

Just because you're breathing, doesn't mean you're alive.

The Legacy Letters: His Wife, His Children, His Final Gift

Your time is your time. Be awake to it. It's hard work to be wisely alive.

The Legacy Letters: His Wife, His Children, His Final Gift