Quotes of: Letter Keyword

When the glamour wears off, or merely works a bit thin, they think they have made a mistake, and that the real soul-mate is still to find. . . And of course they are as a rule quite right: they did make a mistake. Only a very wise man at the end of h...

The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien

Brother Lawrence says, in , 'There is not in the world a kind of life more sweet and delightful than that of a continual conversation with God. Those only can comprehend it who practice and experience it' (Letter 5). No one who has ever tried it has ...

Prayer for Beginners

The disease of the soul is both more common and more deadly than the disease of the body. Just as medicine is the art devoted to healing the body, so philosophy is the art devoted to healing the soul, curing it of improper emotions, false beliefs, an...

Plato: Letters to my Son

We don't know what it's like not to be in love with you. We loved you the moment you looked at us, held our hand, danced dirty, kissed us. We were lost in you way before we even met, before the thought crossed your mind that you were bored and we wer...

Where the Nights Are Twice as Long: Love Letters of Canadian Poets

The thing is, and here we come to E. Gorey's Great Simple Theory About Art (which he has never tried to communicate to anybody else until now, so prepare for Severe Bafflement), that on the surface they are so obviously those situations that it is ve...

Floating Worlds: The Letters of Edward Gorey and Peter F. Neumeyer

Le vrai est trop simple, il faut y arriver toujours par le compliqué." [Letter to Armand Barbès, 12 May 1867]

Correspondance

Whoever has taught me one letter has made me his slave.

The Dermis Probe

Double standards are inspiration to men of letters, but they are apt to be fatal to politicians.

The Education of Henry Adams

The letter came at a time in his life when the battle inside his soul could have tipped either way.

Elizabeth's Wolf

Dreaming is the poetry of Life, and we must be forgiven if we indulge in it a little.

Five Speeches to P.E.N. Clubs and a Letter

Write a complaint letter. Then answer it.

The Bounce Back Book: How to Thrive in the Face of Adversity, Setbacks, and Losses

Those extra letters dangling at the ends of words are the genitalia of grammar.

Between You & Me: Confessions of a Comma Queen

There is no literature anymore, there are just single books that arrive in bookstores, just as letters, newspapers, advertising pamphlets arrive in mailboxes.

Border State

In old age we are like a batch of letters that someone has sent. We are no longer in the past, we have arrived.

Knut Hamsun

Thus, the poet's word is beginning to strike forcefully upon the hearts of all men, while absolute men of letters think that they alone live in the real world.

Salvatore Quasimodo

When I receive letters from girls that say, 'You give me confidence,' I think, 'Wow, this is amazing.' That's my goal: to let people know it's truly what's on the inside that counts.

Amber Riley

About 1998, when 'Wide World of Sports' and the 'Footy Show' came to an end for me, I couldn't type. When I started architecture, it was a very aesthetic, creative, an almost art process, where lettering and thick line were how you expressed yourself...

Max Walker

If love is like a possession, maybe my letter are like my exorcisms

To All the Boys I've Loved Before

I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal.

Jane Austen's Letters

Letter make words. Words make stories. And stories can be changed with strong enough magic.

Rapunzel Cuts Loose

He removed his unvaluable valuables and dumped his shirt, pants, and skivvies into a letter slot.

The Running Man