Quotes of: Letter Keyword

Can death be sleep, when life is but a dream, And scenes of bliss pass as a phantom by? ---"On death

Complete Poems and Selected Letters

Twitter actually may be improving its users’ writing, as it forces them to wring meaning from fewer letters.

Dataclysm: Who We Are

Small men command the letter of the law. Great men serve its spirit. For the spirit of the law is justice... and justice is the spirit of God.

Dante's Journey

You would like to read, but somehow the rain gets into the book, too; not literally, and yet it really does, the letters are meaningless, and all you hear is the rain.

Embers

A woman is not to marry a man merely because she is asked, or because he is attached to her, and can write a tolerable letter.

Emma

...art is weaker than life - in the end I have a bag of letters to scrabble into order - rune tiles to cast my fate...

A Familiar Rain

I listen to the rainfall, my words wanna flow! Droplets run down the wall, where do they go? Letters in the raw, mesh together for the show!

A Fox Called Woff

A woman who loves books has a dreamer's soul, with each story she has read woven into her own.

The Garden of Letters

That Damon Matthews,” Linda spat. “You know, take one letter out of his name and it spells ‘ damn’ as in ‘damn, that kid’s a worthless sonovabitch’.

The Gamble

To say that life is nothing but a property of certain peculiar combinations of atoms is like saying that Shakespeare's Hamlet is nothing but a property of a peculiar combination of letters.

A Guide for the Perplexed

I never want to be away from you again, except at work, in the restroom or when one of us is at a movie the other does not want to see.

The Beatrice Letters

(My proudest moment as a child was the time I beat my uncle Pierre at Scrabble with the seven-letter word FARTING.)

Bossypants

A brick could deliver the zeitgeist through the thick skull of a politician faster than any letter or email. 

The Brick and Blanket Divergence Test

If you read back in the Bible, the letter of the apostle Paul to the church of Thessalonia, he said that in the latter days before the end of the age that the Earth would be caught up in what he called the birth pangs of a new order.

Pat Robertson

I get over a hundred letters a day from all over the world, from children and parents, and it's a wonder I ever have time to write books, let alone speak!

Enid Blyton

A good face they say, is a letter of recommendation. O Nature, Nature, why art thou so dishonest, as ever to send men with these false recommendations into the World!

Henry Fielding

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.

Thomas Edward Brown

The first two letters of her name were M and E and I thought, Yes! Finally, a name I can relate to.

$3.33

it will be generally found that the popular joke is not true to the letter, but is true to the spirit. The joke is generally in the oddest way the truth and yet not the fact.

All Things Considered

I am the poet with scaring words and blurred letters. I do not know if my poetry is a blessing or a curse.

Aphorisms of a Restless Soul

I have always believed in the principle that immediate survival is more important than long-term survival.

Imagining Canadian Literature: The Selected Letters