Letter Quotes - page 20

It is a fantastic letter. Very understated. He calls it an optical maser, it's as if a maser was made to run in the optical. No flamboyant phrase, just straightforward science. (Peter Franken)
My dear Sensier, - I shall be greatly obliged if after reading and sealing the enclosed letter, you will take it to Rue du Delta, No. 8. [Paris].... Jaque [common friend and painter] and I have settled to stay here [ Barbizon ] for some time, and have accordingly each of us taken rooms. The prices are excessively low compared to those in Paris; and as it is easy to get to town if necessary, and the country is superbly beautiful, we hope to work more quietly here, and perhaps do better things. In fact, we intend to spend some time here... I wish you good-bye, with many hearty embraces. Jacque sends you warm remembrances, and will answer your letter tomorrow. View quote
Jean-François Millet
(letter adressed to Mihai Antonescu, 6 september 1941) "We must all understand that this is not a fight against Slavs, but against the Jews. It's a battle for life and death. Either we win and the world will purify, or they'll win and we'll become their slaves. Both the war in general and the battles at Odessa, especially, have made the proof that the Jew is Satan. View quote
Ion Antonescu
Personal beauty is a greater recommendation than any letter of reference. View quote
Fanny Brice
It is not the word that is the original material of poetry, rather the letter. Word is: 1. Composition of letters 2. Sounds 3. Description (meaning) 4. Vehicle for idea associations Art is uninterpretable, unending; material must be unequivocal in a consistent formation. View quote
Kurt Schwitters
I think he imagined the Politburo would hold up his letter and say, "Hold everything, Kenneth Hockney has written again!" View quote
David Hockney
I have known many an instance of a man writing a letter and forgetting to sign his name, but this is the only instance I have ever known of a man signing his name and forgetting to write the letter. View quote
Henry Ward Beecher
Japanese women have always loved my films, even when no one else did. Ever since I made 'Maurice' in the 1980s, I've been getting hundreds of letter from Japanese girls. They definitely have a special place in my heart. View quote
Hugh Grant
In a vision of the night, I saw a man whose name was Victoricus coming as it from Ireland with innumerable letters, and he gave me one of them, and I read the beginning of the letter: "The Voice of the Irish" View quote
Saint Patrick
Were I as rich in worldly commodity, as in hearty will, I would thank you most princely for your very welcome and agreeable letter;- but, were it so, I should not proportion my gratitude to your wants;- for, blessed be the God of thy hope! View quote
Ignatius Sancho
My friend L___ is in town, and intends trying his fortune among us- as teacher of murder and neck-breaking, alias, fencing and riding. (from vol 1, letter 17: Charles Street, London, 26 Nov 1774, to Mr S___ ). (Ignatius Sancho)
Nature has written a letter of credit upon some men's faces that is honored wherever presented. You cannot help trusting such men. Their very presence gives confidence. There is 'promise to pay' in their faces which gives confidence and you prefer it to another man's endorsement. Character is credit. View quote
William Makepeace Thackeray
Charles went towards the table, but he had no lady-like powers of filling four sheets with nothing, and the letter was soon sealed. View quote
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
A letter then, breathing of home and affection, is a treasure; it is like a memento from the dead, for absence is as death in all but that its resurrection is in this life. View quote
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
Now, 75 years [after], in an abundant society where people have laptops, cell phones, iPods, and minds like empty rooms, I still plod along with books. [Open Letter,, July 2006]. View quote
Harper Lee
I can scarcely manage to scribble a tolerable English letter. I know that I am not a scholar, but meantime I am aware that no man living knows better than I do the habits of our birds. View quote
John James Audubon
A short letter to a distant friend is, in my opinion, an insult like that of a slight bow or cursory salutation -- a proof of unwillingness to do much, even where there is a necessity of doing something. View quote
Samuel Johnson
More and more I feel like a letter-deposited here, collected there. But a letter addressed to no one. View quote
Margaret Atwood
There'll be a day when I shall begin something that I shan't finish - a walk, or a letter, or a sentence, or a dream. View quote
Henri Barbusse
Without such a Life, the Word as to the letter is dead. View quote
Emanuel Swedenborg
Letter to his wife (2 June 1863), as quoted in "The Oxford Dictionary of American Quotations" (2005) edited by Hugh Rawson and Margaret Miner. (William Tecumseh Sherman)
How do I let the director know how obsessed I am and willing to do anything for the movie? Like, I wanted to write this one director a letter, so I wrote him a handwritten note. But then I was like, 'How many people are writing this guy handwritten letters? Is it going to seem cheesy? What do I do?' View quote
Jennifer Lawrence
In my experience an appreciative letter from a fellow writer means a lot. View quote
Ian McEwan
ART, n. This word has no definition. Its origin is related by the ingenious Father Gassalasca Jape as 'One day a wag what would the wretch be at Shifted a letter of the cipher RAT, And said it was a god's name ...' View quote
Ambrose Bierce
X, n. In our alphabet being a needless letter has an added invincibility to the attacks of the spelling reformers, and like them, will doubtless last as long as the language. View quote
Ambrose Bierce