Top 1200 Letters Of The Alphabet Quotes & Sayings - Page 6

When an actor has money, he doesn't send letters, but telegrams.

I'm good at utilising body parts as letters.

the grim, grand African forests are like a great library, in which, so far, I can do little more than look at the pictures, although I am now busily learning the alphabet of their language, so that I may some day read what these pictures mean.

the letters are mixed up. U and I should be together.

Other letters simply relate the small events that punctuate the passage of time: roses picked at dusk, the laziness of a rainy Sunday, a child crying himself to sleep. Capturing the moment, these small slices of life, these small gusts of happiness, move me more deeply than all the rest. A couple of lines or eight pages, a Middle Eastern stamp or a suburban postmark . . . I hoard all these letters like treasure. One day I hope to fasten them end to end in a half-mile streamer, to float in the wind like a banner raised to the glory of friendship. It will keep the vultures at bay.

Clarity is the politeness of the man of letters.

Bestfriends has 11 letters, but so does Backstabber.

I read someplace that I used to make B-pictures. Hell, they were a lot farther down the alphabet than that . . . but not as far down as R and X. I think any man who makes an X-rated picture ought to be made to take his own daughter to see it.

Men who write love letters don't live in this century.

At a young age, I realized that getting letters is exciting.

God! How men of letters are stupid.

My alphabet book at Duddingston Primary, Edinburgh, began traditionally with 'a is for apple,' but when it came to 'g,' it was 'g is for gas globe.' This was in the late Fifties; there hadn't been gas globes for decades. The textbook must have been 30 or 40 years old!

So, I got a lot of recruitment letters from track.

A handful of letters doesn't always make a word, love.

The greatest of love letters are always coded for the one and not the many.

I do that a lot of authors still do not do is allow people to write directly to me. I get about 50 fan letters a day, and I answer every single one of them myself. It takes a lot of time and sometimes it's a pain in the neck and I answer the same questions over and over. But the truth is these people come to my readings clutching these letters saying, "You wrote me back. I can't believe you wrote me back", and I think it really means a lot for them to know that the author values them just as much as they value the author.

We have to play it longer because there are no numbers or letters.

But writing poems and letters doesn't seem to do much good.

More than kisses, letters mingle souls.

I think that I have less conviction than ever that poetry matters - that poetry changes or saves anything or anyone. But, in fact, that's tremendously freeing. If it doesn't matter much, the stakes are lower and you can't really fail. It's insurrection. It's a tiny alphabet revolution. A secret. A psalm.

Monogamy, monotony. There's only a couple of letters...

Retirement without the love of letters is a living burial.

You are a fool in four letters, my son.

Words matter. Especially ones with four letters.

Letters of friendship require no study.

There's a lot of letters in Ladanian Tomlinson

The black revolt is as palpable in letters as it is in the streets.

There is a triple layer of jargon when writing about climate change. You have the scientists, who are very cautious now because of the amount of climate denial. Then you have the U.N. jargon - I had to carry around a glossary of terms. It was like an alphabet soup.

Does G get angry because it follows F in the alphabet? Does page 68 in a book start a revolution because it follows 67?

Who else but me is ever going to read these letters?

To me, the circle and the square where the sky and the earth, as symbolized by the ancient Oriental religions; they formed a kind of rudimentary alphabet by means of which everything could be expressed with the most limited means. They evoked prehistoric runes and the early I-Ching, or Book of Changes.

Children spell love with four letters: T-I-M-E.

A cathedral without windows, a face without eyes, a field without flowers, an alphabet without vowels, a continent without rivers, a night without stars, and a sky without a sun—these would not be so sad as a . . . soul without Christ.

Shakespeare is a permanent presence in the English letters.

If letters had eyebrows, these would be arched.

Neither eyes on letters, nor hands in coffers.

Yeah, I've gotten a few letters from prison.

The lover of letters loves power too.

The language of love letters is the same as suicide notes.

I'm a hopeless romantic and a believer in handwritten letters.

Why bring children into a world where no one writes letters?

If plan A fails, remember there are 25 more letters.

You're gone. No mailing address. But I send you letters anyway.

Letters should be easy and natural.

I get a lot of letters from people.

Never answer anonymous letters.

I don't know how to write love letters.

There was an author who titled his books by days of the weeks and another one that used colors. Then there was Edward Gorey who wrote the book The Gashlycrumb Tinies, about the untimely death of 26 Victorian children, each representing a letter of the alphabet. I thought what a great way to link the titles.

The proper definition of a man is an animal that writes letters.

The problem with the alphabet is that it bears no relation to anything at all, and when words are arranged alphabetically they are uselessly separated. In the OED, for example, aardvarks are 19 volumes away from the zoo, yachts are 18 volumes from the beach, and wine is 17 volumes from the nearest corkscrew.

I believe in sending a lot of letters and notes to friends.

The Holy Scriptures are our letters from home.

My songs are just little letters to me.

Writing isn't letters on paper. It's communication. It's memory.

Dreams are letters from the book your life is writing.

The letters from jail are always disconcerting.

Wen you're a married man, Samivel, you'll understand a good many things as you don't understand now; but vether it's worth while goin' through so much to learn so little, as the charity-boy sand ven he go to the end of the alphabet, it's a matter of taste.

I started getting letters from college in the tenth grade.

Were all the letters sun, I could not see one.

He liked to go from A to B without inventing letters between.