Top 1200 Old Letters Quotes & Sayings - Page 5

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

Bestfriends has 11 letters, but so does Backstabber.

It's taken me to be an older guy, an old man, to have an old man's voice. Because I only liked old men's voices. As a kid, I didn't like pip-squeaked singers.

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

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

People say, 'You're old.' Old ain't nothing. You've got new cars that break down and old cars that pass them.

God! How men of letters are stupid.

The further you go in writing the more alone you are. Most of your best and oldest friends die. Others move away. You do not see them except rarely, but you write and have much the same contact with them as though you were together at the café in the old days. You exchange comic, sometimes cheerfully obscene and irresponsible letters, and it is almost as good as talking. But you are more alone because that is how you must work and the time to work is shorter all the time and if you waste it you feel you have committed a sin for which there is no forgiveness.

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

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

People talk to old people like they're children.'Oh you're very old aren't you?' Yeah I'm old. I'm not stupid.

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.

An old market had stood there until I'd been about six years old, when the authorities had renamed it the Olde Market, destroyed it, and built a new market devoted to selling T-shirts and other objects with pictures of the old market. Meanwhile, the people who had operated the little stalls in the old market had gone elsewhere and set up a thing on the edge of town that was now called the New Market even though it was actually the old market.

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

Life would split apart without letters.

Shakespeare is a permanent presence in the English letters.

I will never joke about old soldiers who try to get to reunions to talk over the war again. To talk of old times with old friends is the greatest thing in the world.

The thing is, when you see your old friends, you come face to face with yourself. I run into someone I've known for 40 or 50 years, and they're old. And I suddenly realize I'm old. It comes as an enormous shock to me.

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

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

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

Neither eyes on letters, nor hands in coffers.

The Little Boy and the Old Man Said the little boy, "Sometimes I drop my spoon." Said the old man, "I do that too." The little boy whispered, "I wet my pants." I do that too," laughed the little old man. Said the little boy, "I often cry." The old man nodded, "So do I." But worst of all," said the boy, "it seems Grown-ups don't pay attention to me." And he felt the warmth of a wrinkled old hand. I know what you mean," said the little old man.

When you're 20 you can put a ton of old-age prosthetics on and be an old guy, but when you're 70 you can't play a 20-year-old.

I didn't fear old age. I was just becoming increasingly aware of the fact that the only people who said old age was beautiful were usually twenty-three years old.

When I was a little girl, I watched all old movies. My mother liked old movies, and she loved shopping for antiques, so I was around old things all the time.

The Holy Scriptures are our letters from home.

I don't know how to write love letters.

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

Dreams are letters from the book your life is writing.

If letters had eyebrows, these would be arched.

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

I spend a lot of time thinking about this business of letting go - letting go of the children God gives to us for such a brief time before they go off on their own; letting go of old homes, old friends, old places and old dreams.

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

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

I get lots of letters, and I reply to them all personally.

Theater is an old thing. It's thousands of years old. TV isn't. Film isn't. We're doing a really old thing.

Why were you so old when we met? I answered with the truth: Age isn't how old you are but how old you feel.

I receive letters from workers, from secretaries. . . . They are the most interesting ones.

To a large extent, the aged in our society are ghettoized. Old people are seen as useless, bypassed by history, old-fashioned, in the way. So, not surprisingly, when we reach the official mark of old age, we're supposed to go gently into that good night, to get off center stage and hand over the spotlight. Old age is also surrounded by shame - the myth of impotence and inability.

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

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

I love you is eight letters...then again, so is bullshit.

Old wives' tales are not enough in a day when old wives and old men, too, are constantly moving away from their labours.

It's true. somewhere inside us we are all the ages we have ever been. We're the 3 year old who got bit by the dog. We're the 6 year old our mother lost track of at the mall. We're the 10 year old who get tickled till we wet our pants. We're the 13 year old shy kid with zits. We're the 16 year old no one asked to the prom, and so on. We walk around in the bodies of adults until someone presses the right button and summons up one of those kids.

I'm not bothered by the idea of getting old, or I guess you could say by having arrived at old. I was 10 when my mom turned 55. For 1955, she was a very old mom.

The lover of letters loves power too.

Old is authentic. Old is genuine. Old is valuable.

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

My songs are just little letters to me.

More than kisses, letters mingle souls.

People are always talking about the old days. They say that the old movies were better, that the old actors were so great. But I don't think so. All I can say about the old days is that they have passed.

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

I'm good at utilising body parts as letters.

The one good thing about not seeing you is that I can write you letters.

You think of 'Outlaw Josey Wales,' you immediately think of the old Indian guy, Sondra Locke, the old lady with the glasses, beautiful old actress.

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.

I've written some love letters in my life, I can say.

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

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