#letters

Read through the most famous quotes by topic #letters




Walking is the natural recreation for a man who desires not absolutely to suppress his intellect but to turn it out to play for a season. All great men of letters have therefore been enthusiastic walkers.


Leslie Stephen


#been #desires #enthusiastic #great #great men

One serious drawback about letters is that, in order to get them, one must send some out. When it comes to the mail, I feel it is better to receive than to give.


Joseph Epstein


#better #comes #drawback #feel #get

Letters have to pass two tests before they can be classed as good: they must express the personality both of the writer and of the recipient.


E. M. Forster


#both #classed #express #good #letters

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?'


Jennifer Lawrence


#anything #cheesy #director #going #guy

Temple was a man of the world amongst men of letters, a man of letters amongst men of the world.


Thomas B. Macaulay


#letters #man #men #temple #world

I like writing letters and receiving letters. It's a shame that we've lost the art of letter-writing and saving correspondence. I mourn that.


Elizabeth McGovern


#correspondence #i #letters #like #lost

I used to get letters from girl reporters saying that their lives were nowhere near as exciting as Brenda's. I told them that if I made Brenda's life like theirs, nobody would read it.


Dale Messick


#exciting #get #girl #i #letters

I had the easiest publishing experience in the entire world. I sent out fifteen courier letters to agents, got five no replies, nine rejections and one I want to see it. A month later I had an agent. Another month later I had a three book deal with Little Brown.


Stephenie Meyer


#agents #another #book #brown #deal

If I'm in a relationship, that girl gets showered with letters from the road. I pour my heart into it.


Jason Mraz


#girl #heart #i #into #letters

The position of modern science, as far as an ignorant man of letters can understand it, seems not a step in advance of that held by Huxley and Romanes in the last century.


Albert J. Nock


#as far as #century #far #held #huxley