Letters Quotes - Page 21

• But in our experience, man is cheap and friendship wants its deep sense. We affect to dwell with our friends in their absence, but we do not; when deed, word, or letter comes not, they let us go.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Deeds, Want

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.95, Penguin

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• From the moment that photography appeared, the descriptive genre began to invade Letters... In verse as in prose the décor and exterior aspects of life took an almost excessive place.

  Paul Valery

  Photography, Moments, Genre

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• When I was a kid and we used to play Post Office, I was the Dead Letter Office.

  Phyllis Diller

  Kids, Play, Office

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• You know what a fan letter is - it's just an inky raspberry.

  Bob Hope

  Fans, Raspberries, Knows

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• I don't want anything. I don't want a job. I don't want to be respectable. I don't want prizes. I turned down the National Institute of Arts and Letters when I was elected to it in 1976 on the grounds that I already belonged to the Diners Club.

  Gore Vidal

  Art, Jobs, Diners

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• The simple combination of letters and sounds you select as a name for your baby can result in a life of carefree coolness or decades of expensive therapy. Hi, I'm Jake versus Hi, I'm... Tapioca

  Paul Reiser

  Baby, Simple, Names

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• I've come to realize that making it your life's work to be different than your parents is not only hard to do, it's a dumb idea. Not everything we found fault with was necessarily wrong; we were right, for example, to resent, as kids, being told when to go to bed. We'd be equally wrong, as parents, to let our kids stay up all night. To throw out all the tools of parenting just because our parents used them would be like making yourself speak English without using ten letters of the alphabet; it's hard to do.

  Paul Reiser

  Kids, Night, Speak English

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• You can email me, but I prefer letters that come through conventional mail. I like letters that have been licked by strangers.

  David Letterman

  Email, Stranger, Has Beens

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• Stammering is different than stuttering. Stutterers have trouble with the letters, while stammerers trip over entire parts of a sentence. We stammerers generally think of ourselves as very bright. My own private theory is that stammerers have so many ideas swirling around their brains at once that they can't get them all out, though I haven't found any scientific evidence to back that up.

  Bob Newhart

  Thinking, Ideas, Brain

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• When I went to college, my parents threw a going away party for me, according to the letter.

  Emo Philips

  Party, College, Parent

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• I got a letter from the IRS. Apparently I owe them $800. So I sent them a letter back. I said, If you'll remember, I fastened my return with a paper clip, which according to your very own latest government pentagon spending figures will more than make up for the difference.

  Emo Philips

  Government, Differences, Irs

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• You know exactly what I think of photography. I would like to see it make people despise painting until something else will make photography unbearable. (In a letter to Alfred Stieglitz)

  Marcel Duchamp

  Photography, Thinking, People

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• I'm always giving myself the Alzheimer's test. My shrink told me to do this. It takes one minute. You name every word that comes to mind that begins with the letter F.

  Ray Romano

  Alzheimer's, Names, Giving

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• I miss THE WALLFLOWERS. Great band. Wrote my first Fan letter to them. No response.

  Charisma Carpenter

  Missing, Firsts, Fans

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• Amy Winehouse's mother wrote an open letter to the News of the World newspaper telling Amy she's worried about her and to please call her. I doubt this is the best way to communicate with Amy - she should try spelling it out in lines of cocaine.

  Chelsea Handler

  Mother, Doubt, Trying

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• Shut up before I drop yo ass off at Koreatown. Now hold on, America, don't start writing no letters. I'm just kidding. But am I lying?

  Bernie Mac

  Lying, Writing, America

  "Fictional character: Bernie 'Mac' McCullough". TV Series "The Bernie Mac Show", www.imdb.com. 2001-2006.

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• Do not listen to the killjoys who tell you never to eat oysters in months that do not contain the letter R: May, June, July, August, Octoba. You know.

  John Hodgman

  August, Oysters, June

  "Humorist John Hodgman Plays 'Not My Job'". "Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!" with Peter Sagal, www.npr.org. February 14, 2009.

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• Literature is not a sack race. There aren't real winners and losers in the Republic of Letters.

  Charles Baxter

  Real, Race, Literature

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• I would LOVE to be in the Star Trek sequel! Yeah! I would love to! I better write that letter to J.J.[Abrahams]

  Rachel Weisz

  Stars, Writing, Yeah

  Source: collider.com

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• To this day, we get letters at Alternative Tentacles from young teenagers who hide their Dead Kennedys albums behind their mirror or in the mattress of their bed. Wouldn't it be better if the parents just discussed this with the kids instead of creating this culture of sneaking and dishonesty within the family? The moral of the story being, you don't hide reality from your kids because then they grow up to be smarter, more aware adults.

  Jello Biafra

  Growing Up, Teenager, Kids

  Interview with Jodi Vander Molen, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. February 1, 2002.

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• Here in California, we passed a law against texting while driving. But there's no law preventing you from writing a letter while driving.

  Craig Ferguson

  Writing, Law, California

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• Words matter. Especially ones with four letters.

  Bob Saget

  Four, Matter, Words Matter

  Twitter post from Jan 18, 2013

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• I've got a lot of letters from prison. Lost was a big prison show. But it's really crazy when you get the letter that says, 'So, I'm getting out in three months, I've only been in for 17 years and I'd really like to meet you.'

  Ian Somerhalder

  Crazy, Years, Three

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• Spelling is difficult because there are too many rules. Silent letters only exist to make it harder for illegal immigrants to learn English.

  Daniel Tosh

  Immigration, Silent, Illegal

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• There were a lot of people who were willing to write a letter for me. Not because I was academically inclined, but because I worked hard.

  Sam Smith

  Writing, People, Willing

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