Letters Quotes - Page 22

• I never smoke grass and drive my car because, for one thing, no matter how many letters I write to the road commissions, they still refuse to start designing highways with second-chance exits.

  Arj Barker

  Writing, Second Chance, Car

  Doug Benson, Tony Camin, Arj Barker (2005). “The Marijuana-logues: Everything About Pot That We Could Remember”, p.139, Crown Archetype

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• It's interesting, once I have convinced people that, yes, I have a sister with a mental disability, the retard jokes really dry up, so I'm not sure how much retard humor is really going on out there, but I imagine there's a lot because it's a pretty safe group to make fun of. It's not like the Retards of America are gonna rise up and organize a protest. They're not gonna write letters. They only just recently got the Supreme Court to stop executing them.

  Bonnie McFarlane

  Fun, Writing, Dry Up

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• If something comes along that you don't like, there are a few sort of four-letter words that you can use to push it out of the sphere of discussion. If you were in a bar downtown, they might have different words, but if you're an educated person what you use are complicated words like "conspiracy theory" or "Marxist." It's a way of pushing unpleasant questions off the agenda so that we can continue in our own happy ideology.

  Noam Chomsky

  Downtown, Agendas, Four

  "Who Runs America?". Interview with Adrian Zupp, chomsky.info. April 1-8, 1999.

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• Therefore, even if you write a letter for a blind man or you must go and sit and listen, or you take the mail for him, or you visit somebody or bring a flower to somebody... it is never too small, for this is our love of Christ in action

  Mother Teresa

  Flower, Writing, Men

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• Less fear; more hope: just four little four-letter words, but when they are vividly felt as emotion, they are behavior changing, life changing, world-changing.

  Louis Tice

  Life Changing, World, Four

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• I often felt like I was walking around with this Scarlet Letter stitched to my chest from the way that people treated me.

  Toni Braxton

  People, Way, Scarlet

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• Those who cultivate letters must be supplied with the books necessary for their purpose; and until this supply is secured I shall not rest.

  Aldus Manutius

  Book, Purpose, Secured

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• Someday, I'm gonna write a poem in a letter; Someday, I'm gonna get that faculty together.

  David Bowie

  Writing, Together, Someday

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• Every week we ought to have one hour for recieving letters, then go take a bath.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Baths, Week, Hours

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• Well, you know, when you're putting together a show, you've got to be careful not to load it up with the new stuff. We have to play the songs that people want to hear, too. People may come thinking, "Oh, I've just got to hear this song." Or maybe they'll write me a letter saying a certain song is really meaningful to them, so we'll be sure to play those songs.

  Margo Timmins

  Meaningful, Song, Writing

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• Fermat never cared to publish his investigations, but was always perfectly ready, as we see from his letters, to acquaint his friends and contemporaries with his results.

  Thomas Little Heath

  Results, Investigation, Ready

  Sir Thomas Little Heath (2017). “Diophantus of Alexandria; A Study in the History of Greek Algebra”, p.29, CUP Archive

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• It may come as a surprise to many that there are ciphers (coded messages indicated by a letter or group of letters) in the Bible. Some are hidden; some, when revealed, are a key part of the narrative itself

  Chuck Missler

  Keys, Messages, Groups

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• It was important that this album [Chain Letter] was an accurate reflection of me

  Brooke Valentine

  Reflection, Important, Albums

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• Immigration and travel certainly don't mean the same thing everywhere. Here in Cuba, the big wall isn't just the fact that it's an island, but the fact that we need an exit permit in order to leave, and the letters of invitation in order to visit another country.

  Fernando Perez

  Country, Wall, Mean

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Strangely enough, for many many years I didn't talk about my childhood and then when I did I got a ton of mail - literally within a year I got a couple of thousand letters from people who'd had a worse childhood, a similar childhood, a less-bad childhood, and the question that was most often posed to me in those letters was: how did you get past the trauma of being raised by a violent alcoholic?

  Dean Koontz

  Couple, Past, Years

  "The Rumpus Interview With Dean Koontz". Interview with Ben Pfeiffer, therumpus.net. December 21, 2015.

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• Until very recently, most knowledge was inaccessible to people who couldn't read text. But this is changing. The computer opens up other channels of gaining knowledge. If someone is blind, we now have very good machines that will read to him. If someone can't recognize letters, he also will have access to knowledge through sound and images.

  Seymour Papert

  People, Sound, Machines

  "Sunday Interview - Seymour Papert/ Computers in the Lives of Our Children/ an Mit Mathematician and Philosopher Is Exploring How Technology Can Educate the Next Generation - and Their Parents". www.sfgate.com. February 2, 1997.

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• If someone you know is diagnosed with cancer, give them a call or send them a letter to tell them how sorry you are and to let them know how much you care.

  Mallory Ortberg

  Sorry, Cancer, Giving

  "Do It for the Kids". Live chat, www.slate.com. December 21, 2015.

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• The grotesque in my poems is the motion I use to put myself and the grotesque world together. So the miserable images I use in my poems are the same as the letters I send into the miserable world.

  Kim Hyesoon

  Together, Use, World

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• In order to know somebody through their words, I mean, it has to be an, it has to be a letter, you know? It has to be a long e-mail. It has to be a five-page hand-written letter, you know, it has to be overwhelming and messy and sloppy as humans are.

  Sherman Alexie

  Mean, Hands, Order

  "Sherman Alexie on Living Outside Cultural Borders". Interview with Bill Moyers, billmoyers.com. April 12, 2013.

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• The couple of years before I was declared bankrupt were the roughest. The bank letters, the pressure, the stress was awful. You're in this twilight zone of not knowing where your life is going, and yet you're in Westlife. Everything was great with the band. I was earning money, and it looked good.

  Shane Filan

  Couple, Stress, Twilight

  "Westlife's Shane Filan talks about crippling bankruptcy and losing £18 million" by Victoria Garo-Falides, www.mirror.co.uk. August 9, 2013.

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• I'm not much of a correspondent. My letters are not only uninteresting but sparse. I'm glad I don?t have to write for a living. It?s arduous work and the money is very uncertain. On those rare occasions when I wander into a bookstore it amazes me to see the avalanche of literature and semi-literature that is turned out weekly in this country. The people who write these things are either desperate for money or love starved. Why should anyone on a nice balmy day lock oneself in an office and hit a typewriter for hours on end. I think one of the greatest pleasures in the world is not writing.

  Groucho Marx

  Country, Nice, Writing

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• Spelling mistakes in a letter is like a bug on a white shirt.

  Faina Ranevskaya

  Mistake, White, Bugs

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• The headline of an advertisement accounts for 60% of the pull of that ad. In the same way, the start of a letter makes or breaks the letter, because if the start does not interest your reader, he never gets down to the rest of your letter.

  Robert Collier

  Doe, Make Or Break, Way

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• I get letters from people who say, 'What have you got against women?' What could I possibly have against women? I've married three of them.

  Lewis Grizzard

  People, Three, Married

  Lewis Grizzard (1990). “Gettin' it on: a down-home treasury”, BBS Publishing Corporation

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• For me the process works best with no interruptions, no breaks in the steady application, no letters to be answered, very little social life, no holidays; it is therefore a form of happy imprisonment.

  Patrick O'Brian

  Holiday, Littles, Break

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