Letters Quotes - Page 24

• The thing with that word "establishment" is a four-letter word in the 2016 politics, so toxic, so pejorative that pretty much no one wants to be associated with it.

  Chris Hayes

  Toxic, Four, Want

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• I saved letters from my boss. There are things in there that are directly transcribed. I was so glad I did that. Sometimes when I was writing the book I wondered if some little writer hobbit part of my brain was back there puppeteering that action. But it really never, on any conscious level, occurred to me that I would write about it. I will say, I thought probably some day there would be an ancillary character in some novel - not in the one I was currently writing - that would be a dominatrix or something.

  Melissa Febos

  Book, Writing, Character

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I got a letter from this lady of Russian and Jewish descent. She asked me if I was a racist because I didn't do any White people. I was shocked, because my mandate is to do Black studies. It would have never occurred to me if this lady hadn't written this letter. We decided we were going expand the brand and do everybody.

  Henry Louis Gates

  Laughter, White, People

  "Black Ancestry Matters on 'Finding Your Roots'". Interview with Alexandra Phanor-Faury, www.ebony.com. January 26, 2016.

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• I have what I came to find in my research is a mild form of synesthesia, though I never would have labeled it as such. It's how I think about numbers and letters. They all have inherent genders.

  Leni Zumas

  Thinking, Numbers, Research

  Source: therumpus.net

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• For me, the genders are an essential element of numbers and letters, not something that could be removed from them.

  Leni Zumas

  Numbers, Essentials, Elements

  Source: therumpus.net

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• If a synesthetic person says the letter a is green, it can't ever be anything but green.

  Leni Zumas

  Green, Persons, Ifs

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I don't read the "letters" section of Time magazine. I think it's just my habit as a reader. I don't read comments on stories, in general.

  Joel Stein

  Thinking, Stories, Magazines

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I don't read "letters" sections of magazines, but I'll read anyone's blog post about me.

  Joel Stein

  Magazines, Posts, Blogs

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Curiously, the balance seems to come when writing is woven into every aspect of my life, like eating or exercising - one flows constantly into the next: I'll wake up and have coffee, read the news, then write a letter or two (always in longhand), then go teach, and after teaching write a bit in a journal - dreams, what I had for breakfast and lunch and why I had it, what's on the iPod, sexual habits, etc. - then read a bit, then work on a real bit of writing...you get the idea.

  Kevin Keck

  Dream, Real, Coffee

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Don't get down on yourself when you get rejection letters.

  Vantile Whitfield

  Rejection, Rejection Letters

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• When I tell people I was in the St. Justin Martyr parish, if they are native Chicagoans they know exactly where I was and what that was like. The Sunday before this particular march, the archbishop of Chicago, Cardinal Cody, had required all of his pastors to read a letter in support of open housing and economic justice in every parish in the city.

  Sara Paretsky

  Sunday, Cities, People

  Source: www.progressive.org

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• And the fury in my community was just staggering. The young priests in the parish were behind the message. The older priests weren't necessarily, but they all followed the orders of the cardinal and read the letter. Every Sunday, 2,000 people came to mass at that parish. The following Sunday, the attendance dropped to 200, and never recovered.

  Sara Paretsky

  Sunday, Order, People

  Source: www.progressive.org

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• And in her [Eleanor Roosevelt] letters, she writes the most, you know, fanciful letters: when we are together, and when we are reunited, and you know, I will be your surrogate wife. Of course she doesn't use that word, but I will be the mother to my brothers, and I will be your primary love.

  Blanche Wiesen Cook

  Mother, Brother, Writing

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I think Eleanor Roosevelt always had a most incredible comfort writing letters. I mean, she was in the habit of writing letters. And that's where she allowed her fantasies to flourish. That's where she allowed her emotions to really evolve. And that's where she allowed herself to express herself really fully, and sometimes whimsically, very often romantically. And it really starts with her letters to her father, who is lifelong her primary love.

  Blanche Wiesen Cook

  Father, Writing, Mean

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• It's interesting to me that really one of the first things she [Eleanor Roosevelt]did as First Lady was to collect her father's letters and publish a book called The Letters of My Father, essentially, hunting big game, The Letters of Elliott Roosevelt. And it really was an act of redemption, really one of her first acts of redemption as she entered the White House. She was going to redeem her father's honor. And publishing his letters, reconnecting with her childhood really fortified her to go on into the difficult White House years.

  Blanche Wiesen Cook

  Father, Book, Hunting

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I think FDR was very dashing and charming and debonair, and probably reminded her of her father. A great bon-vivant. He loved to party. He loved to sing. He loved to have fun. And he wrote beautiful letters, just as her father did, which - alas and alack - Eleanor Roosevelt destroyed. But she refers to his beautiful letters. And she was charmed by him.

  Blanche Wiesen Cook

  Beautiful, Fun, Father

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I think that Hick was in love with Eleanor, and Eleanor was in love with Hick. I think it's very important to look at the letters that are in my book, because unlike some of the recent published letters, I have both the personal and the political. And their relationship is about ardor. It's about fun. And it's also about politics.

  Blanche Wiesen Cook

  Fun, Book, Thinking

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I think I'm equally as abusive as the editors normally are for the "Letters and Tomatoes" column, which is the fan mail part of MAD Magazine and an ongoing feature.

  Al Yankovic

  Thinking, Editors, Mad

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• The letter writers span the spectrum from left to right. Members say they don't want this to become a partisan political issue. In fact, there are reasons administration officials have been cautious in making a genocide declaration.

  Tom Gjelten

  Issues, Political, Facts

  "As Christians Flee, Governments Pressured To Declare ISIS Guilty Of Genocide". "Morning Edition" with David Greene, www.npr.org. December 24, 2015.

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• I have received many touching letters and emails from people who live in the most religious parts of the country, in places like rural Texas, saying it is so good to see someone be able to say I am an atheist without shame.

  Susan Jacoby

  Country, Religious, Atheist

  "'Strange Gods' Chronicles The History Of Secularism And Conversion". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. February 17, 2016.

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• I wrote a play before that and it never saw the light of day. And then I started working on this play and it came out really quickly. Eventually I got it, and I wrote a letter to Sarah Jessica Parker and she wanted to do it. So that's how it happened.

  Amanda Peet

  Light, Play, Saws

  "Amanda Peet and Steve Zissis discuss what the second season holds for Togetherness". Interview with Gwen Ihnat, www.avclub.com. February 21, 2016.

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• It's one of those things that if I was smart enough to explain it in words, I wouldn't have had to make a movie "World Of Tomorrow" out of it. It's a love letter to science fiction.

  Don Hertzfeldt

  Smart, Fiction, World

  "'World Of Tomorrow' Animated Short Explores What It Means To Be Human". "Weekend Edition Saturday" with Linda Wertheimer, www.npr.org. February 20, 2016.

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• For me, like, the more interesting a letter is I just get more excited and I know that this going to be great for my friends who are looking forward to reading that in my comic.

  Adrian Tomine

  Reading, Interesting, Looking Forward

  "Cover Me With Adrian Tomine". "Ask Me Another" host Ophira Eisenberg, www.npr.org. February 18, 2016.

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• Think about Mann's own daily routine (ascribed to Aschenbach), read the extant diaries and the letters in which he discusses the novella's themes, and it won't be so obvious that the attraction to Tadzio is completely unprecedented; it also won't be obvious that what Aschenbach wants is full sexual contact.

  Philip Kitcher

  Thinking, Routine, Diaries

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• I assume I can give you a letter from a big law firm saying that we're under audit.

  Donald Trump

  Law, Giving, Assuming

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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