Letters Quotes - Page 34

• If I ever saw an amputee getting hanged, I'd probably just start calling out letters.

  Demetri Martin

  Im Sorry, Saws, Amputees

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• We already know that anonymous letters are despicable. In etiquette, as well as in law, hiring a hit man to do the job does not relieve you of responsibility.

  Judith Martin

  Jobs, Responsibility, Men

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• I'm tired of wasting letters when punctuation will do, period.

  Steve Martin

  Tired, Punctuation, Periods

  Twitter post from Oct 7, 2011

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• In my experience an appreciative letter from a fellow writer means a lot.

  Ian Mcewan

  Mean, Appreciative, Fellows

  "Ian McEwan: By the Book". Interview, www.nytimes.com. December 6, 2012.

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• Please give me some good advice in your next letter. I promise not to follow it.

  Edna St. Vincent Millay

  Bad Ass, Giving, Advice

  Edna St. Vincent Millay (1952). “Letters”

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• 'Y' is about the weakest letter of all. 'Y' can't make up its mind if it's a vowel or a consonant, can it?

  David Mitchell

  Mind, Vowels, Consonants

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• Ignorance breeds antipathy. Until I got to know how computers worked, I didn't want anything to do with them. I said, 'Well, why do I need them? I write letters.' Which I still do.

  Viggo Mortensen

  Writing, Ignorance, Needs

  "Viggo Mortensen, King of The Road". Interview with Michael Mechanic, www.motherjones.com. November 23, 2009.

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• 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, Ifs

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• Happy is the novelist who manages to preserve an actual love letter that he received when he was young within a work of fiction, embedded in it like a clean bullet in flabby flesh and quite secure there, among spurious lives.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Novelists, Fiction, Flesh

  Vladimir Nabokov (2012). “Speak, Memory: An Autobiography Revisited”, p.206, Penguin UK

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• One of my great regrets, and I don't have many, is that I spent too long putting people's status and reputation ahead of their more important qualities. I learned far too late in life that a long list of letters after someone's name is no guarantee of compassion, kindness, humour, all the far more relevant stuff.

  Bill Nighy

  Kindness, Regret, Compassion

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• The abortion cases produced an enormous amount of mail to my chambers, vastly more than to the other chambers, I am sure. I sometimes thought there wasn't a woman in the United States who didn't write me a letter on one side or the other of that issue.

  Sandra Day O'Connor

  Writing, Issues, Abortion

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• I drank for about 25 years getting over the loss of my father and I took the anger out on myself. I did a good job at beating myself up at sometimes. I don't drink anymore but my alcoholic head occasionally says different. 'Nil By Mouth' was a love letter to my father because I needed to resolve some issues in order to be able to forgive him.

  Gary Oldman

  Jobs, Father, Anger

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• On the very same day that I ordered an iPad 2, I went shopping to buy myself a letter opener. I like to cover all my bases.

  Susan Orlean

  Shopping, Ipads, Bases

  "The Wayward Letter Opener" by Susan Orlean, www.newyorker.com. May 11, 2011.

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• I'm always mystified by the day-to-day workings of entities like Twitter that provide framework but not content, but I suppose it could be compared to the U.S. Postal Service, which manages to keep a lot of people employed doing lots of stuff other than writing letters.

  Susan Orlean

  Writing, People, Stuff

  "Good Fortune" by Susan Orlean, www.newyorker.com. March 20, 2011.

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• I was dating this guy and we would spend all day text messaging each other. And he thought that he could tell that he liked me more because he actually spelt the word 'YOU' and I just put the letter 'U'.

  Kelly Osbourne

  Dating, Guy, Text Messaging

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• I will never understand people who think that the way to show their righteous opposition to sexual freedom is to write letters full of filthy words.

  Anna Quindlen

  Writing, Thinking, People

  Anna Quindlen (2010). “Thinking Out Loud: On the Personal, the Political, the Public and the Private”, p.4, Ballantine Books

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• Since I was 20 years old, I've been a kind of corporation. I'd wake up in the morning and my job was to be 'Bonnie Raitt' in capital letters.

  Bonnie Raitt

  Morning, Jobs, Years

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• I'm sure I would have been considered a more significant artist if I was a singer-songwriter. It's just not the way I roll. I love being a curator and a musicologist. People write me letters and thank me for turning them on to Fred McDowell and Sippie Wallace, and that's partly my job this time around.

  Bonnie Raitt

  Jobs, Writing, Artist

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• Letters are something from you. It's a different kind of intention than writing an e-mail.

  Keanu Reeves

  Writing, Different, Mail

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• I get letters from college kids who have read Percy Jackson when they were younger who tell me, 'I just passed my Classics exam.' The books are accurate enough that they can serve as a gateway to Homer and Virgil.

  Rick Riordan

  Book, Kids, College

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• If you read back in the Bible, the letter of the apostle Paul to the church of Thessalonia, he said that in the latter days before the end of the age that the Earth would be caught up in what he called the birth pangs of a new order.

  Pat Robertson

  Birthday, Order, Age

  "Late Edition" with Wolf Blitzer, transcripts.cnn.com. October 9, 2005.

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• I won't go to movies with permissiveness, four-letter words, or violence. Show me 'E.T.' and 'Chariots of Fire' instead. That's entertainment, not exploitation of the human body.

  Ginger Rogers

  Fire, Body, Four

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• And I love the hate mail I get, the unsigned, misspelled letters I get telling me to go back to Russia or wherever.

  Henry Rollins

  Hate, Russia, Mail

  "Henry Rollins: Post-Punk Pundit". Interview with Gray Moskowitz, www.motherjones.com. July 25, 2007.

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• I mean I appreciate fan mail and that the people like what I am doing but I can't answer it. If I would answer 25 letters a day I would be just a guy answering mail and not an artist anymore.

  Henry Rollins

  Mean, Artist, People

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• My nominee for Best Picture of the year - maybe the best picture ever, because it's essentially made up of and is an ecstatic love letter to all other movies - is Christian Marclay's endlessly enticing must-see masterpiece 'The Clock.'

  Jerry Saltz

  Movie, Christian, Years

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