(826 quotes found)
“I don't write polite letters. I don't like to plea-bargain. I like to fight.”
Roy M. Cohn
“Just another four letter word”
Tennessee Williams
“Grammar is the grave of letters”
Elbert Hubbard
“You get all these things, there are all these letters and gifts, sometimes strange ones; most of the time it can be really nice. But at the same time, it's overwhelming. Because I know I'm going to have to look through it. Most of it is filling the corners of my house and I can't respond to it all right away.”
Viggo Mortensen
“In old age we are like a batch of letters that someone has sent. We are no longer in the passing, we have arrived.”
Knut Hamsun
“I get letters from women, and they say, 'I love your Roman nose.' If I weren't on TV and I walked past that same woman, she'd go, 'Did you see the beak on that guy?”
Matt Lauer
“Sooner I'd try to change history than turn political, than try convincing others to write letters or to vote or to march or to do something they didn't already feel like doing”
Richard Bach
“Friends will write me letters. They run out of room on the front of the letter. They write 'over' on the bottom of the letter. Like I'm that much of a moron. Like I need that there. Because if it wasn't there, I'd get to the bottom of the page: 'And so Kathy and I went shopping and we--' That's the craziest thing! I don't know why she would just end it that way.”
Ellen DeGeneres
“One of the pleasures of reading old letters is the knowledge that they need no answer”
Lord Byron
“The universal object and idol of men of letters is reputation”
John Adams
