Quotes tagged ‘Letters’

“To receive a “glowing letter of recommendation”, provide the letter writer with a few guidelines. Always address the reader by name in the greeting, use the CAR format (Challenge/Action/Results) and reference facts of the applicant versus subjective claims.”

— Patrick Algrim, algrim.co

“You know, when Khrushchev was forced out, he sat down and wrote two letters and gave them to his successor. He said, 'When you get yourself into a situation you can't get out of, open the first letter, and you'll be safe. When you get yourself into another situation you can't get out of, open the se…”

— Simon Moore, Stephen Gaghan, General Ralph Landry, James Brolin, imdb.com

“As if a man like you would ever write to a man like me.”

— Russell T Davies, John Preston , Norman Scott, Ben Whishaw, imdb.com

“We write each other letters and leave them in silly places.”

— Gideon Raff, Eli Cohen, Sacha Baron Cohen, imdb.com

“Miss G: Okay, Steve, you're going to have to learn your letters. Coach Steve: Well, obviously, I know the big song. Teepee, fat guy, sideways moon, other fat guy, sideways comb! Miss G: Wow. That is a song.”

— Duffy Boudreau, Coach Steve, Nick Kroll, imdb.com

“People write letters to the universe all the time...most don't get a response.”

— Allan Loeb, Brigitte, Helen Mirren, imdb.com

“Letters are symbols. They are building blocks of words which form our languages. Languages help us communicate. Even with complicated languages used by intelligent people, misunderstanding is a common occurrence. We write things down sometimes — letters, words — hoping they will serve us and those w…”

— Robert Engels, Log Lady, Catherine E. Coulson, imdb.com

“Julie Costello: [letter, in tears] 'Dear Mike, by the time you read this, I'll be on a plane. And I've never written a letter like this before, so I don't know how to start. I've been thinking about you and me and marriage, and—well, I know you think that all the time I've been the mature and sure o…”

— David Kendall, Mike Seaver, Kirk Cameron, imdb.com

“I...I was nice today, nice to all those insipid little monkeys!, answering all their stupid letters!”

— John Kricfalusi, Ren Höek (voice), John Kricfalusi, imdb.com

“I expect to gain a good deal of new light, & to get a good lift, in studying…though probably I shall be a long time about this. I could wish I went on quicker. That is I wish a human head, or my head at all events, could take in a great deal more & a great deal more rapidly than is the case; and if…”

— Ada Lovelace, claymath.org

“As in Geometry, the most natural way of beginning is from a Mathematical point; so is the same method in Observations and Natural history the most genuine, simple, and instructive. We must first endevour to make letters, and draw single strokes true, before we venture to write whole Sentences, or to…”

— Robert Hooke, amazon.com

“I am sending you a photograph of myself at the age of seven. You will probably say to yourself, ‘Why the cigar?’ That’s a very good question. Actually, the cigar is a phony. So is this mustache and, to wrap it all up neatly, so am I.”

— Groucho Marx, amazon.com

“My father one told me that the very word "paradise" meant garden, spelling out for me the four letters (pe resh dalet samech) of pardes, the Hebrew word for garden.”

— Oliver Sacks, amazon.com

“You have eyes, child, that will crush the souls of men. They are huge and wild and forest-deep. Right now every future rain shower is mascara for their breathy lashes. Your light is too fierce to be obscured by a pair of Nantucket reds.”

— Lisa Taddeo, narrativemagazine.com

“There will come a day when you meet this man. I bet his name will be Bill. Somewhere his shirt will be monogrammed. The better Bills will have initials at the wrist. The trick is to know right away that this man will play golf one day, every day, and do so middlingly. He will absorb and take away so…”

— Lisa Taddeo, narrativemagazine.com

“Something was and wasn’t there between us, something went on and went away.”

— Wisława Szymborska, newyorker.com

“My therapist suggested I write letters to all the people I hate and set fire to them. I tried it and feel a lot better... But now what do I do with all these letters?”

— kbox, reddit.com

“One can never rely on the great keeping one's letters; and should those letters vanish, one is apt to be remembered only as the mysterious half of a dialogue to be reconstructed in the vaguest way from the surviving (and sometimes lesser!) half of the exchange.”

— Gore Vidal, amazon.com

“I do dislike being a trouble maker and because of this, I have only mumbled my discontent. Yet, now I shout it. Now I am the healthiest, wisest, sickest human you’ll meet.”

— Anne Sexton, amazon.com

“I am sure most of it is my fault. I do not want to adjust myself to life as it is… I kill everything with my awful temper…”

— Greta Garbo, amazon.com