Letters Quotes (935 Quotes)

George Orwell, James Joyce, Gertrude Stein and almost any writer you could name received rejection letters, ... Margaret Mitchell got rejection letters from 38 different publishers before anyone finally deigned to publish her novel, 'Gone With The Wind.' How many talented writers are there who gave up without ever making it into print because of misguided rejection

The message to this community has to be loud and clear, ... The next step is to send a letter to the family asking, directing, giving instructions about how to comply.

I' th' commonwealth I would by contraries
Execute all things; for no kind of traffic
Would I admit; no name of magistrate;
Letters should not be known; riches, poverty,
And use of service, none; contract, succession,
Bourn, bound of land, tilth, vineyard, none;
No use of metal, corn, or wine, or oil;
No occupation; all men idle, all;
And women too, but innocent and pure;
No sovereignty-
SEBASTIAN.

Do not damage your mental peace by receiving the letter and reading the contents. Refuse to receive it. You have a chance of correcting the wrong-doers too accept it and join the gang of mischief-makers. So be warned

He who is without thirst and without affection, who understands the words and their interpretation, who knows the order of letters (those which are before and which are after), he has received his last body, he is called the great sage, the great man.

Literature nowadays is a trade. Putting aside men of genius, who may succeed by mere cosmic force, your successful man of letters is your skilful tradesman. He thinks first and foremost of the markets . . .

Each Cub also will be including a letter in the package, ... Hopefully, (the Marines) will write back.

These teens are not much younger than some of the soldiers their letters are going to. But their words show some great insights as well as the typical teenage gossip and humor.

That letter was not responded to, ... We are hopeful for an answer.

It appears that the letter sent to me may contain enough spores to kill well over a 100,000 people, but it also may well have evidence, fingerprints or anything else,

Then idiots talk, said Eugene, leaning back, folding his arms, smoking with his eyes shut, and speaking slightly through his nose, of Energy. If there is a word in the dictionary under any letter from A to Z that I abominate, it is energy.

Pray consider what a figure a man would make in the republic of letters.

Our bus driver was great. He had the directions to the coliseum down there and he followed them to the letter. We took this turn and went down this road and we ended up dead-ending right into swamp. I don't think we'll have any problems finding the coliseum this week. I know my way this time.

The Internal Revenue Service never sent my client a letter saying he underpaid his taxes.

News is becoming more of a conversation. You can express opinions online in real time. You don't send a letter to the editor and wait a week.

After the planet becomes theirs, many millions of years will have to pass before a beetle particularly loved by God, at the end of its calculations will find written on a sheet of paper in letters of fire that energy is equal to the mass multiplied by the square of the velocity of light. The new kings of the world will live tranquilly for a long time, confining themselves to devouring each other and being parasites among each other on a cottage industry scale.

Letter to Horace Greeley. August 22, 1862 My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or to destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing any slave I would do it, and if I could save it by freeing all the slaves I would do it and if I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone I would also do that. What I do about slavery, and the colored race, I do because I believe it helps to save the Union and what I forbear, I forbear because I do not believe it would help to save the Union. I shall do less whenever I shall believe what I am doing hurts the cause, and I shall do more whenever I shall believe doing more will help the cause.

Nature has written a letter of credit upon some men's faces that is honored wherever presented. You cannot help trusting such men. Their very presence gives confidence. There is 'promise to pay' in their faces which gives confidence and you prefer it to another man's endorsement. Character is credit.

We were very kindly received by the English merchants to whom my companion had letters, and we set ourselves to learn what was the real state of things in Mexico.

Well, I think the cell phone calls, the letters that he wrote in jail, those were pretty damaging. Ashley Humphrey's testimony, the jury bought into that and didn't buy into his.

This letter, to me, shows his interest, and he wants to come here and look at this area,

Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error that provoked it.

The students came to us ... after reading our letter, saying they understand there have been abuses and they accept that as a problem. They would just like to have an event that celebrates their four years together and the idea of a dinner cruise was agreeable to us.

We're required by law to send the letters. We're required by law to receive 25 percent of this cost share, and obviously, we're going to be working closely with the state of Louisiana because of the circumstances.

Right now we are trying to get a letter sent to the Postal Service to ask them if it would be possible, and what would be involved in switching the north end of town to the same ZIP code that is used in the south end, ... Because the Postal Service is a federal agency we might get a better response if the request came from the congressman's office.

The decision violates both the letter and spirit of the law.

Typically, our first step is to write a letter to prosecutors with our concerns and recommendations. If we get the sense that the case is not taken seriously, or if a weak plea deal is in the works, we may encourage those who have expressed concern to write to prosecutors or to the judge, or to attend hearings. In the past, that has certainly been effective.

Truth in spirit, not truth to the letter, is the true veracity

My inclination is to support this letter, and support it now.

I got the registered letter the day after this happened. You know, they should have hand-delivered the letter beforehand. We didn't have an opportunity to sit down with the company to find out what happened.

The hearing today was a sham. These officers were supposed to be afforded their rights to due process, but these disciplinary letters were written before they even started the hearing.

I just got a letter from a guy in Japan. One of them somehow found out where I lived one day and came up to my house and knocked on my door.

We are drafting a letter we are sending to all the companies in the Chicago metro area. The letter includes a description of the importance of the march and gives workers something they can walk into human resources with.

The post-office had a great charm at one period of our lives. When you have lived to my age, you will begin to think letters are never worth going through the rain for.

It's a frustration that these letters aren't considered public and so it's difficult to understand what the risks are.

I tell writers to keep reading, reading, reading. Read widely and deeply. And I tell them not to give up even after getting rejection letters. And only write what you love.

He told the conference This is about the right of conference to see the alternatives. ... This would be the Railtrack of the letter boxes.

One church. One day. Three thousand letters. It was overwhelming.

It breaks my heart to hear about families who delete e-mails because they don't think of them in the same way as letters,

Early on, I received hundreds of letters every week from readers. Later, however, as groups began to organize, readers began writing to one another.

Fraser's always writing me letters, and I haven't got time to read them.

We ask these young men and women to sacrifice themselves, to give their lives, ... I believe it's part of that leadership of that department that the secretary of defense would personally write these letters, personally sign them at least.

There are four key elements affecting the market, and all happen to begin with the letter 'e,' ... The economy, earnings, the Enron spill-off and escalation of border tensions, such as those between India and Pakistan and Israel and Palestine.

You will no doubt expect a long letter after so much delay, but I am afraid you will be disappointed, as long letters are not my forte.

He followed all the relevant immigration laws to the letter.

Lobbying is the next step. I would say that the four organizations who organized the letter to Rice will be monitoring this very closely.... We want them to change their votes. We're going to put our efforts into embarrassing them.... These countries stand up and say gay people don't exist. Then they arrest them. There need to be gay people in the U.N. to say we do exist.

They are all kind of the same letter, all handwritten or typed. They all assume that the play is about Paul's being homosexual and misogynist they assume it's going to be a prurient hatchet job.

We inadvertently bombed the Chinese Embassy. But Clinton now is working very hard. He has sent a letter of apology to the Chinese. And, he's also given them a gift certificate for future nuclear secrets.

I tend to discourage people from calling me 'Sir Ian,' because I don't like being separated out from the rest of the population. Of course, it can be useful if you're writing an official letter, like trying to get a visa or something passed through Parliament. They're impressed by these things.

The present letter is a very long one, simply because I had no leisure to make it shorter.