#letters

When you make the kind of movies I make, you get weird letters from people. ↗

— David Fincher

#i #kind #letters #make #movies

When I was a kid in Houston, we were so poor we couldn't afford the last 2 letters, so we called ourselves po'. ↗

— George Foreman

#called #houston #i #kid #last

What's an ambush interview? You walk up to a fellow who you want to talk to, and he hasn't been - he hadn't been willing to talk to you before. You've sent him letters, and you've tried to talk to him on the phone. So you walk up to him on the street and ask him a question - that's an ambush? ↗

— Mike Wallace

#been #before #fellow #hadn #hasn

When an actor has money, he doesn't send letters, but telegrams. ↗

— Charlotte Whitton

#letters #money #send #telegrams

More negatives write than call. It's a cheap shot for me to go on the air with the critical letters or E-mail I get because the reaction of the listeners is always an instantaneous expression of sympathy for me and contempt for the poor critic. ↗

— John Hall

#always #because #call #cheap #contempt

Among the letters my readers write me, there is a certain category which is continuously growing, and which I see as a symptom of the increasing intellectualization of the relationship between readers and literature. ↗

— Herman Hesse

#between #category #certain #continuously #growing

Lives of great men oft remind us as we o'er their pages turn, That we too may leave behind us - Letters that we ought to burn. ↗

— Thomas Hood

#burn #great #great men #leave #letters

To be a philosophical sceptic is, in a man of letters, the first and most essential to being a sound, believing Christian. ↗

— David Hume

#believing #christian #essential #first #letters

When I first began to combine letters other than Hebrew, I read every book in German that came my way, and from these I certainly received according to the nature of my soul. ↗

— Shmuel Y. Agnon

#began #book #came #certainly #combine

Every man should follow the bent of his nature in art and letters, always provided that he does not offend against the rules of morality and good taste. ↗

— Thomas Edward Brown

#always #art #bent #does #every