#letters

We hope that the elected officials will respond positively to a ground swell of letters, phone calls, e-mails and visits from parents. The law clearly states that the responsibility for giving a sound basic education to our children lies with New York State. ↗

— Major R. Owens

#calls #children #clearly #e-mails #education

I will say overwhelmingly what means so much more to me than the opinion of one reviewer are the letters I get from fans who tell me how a particular book has changed their life. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#changed #fans #get #how #i

It's funny; in this era of e-mail and voice mail and all those things that even I did not grow up with, a plain old paper letter takes on amazing intimacy. ↗

— Elizabeth Kostova

#letters #funny

Another nice thing was that I would type out letters home for the admiral's stewards. They would then feed me the same food the admiral ate. ↗

— Jack Adams

#another #ate #feed #food #home

Letters are like wine; if they are sound they ripen with keeping. A man should lay down letters as he does a cellar of wine. ↗

— Samuel Butler

#does #down #keeping #lay #letters

We lay aside letters never to read them again, and at last destroy them out of discretion, and so disappears the most beautiful, the most immediate breath of life, irrecoverably for ourselves and for others. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#letters #beauty

I get letters every year from women who think Valentine's Day is an empty exercise, but are ironically pretty exercised when their boyfriends neglect or forget it. ↗

— Dan Savage

#empty #every #exercise #exercised #forget

One of the things that's pretty unique about nu shu, when you look especially at these old letters and stories that have been saved, is that there are certain lines that are very standard that are used again and again. It's almost like a formula in a sense, so that these certain lines come up again and again. ↗

— Lisa See

#again #almost #been #certain #come

The best time to frame an answer to the letters of a friend, is the moment you receive them. Then the warmth of friendship, and the intelligence received, most forcibly cooperate. ↗

— William Shenstone

#best #best time #cooperate #forcibly #frame

Politeness is as much concerned in answering letters within a reasonable time, as it is in returning a bow, immediately. ↗

— Philip Stanhope

#bow #concerned #immediately #letters #much