Kammen Letter Quotes

Environmental laws give power to the people. Republicans can huff, puff and scream about what they consider strict regulations, but when they cry out for reform, for a quicker process, they're really calling for a restriction of the rights of people to be involved in the planning process. ~ Daniel Kammen

Every letter was a love letter. ~ Jeffrey Eugenides

This at least should be a rule through the letter-writing world: that no angry letter be posted till four-and-twenty hours will have elapsed since it was written. ~ Anthony Trollope

She's a love letter girl in an email world. ~ Nitya Prakash

when life gives you lemons add beer ~ Letter String

To Mr. Jones, she said, imagine you're looking up at a blue sky, and imagine a tiny airplane skywriting the letter Z. Then let the wind erase the letter. Then imagine the plane writing the letter Y. Let the wind erase it. Then the letter X. Erase it. Then the letter W.
Let the wind erase it. ~ Chuck Palahniuk

This letter is written on the skin of one of the water sprites who drowned your parents.'
'Ick!' I cried, and dropped the letter on the kitchen table. ~ Charlaine Harris

I suppose you have heard of the handsome letter Mr. Frank Churchill had written to Mrs. Weston? I understand it was a very handsome letter, indeed. Mr. Woodhouse told me of it. Mr. Woodhouse saw the letter, and he says he never saw such a handsome letter in his life. ~ Jane Austen

A letter allows us to travel through time. ~ Fennel Hudson

I'll write to you. A super-long letter, like in an old-fashioned novel ~ Haruki Murakami

Every letter was a love letter. Of course, as love letters went, this one could have been better. It was not very promising, for instance, that Madeleine claimed not to want to see him for the next half-century. ~ Jeffrey Eugenides

To write is human, to receive a letter: Devine! ~ Susan Lendroth

... that a letter isn't always just a letter. Words on page can drench the soul. ~ Jessica Brockmole

Letter 74

I still have the first letter that you wrote to me. I carry it with me like a garden in my pocket.

If you come to me at this moment
your minutes will become hours
your hours will become days
and your days will become a lifetime.

I am never sure if I am reading the letter or the letter is reading me. ~ Gregory Colbert

It's entirely possible to base an entire book on a long-forgotten letter. ~ Sara Sheridan

It took seven years to get the letter right. ~ Stephanie Garber

The letter that would change everything arrived on a Tuesday. ~ Rachel Joyce

If a four-letter man marries a five-letter woman, he was thinking, what number of letters would their children be? ~ Ernest Hemingway,

If you are in doubt whether to write a letter or not, don't. And the advice applies to many doubts in life besides that of letter writing. ~ Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

I never had a favourite letter that began my name - I for Iris - because I was everybody's letter. ~ Margaret Atwood

We are acting by the letter; and 'the letter killeth. ~ Thomas Hardy

The red-letter days, now become, to all intents and purposes, dead-letter days. ~ Charles Lamb

If I wrote you a love letter, would you write back? ~ Curtis Jackson

A letter is the most basic - yet the most flexible - mode of correspondence, regardless of its subject matter. ~ Scribendi

Autobiographies, for the most part, to me, are like writing a love letter to yourself. ~ Paul Stanley

More and more I feel like a letter - deposited here, collected there. But a letter addressed to no one. ~ Margaret Atwood

I would have answered your letter sooner, but you didn't send one. ~ Goodman Ace

I like to play the piano with lyrics as if it was a piece of love letter. ~ Yoochun

This is the task, I think, of a letter movement. But it should be set up only in states where a significant response can be achieved, for a letter movement necessarily presupposes a strong organization. ~ Fredrik Bajer

It does me good to write a letter which is not a response to a demand, a gratuitous letter, so to speak, which has accumulated in me like the waters of a reservoir. ~ Henry Miller

It's spooky how we'll never know how many people have died while trying to mail a chain letter. ~ Alex Bosworth

Fear is only a four letter word. ~ Jeff Hardy

How time packs new years over the old ones but how those old years are still in there, like the earliest, tightest rings centering a tree, the most hidden, enclosed in darkness and shielded from weather. But then a saw screams in and the tree topples and the circles are stricken by the sun and the sap glistens and the stump is laid open for the world to see. ~ Tom Franklin, Crooked Letter Crooked Letter

To find out your real opinion of someone, judge the impression you have when you first see a letter from them. ~ Arthur Schopenhauer

His letter was like the shock produced by a cold bath. ~ Duff Green

Think about these things and see if they make sense to you. You will find that work will no longer be a four-letter word. It will be a three-letter word: fun. ~ Frederick Lenz

When pestered with questions, memory is like an onion that wishes to be peeled so we can read what is laid bare letter by letter. ~ Gunter Grass

You must get into the habit of looking intensely at words, and assuring yourself of their meaning, syllable by syllable-nay, letter by letter ... you might read all the books in the British Museum (if you could live long enough) and remain an utterly "illiterate," undeducated person; but if you read ten pages of a good book, letter by letter, - that is to say, with real accuracy- you are for evermore in some measure an educated person. ~ John Ruskin

A letter is never ill-timed; it never interrupts. Instead it waits for us to find the opportune minute, the quiet moment to savor the message. There is an element of timelessness about letter writing ... ~ Lois Wyse

Bill by bill, and letter by letter, his scientific imagination was slowly choked by administrative work. ~ Siddhartha Mukherjee

I became a connoisseur of that nasty thud a manuscript makes when it comes through the letter box. ~ James Herriot

Not the letter again?" Simon's roommate at the Academy, George Lovelace, groaned. He flung himself down on his bed, sweeping an arm melodramatically across his forehead. "Oh, Isabelle, my darling, if I stare at this letter long enough, maybe I'll telepathically woo you back to my weeping bosom. ~ Cassandra Clare

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

I have only made this letter longer because I have not had the time to make it shorter.
(Letter 16, 1657) ~ Blaise Pascal

This is not a letter but my arms around you for a brief moment. ~ Katherine Mansfield

Nobody wants an apology letter 14 years later. ~ Lennon Parham

Every body at all addicted to letter writing, without having much to say, which will include a large proportion of the female world at least ... ~ Jane Austen

Where was I? in remarking that me is the envelopes and not nearly so much so, the often foolish letters inside. ~ Edward Gorey

He didn't even use the Select All command the last time he did it. He wanted to see each of the words disappear, letter by useless letter. ~ Nick Thacker

Check the cover letter. In a cover letter, you get actual communication instead of a list of skills, verbs, and years of irrelevance. ~ Jason Fried

The day I got my first letter from a fan, I felt like I'd been touched by an angel. ~ Selena Gomez

If I was dealing with a trader, every other word had to be a four-letter word. ~ Muriel Siebert

One of the features of the Enigma machine was its inability to encipher a letter as itself, which was a consequence of the reflector. The letter a could never be enciphered as A, the letter b could never be enciphered as B, and so on. ~ Simon Singh

I have owed you this letter for a very long time-but my fingers have avoided the pencil as though it were an old and poisoned tool. ~ John Steinbeck

I was here for as long as Ella would let me stay. Because somewhere between letter number one and letter number twenty-four, I'd fallen in love with her. ~ Rebecca Yarros

I do not pretend to write much of a letter. You know under what circumstances I am writing. ~ Joshua Chamberlain

This letter isn't to mark any significant point in your life or mine. This letter is Just Because ... Just Because. ~ Darnell Lamont Walker

I have made this letter longer than usual, only because I have not had the time to make it shorter. ~ Blaise Pascal

Saving a letter from an old friend doesn't exist anymore. Everything is texted or emailed. ~ James Caan

Hypocrisy is the scarlet letter in politics. ~ Mark McKinnon

I am not going to pretend to write a love letter to another man. ~ Julianne Donaldson

If you got more than one letter from somebody who said they hated you, it meant they kept watching. ~ Trevor Moore

The digital native doesn't send a letter to the editor anymore. She goes online and starts a blog. ~ Rupert Murdoch

The Bible is a letter God has sent to us; prayer is a letter we send to him. ~ Matthew Henry

Even when I have to write a simple letter I'm scared stiff as if faced with looming seasickness. ~ Gustav Klimt

I've never gotten a letter where I thought I knew the person. But I have heard from people who think they know the letter writer. ~ Emily Yoffe

Most mutations involve typos: Something bumps a cell's elbow as it's copying DNA, and the wrong letter appears in a triplet - CAG becomes CCG. ~ Sam Kean

I really like pop music, I don't think it's a four-letter word. ~ Patrick Stump

Once you take away the struggle for food, clothing and shelter, work is the one four letter word that offends everyone. ~ Lenny Bruce

I consider it a good rule for letter-writing to leave unmentioned what the recipient already knows, and instead tell him something new. ~ Sigmund Freud

My favorite six letter word is
always
because it promises
so much.

My favorite five letter word is
never
because it insists on contradicting
the promise.

My favorite four letter word is
once
because it says it
happened then.

My favorite three letter word is
yes
because I'm just now learning
to say it
to my heart.

My favorite two letter word is
if
because it makes
all things possible
like this:

If not always
If not never
Then once.

Yes. ~ Kate DiCamillo

A letter does not blush. ~ Marcus Tullius Cicero

A letter is a most hazardous business, the written word allows no indecision, either distance or familiarity will emphasize the tone the letter establishes, and you end up with a relationship that is fiction ~ Jose Saramago

If you replace the letter "s" with the letter "x," you can make a lot of plural words naughty. For example, "fences" would become "fencex," and I'd say good fencex makes good neighbors. ~ Jarod Kintz

Writing, is not a race. Is to distill the soul letter by letter in a slow and delicate process that will take years. ~ J.E. Negrete

Usually, historical revelations come from days of legwork, ploughing through piles of letters and papers in archives or even private homes, looking for the telling phrase or letter that someone else has missed. ~ Kate Williams

That stranger handed me a letter written in my beloved's tears. I opened it, and the letters faded away just like his love for me. ~ Natalya Vorobyova

While I write this letter, I have a pistol in one hand and a sword in the other. ~ Boyle Roche

I was very pleased with your kind letter. Until now I never dreamed of being something like a hero. But since you've given me the nomination I feel that I am one. ~ Albert Einstein

All these people saying they never got their Hogwarts letter: you got the letter. You went to Hogwarts. We were all there together. ~ J.K. Rowling

I think you overestimate the maturity of adults, he wrote me in his final letter, a letter he sent only after I'd broken down and written him first, after a year of silence. ~ Maggie Nelson

It is ironic that the only thing separating 'friend' from 'fiend' - is a single letter. ~ Christina Engela

Trap is a four-letter word, and like so many four-letter words it can mean something entirely else.
--Hugo Anstead ~ Jennifer A. Girardin

Roses are red and violets are blue, That played-out shit isn't for you. I got your love letter right here in my eyes. If you look deep enough, you'll see through the lies. ~ Wendy Higgins

On the very same day that I ordered an iPad 2, I went shopping to buy myself a letter opener. I like to cover all my bases. ~ Susan Orlean

It occurred to me in my junior year of high school. I got my first letter from a big college. I still have that letter to this day - a letter from Indiana. ~ Bo Jackson

'Y' is about the weakest letter of all. 'Y' can't make up its mind if it's a vowel or a consonant, can it? ~ David Mitchell

I think that if you want to pass emotion, you have to write a letter. Emotions do not pass in SMS or in e-mail. ~ Alber Elbaz

I was in a round the world hot-air balloon race. Before I left, I wrote a long letter to my children, in case I didn't return. I started the letter by saying, 'Dear Holly and ~ Richard Branson

I think it says something that I have never had an obscene letter. A young man once attempted one, but it was so totally illiterate and hopeless that it made me laugh. ~ Ruth Rendell

Occasionally a particular word or phrase in a letter or diary has sparked an entire plot - like an echo from history, still very alive. ~ Sara Sheridan

I gave her a love letter and she returned it back to me by correcting spelling and punctuation. ~ M.F. Moonzajer

Write and tell me what you have decided. Condemn me to winter, or rescue me from it.

Your
Fradique ~ Jose Eduardo Agualusa

I am, I must confess, an obsessive and superstitious letter-writer. When I am troubled I will write any long letter rather than make a telephone call. This is perhaps because I invest letters with magical power. To desiderate something in a letter is, I often irrationally feel, tantamount to bringing it about. A letter is a barrier, a reprieve, a charm against the world, an almost infallible method of acting at a distance. (And, it must be admitted, of passing the buck.) It is a way of bidding time to stop. ~ Iris Murdoch

I could feel God. It was like he was setting fine fingerprints all over the moment. I could feel him in it, as if he were saying to me, "Girl, I'm gonna blow the hinges off anything you think a love letter is, was , or could be. If you would just release the grip, I could turn your whole like into a love letter. ~ Hannah Brencher

Did that hurt? On your lip?"
"Not too much. I said a few choice four-letter words, though. ~ Tammara Webber

It's much better that I should read the letter. Otherwise I shall be endlessly wondering what was in it. ~ Iris Murdoch

After all, is our idea of God anything more than personified incomprehensibility?

{Said in a letter to Voltaire} ~ Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

Even when not in the act of writing Muscatine a letter, I was often composing one in my mind, situating the words just so, plunking one here, then one there, gauging how to sound worthy of his regard. ~ Timothy Schaffert

I read the letter once, put it aside, and read it again; I pick up a file but am really only reading your letter; I am with the typist, to whom I am supposed to dictate, and again your letter slowly slides through my fingers and I have begun to draw it out of my pocket when people ask me something and I know perfectly well I should not be thinking of your letter now, yet that thought is all that occurs to me - but after all that I am as hungry as before, as restless as before, and once again the door starts swinging merrily, as though the man with the letter were about to appear again. That is what you call the "little pleasure" your letters give me. ~ Franz Kafka