It got so that when he closed his eyes, letters and words danced in his mind. He thought of little else during that time.
Today's 'Sesame Street' will NOT be brought to you by the number 34 or the letter D.
For the sake of brevity, we will always represent this number 2. 718281828459. . . by the letter e.
Venerable are letters, infinitely brave, forlorn, and lost.
I have got an iPad, what a joy! Van Gogh would have loved it, and he could have written his letters on it as well.
My name will be written in fiery letters on the Champs Elysees.
Leonard Woolf in a letter to Lytton Strachey said he hated John Maynard Keynes "for his crass stupidity and hideous face".
The Apostle Paul in his letter to the Romans said that those who pass judgment on others are 'inexcusable. ' The moment we judge someone else, he explained, we condemn ourselves, for none is without sin. Refusing to forgive is a grievous sin-one the Savior warned against.
A man inserted an 'ad' in the classifieds: "Wife wanted". Next day he received a hundred letters. They all said the same thing: "You can have mine. "
I just started doing this one-man show, and I wanted to be able to score it, so I bought a guitar, and got a keyboard and got a harmonica. I remember when I started that I didn't understand why a harmonica had different letters on them.
Writing is for stories to be read, books to be published, poems to be recited, plays to be acted, songs to be sung, newspapers to be shared, letters to be mailed, jokes to be told, notes to be passed, recipes to be cooked, messages to be exchanged, memos to be circulated, announcements to be posted, bills to be collected, posters to be displayed and diaries to be concealed. Writing is for ideas, action, reflection, and experience. It is not for having your ignorance exposed, your sensitivity destroyed, or your ability assessed.
I get letters. I get several a week, I think. A lot of people want a picture, a lot of people just want an autograph.
In the First World War, people would be receiving letters from loved ones who had been dead for weeks, and they would not know until that black-bordered telegram arrived. I remember, of course, when it was letters only, or the telephone, and you did not make expensive long-distance calls unless it was, "Come home to the funeral," or the like.
It is by the benefit of letters that absent friends are in a manner brought together.
Will the kindness of this letter excuse the shortness of it?
It may be that these loan arrangements conform to the letter of the law, but they do not conform to the spirit of the law and to the principle of transparency on which it is based.
Whoever dreamed up Scrabble had an exaggerated idea of how many 7-letter words have five i's.
Letters are false really - they are expressions of the way you wish you were instead of the way you are.
The laws of democracy remain a dead letter, its freedom is anarchy, its equality the equality of unequals
Most writers are secretly worried that they're not really writers. That it's all been happenstance, something came together randomly, the letters came together, and they won't coalesce ever again.