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We have a lot of kids who don’t know what works means. They think work is a four-letter word.

Best quotes by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Kind messages, that pass from land to land; Kind letters, that betray the heart’s deep history, In which we feel the pressure of a hand,– One touch of fire,–and all the rest is mystery!

Topic(s): Letters , Feels , Kind

Everyone in their life has his own particular way of expressing life’s purpose – the lawyer his eloquence, the painter his palette, and the man of letters his pen from which the quick words of his story flow. I have my bicycle.

Topic(s): Letters , Men , Way

Laws are a dead letter without courts to expound and define their true meaning and operation.

Topic(s): Letters , Law , Court

Truth is a letter from courage!

Topic(s): Letters , Truth Is

When I receive letters from girls that say, ‘You give me confidence,’ I think, ‘Wow, this is amazing.’ That’s my goal: to let people know it’s truly what’s on the inside that counts.

Topic(s): Letters , People , Thinking

Decline of the letter, the rise of the notebook! One doesn’t write to others any more; one writes to oneself.

Topic(s): Letters , Writing , Oneself

When I was kidnapped as a child my parents sent a letter to the hijackers me Pay 5,000 dollars or your back

Topic(s): Letters , Children , Parent

Once the inner connection is grasped, all theoretical belief in the permanent necessity of existing conditions collapses before their collapse in practice — Letter to Ludwig Kugelmann (July 11, 1868)

Topic(s): Letters , Belief , Practice

When people ask for time, it’s always for time to say no. Yes has one more letter in it, but it doesn’t take half as long to say.

Topic(s): Letters , People , Long

And I love the hate mail I get, the unsigned, misspelled letters I get telling me to go back to Russia or wherever.

Topic(s): Letters , Hate , Russia

The letters don’t get their true delight, when done in haste & discomfort, nor merely done with diligence & pain, but first when they are created with love and passion.

Topic(s): Letters , Firsts , Done

Anger is one letter short of danger.

Topic(s): Letters , Inspirational , Emotion

We have so many different options now and ways to communicate digitally. But I don’t think anything is more meaningful or powerful than a hand-written letter.

Topic(s): Letters , Thinking , Way

I happen to be blessed with loving what I do for a living. I love acting and I’m so fortunate to be able to work in this business. And I get these marvelous letters about how encouraging it is to see someone making the most of their time and still enjoying it.

Topic(s): Letters , Stills , Able

I did write a letter to the archdiocese who’d banned the song, Only the Good Die Young, asking them to ban my next record.

Topic(s): Letters , Writing , Song

I’ve gotten a lot of livid letters about the awfulness of my work. I’ve never known what to make of it. Why do people bother to write if they hate what I do?

Topic(s): Letters , People , Ifs

If a synesthetic person says the letter a is green, it can’t ever be anything but green.

Topic(s): Letters , Ifs , Persons

I usually don’t know how to fight hard for roles. I’ve certainly sent a passionate letter or two… which always leads nowhere.

Topic(s): Letters , Two , Hard

For the sake of brevity, we will always represent this number 2.718281828459… by the letter e.

Topic(s): Letters , Numbers , Sake

Memory revises me.
Even now a letter
comes from a place
I don’t know, from someone
with my name
and postmarked years ago,
while I await
injunctions from the light
or the dark;
I wait for shapeliness
limned, or dissolution.
Is paradise due or narrowly missed
until another thousand years?
I wait
in a blue hour
and faraway noise of hammering,
and on a page a poem begun, something
about to be dispersed,
something about to come into being.

Topic(s): Letters , Light , Hours

Ugliness is a letter of credit for some special purposes.

Topic(s): Letters , Purpose , Special

but paper and ink have conjuring abilities of their own. arrangements of lines and shapes, of letters and words on a series of pages make a world we can dwell and travel in.

Topic(s): Letters , World , Ability

I have what I came to find in my research is a mild form of synesthesia, though I never would have labeled it as such. It’s how I think about numbers and letters. They all have inherent genders.

Topic(s): Letters , Thinking , Form

Letters should be easy and natural, and convey to the persons to whom we send them just what we should say to the persons if we were with them.

Topic(s): Letters , Ifs , Should

Life is a four-letter word.

Topic(s): Letters , Life Is , Four

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

Topic(s): Letters , Struggle , Four

Letters remind us that when we write we can bring back the best of times, even make time stand still, if only for a few minutes.

Topic(s): Letters , Ifs , Writing

Where there is no market economy, the best intentioned provisions of constitutions and laws remain a dead letter.

Topic(s): Letters , Law , Economy

What a lot we lost when we stopped writing letters. You can’t reread a phone call.

Topic(s): Letters , Writing , Love

Don’t be too precious about your craft… there’s only 26 letters and 12 notes, and Shakespeare and Beethoven said it all better than any of us ever will

Topic(s): Letters , Said , Notes

Every week I get letters from people worldwide who feel that the possibilian point of view represents their understanding better than either religion or neo-atheism.

Topic(s): Letters , People , Feels

Together with my advisor, Manuel Blum, I co-invented CAPTCHAs, or computer-generated tests that humans are routinely able to pass but that computers have not mastered (they are the squiggly computer letters that are prevalent across the web).