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Over the last couple of years I have gotten an average of 2,000 letters a week from fans.

Over the years, it seems 'Firefly' has only gained momentum rather than lost it. I still get letters from people who watched the show - I get more 'Firefly' than 'Mad Men' letters.

Over There ... the most profound experience for me as an actor ever. This show is so about what these guys are going through and what their families are going through while they're fighting. I can't tell you how many letters I've gotten from military families saying things like, 'At least someone is telling our story.' Some of these soldiers feel a little bit forgotten, and I had one Marine write to say, 'If it takes a TV show to make people a little more aware, then so be it.'

Our students get a good education here, and those who are highly motivated to go to college get accepted without the letters of recommendation.

Our staff is excited about the men Stony Brook University has signed to the National Letters of Intent. These men will make us a better program on the field, in the classroom and in the community.

Recruiting is the most hectic part of the year. It is far more hectic than the season. You're on planes, trains and automobiles, running around the country trying to get these guys to come to your university. It's a big sigh of relief when those letters come over the fax machine, and you have them in the bank.

Our records show only a few dozen letters going to the mayor of Red Bank. If he says he got 200, something is wrong somewhere and we're going to find out where.

Parents will be receiving the letters this week.

People, in general, don't like to get letters addressed to them from the Internal Revenue Service, even if it's as simple as not signing your return or not dating your return.

People have told us in letters and phone calls that they have to jog from Lincoln Center to make their train. We hear plenty of tales of missed trains.

People never know who their state legislator is. They're kind of obscure people who are in Richmond making decisions for us, and if they get 10 letters on one subject, then that's a big deal.

My mother was a very talented artist. When she was in jail, we'd write letters back and forth; that was pretty much the only form of communication we had.

My role was to contact the celebrities. I knew that these people get so many requests that I really needed to do something that stood out. So I went to Hoffman's Chocolates and had them do a chocolate star. Then I put my letter on top of that. The first round I sent out 25 chocolate stars with letters packed in coolers. I figured everyone loves chocolate and it would get people's attention. Considering how many we sent out, the response has been pretty unbelievable. Courtney Cox sent a handwritten thank-you note. Isn't that incredible?

Literature nowadays is a trade. Putting aside men of genius, who may succeed by mere cosmic force, your successful man of letters is your skilful tradesman. He thinks first and foremost of the markets . . .

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

I wondered what the heck was going on and I began writing letters of complaint,

And anyway, the first three letters in the word diet should tell you what I want it to do.

There were hundreds of them spread across the floor, each telling its own tale of triumph or sadness, each letter representing a phase in her life. She had kept them all.

Twitter is sort of version of labeling, except with 140 characters instead of a labelmaker. It's the way of calling things out for what they are, wearing badges. Twitter is like the new Scarlet Letter.

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.

Letters should be easy and natural.

The art of letters will come to an end before A.D. 2000. I shall survive as a curiosity.

I was a school nurse, and I can tell you that I sent many, many letters to parents telling them about problems and recommending that they take their children to a doctor. I know that many families never followed up.

I was appointed to read the correspondence. We'd get letters about feral cats, potholes ... all of the above. Sometimes we'd get 10 to 15 letters about feral cats, so the mayor would ask me to summarize.

I would like to avoid having these kinds of letters show up two days before our earnings call, but that's the journey we're on right now.

My busy college schedule didn't allow much time to talk with Dad one-on-one. So Dad wrote me letters. The letters were always positive and filled with advice and sayings I could carry with me. . . Those letters meant the world to me, knowing Dad always believed in me. I saved all those letters and have them. . . in my home today.

Most kids started getting acceptance letters in January. Sam gave up some nice opportunities and some good scholarships. Some colleges even upped their offers trying to get him.

When Target applied to open its industrial bank in 2004, we didn't get a single comment from the public. We've gotten 4, 000 letters and witnesses for the Wal-Mart application. The majority are negative. But popularity is not a criteria for an industrial bank.

We are aware that it happens, but it is the counties that administer those bonds or letters of credit.

We put our grass roots campaign into orbit and had our clubs write letters to our legislators, a tremendous amount of support from our legislators.

We receive the most incredible letters from the parents of special-needs children. It just gives them such peace of mind to know that there is a product that will help keep their child safe.

We receive 10,000 letters a week and just had not gotten to this one yet.

We're bringing the services we offer in our downtown Dallas office to those in need. We're helping people update their records, help them find housing, clarify letters they may have received and help them re-certify themselves for aid.

Well, we got so many nice letters from the principals about how much they appreciated the hundred dollars that we decided, well, let's try it for six more months.

When you're in Washington and voting, you don't have the one-on-one interaction with your constituents that you do when you are in the district working out of the district office. You can do phone calls and letters and things like that (in Washington), but you can do one-on-one things in the district.

We have a gentleman who does nothing but special writing. Those are the letters that require original language tailored to the author. We have a woman who does nothing but children's letters. She's learned to write like a child, in the voice of a governor, and they send him the neatest things.

We have two national restaurant chains that are interested and one local. We can't really sign letters of intent yet because we really don't know how much rent we'll charge the end users.

We needed to get the letters out now, so people know they will either need to take action come Nov. 15 or not take any action and be automatically enrolled in a plan.

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

understand the importance of the game pretty quick - just by our attitude and the red letters on the schedule, how we talk about it and the fact that we break down to it (after practice) every day. It's very apparent that game means a lot to us.

We get tons of letters about all the things the girls do that day. It can be anything from going up with an aerial photographer to take pictures of Walt Disney World, to going out on a fishing boat, or designing web sites.

We get letters all the time about him wearing his hat backward and how it makes him look like a drug guy and how he really needs to quit being an idiot and wear it the right way. It's incredible.

We have an opportunity in going through our daily lives and sending out letters to our loved ones, or paying bills, to also contribute a few of our cents toward research and finding of a cure for breast cancer.

Those cards and letters gave him more strength than anyone can imagine. They meant the world to him.

Those letters clearly violated what is known as our offensive materials policy.

Those letters are going out to Cabinet members this week.

Unfortunately, when we run out of room, some of the sentimental items without monetary value, (such as) letters or personal papers, are shredded. We keep them as long as we can and we run things past the historical society before they are destroyed to rule out historical significance.

We are saying that move by the personnel administration is wrong and not in keeping with their letters of September 9, 2003, that they would have given to the workers.

We are really hoping this bill gets passed. Letters from students would have an impact on legislature if they were so inclined.

When you were in first grade, there were letters above the chalkboard.

Well, I think the cell phone calls, the letters that he wrote in jail, those were pretty damaging. Ashley Humphrey's testimony, the jury bought into that and didn't buy into his.

When I go through hundreds of applications from people who all have very similar-sounding experience, cover letters are the only glimpse I have into a person's personality.

We have letters of intent out on both projects. We haven't broken ground on either project, but the interest in these projects has been extremely good, both from national tenants and local.

We actually might get a lot of letters and phone calls from normal society.

Thank you, darling, for learning to play chess. It is an absolute necessity for any well organized family. (in a letter to his wife)

The test of a good letter is a very simple one. If one seems to hear the other person talking as one reads, it is a good letter.

Piglet opened the letter box and climbed in. Then, having untied himself, he began to squeeze into the slit, through which in the old days when front doors were front doors, many an unexpected letter than WOL had written to himself, had come slipping.

Whatever is unnamed, undepicted in images, whatever is omitted from biography, censored in collections of letters, whatever is misnamed as something else, made difficult-to-come-by, whatever is buried in the memory by the collapse of meaning under an inadequate or lying language - this will become, not merely unspoken, but unspeakable.

I, myself, was always recognized . . . as the “slow one” in the family. It was quite true, and I knew it and accepted it. Writing and spelling were always terribly difficult for me. My letters were without originality. I was . . . an extraordinarily bad speller and have remained so until this day.

You don't really know a woman until she writes you a letter.

You don’t know a woman until you have had a letter from her.

Many persons who are not conversant with mathematical studies imagine that because the business of [Babbage’s Analytical Engine] is to give its results in numerical notation, the nature of its processes must consequently be arithmetical and numerical, rather than algebraical and analytical. This is an error. The engine can arrange and combine its numerical quantities exactly as if they were letters or any other general symbols; and in fact it might bring out its results in algebraical notation, were provisions made accordingly.

But what can you say in a letter?

The world that is a book is devoured bya reader who is a letter in the world's text; thus a circular metaphor is created for the endlessness of reading; We are what we read.

Socrates affirmed that only that which the reader already knows can be sparked by a reading, and that the knowledge cannot be acquired through dead letters.

What happened to romance? Sappy, soppy longhand love letters.

Iran welcomes dialogue with any other states. I wrote a letter to the three European states inviting them to resume talks, but, they cancelled it. They had thought that Iran would no longer resume talks with them.

Some time all kinds of letters will be published to the ineffable delight of endless readers.

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

When the people of the shelter found that we were going to be replaced, they got angry. They started writing letters and petitions.

A query letter should be like a skirt. Long enough to cover everything, but short enough to be exciting.

The fact that Congress wasn't aware that the FBI has used some 30,000 national security letters over the past few years is an indication that not enough oversight has been done. The money-laundering sections of the Patriot Act require scores of businesses to track the transactions of their customers and report to the government. It's an aspect of the Patriot Act that doesn't get much attention, but it should. This has huge implications for people's privacy.

the letters are mixed up. U and I should be together.

A nasty letter or a sarcastic one can make you righteously angry, but what can you do about a polite letter of rejection? Nothing, really, except cry.

In the beginning was the word, the word That from the solid bases of the light Abstracted all the letters of the void....

Capitalization implies a hierarchy, that some letters are more special than others.

nothing is more vulgar than a careful avoidance of beginning a letter with the first person singular ...

There's a lot of letters, and a lot of people come say "hi" at book signings, but I'm amazed at how normal everybody is.

Love After Love all your life, whom you have ignored for another, who knows you by heart. Take down the love letters from the bookshelf, the photographs, the desperate notes, peel your own image from the mirror. Sit. Feast on your life.

In love matters; keep your pen from paper.

One of the sweetest things in life: a letter from a friend.

I'd like to be rich enough so I could throw soap away after the letters are worn off

I wrote a play before that and it never saw the light of day. And then I started working on this play and it came out really quickly. Eventually I got it, and I wrote a letter to Sarah Jessica Parker and she wanted to do it. So that's how it happened.

E-mail is a modern Penny Post: the world is a single city with a single postal rate.

This is the worst problem with living history museums. They always leave the best parts out. Like typhus. And opium. And scarlet letters. Shunning. Witch-burning.

There are certain people whom one feels almost inclined to urge to hurry up and die so that their letters can be published.

Letters are false really - they are expressions of the way you wish you were instead of the way you are ...

In a letter (no matter how quickly it is written or honestly or freely or lovingly) it is more possible to be loving and lovable, more possible to reach out and to take in ... I feel I have somehow deceived you into thinking this is really a human relationship. It is a letter relationship between humans ...

I was the girl of the chain letter, the girl full of talk of coffins and keyholes, the one of the telephone bills, the wrinkled photo and the lost connections....

When the film was presented in New York, the distributor reproduced the fountain scene on a billboard as high as a skyscraper. My name was in the middle in huge letters, Fellini's was at the bottom, very tiny. Now the name of Fellini has become very great, mine very little.

My ultimate goal will be my being told in a Penthouse letter that I can frame.

Why is it that you can sometimes feel the reality of people more keenly through a letter than face to face?

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

I don't have the Tom Hanks fans. When you make the kind of movies I make, you get weird letters from people.

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

Spelling is difficult because there are too many rules. Silent letters only exist to make it harder for illegal immigrants to learn English.

I love the silent era because you can see the rules being written, the grammar of film being created. Most of my films are in some way love letters to the silent era.

In small letters, someone has written NEVER FORGET on one of the slats. I know it's supposed to be a pledge, but it feels like a curse. Don't we have to forget some of it? Don't we have to forget this feeling? If we don't, how will we live?

You can email me, but I prefer letters that come through conventional mail. I like letters that have been licked by strangers.

Weren’t all books ultimately related? After all, the same letters filled them, just arranged in a different order. Which meant that, in a certain way, every book was contained in every other!