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I wrote a query letter to an editor - a friend of a friend. The editor called me an idiot, told me never to contact an editor directly, and then recommended three literary agents he had worked with before. Laurie Fox was one of them, and I've never looked back.

It is much, much worse to receive bad news through the written word than by somebody simply telling you, and I’m sure you understand why. When somebody simply tells you bad news, you hear it once, and that’s the end of it. But when bad news is written down, whether in a letter or a newspaper or on your arm in felt tip pen, each time you read it, you feel as if you are receiving the bad news again and again.

If you don’t care about something, one way to demonstrate your feelings is to say the word and then repeat the word with the letters S-C-H-M replacing the first letters. Somebody who didn’t care about dentists, for instance could say ‘Dentist, schmentists.

What we conceal Is always more than what we dare confide. Think of the letters that we write our dead.

Hope was supposed to be a good thing, but it was starting to feel like every other four-letter word you're not supposed to say.

A good face is the best letter of recommendation.

A comic script is basically a love letter from you to your artist,

She is probably by this time as tired of me, as I am of her; but as she is too Polite and I am too civil to say so, our letters are still as frequent and affectionate as ever, and our Attachment as firm and sincere as when it first commenced.

And if I had not a letter to write myself, I might sit by you and admire the evenness of your writing, as another young lady once did. But I have an aunt too, who must not be longer neglected.

Expect a most agreeable letter; for not being overburdened with subject (having nothing at all to say) I shall have no check to my Genius from beginning to end.

The post-office is a wonderful establishment! The regularity and dispatch of it! If one thinks of all that it has to do, and all that it does so well, it is really astonishing!

Such a letter was not to be soon recovered from. . . . Every moment rather brought fresh agitation. It was an overpowering happiness.

I started getting letters from college in the tenth grade.

People were usually much better in their letters than in reality. They were much like poets in this way.

We have received hundreds of letters from fans and alumni who are disturbed by what they saw.

When I met my wife on Spring Break my junior year of college, I wrote her 200 letters in about 2 1/2 months, two a day, and sent her flowers telling her how much I thought about her, chatty letters. She has boxes of love letters.

When I'm dealing with the 18th century, as I do in 'The Firebird,' the difficulty isn't only finding what a woman did, it's finding her at all. Most of the sources I'm dealing with - letters and memoirs and written reports of the day - have been written by men.

Howbeit, though no scholar, I am not one of those who misuse the English speech, and, being foolishly led by the hasty custom of scriveners and printers to write the letters "T" and "H" joined together, which resembleth a "Y," do incontinently jump to the conclusion the THE is pronounced "Ye,"--the like of which I never heard in all England.

The best thing Clinton could do — I think I wrote him a letter about this, but I'm not sure — is to shut up. He has no discipline.

If a woman is worth remembering,' said my grandmother, 'there is no need to have her name carved in letters.

It's not easy to start over in a new place,' he said. 'Exile is not for everyone. Someone has to stay behind, to receive the letters and greet family members when they come back.

There are thousands of those letters that athletes have, and I'm sure they chuckle every time they get them, ... 20/20.

Letters couldn't care less whether what is written with them is true or false.

A manifesto, a diary, a crumpled suicide note, and a still relevant love letter.

Never write a letter and never destroy one.

Truth! why shall every wretch of letters Dare to speak truth against his betters! Let ragged virtue stand aloof, Nor mutter accents of reproof; Let ragged wit a mute become, When wealth and power would have her dumb.

When you get arrested it's in big letters. When you get acquitted it's in small letters.

Inspiration comes from the heart. The letter ‘I’ is the heart of F”I”RST… (F Inspiration R S T).

One has to get through a big pile of mail every day. I don't pass my letters on to a secretary; rather, I try to take care of all of them myself.

A prince without letters is a Pilot without eyes. All his government is groping.

It takes two to write a letter as much as it takes two to make a quarrel.

Someday, I'm gonna write a poem in a letter; Someday, I'm gonna get that faculty together.

Letters, like compilation tapes, were really vehicles for unexpressed emotions and she was clearly putting far too much time and energy into them.

This isn't a letter, it's a gift.

We were congratulated and got letters saying we were to attend orientation for the academy. Then we were told there wasn't enough money. We were crushed.

When you build your own brand, people will still return your phone calls regardless of the call letters or where you actually work, because they now know you and they trust you in what you have to say and what you're doing. That, to me, is the most important aspect when it comes to building your brand.

Letters ultimately lead to the foundation of theater, which is communication.

Letters sent to the syndicate from what purported to be a group of patriotic activists had spelled out a clear intention to target the children and family of sailors.

Letters is antsy, but he's ready. He's been off quite a while and can't wait to mix it up with someone. He's a little nervous, too. It's been six weeks since a 'live' bout, so that's quite a mid-season break.

Let's detox our cluttered academic brain. That's what the poet does. People call it daydreaming, detoxing our minds and taking care of that clutter. It's being able to let in call letters from the poetry universe.

Send your cards and letters to Jim Ryan, care of CBS 2.

sends letters once a week to his closest family members and he can get letters regularly.

She was in very good spirits. She just said that everybody is just treating her so well, and she appreciated all the cards and letters everyone is sending her.

Someday I would love to publish the hundreds of letters I've received from people around the world, telling me their stories of having stumbled into my book and taking it to heart, to soul, and recovering from their illness. Amazing stories of recovery.

She wrote to her sister about the glories of living here. Those letters were selling Florida.

She wrote me letters saying 'Hurry up, lah!' and 'Forget about the script. Just come and film it and get it done'. ... Deep down, I didn't want to let her down.

She wrote letters to her husband, asking him for help in having the charges against her dropped so they could resume their life together.

Side letters are often needed to allow a pension fund to invest in a hedge fund without violating the terms of the pension fund's charter documents or the provisions of ERISA. Driving this trend is a significant increase in the funds allocated to the alternative investment sector in all jurisdictions - from Japan and Dubai to the UK and the BVI.

Since a lot of the children have relatives over there, we try not to dwell on the negative. It's a scary process, so instead we send letters and cards to loved ones.

She has always been perfectly shameless about reading letters not meant for her, and, as she said, she was ideally suited for the work by never having much inclination to answer letters back.

Sir, more than kisses, letters mingle souls; for, thus friends absent speak

She is always asking about her friends and how they are doing. They send her letters and she writes back to them, but you can tell she misses them terribly.

Most of these situations are handled at patrol level and include phone harassment or letters and notes that are mostly just annoying in nature, ... But when it elevates to following in public or violating a restraining order it can become a felony.

Most open letters undoubtedly come from a good place, rising out of genuine outrage or concern or care. There is, admittedly, also a smugness to most open letters: a sense that we, as the writers of such letters, know better than those to whom the letters are addressed. We will impart our opinions to you, with or without your consent.

My letters to Pat are apologies. I was the oldest. I should have been there for him.

On Inauguration Day on the 17th, this governor had already begun to receive correspondence. The letters were meeting us here.

My appearance on 'Public School' garnered a smattering of fan mail from girls, which was good, and letters from mothers saying I was the sort of boy they'd like their daughters to go out with - which was not quite as good.

Moreover in those days the nobles of Judah sent many letters unto Tobiah, and the letters of Tobiah came unto them.

More negatives write than call. It's a cheap shot for me to go on the air with the critical letters or E-mail I get because the reaction of the listeners is always an instantaneous expression of sympathy for me and contempt for the poor critic.

'Nuclear' is nothing but trouble. Do you say 'new-clear' or do you say 'nuke-you-ler'? Whoever invented that word had obviously never studied the human mouth. We don't have enough muscles in our face to make that group of letters come out smoothly. The word is missing a middle syllable, for cryin' out loud.

Retirement without the love of letters is a living burial

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

My script was copyrighted in 1999 while I was in college, and theirs was copyrighted in 2001, the same year that I was getting investors and letters of intent. A very famous celebrity gave Ice Cube my script and the story board. I am not saying two people can't have the same idea, but for our concepts to be similar is impossible.

Nigeria is fantastic, but this is providing you're working with banks, that you have letters of credit and that you're working with General Electric.

I work in the house next to where I live. We bought a smaller house that I use as my office and the place where my two employees work... We've got tens of thousands of letters from kids stored all over the house in places you would usually put dishes and other things like that.

I got letters from policemen thanking me for Adam-12.

I have done those for people who have received those letters and they find out they have a refund.

I don't have words for this. The letters and notes I'm getting from around the country - the musicians in this country are shocked. They are floored by this decision. It upsets the world that we live in.

I didn't get into writing to make money or get famous or any of that. I got into it to hit hearts, and man, when I get letters not just from the soldiers but from their kids, especially their kids, it makes it all worthwhile.

Ideally, I'd like for each representative in the Michigan Legislature to get 24,000-plus letters and e-mails from students asking for their support for the project.

I am going to miss each one of them for special reasons. Zinck, for his maturity and the forwardness in the way he practices; Coop in terms of the way he wrestles, he's just phenomenal in the practice room; Letters with his talent; and Frick with his hard-nosed attitude.

I, and I'm sure many celebrities, have a certain amount of guilt over letters that didn't get answered or got answered after long delays.

Butcher of Dachau, murderer, Pontius Pilate, King Herod. You name it, it's all in there, ... On the other hand, some of the letters I received, without any question, are some of the most wonderful letters anyone could ever imagine.

From what I have read in letters to the editor is that someone else has created a food supply There was a habitat and food supply and they got established. My sympathy goes out to those who have do deal with it, but all you can do is deal with it.

I don't think seven letters is a big concern.

Given the protest and everything, I think people are opening their eyes and paying attention to what is going on. I thought the letters would be a nice follow-up (to the protest).

I get wonderful letters from kids and teachers. I must have the best readers in the world.

If Williams want to do a deal we are open to discussion. Jenson is worth a lot to both teams. We wouldn't be squabbling over him if he were not, but his value is impossible to quantify. Jenson has already started the process of trying to get out of his Williams contract. There has been a number of letters going backwards and forwards and also discussions.

He was with us for 22 years. Everywhere we go, Gary is well-remembered. What amazes me constantly is the amount of friends he had. And fans ? people with connections to him. When he died, we got cards and letters from all over; he had such a huge following. Then again, he's always been likable and kind.

He'd write letters to people he'd feel should be donors.

Henceforth there will be no letters to answer; I have bade farewell to first performances and the literary and other discussions which come from them.

We talked about this a lot during my half-hour visit with her. She is receiving a torrent of supporting mail, and the letters help sustain her as well. Times colleagues are begging to go, and there is a long waiting list.

We told them no, and the letters started coming about condemning.

We rent one in three tuxedos in the U.S. and Canada, and if we make a mistake, our employees will deliver to the customer's home, office, or wedding. We get a couple hundred letters a week praising the service in our stores.

We're not going to tie ourselves to trees or have sit-ins or any of that. But we're probably going to be sending out letters and going to council meetings.

We take that very long strand of DNA -- it's about 7,000 letters long -- and we add to it about 200 short DNA strands that I call staples.

What you hear about mostly is her experiences in San Francisco, ... But the letters definitely give you an idea about what her family is to her. It actually was a very loving family. Certainly not some broken home or abuse.

Her excitement and enthusiasm and passion for the game, it makes people smile. I can't tell you the number of letters and e-mails and phone calls we have gotten from people that have just said how she brightens their day. ... I feel like the way we play and having a player like Ivory sells the game of basketball.

He's a kid that's dealing with all this hoopla - the recruiting - it's frustrating for him at times. Sometimes it's just overwhelming - the letters and phone calls.

He is probably writing a number of letters to people, he maintains correspondence with many many people, who care about him, and I know that he is probably doing whatever one does psychologically and emotionally, to get ready for something like this.

Jack couldn't find a wall he didn't want to run into. He'd write insulting cover letters to editors. When I'd say, 'Jack, you're shooting yourself in the foot,' he'd launch into a tirade about the worthlessness of a life lived untruly to oneself.

I think in this tournament, they've been able to inspire a lot of different people, people that maybe are really, really in need. I heard Jim talk about some stories of some people and the letters he's gotten. To me, that's what his team has been all about.

I taught myself to read when I was three by comparing the letters in my Mother Goose book with the rhymes I had memorised.

I think you have to be very observant and be able to pay attention to the letters. You have to be quick because those letters come up and go fast.

I think throughout the 20th century, for some reason, serious writers increasingly had contempt for the average reader. You can really see this in the letters of such people as Joyce and Virginia Woolf.

I think Vanna does have to worry about me replacing her, ... Some of the letters are hard to reach. She is 5-6 and I am 6-5, though one of the letters was a little low for me, so maybe I have to keep her on as my back-up.

It is odd that 'sword' and 'words' have the same letters and even more strange that they have the same effect.

I think that was one of the things that happened, especially in Ireland, that you left in order to improve yourself, and you couldn't write home and tell people, 'Look, I'm really lonely,' because you'd realize how much those letters were going to matter, that you needed to put good news or uplifting news into them.

I think that is what is best for the county, ... I've gotten a lot of letters from businesses and the Vigo County School Corporation. They are all for staying on Eastern time. They would rather be on Central, but want to stay in sync with Indianapolis. I am still in favor of staying with Indianapolis.

Ironically, this clock seems to receive more attention than any exhibition inside our museum. We receive letters or phone calls every month complaining about the punctuality of the clock.