“Thing was' he faced them, and Harry was astonished to see that he was grinning, 'they bit of a bit more than they could chew with Gran. Little old witch living alone, they probably think they didn't need to send anyone particularly powerful. Anyway' Neville laughed, 'Dawlish is still in St Mungo's and Gran is on the run. She sent me a letter,' he clapped a hand to the breast pocket of his robes, 'telling me she was proud of me, that I'm my parents' son, and to keep it up” ThinkingNeedsLittlesStillsHandsRunningBitsParentPowerfulSonProudLettersBreastsPocketsWitchLaughedRobesGrinningProud Of MeLiving AloneGransNeville Longbottom Author:J. K. Rowling
“For a long time we dreamed of a real leather ball, and at last my brother had one for his birthday. The feel of the leather, the stitching round it, the faint gold letters stamped upon it, the touch of the seam, the smell of it, all affected me so deeply that I still have that ache of beauty when I hold a cricket ball.” FeelsLongStillsRealLastsTimeBrotherLong TimeLettersGoldBallsRoundsSmellAll TimeMy BrotherAffectedCricketAcheLeather Author:Alison Uttley
“A man who took great pride in his lawn found himself with a large crop of dandelions. He tried every method he knew to get rid of them. Still they plagued him. Finally he wrote the department of agriculture. He enumerated all the things he had tried and closed his letter with the question: "What shall I do now?" In due course the reply came: "We suggest you learn to love them."” MenStillsSpiritualSpiritualityCoursesFoundPrideLettersMethodDuesDepartmentAgricultureCropsLawnsDandelions Book:The Song of the Bird Source: The Song of the Bird
“I do still get the odd fan letter about The Good Life, clearly written by somebody aged 18, who says: Will you send a photograph? And I think: Maybe it's kinder not to. I'm deeply into my 50s now.” ThinkingStillsWrittenFansLettersPhotographOddGood LifeKinder Author:Felicity Kendal
“Much later, when I discussed the problem with Einstein, he remarked that the introduction of the cosmological term was the biggest blunder he ever made in his life. But this "blunder," rejected by Einstein, is still sometimes used by cosmologists even today, and the cosmological constant denoted by the Greek letter Λ rears its ugly head again and again and again.” MadeStillsSometimesProblemTodayUsedTermLettersConstantUglyGreekAgain And AgainRejectedIntroductionBlunders Author:George Gamow
“There are poems that are never written, that simply move across the mind like skywriting on a still day: slowly the first word drifts west, the last letters dissolve on the tongue, and what is left is the pure blue of insight, without cloud or comfort.” MindFirstsStillsLastsMovingLeftWrittenComfortPureLettersBlueWestCloudsInsightTongue Book:給要離家的女兒 Source: 給要離家的女兒
“My readers at that time were still men of letters; but there had to be other people waiting to read my poems.” PeopleMenStillsWaitingReaderLetters Author:Salvatore Quasimodo
“Sending a handwritten letter is becoming such an anomaly. It's disappearing. My mom is the only one who still writes me letters. And there's something visceral about opening a letter - I see her on the page. I see her in her handwriting.” WritingStillsMomBecomingPagesLettersMy MomDisappearOpeningVisceralHandwritingAnomaliesHandwritten Letters Author:Steve Carell