Omar Ahmad Quotes

I'd much rather send my friends letters rather than emails.

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.

Let us never underestimate the power of a well-written letter.

I get about 25 letters a month, and I answer every one of them.

I'm known for my handwritten notes.

Just in a professional world, sometimes a phone call is definitely more meaningful than a text.

No one writes each other letters anymore, but I think there's something so special about receiving a really heartfelt letter, still.

Venerable are letters, infinitely brave, forlorn, and lost. Life would split asunder without them. 'Come to tea, come to dinner, what's the truth of the story? have you heard the news? life in the capital is wonderful; the Russian dancers....' These are our stays and props. These lace our days together and make of life a perfect globe.

A letter is the most imperishable thing on earth.

Letters form a by-path of literature, a charming, but occasional, retreat for people of cultivated leisure.

I believe in sending a lot of letters and notes to friends.

How I love to get a letter! I can think of nothing better Than perusing an epistolary item. But deep is my despondence, For I've found that correspondence Means that if you want to get 'em, You must write 'em!

A letter is never ill-timed; it never interrupts. Instead it waits for us to find the opportune minute, the quiet moment to savor the message. There is an element of timelessness about letter writing.

I realized how valuable the art and practice of writing letters are, and how important it is to remind people of what a treasure letters--handwritten letters--can be. In our throwaway era of quick phone calls, faxes, and email, it's all to easy never to find the time to write letters. That's a great pity--for historians and the rest of us.

A letter makes ordinary things seem important.

Generally, people who are good at writing letters have no need to write letters. They've got plenty of life to lead inside their own context.

Letter-writing I imagine is counted as 'work' from which you must abstain, and I scribble this letter simply from the self-satisfied notion that you will like to hear from me. You see, I have asked no questions, which are the torture-screws of correspondence. Hence you have nothing to answer.

In an age like ours, which is not given to letter-writing, we forget what an important part it used to play in people's lives.

Never think, because you cannot write a letter easily, that it is better not to write at all. The most awkward note imaginable is better than none.

I have done most of my talking by post of late years--as people shut up in dungeons take up with scrawling mottoes on the walls.

You have to be able to communicate in life and probably schools underemphasize that. If you can't talk to people or write, you're giving up your potential.

Mornings belong to whatever is new; the current composition. Afternoons are for naps and letters.

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.

Colin Powell speaks regularly to high-ranking U.S. officials, he knows a lot about what's going on in the government. And so he's a powerful person who merits transparency, just like any other powerful people do.

letters are so much easier than living. One can give one's best.