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We give anonymously because the sackfuls of thank-you letters break our hearts with their clumsy handwriting and hopeless phonetic spelling.


David Sedaris

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PAULEY PERRETTE My spelling is Wobbly. It's good spelling but it Wobbles, and the letters get in the wrong places.
A.A. MILNE My spelling is Wobbly. It's good spelling but it Wobbles, and the letters get in the wrong places.
A. A. MILNE My spelling is Wobbly. It's good spelling but it Wobbles, and the letters get in the wrong place...
A. A. MILNE We really want to thank Tucson from the bottom of our hearts.
EDWARD HARRIS Experience has shown me that standing by oneself reading from one's book isn't especially co...
GAYLE FORMAN God gave us minds to think with and hearts to thank with. Instead we use our hearts to think about t...
DOUGLAS WILSON Sticks and stoned break our bones. Words and actions break our hearts.
SARA STRAIN Spelling bees? Spelling bees do not scare me. I competed in the National Spelling Bee twice, thank y...
KRISTIN CASHORE Sticks and stones will break our bones, but words will break our hearts.
ROBERT FULGHUM Sticks and stones will break our bones, but words will break our hearts...
ROBERT FULGHUM Sticks and stones may break our bones, but words will break our hearts
ROBERT FULGHUM Her handwriting was curious — small sharp little letters with no capitals (who did she think she wa...
ERICH SEGAL We must say in own handwriting from or own minds and hearts that this war is not a war we should be ...
LOTTIE GIBSON cheers to us hopeless romantics whom's bleeding hearts will forever fill our glasses
IJIRASHIIJACK Don't you think that says something? We affirm the personal sacrifice and courage of the troops ther...
DAVE MARTIN As historians, we spend days in archives, gazing at account books. We train would-be historians in t...
KATE WILLIAMS Gansey studied Adam's erratic handwriting. His letters always looked like they were running from som...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER Will we always find faults with our accommodations because of the turmoil in our own hearts?
ODDNý EIR Being a good parent will necessarily break our hearts as we watch a child grow and eventually choose...
DAVID WHYTE Accidents happen. Our bones shatter, our skin splits, our hearts break. We burn, we drown, we stay a...
MOïRA FOWLEY-DOYLE A phrase 'I love you' is easy to say through our mouths but hard to say in our hearts. Love is not s...
SIMON MASHALLA I respect (David Chase) tremendously. There are some great actors out there who never catch a break....
ARTIE PASQUALE Broken things are precious. We eat broken bread because we share in the depth of our Lord and His br...
FULTON J. SHEEN There is a kind way of assisting our fellow-creatures which is enough to break their hearts while it...
JOSEPH CONRAD Who is ever adequate? We all create situations each other can't live up to, then break our hearts at...
ELIZABETH BOWEN We said a prayer to really thank God for entering the hearts and minds of voters so they would exerc...
WINSTON SMITH I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES We are living out the drama of a pathetic story whose pages are smeared with our own handwriting.
CRAIG D. LOUNSBROUGH United we Mexicans greet you with joy and hope, ... We receive you with our hearts in our hands.
ERNESTO ZEDILLO We love to include letters and cards, because no matter what we send them, ... the letters and the c...
JEANNETTE MANCHESTER Lord of all hopefulness, Lord of all joy, Whose trust, ever childlike, no cares could destroy, ...
JAN STRUTHER You know, when you're young, you have moments of such happiness, you think you're living in someplac...
DEYTH BANGER Howbeit the LORD would not destroy the house of David, because of the covenant that he had made with...
BIBLE Haters give me the opportunity to be blunt and dry with their ignorant ass's. Thank you. I need to p...
NERISSA IRVING I want to thank the minority members for all your efforts even though we didn't win the war, ... You...
SHARON JOHNSON People should come with the idea of enjoying the concert, but also opening their hearts to give.
BOB ANDERSON Children are born to break their mothers’ hearts, my boy.
SABAA TAHIR The measure of our souls is not in the love we take, but in the love we give in unconditional measur...
JILL ANZINGER We thank and praise God for this, ... for you all opening your hearts and coming in and helping us.
LOUISE WILLIAMS All I can tell you is this. Some hearts break from grief some from joy. Some even break from love. B...
CATHERINE M. WILSONSON Were there no God, we would be in this glorious world with grateful hearts: and no one to thank
CHRISTINA G. ROSSETTI We write or we are written upon. The whole of our lives is the clumsy attempt to wield the pen with ...
VINCENT LOUIS CARRELLA We are deeply moved that you've given us your confidence to host the 2009 session...on behalf of my ...
KAI HOLM Laurel, David? Would you like to share the joke with the rest of the class?" he asked, one hand on h...
APRILYNNE PIKE Who is ever adequate? We all create situations each other can't live up to, then break our heart...
ELIZABETH BOWEN Our kids played with their hearts today.
RAY AKIONA Hearts can break. Yes, hearts can break. Sometimes I think it would be better if we died when they d...
STEPHEN KING Yelling at living things does tend to kill the spirit in them. Sticks and stones may break our bones...
ROBERT FULGHUM The woman spoke with a heavy western North Carolina accent, which I used to discredit her authority....
DAVID SEDARIS When mothers warn their daughters about all the cold nasty men out there who will only break their t...
NENIA CAMPBELL Sometimes when you're young, you have moments of such happiness, you think you're living on someplac...
STEPHEN KING Dear 2012, bring peace please. Peace in our souls, and hearts, and minds, and all around. Thank You ...
SVETLANA SHCHEDRINA | LUCKYOPTIMIST How can our hearts not break? How can we hold our tears? How can we bear the pain of losing those lo...
RADHANATH SWAMI With our faith and the beating of our hearts, we can overcome any obstacles.
FRANCESCO NICHOLAS CECE Thank God we got a little break in the storms.
DON STRICKLAND When I write to you, I feel your breath; when you read them, I imagine you feel mine. Is it that way...
NICHOLAS SPARKS I've felt sometimes like I'd be less trouble if I'd just sit back and be quiet. But dreams are too i...
BRITTNEY RYAN Bob, the taxpayers thank you, ... A lot of families heretofore on welfare, as fathers and mothers wi...
GEORGE ALLEN Everything passes by, and we are left with just our memories
BEN OAK If we delight in God, He shall give us our hearts desires.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA We have for a long time neglected our children. They are our richest treasure. We must give them tim...
DADA VASWANI One of the greatest gifts you could give others is a special KINDNESS that will touch their hearts f...
LORRIN L. LEE If our state sees the handwriting on the wall, then maybe we can work together and come up with some...
JOE MARTIN I think that social media has really empowered bullies because you get to do it from the comfort of ...
MAYSOON ZAYID Better to be miserable with her than happy without her. Let our hearts break provided they break tog...
C.S. LEWIS It's you,” David says, “our queen with your crown, going into some body of water where we cannot...
ANNIE FISHER GUY TIP #18:
Just because you can urinate anywhere you want doesn't mean you should-even if you...
JENNY O'CONNELL Hearts set about finding other hearts the moment they are born, and between them, they weave nets so...
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE All kinds of ordinary people gave their whole hearts to things you wouldn't think you could give you...
POLLY HORVATH But I watch my brothers give their hearts away and I think, Don’t you know better? Hearts are brea...
CASSANDRA CLARE Just because we are talking about the Internet does not mean we should lose the right to speak anony...
LAUREN GELMAN Little drops of rain Whisper of the pain Tears of love Lost in the days gone by.
ROBERT PLANT "THANK YOU" If we're honest with ourselves, most of us know the one thing we lack.
CRAIG GROESCHEL In the old days in France, they had beheadings of people who commit heinous crimes, ... Nevada Newsm...
OSCAR GOODMAN The reason why many minister of God fail is because their hearts are not right with God
SUNDAY ADELAJA It is a horrible fact that we can read in the daily paper, without interrupting our breakfast, numer...
WENDELL BERRY Because minds do blow and hearts do break. Those are not just sayings. And wolves and roaches are no...
ROBIN SILVERMAN The discipline and focus to sustain being No. 1 in anything for any period of time is incredible, bu...
DOTTIE PEPPER To keep Sioux Falls the giving community it is, we need to start with the kids. They truly, truly kn...
DEB THOMPSON This celebration here tells me that this work is not hopeless. I thank you for this teaching with al...
ALBERT SZENT-GYORGYI Our hearts and prayers will always be with you.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA Americans are known for their strength, fortitude, and generosity in times of need. We encourage peo...
MICHAEL DELL We do not see nature with our eyes, but with our understandings and our hearts.
WILLIAM HAZLITT Before the trip began we mapped out three primary goals: 1) to see and meet with our American troops...
JOHN BOEHNER Sticks and stones may break your bones but words can break hearts.
TIM MINCHIN I wanted to be like Vivien Leigh in 'Gone With the Wind.' I wanted to have black hair, green...
TERRY FARRELL The letters were universally complimentary, and we designers loved hearing that our games were being...
DAVID CRANE Irony, we want our handwriting to look like typed fonts, and our computer fonts to look like handwri...
VIKRMN If you could not do much in the month of April with five letters, think of what really you can do wi...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Most open letters undoubtedly come from a good place, rising out of genuine outrage or concern or ca...
ROXANE GAY At first we played a little scared. In the second half, we had nothing to lose. We wanted to play wi...
AARON WILSON Half the ills we heard within our hearts are ills because we hoard them.
BARRY CORNWALL Half the ills we heard within our hearts are ills because we hoard them.
BRYAN PROCTER In spite of our poverty and our economic dependence, we do not have to give in, neither because we a...
OMAR BONGO Break hearts, not promises.
JOHN GREEN [But] trying to get paid anonymously in 1989 was a lot different, ... These schemes can now be reinv...
JOE STEWART This is a team that I was allowed to build. The players will give their all in the field. I can assu...
ISRAEL COLLAZO While we thank God for them and their efforts, we must also know that our generation of believers ha...
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AMY SEDARIS I'm not a good storyteller. I always think I'm going to get interrupted, or something's ...
AMY SEDARIS People who shop in health food stores never look healthy.
AMY SEDARIS I wouldn't call myself a shut-in. I have the ability to leave my home; I just choose not to. But...
AMY SEDARIS I think it's still kind of weird to memorize a line, because you're supposed to 'be'...
AMY SEDARIS More men than women like 'Strangers With Candy'. Pretty girls don't like the show. They ...
AMY SEDARIS I like crafts that are made out of necessity because they're a little naive - you made it becaus...
AMY SEDARIS I'm gonna do the whole bedroom in camel color - it's an old lady color.
AMY SEDARIS If I put my mind to something, it happens. I do know that's not necessarily psychic. But I alway...
AMY SEDARIS You know when you watch old movies, it's always the small parts you remember, the character acto...
AMY SEDARIS Sometimes, to keep things exciting, I decorate my house as if I owned a child. I'll toss a tiny ...
AMY SEDARIS But I always like to play ugly people who think they're pretty.
AMY SEDARIS My father and I have a very good relationship. We always got along. But I always scold him.
AMY SEDARIS When people tell me they are going to go scrapbooking, I say, 'Why don't you make it yoursel...
AMY SEDARIS Books are challenging and inspirational to me.
AMY SEDARIS I love costumes. My dream growing up was always to have my own costume and prop shop.
AMY SEDARIS I love theatrical props: a cup filled with solid fake tea, say, or a collection of fake food, includ...
AMY SEDARIS I like crafts that come out of poverty or necessity. There used to be hobby shops where you'd ge...
AMY SEDARIS I like to decide the night before Thanksgiving that I'm gonna do it, and I'll see what riff ...
AMY SEDARIS We're all used to seeing pretty people. I want to see real people.
AMY SEDARIS My favorite things often have a story behind them and are usually handmade or discovered at a flea m...
AMY SEDARIS I have always wanted a bunny and I'll always have a rabbit the rest of my life.
AMY SEDARIS My characters always like themselves.
AMY SEDARIS It's all about process to me - as long as it's fun to me, I don't care about the final product.
AMY SEDARIS It was more of their quirky show. It was more like a cult show. The ratings weren't really that high...
AMY SEDARIS I'm satisfied just thinking of the idea.
AMY SEDARIS I choose to do unattractive people, because then I can pretend they think they're attractive.
AMY SEDARIS I'm not a first-place person.
AMY SEDARIS You know when you watch old movies, it's always the small parts you remember, the character actors w...
AMY SEDARIS I always got along with all types of people - popular people as well as drug addicts.
AMY SEDARIS It's driving me crazy! It's awful. I saw four last night during the Academy Awards. Four little baby...
AMY SEDARIS I choose to do unattractive people, because then I can pretend they think they're attractive.
AMY SEDARIS