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  • What I live and do is music. When I'm not doing that, I'm just kicking back, watching my stocks and bonds and checks coming in the mailbox. I really don't have anything else I do. I may go to a movie or something. It's just family time and things like that.

  • I can pick out people in this city to follow. I can be in a show at the Museum of Modern Art, my space in the Museum of Modern Art is my mailbox, my mail is delivered there. Whenever I want mail, I have to go through this city to get my mail.

    Art   Museums   Cities  
    Interview with Shelley Jackson, believermag.com. January 1, 2007.
  • One of the strongest of contemporary conventions is that of comparing to Thoreau every writer who has been as far out of the house as the mailbox.

    Wendell Berry (2010). “What Are People For?: Essays”, p.40, Counterpoint Press
  • That's what I do. Watch movies and read. Sometimes I even pretend to write, but I'm not fooling anyone. Oh, and I go to the mailbox.

    Nicole Krauss (2006). “The History of Love: A Novel”, p.103, W. W. Norton & Company
  • There's a lot of people out now around America who depend on checks from their fellow taxpayers being in the mailbox every day.

  • I couldn't get away with Halloween pranks 'cause my parents owned the health food store. So, it was so easy to bust me. I was the only kid on the block egging houses with those big 'ole brown eggs. Like, you didn't have to be a detective to figure it out. 'Oh, I wonder who Tofuttied my mailbox. Is it the same evil genius who filled my bird bath with Rice Dream?

    Dream   Block   Halloween  
  • When I started to run, I would run a mile and then walk a mile and kept building up as time went on. If you are running on the street, go one mailbox or one house further each day. It also helps to build up your endurance!

    "Heidi Klum Shares Her Spring Workout and Diet Secrets (and Guess What: Cheeseburgers Are Allowed)". Interview with Fawnia Soo Hoo, www.glamour.com. March 25, 2014.
  • I live in Los Angeles. It's a very liberal city, but it's so hypocritical in what it's liberal about. You can be driving down Hollywood Boulevard, see a guy in lipstick and high heels wearing a fur coat masturbating into a mailbox. People giving him a hard time as they drive by: Hey, is that real fur? Of course not! That's sick!

  • Love lies in those unsent drafts in your mailbox. Sometimes you wonder whether things would have been different if you'd clicked 'Send'.

  • I find that getting something on the screen as soon as possible really helps focus the problem for me. It helps me decide what to work on next. Because if you're just looking at that big to-do list it's like, eh, I don't know which one I should do—does it matter which one I do? But if there's something you can actually look at, even if it's just the debug output of your mailbox parser, it's like, OK, there!

    Focus   Doe   Looks  
    "Coders at Work: Reflections on the Craft of Programming". Book by Peter Seibel, September 16, 2009.
  • Maybe when they no longer receive Sierra magazine in their mailboxes, journalists will understand how campaign finance reform abridges free speech.

  • 'You've got mail!' exclaims the cheery automaton at America Online. The flag on the mailbox icon waves invitingly on my computer screen. For a second, I'm 10 years old again, waiting for the postman's whistle to slice the stillness of an Australian afternoon.

    Years   Icons   America  
  • Rejoice with the day lily for it is born for a day to live by the mailbox and glorify the roadside

    Lilies   Born   Mailboxes  
    Anne Sexton (1974). “The death notebooks”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH)
  • John McCain said that Sarah Palin is still a force in the Republican Party. Then he got in his car and backed over his mailbox.

    Party   Car   Republican  
    "David Letterman's political guests: The jokes were on them" by Diana D'Abruzzo, Slide 16, www.politico.com. May 20, 2015.
  • I think we are in this era right now where every element in a webpage is rendered to within an inch of its life. I think if it's a button, it looks like a physical button, you know, if it's a mailbox that's meant to signal a messaging functionality then the whole mailbox right down to the rivets on the hypothetical metallic housing is rendered.

    Interview with Austin Allen, bigthink.com. March 3, 2010.
  • There is something very sensual about a letter. The physical contact of pen to paper, the time set aside to focus thoughts, the folding of the paper into the envelope, licking it closed, addressing it, a chosen stamp, and then the release of the letter to the mailbox - are all acts of tenderness.

    Focus   Sensual   Paper  
    Terry Tempest Williams (2015). “Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place”, p.84, Vintage
  • the garbage cans and mailboxes on the sidewalk would stay the same, but the people would be just a beautiful blur of motion.

  • A job for your family, a paycheck in your mailbox - they're the ultimate proof that your state is doing things right!

    Jobs   Proof   States  
    "Confederate statues vandalized nationwide". "The Five" with Eric Bolling and Juan Williams, www.foxnews.com. June 24, 2015.
  • When you see a handwritten envelope addressed to you in your packet of mail when you get your mail out of the mailbox - when you see a personal letter waiting for you - it's exciting. It touches you. You say "Oh, somebody really thought of me and didn't just slap a mailing label across an envelope. Somebody wrote something to me."

    "'Touched by an Angel' producer Martha Williamson has “Delivered” a new hit to Hallmark Channel". Interview with John W. Kennedy, www.beliefnet.com.
  • I would ... go up to the mailbox and sit in the grass, waiting. ... Till it came to me one day there were women doing this with their lives, all over. There were women just waiting and waiting by mailboxes for one letter or another. I imagined me making this journey day after day and year after year, and my hair starting to go gray, and I thought, I was never made to go on like that. ... If there were woman all through life waiting, and women busy and not waiting, I knew which I had to be.

    Journey   Hair   Years  
  • The level of discourse reaching a mailbox simply cannot be limited to that which would be suitable for a sandbox.

    "Obama on Mass Shootings; Paul Campaign's Struggles; What House Members Want; Thurgood Marshall's Fight" by Carl M. Cannon, www.realclearpolitics.com. October 2, 2015.
  • Throwing a knuckleball for a strike is like throwing a butterfly with hiccups across the street into your neighbor's mailbox.

  • I won't forget the hood. I won't forget the days of catching a bullet on the way to the mailbox or bricks with death threats that somehow made their way through the window.

    Bullets   Way   Bricks  
    ""I've Never, Ever Liked Elvis": an Interview with Laker Pau Gasol". Interview with Dan Gurley, bleacherreport.com. May 8, 2008.
  • RRC remains the best publication to hit my mailbox

  • Jace perched on the windowsill and looked down at him. "You really don't get this bodyguard thing, do you?" "I didn't even think you liked me all that much," said Simon. "Is this one of those keep-your-friends-close-and-your-enemies-closer things?" "I thought it was keep your friends close so you have someone to drive the car when you sneak over to your enemy's house a night and throw up in his mailbox." "I'm pretty sure that's not it

    Night   Thinking   Car  
    Cassandra Clare (2015). “City of Fallen Angels”, p.145, Simon and Schuster
  • Nothing echoes like an empty mailbox.

  • I get about five memoirs per week in my mailbox, and few of them inspire anything but a desire to pick up the channel changer.

    Inspire   Desire   Week  
  • September is a sweep of dusky, purple asters, a sumac branch swinging a fringe of scarlet leaves, and the bittersweet scene of wild grapes when I walk down the lane to the mailbox. September is a golden month of mellow sunlight and still clear days. ... Small creatures in the grass, as if realizing their days are numbered, cram the night air with sound. Everywhere goldenrod is full out.

    Night   Air   Purple  
  • That would be the frontispiece. This was a picture of my mother and me coming out of the United States Supreme Court, with fecal matter smeared across our faces. They wrapped it in wax paper so that when I received it I'd get the full impact of the message. Though I haven't gotten anything quite that original lately, there's still never a dull moment in my mailbox.

    Mother   Impact   Matter  
  • You know, the fact that every morning you get a script in your mailbox, that's going to stop. All these little pedestrian, mundane things. And the cash.

    Morning   Cash   Littles  
    "No longer 'Mad About You'" by Paul Vercammen, www.cnn.com. May 24, 1999.
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