Postage Quotes

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  • The advent of the internet has made so many things possible. Self- published recreational journalism has always been around; but back when you had to at least learn to run a mimeograph, and you had to pay postage to distribute your deathless prose, people who didn't actually have much to say for themselves found other hobbies

    Running   Self   People  
  • The US head of state grew up on food stamps. The British head of state grew up on the postage stamps.

    Twitter post from Jun 03, 2012
  • Fifteen referees. I want fifteen referees to be at this fight because there ain't no one man who can keep up with the pace I'm gonna set except me. There's not a man alive who can whup me. I'm too fast. I'm too smart. I'm too pretty. I should be a postage stamp. That's the only way I'll ever get licked.

    Funny   Smart   Fighting  
  • Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there.

  • Smoking dope and hanging up Che's picture is no more a commitment than drinking milk and collecting postage stamps.

    "Steal This Book". Book by Abbie Hoffman. Introduction, p. V, 1971.
  • He picked the postage stamp over the wall with aplomb.

    Football   Wall   Stamps  
  • I have received no more than one or two letters in my life that were worth the postage.

    Life   Two   Letters  
    Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Quotable Thoreau: An A to Z Glossary of Inspiring Quotations from Henry David Thoreau”, p.78, BookBaby
  • I should be a postage stamp. That’s the only way I’ll ever get licked!

    Boxing   Way   Should  
    Twitter post from Oct 04, 2010
  • I want any excuse to come home. My dad is not a spring chicken any more. If anyone says, 'Go buy a postage stamp in London,' I'll go and do it.

    Dad   Spring   Home  
    "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • I think I sent out some résumés for marketing jobs, and they all came back in the mail because I didn't have enough postage.

    Source: www.avclub.com
  • If the big publishers are doing so well, why do they require writers to send return postage with their manuscripts?

    Return   Bigs   Wells  
    Dan Poynter (2003). “The self-publishing manual: how to write, print, and sell your own book”, Para Publishing
  • I collect postage stamps. That's the only thing I can afford to collect! I hope in five years' time to say, "Yes, I specialize in Gustav Dore first editions."

    Years   Firsts   Stamps  
    "Girl with a Pearl Earring: A profile of the film". Interview with Carlo Cavagna, www.aboutfilm.com. January 2004.
  • I discovered that my own little postage stamp of native soil was worth writing about and that I would never live long enough to exhaust it.

    Writing   Long   Littles  
    Francis Lee Utley, William Faulkner, Lynn Z. Bloom, Arthur F. Kinney (1964). “Bear, man, & God: seven approaches to William Faulkner's The bear”
  • Of course, certain religious expressions are fine. If a tribe of Aqualishes wants to boil rhino horns in frog saliva on the National Mall to honor their deity, we'd have a commemorative postage stamp ready by next December. But let a Christian mention the baby Jesus to a kindergarten class and the ACLU wants an exorcism.

  • There's nothing sadder to me than associations held together by nothing but the glue of postage stamps. If you can't see or hear or touch a man, it's best to let him go.

    Men   Together   Glue  
    John Steinbeck (2002). “East of Eden”, p.365, Penguin
  • I really don't know where the independent fits in anymore when twenty-five million dollar movies are considered straight-to-video fare. We're like penny postage stamps.

    Source: www.aboutfilm.com
  • Why do they put pictures of criminals up in the Post Office? What are we supposed to do, write to them? Why don't they just put their pictures on the postage stamps so the postmen can look for them while they deliver the mail?

    Funny   Writing   Humor  
  • Certainly, it is more reasonable to devote one's life to women than to postage stamps or old snuff-boxes, even to pictures or statues. But the example of other collections should be a warning to us to diversify, to have not one woman only but several.

    Women   Example   Warning  
    Marcel Proust (2000). “In Search of Lost Time, Volume III: The Guermantes Way”, p.449, Modern Library
  • I dream that my face appears on a postage stamp.

    Dream   Faces   Fame  
  • The most interesting thing about a postage stamp is the persistence with which it sticks to its job.

    Napoleon Hill (1997). “Napoleon Hill's Positive Action Plan: 365 Meditations For Making Each Day a Success”, p.70, Penguin
  • the pleasure of possession, whether we possess trinkets, or offspring - or possibly books, or prints, or chessmen, or postage stamps - lies in showing these things to friends who are experiencing no immediate urge to look at them.

    Lying   Book   Looks  
  • The Russian writer Vladimir Nabokov once said: In a Democracy, portraits of a nation's leader should never exceed the size of a postage stamp. That won't happen so quickly in Russia.

    "Russia Is Slipping Back into an Authoritarian Empire". Interview with Martin Doerry and Matthias Schepp, www.spiegel.de. February 2, 2007.
  • I never needed Panavision and stereophonic sound to woo the world. I did it in black and white on a screen the size of a postage stamp. Honey, that's talent.

  • The question is: do we pay a little bit more now? Or do we pay a whole lot later? For the equivalent of a postage stamp a day for each American, we can put a price on carbon today that will send a signal to private capital to invest in the clean technologies of tomorrow. Taking a vast portfolio of new energy solutions to scale will ultimately drive down costs through competition.

    Source: rooseveltinstitute.org
  • I know why the caged bird sings.

    Title of book (1969), taken from the last line of "Sympathy" by Paul Laurence Dunbar in Lyrics of Hearthside (1899). Cf. Oxford Dictionary of Quotations (1979) 567:10
  • I should be a postage stamp, because that's the only way I'll ever get licked. I'm beautiful. I'm fast. I'm so mean I make medicine sick. I can't possibly be beat.

  • With full responsibility for my words as a professional biologist, I do not hesitate to say that all existing and genuine knowledge about the way in which the physical characteristics of human communities are related to their cultural capabilities can be written on the back of a postage stamp.

    Lancelot Thomas Hogben (1940). “Dangerous Thoughts”
  • Consider the postage stamp: its usefulness consists in the ability to stick to one thing till it gets there.

  • Smoking dope and hanging up Che's picture is no more a commitment than drinking milk and collecting postage stamps. A revolution in consciousness is an empty high without a revolution in the distribution of power. We are not interested in the greening of Amerika except for the grass that will cover its grave.

  • Ports are necessities, like postage stamps or soap, but they seldom seem to care what impressions they make.

    Sailing   Care   Soap  
    Elizabeth Bishop (2015). “Poems”, p.88, Macmillan
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