Postage Quotes

• Consider the postage stamp: its usefulness consists in the ability to stick to one thing till it gets there.

  Josh Billings

  Inspirational, Funny, Motivational

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

  Josh Billings

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• Designs in connection with postage stamps and coinage may be described, I think, as the silent ambassadors on national taste.

  William Butler Yeats

  Thinking, Swag, Design

  Speech at Seanad Éireann (Irish Free Senate) on the Coinage Bill, March 03, 1926.

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• I know why the caged bird sings.

  Maya Angelou

  Inspirational, Children, Book

  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

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• Words are only postage stamps delivering the object for you to unwrap

  George Bernard Shaw

  Stamps, Objects, Delivering

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• 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.

  Kathleen Parker

  Christian, Baby, Religious

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

  Henry David Thoreau

  Life, Two, Letters

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Quotable Thoreau: An A to Z Glossary of Inspiring Quotations from Henry David Thoreau”, p.78, BookBaby

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

  Johann Hari

  Grew, States, Food Stamps

  Twitter post from Jun 03, 2012

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• I dream that my face appears on a postage stamp.

  John Cheever

  Dream, Faces, Fame

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• I love the rebelliousness of snail mail, and I love anything that can arrive with a postage stamp. There's something about that person's breath and hands on the letter.

  Diane Lane

  Hands, Letters, Mail

  "Richard Gere and Diane Lane interview – NIGHTS IN RODANTHE". Interview with Steve "Frosty" Weintraub, collider.com. September 26, 2008.

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

  Elizabeth Bishop

  Sailing, Care, Soap

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

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• Paint with whatever material you please - with pipes, postage stamps, postcards or playing cards, painted paper, or newspapers.

  Guillaume Apollinaire

  Cards, Paper, Paint

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• 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.

  Marcel Proust

  Women, Example, Warning

  Marcel Proust (2000). “In Search of Lost Time, Volume III: The Guermantes Way”, p.449, Modern Library

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• 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.

  Agnes Repplier

  Lying, Book, Looks

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

  Napoleon Hill

  Motivational, Perseverance, Jobs

  Napoleon Hill (1997). “Napoleon Hill's Positive Action Plan: 365 Meditations For Making Each Day a Success”, p.70, Penguin

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• 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.

  Emily Mortimer

  Dad, Spring, Home

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• He has a chance to make somebody move over on Mount Rushmore. He's working for his place on the coins and the postage stamps.

  Henry Graff

  Moving, Coins, Mount Rushmore

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• 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.

  Kurt Voss

  Independent, Twenties, Dollars

  Source: www.aboutfilm.com

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• The President of today is just the postage stamp of tomorrow.

  Gracie Allen

  Justice, President, Today

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• 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.

  Muhammad Ali

  Beautiful, Mean, Medicine

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• 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."

  Peter Webber

  Years, Firsts, Stamps

  "Girl with a Pearl Earring: A profile of the film". Interview with Carlo Cavagna, www.aboutfilm.com. January 2004.

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• If the big publishers are doing so well, why do they require writers to send return postage with their manuscripts?

  Dan Poynter

  Return, Bigs, Wells

  Dan Poynter (2003). “The self-publishing manual: how to write, print, and sell your own book”, Para Publishing

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• 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.

  Vladimir Sorokin

  Russia, Leader, Democracy

  "Russia Is Slipping Back into an Authoritarian Empire". Interview with Martin Doerry and Matthias Schepp, www.spiegel.de. February 2, 2007.

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• 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.

  William Faulkner

  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”

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

  Abbie Hoffman

  Drinking, Commitment, Dope

  "Steal This Book". Book by Abbie Hoffman. Introduction, p. V, 1971.

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