Envelopes Quotes

• I like people who push the envelope.

  Norman Reedus

  People, Pushing The Envelope

  "Norman Reedus: Lady GaGa is a machine!". Interview with Jarett Wieselman, pagesix.com. May 6, 2011.

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• Letters are expectation packaged in an envelope.

  Shana Alexander

  Expectations, Letters

  Shana Alexander (1970). “The feminine eye”, McCall Pub. Co

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• The part of the envelope that tells a person where to place the stamp when they can't quite figure it out for themselves.

  Rich Hall

  Humorous, Figures, Stamps

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• Fastidiousness is the envelope of indelicacy.

  Thomas Chandler Haliburton

  Thomas Chandler Haliburton (1855). “Nature and human nature. By the author of "Sam Slick the clockmaker" ...”, p.188

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• The social object of skilled investment should be to defeat the dark forces of time and ignorance which envelope our future.

  John Maynard Keynes

  Ignorance, Dark, Skills

  "The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money". Book by John Maynard Keynes, Book 4, Chapter 12, Section 5, p. 155, 1935.

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• If something can't be explained on the back of an envelope, it's rubbish.

  Richard Branson

  Rubbish, Ifs

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• Life is not a series of gig lamps symmetrically arranged; life is a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning of consciousness to the end.

  Virginia Woolf

  Life, Halos, Lamps

  1919 'Modern Fiction'.

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• You can't raise the standard of women's morals by raising their pay envelope. It lies deeper than that.

  Billy Sunday

  Lying, Pay, Moral

  Billy Sunday, William Thomas Ellis (1917). “Billy Sunday, the Man and His Message: With His Own Words which Have Won Thousands for Christ”

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• For most men, life is a search for the proper Manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.

  Clifton Fadiman

  Life, Men, Finding Yourself

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• 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.

  Terry Tempest Williams

  Focus, Sensual, Paper

  Terry Tempest Williams (2015). “Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place”, p.84, Vintage

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• So cartooning, for me, is an honorable thing. It's pushing the envelope. It's the truth of something through exaggeration

  Bill Sienkiewicz

  Pushing, Honorable, Exaggeration

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• The fun part for me is to just really push that envelope.

  Vicki Lawrence

  Fun, Comedy, Pushing The Envelope

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• We're starting to push the envelope in terms of the expectations, and you can also have your own style, personality and sense of humor, because now we're allowed to.

  Lisa Guerrero

  Humor, Expectations, Personality

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• I'm a performer. I push the envelope, I work in a very uncontrolled manner onstage. I do a lot of free association, it's spontaneous, I go into character.

  Michael Richards

  Character, Association, Spontaneity

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• With BSG, sci-fi is the human experience taken beyond the envelope. When I first became involved with the project, I knew that I would be able to play a human being for many years, exploring and reflecting on issues that would impact people's lives.

  Mary McDonnell

  Taken, Years, Play

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• I sat with him for three hours and we did not exchange a single word. At the end he handed me, as he had done before, an envelope with money in it. It would have been much nicer if he had enclosed a greeting or a loving word. I would have been so pleased if he had.

  Eva Braun

  Three, Cards, Done

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• 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."

  Martha Williamson

  Waiting, Labels, Letters

  "'Touched by an Angel' producer Martha Williamson has “Delivered” a new hit to Hallmark Channel". Interview with John W. Kennedy, www.beliefnet.com.

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• I like Lady Gaga because I like that she pushes the envelope.

  Pat Benatar

  Gaga

  "Pat Benatar says she is a fan of Lady Gaga". Interview with Nick Zieminski, www.reuters.com. July 7, 2010.

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• When we try to push the envelope, there are certain sectors of society that say this is a Zionist plot to sort of destabilize our country, or this is an American agenda.

  Abdallah II

  Country, Trying, Plot

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• Man exists only insofar as he is separated from his surroundings. The cranium is a space-traveler's helmet. Stay inside or you perish.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Men, Space, Surroundings

  Vladimir Nabokov (2011). “Pnin”, p.20, Vintage

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• The high wage begins down in the shop. If it is not created there it cannot get into pay envelopes. There will never be a system invented which will do away with the necessity for work.

  Henry Ford

  Wages, Pay, Shops

  Henry Ford (2015). “My Life and Work: Top Biography”, p.81, 谷月社

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• a letter ... changes utterly the moment it slips inside an envelope. It stops being mine. It becomes yours. What I mean is gone. What you understand is all that remains.

  Cathleen Schine

  Mean, Gone, Letters

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• Have you ever lost yourself in a kiss? I mean pure psychedelic inebriation. Not just lustful petting but transcendental metamorphosis when you became aware that the greatness of this being was breathing into you. Licking the sides and corners of your mouth, like sealing a thousand fleshy envelopes filled with the essence of your passionate being and then opened by the same mouth and delivered back to you, over and over again - the first kiss of the rest of your life.

  Saul Williams

  Love, Life, Romantic

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• The way you get your script to the right people is that you put it in an envelope. It's easy. The difficult bit is writing something that is so good people will take a punt on a brand new writer.

  Steven Moffat

  Writing, People, Way

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• I am grateful to those Members of Congress who worked so diligently to guide the Equal Pay Act through. It is a first step. It affirms our determination that when women enter the labor force they will find equality in their pay envelopes.

  John F. Kennedy

  Determination, Grateful, Labor Force

  Kennedy, John F. (1964). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, 1963”, p.465, Best Books on

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