Envelopes Quotes - Page 4

• I made myself into an envelope into which I could thrust my work deep, lick the flap, seal it from everybody.

  Emily Carr

  Privacy, Made, Thrust

  Emily Carr (2002). “The Emily Carr collection”, Key Porter Books

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• I wanted to push the envelope, and I wanted to go so far as to actually offend both the liberals and the right. I think I have succeeded.

  John Roecker

  Thinking, Wanted

  "Punk Puppet Apocalypse". Interview with Lina Lecaro, www.laweekly.com. February 28, 2006.

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• Im always trying to push the envelope and go with a different hairstyle that youre not going to see on anybody else. I have a really good grade of hair, and I can do a lot of different things with it.

  David Otunga

  Hair, Always Trying, Different

  "The NXT Interview: David Otunga". Interview with Aubrey Sitterson, www.wwe.com.

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• Im mad keen on recycling because Im worried about the next generation and where all this waste were producing is going. It has to stop. I wash out my plastic containers and recycle envelopes, everything I possibly can.

  Cherie Lunghi

  Mad, Generations, Waste

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• I've always kind of pushed the envelope in terms of trying to get away with things no one else was going near. I always thought of myself like a mouse trying to get cheese that no one else could get without getting their tail snipped off.

  Emo Philips

  Trying, Tails, Cheese

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Winning the Pulitzer is a really mellow, fabulous thing. You don't sit and wait for them to open an envelope. You already know you won, and you have a nice lunch. Oscars are more stressful. I had to sit for three hours and wait for my category. I had to fly to Los Angeles. For the Pulitzer I just had to go up to Columbia. But, while the president of Columbia gave me the Pulitzer, Audrey Hepburn and Gregory Peck gave me the Oscar, so that was better.

  John Patrick Shanley

  Nice, Winning, Lunch

  Source: movieweb.com

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• Increasingly, I wonder if there are any outrages that would be sufficiently ominous in their effects upon liberty and unequivocal in their moral perversity to awaken the American people to the tyrannical spirit that envelopes the Clinton White House.

  Alan Keyes

  White, People, House

  "New barbarians". mobile.wnd.com. May 6, 2000.

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• I like pushing the envelope. I like pushing myself and the audience, whether it's a TV show or live. I like to throw people over the edge of the cliff and scare the wits out of them, but then pull them back and make them safe.

  Keith Barry

  Tv Shows, People, Scare

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• Lance Armstrong pushes the envelope in terms of the human experience. You can have a personal best, you can push your own envelope. For Lance, the person pushing him is him. The only person he's competing with, I think, is himself. To push that limit to the next step. There's a lot to learn from him. Lots.

  Robin Williams

  Thinking, Pushing, Steps

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• Several weeks of summer vacation in the Thirties I spent working at $15 a week in the FORBES office.... I worked in the mail cage, where envelopes were slit and subscription payments extracted. Dad used to come pounding down the office aisle and pause long enough to ask, How much today? Inevitably the answer was inadequate-except once. That day the controller said excitedly, Mr. Forbes, the ledger shows a slight profit this month! ... My father turned to him and said, Young man, I don't give a damn what your books show. Do we have any money in the bank?

  Malcolm Forbes

  Summer, Dad, Father

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• I have often wondered how they manage to get return envelopes which miss, by one-quarter of an inch, fitting the blank you are supposed to return. They say, "Please fill out and return the enclosed envelope," and the enclosed envelope is always one-quarter of an inch too small.

  Robert Benchley

  Missing, Return, Fitting

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• No matter what these terrorists do, I refuse to be terrorized. All this requires is just a few alterations in our day to day lives. For example, my first instinct when I receive an envelope full of white powder... is to snort it! I just won't do that this time!

  Margaret Cho

  White, Firsts, Example

  "Margaret Cho: Notorious C.H.O". TV Special, June 13, 2002.

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• The best way to do comedy is to not filter yourself, and then you could always fix it later. You want to be able to push the envelope.

  Ken Marino

  Filters, Want, Able

  Source: collider.com

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• Lately, I've become accustomed to the way
  The ground opens up and envelopes me
  Each time I go out to walk the dog.

  Amiri Baraka

  Death, Dog, Way

  "Preface to a Twenty Volume Suicide Note" l. 1 (1961)

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• I was appalled that the San Francisco ethic didn't mushroom and envelope the whole world into this loving community of acid freaks. I was very naive.

  Grace Slick

  Mushrooms, San Francisco, Community

  Bopgraphy/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Doing risk sports had taught me another important lesson: never exceed your limits. You push the envelope and you live for those moments when you’re right on the edge, but you don’t go over. You have to be true to yourself; you have to know your strengths and limitations and live within your means. The same is true for a business. The sooner a company tries to be what it is not, the sooner it tries to ‘have it all,’ the sooner it will die.

  Yvon Chouinard

  Sports, Mean, Over You

  Yvon Chouinard (2016). “Let My People Go Surfing: The Education of a Reluctant Businessman--Including 10 More Years of Business Unusual”, p.96, Penguin

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• One of my first office jobs was cleaning the windows on brown envelopes.

  Rita Rudner

  Jobs, Office, Firsts

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• I feel like if people are going to go to the effort to get a stamp and, you know, put it on an envelope that, you know, it's a big effort these days. So I often write back.

  Adrian Tomine

  Writing, People, Effort

  "Cover Me With Adrian Tomine". "Ask Me Another" host Ophira Eisenberg, www.npr.org. February 18, 2016.

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• I often say of my background: "That and a Metrocard will get me downtown." Honestly, I think the upshot of my training in acting and writing is that I've been trained to be adventurous. There are so many moments in conservatory where I was encouraged to push the envelope and color outside the lines. I think that sense of bravery flavors what I do. It allows me to take chances that I might not otherwise take.

  Steven C. Harper

  Writing, Thinking, Color

  Source: www.nerdprobs.com

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• I love the idea of longevity in this career. But [producing] is not about, "Let me do this because this might happen 20 years down the line." Sleepwalking wasn't a vehicle for me, it was a film that pushed the ­envelope. I want to produce good stories, versus creating a niche where I can look after myself as an actor.

  Charlize Theron

  Years, Careers, Ideas

  Source: www.elle.com

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• I've never been in a situation where I had to run for my life, but I've been bitten by a lot of poisonous snakes where it was fairly painful. Pythons of size have a lot of teeth in that mouth, it's a painful bite and those wounds get infected fairly easily. I've got snake wounds from these animals that have lasted quite a while where it'll ache for several days. Having said that, I've been lucky; it's not like I'm looking for trouble with these animals either. It's not an envelope I'm willing to push.

  Henry Rollins

  Running, Animal, Python

  "Henry Rollins and a Whole Lot of Snakes". Interview with Jeff Jetton, brightestyoungthings.com. April 29, 2011.

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• If you watch the award shows, you'll see variations of the hammer pants. It's always cool to see that and then every now and then, you'll see an artist who's pushing the envelope and it may not be all the way there but you can see where it's coming from. I'm always appreciative of seeing my influence.

  MC Hammer

  Artist, Awards, Variation

  Source: www.ebony.com

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• Throughout all of human history we've enjoyed certain benign circumstances: an envelope of atmosphere, an envelope of temperature. A kind of resilience that if you cut down trees, then they'll grow back. You take fish, they recover. You put stuff into the atmosphere that you know is not good for us, but we can still breathe. We haven't awakened, generally, to the sense of urgency that does exist.

  Sylvia Earle

  Cutting, Tree, Over You

  "Her Majesty Of The Deep Blue Sea: An Interview With Dr. Sylvia Earle, Part One". Interview with Dan Linehan, www.mission-blue.org. January 23, 2013.

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• I always think you should push your envelope every chance you get.

  Ry Cooder

  Thinking, Chance, Should

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• There is a strong reciprocal relationship whereby our more ambitious design visions encourage the continuing development of the new digital technologies and fabrication techniques, and those new developments in turn inspire us to push the design envelope ever further.

  Zaha Hadid

  Strong, Technology, Design

  Source: www.designboom.com

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