Mail Quotes - Page 12

• I think if you asked people "what's the biggest problem in your life?" They'd say, "I just don't have time for anything!" And at our fingertips, if it isn't e-mail, it's our Blackberry, and it's our iPods and telephones - we never stop. We never take those moments to stop the stimulus to find out "what's going on in there? What's really happening?" And then things start to build up. And then we are almost afraid to slow down.

  Elizabeth Lesser

  Thinking, Ipods, People

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• An article on playwrights in the Daily Mail , listed according to Hard Left, Soft Left, Hard Right, Soft Right and Centre. I am not listed. I should probably come under Soft Centre.

  Alan Bennett

  Daily Mail, Should, Centre

  Alan Bennett (2007). “Writing Home”, p.160, Macmillan

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• I do have personal relationships with a lot of "fans," in quotations. I answer all my mail, I get emails from fans, and I try to answer them all. That's important to me, but occasionally there's the thing where people basically ask me to write book reports for them, and I don't have that kind of time. I feel like there's a certain sexism involved, like because I'm a woman I'm supposed to constantly be like giving to everybody.

  Kathleen Hanna

  Book, Writing, People

  "Kathleen Hanna on buffalo chicken, Destiny's Child, and the sketchy things she did to McDonald's apple pies". Interview with Marah Eakin, www.avclub.com. November 20, 2012.

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• You can't expect to work for the Daily Mail group and have the rest of society treat with you respect as a useful member of society, because you are not.

  Ken Livingstone

  Groups, Daily Mail, Treats

  "Livingstone Fails to Get Disrepute Charge Dropped". www.theguardian.com. December 13, 2005.

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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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• AT&T is now offering a new service that allows you to pay your bills through your TV screen by using your remote control. So instead of saying, "The check's in the mail," people are going to say, "Hey, I wanted to pay, but I couldn't find the remote."

  Jay Leno

  Funny, Humor, Offering

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• The newspaper is a Bible which we read every morning and every afternoon, standing and sitting, riding and walking. It is a Biblewhich every man carries in his pocket, which lies on every table and counter, and which the mail, and thousands of missionaries, are continually dispersing. It is, in short, the only book which America has printed, and which America reads. So wide is its influence.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Bible, Morning, Lying

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• Where today people surf the web and check their e-mail on their cell phones, tomorrow they will be checking their vital signs.

  Eric Topol

  Phones, Cells, People

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• Magnificent autumn! He comes not like a pilgrim, clad in russet weeds; not like a hermit, clad in gray; but like a warrior with the stain of blood in his brazen mail.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Weed, Autumn, Warrior

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• The world is a puzzling place today. All these banks sending us credit cards, with our names on them. Well, we didn't order any credit cards! We don't spend what we don't have. So we just cut them in half and throw them out, just as soon as we open them in the mail. Imagine a bank sending credit cards to two ladies over a hundred years old! What are those folks thinking?

  Sarah Louise Delany

  Cutting, Thinking, Years

  Sarah Louise Delany, Annie Elizabeth Delany, Amy Hill Hearth (1993). “Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters' First 100 Years”, p.13, Kodansha America

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• Even the blackest of them all, the crow, Renders good service as your man-at-arms, Crushing the beetle in his coat of mail. And crying havoc on the slug and snail.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Crush, Men, Crow

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1871). “The poetical works of Henry W. Longfellow, ed. with a critical memoir by W.M. Rossetti, illustr. by W. Lawson. Illustr. by E. Edwards”, p.366

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• If I run into someone on the street, that's one thing. But answering mail for a living? I like a job where you can play and act kind of goofy and have some fun.

  Bill Murray

  Running, Jobs, Fun

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• If you really hate me, you should at least have the courtesy to take out a piece of paper and write it down and mail it to me. If you're a worthy nemesis, I want to see your handwriting. I want to see your name and your address, and if you don't have the guts to give me those, then you're not a worthy nemesis.

  Kathleen Hanna

  Hate, Writing, Names

  Interview with Nina Corcoran, allstonpudding.com.

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• I have a small tattered clipping that I sometimes carry with meand pull out for purposes of privateamusement. It's a weather forecast from theWestern Daily Mail and it says, in toto: 'Outlook: Dry and warm, but cooler with some rain.

  Bill Bryson

  Rain, Weather, Purpose

  1995 Notes from a Small Island.

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• Double-check your voice mail message. Listen to your on-hold words and music. Write welcoming scripts for your telephone team. Pay attention to the music in your office and lobby areas. Make sure what your customers hear sounds good.

  Ron Kaufman

  Team, Writing, Service Culture

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• Individuals somehow are led to find my books at times that are important to them. The mail that I get very, very often will say, "I was at a difficult time in my life, and someone gave me a copy."

  Richard Bach

  Book, Important, Difficult Times

  Interview with Michael Peter Langevin, www.inner-growth.info.

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• I healed people, emotionally and physically, through my music. I get a lot of e-mails from people who are suffering through a lot of problems. They tell me they put on a Neil Sedaka record, and it's like medicine. It picks them up, and gets them out of their unfortunate situations.

  Neil Sedaka

  Medicine, People, Suffering

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• Unfortunately, the current generation of mail programs do not have checkers to see if the sender knows what he is talking about.

  Andrew S. Tanenbaum

  Talking, Generations, Program

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• Letters had always defeated distance, but with the coming of e-mail, time seemed to be vanquished as well.

  Thomas Mallon

  Distance, Letters, Defeated

  Thomas Mallon (2009). “Yours Ever: People and Their Letters”, p.3, Vintage

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• Nothing surprises me anymore. We'll keep doing what we're doing. I'm going to keep going forward with solutions that I want to see applied to this great country, the challenges that we're facing. And things like that [e-mails as governor published] are going to be perhaps a distraction for others. They won't distract me.

  Sarah Palin

  Country, Challenges, Want

  "Exclusive: Sarah Palin on U.S. Economy, National Bus Tour". "Fox News Sunday With Chris Wallace", www.foxnews.com. June 5, 2011.

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• I don't think I'll ever meet the perfect woman. I might have to get me one of them mail order women. You can do that: you send away to the Philippines, and they send you a wife. The only thing is, once you're on their mailing list, they keep sending you a relative a month whether you want it or not.

  Adam Ferrara

  Funny, Humor, Thinking

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• The largest fear in the world is to speak in public. We fear of stumbling, or public humiliation, and so we're fearing a face-to-face rejection. So, we'll say things in a text or e-mail that we would never say face-to-face. So, relationships are coming together faster and breaking apart faster, and they're a little bit more disposable.

  Ashton Kutcher

  Rejection, Together, Faces

  "No Strings Attached - Ashton Kutcher interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• Christmas cards ... are technically only junk mail from people you know.

  Patricia Marx

  Christmas, People, Junk

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• I don't have a Madonna-sized fan base, so I can actually e-mail and talk to everyone that e-mails me, because I am totally appreciative and I like my fans!

  Jill Sobule

  Fans, Appreciative, I Can

  "Sponsor Jill Sobule's album, get a spot on it". Interview with Denise Quan, www.cnn.com. March 24, 2009.

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• I think most people are more susceptible to prejudice than to reason. And the parrots of talk radio are just sending out the same stuff. When I look at my e-mails, I see the same Limbaugh rhetoric; apparently, people don't have any ideas of their own. And there's just this drumroll of anti-progressive thought.

  Roger Ebert

  Thinking, Ideas, People

  Source: progressive.org

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