Mail Quotes - Page 22

• I love you and believe in you. If you want my ear/voice — e-mail.

  Pete Sessions

  Believe, Love You, Voice

  "Sessions Preaches Accountability While Dodging It" by Daniel Schulman, www.motherjones.com. December 29, 2009.

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• Large men in black plate mail with red cloaks and plumes don't sneak worth a damn.

  Tanya Huff

  Men, Black, Red

  Tanya Huff (2011). “Nights of the Round Table: And Other Stories of Heroic Fantasy”, p.124, Jabberwocky Literary Agency, Inc.

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• I don’t e-mail, I’ve never felt the particular need to e-mail.

  John McCain

  Needs, Particular, Felt

  "The Times Interviews John McCain". Interview with Adam Nagourney and Michael Cooper, www.nytimes.com. July 13, 2008.

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• I had a financial page to write in the Mail on Sunday where Id give tips on shares. I worked there for two and a half years. Nothing compares to the burst of energy felt on a newsroom floor when a big story breaks.

  Adam Faith

  Writing, Sunday, Years

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• When you have two busy kids running around the house, returning e-mails is a task, let alone surfing the web.

  Tom Brady

  Running, Kids, Two

  Interview with Jimmy Traina, www.si.com. June 21, 2012.

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• I grew up with four T.V. channels. If you missed a show, you missed it. You gotta wait a week for the next one. I'd mail-order books: take a quarter, get an envelope, send off for it and wait until it arrived. I grew up waiting for things.

  George R. R. Martin

  Book, Order, Waiting

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

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• Social engineering is using deception, manipulation and influence to convince a human who has access to a computer system to do something, like click on an attachment in an e-mail.

  Kevin Mitnick

  Attachment, Engineering, Deception

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• I'd like to dial it back 5% or 10% and try to have a vacation that's not just e-mail with a view.

  Elon Musk

  Vacation, Views, Trying

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• The abortion cases produced an enormous amount of mail to my chambers, vastly more than to the other chambers, I am sure. I sometimes thought there wasn't a woman in the United States who didn't write me a letter on one side or the other of that issue.

  Sandra Day O'Connor

  Writing, Issues, Abortion

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• I have no idea how to get in touch with anyone anymore. Everyone, it seems, has a home phone, a cell phone, a regular e-mail account, a Facebook account, a Twitter account, and a Web site. Some of them also have a Google Voice number. There are the sentimental few who still have fax machines.

  Susan Orlean

  Home, Phones, Cells

  "Communication Fatigue" by Susan Orlean, www.newyorker.com. May 9, 2011.

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• I've noticed lately that it seems most intimate to not use any closing on your e-mail at all, because it seems to make it feel like you are engaged in an ongoing conversation - as if this one e-mail doesn't represent the beginning and end of the interaction but is just part of a perpetual loop of friendly back-and-forth.

  Susan Orlean

  Friendly, Beginnings And Ends, Use

  "Dear Reader" by Susan Orlean, www.newyorker.com. November 17, 2010.

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• My interactions with Sorkin were agonisingly weird. He is by far the weirdest person I have ever met. I had dinner with him and a few hours before I got an e-mail from his assistant saying, 'Sean, this does not need to be a long conversation. Aaron is only going to use it to win your trust.'

  Sean Parker

  Winning, Long, Doe

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• The federal government spends millions to run the Postal Service. I could lose your mail for half of that.

  Pat Paulsen

  Running, Government, Half

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• There is a one woman in China that claimed she paid $50 to get my e-mail address. It was pretty shocking. I got one this morning from Scotland. A girl's requesting a signed photo of me.

  Michael Phelps

  Girl, Sports, Morning

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• I was one of the first authors to have an active website. I'm totally obsessed with technology. I'm always looking for ways to connect with my readers. I answer all my fan mail.

  Jodi Picoult

  Technology, Fans, Answers

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• The reason I was able to grow my business was that every day, after producing 30 minutes of wine television, I spent 15 hours a day replying to every single person's e-mail and every single person's Twitter @ reply.

  Gary Vaynerchuk

  Wine, Television, Able

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• I love reader mail, and I do read it, but I won't read hate mail.

  Ayelet Waldman

  Hate, Reader, Hate Mail

  "Ayelet Waldman: Precipitating the mother of all uproars". Interview with Carol Memmott, usatoday30.usatoday.com. May 1, 2009.

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• I also hate those holidays that fall on a Monday where you don't get mail, those fake holidays like Columbus Day. What did Christopher Columbus do, discover America? If he hadn't, somebody else would have and we'd still be here. Big deal.

  John Waters

  Fake People, Monday, Hate

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• Where is love exchanged? Where is the love felt when a state administrator stuffs a welfare check into an outgoing mail?

  Allen West

  Stuff, Welfare, Checks

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• I mean, I get letters in the mail because I had a heart defect when I was one, I had surgeries and stuff. And so you get these letters in the mail that just, they are crazy, they are just like, yes, well our son is dealing with the same thing and we saw you on TV and I mean it is such a cool thing to inspire and kind of give hope.

  Shaun White

  Crazy, Heart, Mean

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• I'm not very technically minded. I mean, I don't know how to do e-mail on computers.

  Kate Winslet

  Mean, Computer, Know How

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• It's rare to find someone excited over jury duty. If they're out there, I've never met them. Not a one. When the summons for jury duty arrives in the mail, how many people scream, 'Yes!' and run to clear the calendar? None. Our first and only reaction is, 'Oh, no,' quickly followed by, 'How can I get out of this?'

  Regina Brett

  Running, People, Calendars

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• I work for two years on a book and it comes out and two days later I've got my first e-mail: When is the next one coming out?

  George R. R. Martin

  Book, Years, Two

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

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• I like fruit baskets because it gives you the ability to mail someone a piece of fruit without appearing insane. Like, if someone just mailed you an apple you'd be like, 'huh? What the hell is this?' But if it's in a fruit basket you're like, 'this is nice!'

  Demetri Martin

  Funny, Im Sorry, Nice

  "'Comedy Central Presents' ('Demetri Martin')". Documentary, Comedy, www.imdb.com. March 19, 2004.

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• 'You've got mail!' exclaims the cheery automaton at America Online. The flag on the mailbox icon waves invitingly on my computer screen. For a second, I'm 10 years old again, waiting for the postman's whistle to slice the stillness of an Australian afternoon.

  Geraldine Brooks

  Years, Icons, America

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