Mail Quotes - Page 23

• We grew up founding our dreams on the infinite promise of American advertising. I still believe that one can learn to play the piano by mail and that mud will give you a perfect complexion.

  Zelda Fitzgerald

  Funny, Music, Dream

  Zelda Fitzgerald (1992). “The Collected Writings”, New York : Collier Books ; Toronto : Maxwell Macmillan Canada ; New York : Maxwell Macmillan International

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• Armed with nothing more than a Facebook user's phone number and home address, anyone with an Internet connection and a few dollars can obtain personal information they should never have access to, including a user's date of birth, e-mail address, or estimated income.

  Al Franken

  Home, Numbers, Phones

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• I communicate mostly via e-mail and receive hundreds of e-mails a day.

  Diane von Furstenberg

  Communicate

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• The number of e-mails and letters that I get from choreographers, from sculptors, from composers who are being inspired by science is huge.

  Brian Greene

  Numbers, Letters, Inspired

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• Jim Henson was the only piece of fan mail I ever wrote when I was a little kid.

  Neil Patrick Harris

  Kids, Fans, Pieces

  "Neil Patrick Harris on YouTube show 'Neil's Puppet Dreams'". Interview with Adam B. Vary, www.ew.com. November 27, 2012.

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• Using e-mail, I can communicate with scientists all over the world.

  Stephen Hawking

  World, Scientist, Communicate

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• I always like to pretend two things: one, I'm sitting in the seat beside you watching the game together. I'll say, 'Wasn't that a great shot? Boy, it sure was.' The other thing I do is pretend I'm talking to people who are non-sighted. I try to create a word picture. I get more mail from blind people thanking me.

  Chick Hearn

  Boys, Two, Talking

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• People tell me they open my e-mails first, because they aren't demands and you don't need to reply. They're simply for pleasure.

  David Hockney

  People, Needs, Demand

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• If you read the 'Daily Mail,' you would imagine that the British middle classes lead lives of unremitting misery.

  Simon Hoggart

  Class, Daily Mail, Misery

  "Glad tidings we bring ..." by Simon Hoggart, www.theguardian.com. December 10, 2004.

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• I said, 'Okay, it's the year 2000, I'm getting a computer and a Palm Pilot.' I know how to check my e-mail, and I've listed some phone numbers on it. Half the time the battery has gone out so I can't use it.

  Marc Jacobs

  Phones, Years, Numbers

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• I had e-mail in 1984! I had an e-mail address then, which means that all you could write to was Steve Jobs and Bill Gates. There were three of us, writing to each other.

  Penn Jillette

  Jobs, Mean, Writing

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

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• I say all the time I think there should be some courses in the regular schooling system that isn't, even like about credit, things that matter later in life. I learned the harder way: 'Look, I got a $500 credit card in the mail, let's go shopping!'

  Khloe Kardashian

  Thinking, Later In Life, Shopping

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• Spare a thought for the poor introverts among us. In a world of party animals and glad-handers, they're the ones who stand by the punch bowl. In a world of mixers and pub crawls, they prefer to stay home with a book. Everywhere around them, cell phones ring and e-mails chime and they just want a little quiet.

  Jeffrey Kluger

  Party, Book, Home

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• Alice Adams wrote a sweet note to me after my first novel came out when I was 26, and I was so blown away that I sent her a bunch of stamps by return mail. I have no idea what I was thinking. It was a star-struck impulse.

  Anne Lamott

  Sweet, Stars, Thinking

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• I don't have any of the modern stuff. I don't have e-mail. I don't have a computer!

  Elmore Leonard

  Stuff, Computer, Modern

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• When narratives fracture, when words fail, I take consolation from the part of my life that always works: the stationery order. The mail-order stationery people supply every need from royal blue Quink to a dazzling variety of portable hard drives.

  Hilary Mantel

  Blue, Order, People

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• I think that if you want to pass emotion, you have to write a letter. Emotions do not pass in SMS or in e-mail.

  Alber Elbaz

  Writing, Thinking, Sms

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• Even before I had an assistant, my calendar was color-coded and I had all these different e-mail rules for how to prioritize e-mails, so I made it a point years ago to figure all that stuff out because my life was a mess.

  Chris Hardwick

  Color, Years, Different

  Interview with Matt Goldberg, collider.com. August 8, 2013.

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• I think e-mail petitions are an illusion. It gives people the illusion that they're participating in some meaningful political action.

  Howard Rheingold

  Meaningful, Thinking, People

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• Life, it turns out, goes on. There is no cosmic rule that grants you immunity from the details just because you have come face-to-face with a catastrophe. The garbage can still overflow, the bills arrive in the mail, telemarketers, interrupt dinner.

  Jodi Picoult

  Garbage Cans, Details, Goes On

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• There were no mail-order catalogues in 1492. Marco Polo's journal was the wish book of Renaissance Europe. Then, Columbus sailed the ocean blue and landed in Sears' basement. Despite all the Indians on the escalator, Columbus' visit came to be known as a "discovery.

  Tom Robbins

  Ocean, Book, Blue

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Another Roadside Attraction”, p.254, Bantam

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• No job should, be beneath us. And if you can't(or won't) sort mail, Where is the proof that you can do anything?

  Randy Pausch

  Jobs, Proof, Should

  Randy Pausch, Jeffrey Zaslow (2008). “The last lecture”, Hyperion Books

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• Alive without breath, As cold as death; Never thirsty, ever drinking, All in mail never clinking.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Drinking, Alive, Cold

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Hobbit”, p.47, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• You need teeth like mine!" Grandma said. "You can just mail 'em to the dentist!

  Janet Evanovich

  Grandma, Teeth, Needs

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• They heard the click of the mail slot and flop of letters on the doormat. "Get the mail, Dudley," said Uncle Vernon from behind his paper. "Make Harry get it." "Get the mail, Harry." "Make Dudley get it." "Poke him with your Smelting stick, Dudley.

  J. K. Rowling

  Uncles, Paper, Letters

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