Mail Quotes - Page 31

• Frankly, the people probably most interested in having computer lists on disk are junk mail vendors and solicitors.

  Karen Hughes

  People, Junk, Lists

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• Communication has changed so rapidly in the last 20 years, it's almost impossible to predict what might occur even in the next decade. E-mail, which now sends data hurtling across vast distances at the speed of light, has replaced primitive forms of communication such as smoke signals, which sent data hurtling across vast distances at the speed of light.

  Steve Martin

  Distance, Communication, Light

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• You know something is wrong when the government declares opening someone else's mail is a felony but your internet activity is fair game for data collecting.

  E. A. Bucchianeri

  Government, Data, Games

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• Of all false assertions that ever went into the world under the banner of a great name and the mail armor of a well-turned phrase, Locke's comparison of the mind to a blank sheet of paper appears to me among the most untrue.

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon

  Names, Mind, Armor

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1831). “Romance and reality, by L.E.L.”, p.241

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• The jumbo jet is the airborne equivalent of the interstate highway...One might as well be stuffed into a cartridge and shot through a pneumatic tube, like interoffice mail.

  Lance Morrow

  Might, Modern Life, Shots

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• It must be a source of great chagrin to those in charge to think of so many people being able to stick a stamp on a letter and drop it in a mail box without any trouble or suffering at all. They are probably working on a system this very minute, trying to devise some way in which the public can be made to fill out a blank, stand in line, consult some underling who will refer him to a superior, and then be made to black up with burned cork before they can mail a letter.

  Robert Benchley

  Thinking, People, Suffering

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• I love the rebelliousness of snail mail, and I love anything that can arrive with a postage stamp. There's something about that person's breath and hands on the letter.

  Diane Lane

  Hands, Letters, Stamps

  "Richard Gere and Diane Lane interview – NIGHTS IN RODANTHE". Interview with Steve "Frosty" Weintraub, collider.com. September 26, 2008.

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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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• All fanmail is a bit of fun. We do get some nice letters and some fanatical mail too. There's one woman who thinks me and her are married and has asked when she can come home. That's a bit spooky.

  Peter Andre

  Fun, Nice, Home

  Source: www.mirror.co.uk

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• I don't know about being a Catholic anymore, though I had a great romance with the Church. But its male hierarchy causes me pain and distress. So I can't really pay too much attention. When that encyclical from the Pope - the one about contraception - began 'Dear Sons and Brothers' I figured it must be private mail and had nothing to do with me. So I didn't read it.

  Joan Hackett

  Brother, Pain, Son

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• Being a reader is sort of like being president, except reading involves fewer state dinners, usually. You have this agenda you want to get through, but you get distracted by life events, e.g., books arriving in the mail/World War III, and you are temporarily deflected from your chosen path.

  Nick Hornby

  War, Book, Reading

  Nick Hornby (2004). “The Polysyllabic Spree”, McSweeneys Books

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• Although an impressive amount of business and social interaction takes place over the telephone and fax, by e-mail, or in person today, the well-written letter remains a staple of business success and one of the strongest connecting links between human beings.

  Rosalie Maggio

  Business Success, Fax, Links

  Rosalie Maggio (2009). “How to Say It, Third Edition: Choice Words, Phrases, Sentences, and Paragraphs for Every Situation”, p.11, Penguin

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• I was becoming more cunning than an animal in hiding my supply of morphine. A squirrel saving nuts is limited by its undeveloped imagination ... but I was not so handicapped. A squirrel, for example, is debarred from sending money to some greedy doctor or druggist and making arrangements to have a bit of powder sent each day by mail.

  Evalyn Walsh McLean

  Animal, Doctors, Nuts

  Evalyn Walsh McLean, Boyden Sparkes (2000). “Queen of Diamonds: The Fabled Legacy of Evalyn Walsh McLean”, Turner Publishing Company

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• The perception of what we as professors provide has changed. Constant and demanding e-mails are just another manifestation of what our society has become.

  Dan Payne

  Perception, Our Society, Professors

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• I do everything from home. I broadcast commentaries for CBS News Radio every day - from home, on a disk that I mail in. I write a weekly op-ed piece for the 'New York Daily News,' and any books or plays or movies that I'm crazy enough to write, I do that from home.

  Charles Grodin

  New York, Crazy, Book

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• If you want to write an angry e-mail, write it but don't send it. It's based on my experience that whenever I have acted out in some manner, I have always regretted it.

  Tim Gunn

  Writing, Want, Angry

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• I'm used to rereading e-mails, even, before sending them - a bit compulsive. So this is high speed roller coaster for me!

  Lydia Davis

  Rereading, Speed, Roller Coaster

  The New Yorker Live Chat, www.newyorker.com. December 16, 2009.

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• If there was no New Orleans, America would just be a bunch of free people dying of boredom." -Judy Deck in an e-mail sent to Chris Rose

  Chris Rose

  New Orleans, America, People

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• We're at the point now where the challenge isn't how to communicate effectively with e-mail; it's ensuring that you spend your time on the e-mail that matters most.

  Bill Gates

  Inspirational, Business, Communication

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• No job is beneath you. You ought to be thrilled you got a job in the mailroom And when you get there, here's what you do: Be really great at sorting mail.

  Randy Pausch

  Jobs, Sorting, Really Great

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• I'm going to sound a little weird here, but I like to spend a lot of time on my own in the woods. I don't exactly sneak off in the middle of the night, but I like to be in a place where no one can reach me by phone or e-mail.

  Joaquin Phoenix

  Night, Phones, Sound

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

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• In sex one wants or does not want. And the grief, the sorrow of life is that one cannot make or coerce or persuade the wanting, cannot command it, cannot request it by mail order or finagle it through bureaucratic channels.

  Kate Millett

  Sex, Grief, Order

  Kate Millett (2000). “Sita”, p.178, University of Illinois Press

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• There are two things you don't do: One, you don't open an e-mail from Phil Simms in front of your kids, and, two, you don't jinx a man going for a perfect week.

  Jim Nantz

  Kids, Men, Two

  "How I Met Your Mother/ Perfect Week/ Synopsis". www.imdb.com. February 2010.

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• The new female is competent in all that she chooses. She chooses whatever her heart tells her. She can create a business, lead a country, drive a truck, hammer nails, deliver mail, or raise a family. She is at home in every social and physical environment. She can be a housewife, if she chooses. She can be anything else, too. She is intuitive and heart centered. She is all that a female has been, and more.

  Gary Zukav

  Country, Business, Home

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• E-mail is interesting. We can't live with it, and you can't live without it.

  Tim Berners-Lee

  Interesting

  "developerWorks Interviews" with cott Laningham, www.ibm.com. August 22, 2006.

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