Postage Quotes - Page 2

• Smoking dope and hanging up Che's picture is no more a commitment than drinking milk and collecting postage stamps. A revolution in consciousness is an empty high without a revolution in the distribution of power.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Drinking, Commitment, Dope

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• If the Queen can reject the advice of a minister on a little thing like a postage stamp, what would happen if she rejected the advice of the Prime Minister on a major matter? If the Crown personally can reject advice, then, of course, the whole democratic facade turns out to be false

  Tony Benn

  Queens, Advice, Crowns

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• I emphasize the distinction between brackets and no brackets because it will affect your reading experience, if you will allow it. Brackets are exciting. Even though you are approaching Sappho in translation, that is no reason you should miss the drama of trying to read a papyrus torn in half or riddled with holes or smaller than a postage stamp--brackets imply a free space of imaginal adventure.

  Anne Carson

  Drama, Reading, Adventure

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• As long as I live under the capitalistic system I expect to have my life influenced by the demands of moneyed people. But I will be damned if I propose to be at the beck and call of every itinerant scoundrel who has two cents to invest in a postage stamp. This, sir, is my resignation.

  William Faulkner

  Two, Long, People

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• With full responsibility for my words as a professional biologist, I do not hesitate to say that all existing and genuine knowledge about the way in which the physical characteristics of human communities are related to their cultural capabilities can be written on the back of a postage stamp.

  Lancelot Hogben

  Knowledge, Responsibility, Science

  Lancelot Thomas Hogben (1940). “Dangerous Thoughts”

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• He picked the postage stamp over the wall with aplomb.

  Tim Flowers

  Football, Wall, Stamps

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• Fifteen referees. I want fifteen referees to be at this fight because there ain't no one man who can keep up with the pace I'm gonna set except me. There's not a man alive who can whup me. I'm too fast. I'm too smart. I'm too pretty. I should be a postage stamp. That's the only way I'll ever get licked.

  Muhammad Ali

  Funny, Smart, Fighting

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• There aint any news in being good. You might write the doings of all the convents of the world on the back of a postage stamp, and have room to spare.

  Finley Peter Dunne

  Writing, News, World

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• I should be a postage stamp. That’s the only way I’ll ever get licked!

  Muhammad Ali

  Boxing, Way, Should

  Twitter post from Oct 04, 2010

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• Smoking dope and hanging up Che's picture is no more a commitment than drinking milk and collecting postage stamps. A revolution in consciousness is an empty high without a revolution in the distribution of power. We are not interested in the greening of Amerika except for the grass that will cover its grave.

  Abbie Hoffman

  Drinking, Commitment, Dope

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• The advent of the internet has made so many things possible. Self- published recreational journalism has always been around; but back when you had to at least learn to run a mimeograph, and you had to pay postage to distribute your deathless prose, people who didn't actually have much to say for themselves found other hobbies

  Teresa Nielsen Hayden

  Running, Self, People

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• I never needed Panavision and stereophonic sound to woo the world. I did it in black and white on a screen the size of a postage stamp. Honey, that's talent.

  Mae West

  Black And White, Sound, World

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• There's nothing sadder to me than associations held together by nothing but the glue of postage stamps. If you can't see or hear or touch a man, it's best to let him go.

  John Steinbeck

  Men, Together, Glue

  John Steinbeck (2002). “East of Eden”, p.365, Penguin

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• I think I sent out some résumés for marketing jobs, and they all came back in the mail because I didn't have enough postage.

  Kevin Nealon

  Jobs, Thinking, Marketing

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Why do they put pictures of criminals up in the Post Office? What are we supposed to do, write to them? Why don't they just put their pictures on the postage stamps so the postmen can look for them while they deliver the mail?

  Steven Wright

  Funny, Writing, Humor

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• I have been using the computer as a work aid since the mid-90's. It is extraordinarily well suited to how I think and work and has transformed my practice. Nearly everything I have done in the past 15 years would have been impossible without it. I use the computer for drawing, composing and colour planning everything, from postage stamps to paintings to architectural-scale installations.

  Michael Craig-Martin

  Past, Thinking, Years

  Source: briansherwin-artcritic.blogspot.com

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• The social or economic structure of the ideal state is of little concern to me. My desires are modest. Portraits of the head of the government should not exceed a postage stamp in size. No torture and no executions. No music, except coming through earphones, or played in theaters. Freedom of speech, freedom of thought, freedom of art.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Art, Government, Freedom Of Speech

  Interview with Alvin Toffler, reprints.longform.org. January 1964.

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• The question is: do we pay a little bit more now? Or do we pay a whole lot later? For the equivalent of a postage stamp a day for each American, we can put a price on carbon today that will send a signal to private capital to invest in the clean technologies of tomorrow. Taking a vast portfolio of new energy solutions to scale will ultimately drive down costs through competition.

  Van Jones

  Technology, Competition, Energy

  Source: rooseveltinstitute.org

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