Postman Quotes

• I don't celebrate because I'm only doing my job. When a postman delivers letters, does he celebrate?

  Mario Balotelli

  Motivational, Sports, Jobs

  "Mario Balotelli, Italy's postman, celebrates first-class delivery" by Dominic Fifield, www.theguardian.com. June 28, 2012.

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• As long as there are postmen, life will have zest.

  William James

  Zest, Long, Expectations

  "The Brooklyn man who wrote to Gadhafi" by Moni Basu, www.cnn.com. November 14, 2011.

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• And none will hear the postman’s knock Without a quickening of the heart. For who can bear to feel himself forgotten?

  W. H. Auden

  Heart, Bears, Forgotten

  1936 'Night Mail', written to accompany a documentary by the Post Office Film Unit.

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• The Postman Always RingsTwice.

  James Cagney

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• Hope is the letter that never arrives delivered by the postman of my fear.

  Edward Kowalczyk

  Letters

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• Nobody notices postmen, yet they have passions like other men.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Passion, Men

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• The postman wants an autograph. The cab driver wants a picture. The waitress wants a handshake. Everyone wants a piece of you.

  John Lennon

  Cab Drivers, Pieces, Want

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• If the postman is saying hello to you, then I feel like, wow, thats something special.

  Patti Smith

  Special, Saying Hello, Wow

  "Patti Smith Remembers Life With Mapplethorpe". Interview with Deborah Amos, www.npr.org. January 15, 2010.

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• A letter is an unannounced visit, the postman the agent of rude surprises. One ought to reserve an hour a week for receiving letters and afterwards take a bath.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Rude, Receiving, Agents

  Friedrich Nietzsche, R. J. Hollingdale (1996). “Nietzsche: Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits”, p.373, Cambridge University Press

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• It's not me, it's the songs. I'm just the postman, I deliver the songs. When I first heard Elvis' voice, I knew that I wasn't going to work for anybody ... hearing him for the first time was like busting out of jail. This land is your land and this land is my land, sure, but the world is run by those that never listen to music anyway. People today are still living off the table scraps of the sixties. They are still being passed around - the music and the ideas.

  Bob Dylan

  Running, Song, Busting Out

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• My best songs were written very quickly. Just about as much time as it takes to write it down is about as long as it takes to write it...In writing songs I've learned as much from Cezanne as I have from Woody Guthrie...It's not me, it's the songs. I'm just the postman, I deliver the songs...I consider myself a poet first and a musician second. I live like a poet and I'll die like a poet.

  Bob Dylan

  Song, Writing, Long

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• Postman is a media analyst and his theory is that television doesn't influence our culture, but that it is our culture and the presidency and anything that relies on television.

  Val Kilmer

  Media, Culture, Television

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• I was a postman one Christmas and I developed a morbid fear of dogs.

  Diane Abbott

  Christmas, Dog, Morbid

  Interview with Rosanna Greenstreet, www.theguardian.com. January 21, 2011.

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• Message? What the hell do you think I am, a bloody postman?

  Brendan Behan

  Clever, Thinking, Messages

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• He's like a terrier, Scholes, he won't let go - even the postman would be afraid of him.

  Jimmy Magee

  Letting Go, Would Be, Scholes

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• When I score I don't celebrate, its my job, does a postman celebrate when he delivers post?

  Mario Balotelli

  Soccer, Football, Jobs

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• I like extravagance. Letters which give the postman a stiff back to carry, books which overflow from their covers, sexuality which bursts the thermometers.

  Anais Nin

  Book, Giving, Extravagance

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• Most witches don’t believe in gods. They know that the gods exist, of course. They even deal with them occasionally. But they don’t believe in them. They know them too well. It would be like believing in the postman.

  Terry Pratchett

  Believe, Would Be, Witch

  "Witches Abroad". Book by Terry Pratchett, 1991.

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• We want rights. The flour merchant, the house-builder, and the postman charge us no less on account of our sex; but when we endeavor to earn money to pay all these, then, indeed, we find the interest.

  Lucy Stone

  Sex, Rights, House

  Remark at a National Woman's Rights Convention in Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1855. "Feminism: The Essential Historical Writings" by Miriam Schnier,, 1972.

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• I don't remember deciding to become a writer. You decide to become a dentist or a postman. For me, writing is like being gay. You finally admit that this is who you are, you come out and hope that no one runs away.

  Mark Haddon

  Running, Writing, Gay

  "B is for bestseller" by Mark Haddon, www.theguardian.com. April 11, 2004.

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• I don't want the giant ego. I don't want to become Kevin Costner, singing on the soundtrack to The Postman.

  Joss Whedon

  Ego, Singing, Giants

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. September 5, 2001.

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• Listen; this world is the lunatic's sphere ,
  Don't always agree it's real,
  Even with my feet upon it And the postman knowing my door
  My address is somewhere else.

  Hafez

  Real, Doors, Somewhere Else

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• When other helpers fail and comforts flee, when the senses decay and the mind moves in a narrower and narrower circle, when the grasshopper is a burden and the postman brings no letters, and even the Royal Family is no longer quite what it was, an obituary column stands fast.

  Sylvia Townsend Warner

  Moving, Circles, Mind

  Sylvia Townsend Warner (1988). “Selected stories of Sylvia Townsend Warner”, Vintage

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• I am one of the new characters in the brand new series of 'Postman Pat.' It has been a joy to do.

  Archie Panjabi

  Character, Joy, Brands

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• I have a lot of nervous energy. Work is my best way of channelling that into something productive unless I want to wind up assaulting the postman or gardener.

  Ben Stiller

  Wind, Energy, Want

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