Stamps Quotes - Page 17

• I am very excited to be the head women's basketball coach at Beloit College, ... This is a great opportunity for me. I am looking forward to putting my stamp on the program. I am confident that I can and will be successful here.

  Don Adams

  Basketball, Successful, Opportunity

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• If I wanted to connect like I do now, I'd have to write 500,000 letters, get 500,000 stamps, send them out and wait for them all to come back. This stuff is instantaneous. I can see if someone is having a bad day and send them a smiley face and have an effect on them. It's fun, but it's also a very powerful thing.

  Donnie Wahlberg

  Fun, Powerful, Writing

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• There are things and there are faces which, when felt or seen for the first time, stamp themselves upon the mind like a sun image on a sensitized plate and there remain unalterably fixed.

  H. Rider Haggard

  Mind, Faces, Firsts

  H. Rider Haggard (2013). “Delphi Works of H. Rider Haggard (Illustrated)”, p.1934, Delphi Classics

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• When people discover they are no good at baseball or hockey, they put away their bats and their skates and they take up amateur golf or stamp collecting or gardening. But when people discover they are no good at picking stocks, they are likely to continue to do it anyway.

  Peter Lynch

  Baseball, Golf, Hockey

  Peter Lynch (2012). “Beating the Street”, p.12, Simon and Schuster

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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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• Marriage is another trap. If you are someone who likes independence, it's another stamp against that. And you have to swear to fidelity.

  Carla Bruni

  Independence, Likes, Fidelity

  "Carla Bruni's revealing interview before she married President Nicolas Sarkozy" by Graham Brough, www.mirror.co.uk. March 29, 2008.

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• We are going to have the candidate of food stamps, the finest food-stamp president in the American history, in Barack Obama, and we are going to have a candidate of paychecks.

  Newt Gingrich

  Political, President, Finest

  "Newt Gingrich: Obama Is 'Food Stamp President'". www.cnbc.com. December 6, 2011.

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• The poet in prose or verse - the creator - can only stamp his images forcibly on the page in proportion as he has forcibly felt, ardently nursed, and long brooded over them.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Long, Poetry, Pages

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• As she watched him she understood the quality of his beauty. How his labor had shaped him. How the wood he fashioned had fashioned him. Each plank he planed, each nail he drove, each thing he made molded him. Had left its stamp on him. Had given him his strength, his supple grace.

  Arundhati Roy

  Grace, Quality, Nails

  Arundhati Roy (2002). “The God of Small Things”, p.334, Penguin Books India

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• Everyone has a moment in history which belongs particularly to him. It is the moment when his emotions achieve their most powerful sway over him, and afterward when you say to this person "the world today" or "life" or "reality" he will assume that you mean this moment, even if it is fifty years past. The world, through his unleashed emotions, imprinted itself upon him, and he carries the stamp of that passing moment forever.

  John Knowles

  Powerful, Mean, Past

  John Knowles (2014). “A Separate Peace”, p.33, Simon and Schuster

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• Affliction hardens and discourages us because, like a red hot iron, it stamps the soul to its very depths with the scorn, the disgust, and even the self-hatred and sense of guilt that crime logically should produce but actually does not.

  Simone Weil

  Self, Iron, Hatred

  Simone Weil (2009). “Waiting on God (Routledge Revivals)”, p.40, Routledge

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• Assume a virtue, if you have it not. That monster, custom, who all sense doth eat, Of habits devil, is angel yet in this, That to the use of actions fair and good He likewise gives a frock or livery That aptly is put on. Refrain tonight, And that shall lend a kind of easiness To the next abstinence; the next more easy; For use almost can change the stamp of nature.

  William Shakespeare

  Angel, Giving, Devil

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 3, sc. 4, l. 160

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• The other day I found her passport in her drawer when I was putting away my dad's laundered handkerchiefs. I wish I hadn't. For the purpose of my story, she should have it with her. I sat on my dad's bed and flipped through page after empty page. No stamps. No exotic locales. No travel-worn smudges or creases. Just the ID information and my mother's black-and-white photo which if it were used in a psychology textbook on the meaning of facial expressions would be labelled: Obscenely, heartbreakingly hopeful.

  Miriam Toews

  Mother, Dad, Black And White

  Miriam Toews (2004). “A Complicated Kindness: A Novel”, A.A. Knopf Canada

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• Everybody has a ‘gripping stranger’ in their lives, Andy, a stranger who unwittingly possesses a bizarre hold over you. Maybe it’s the kid in cut-offs who mows your lawn or the woman wearing White Shoulders who stamps your book at the library—a stranger who, if you were to come home and find a message from them on your answering machine saying ‘Drop everything. I love you. Come away with me now to Florida,’ you’d follow them.

  Douglas Coupland

  Book, Love You, Kids

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• Bless people when they revile you. Think how much good they are doing by helping to stamp out the false ego.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Thinking, People, Ego

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• For particulars, as everyone knows, make for virtue and happiness; generalities are intellectually necessary evils. Not philosophers but fretsawyers and stamp collectors compose the backbone of society.

  Aldous Huxley

  Brave New World, Evil, Philosopher

  "Brave New World". Book by Aldous Huxley. Chapter 1, 1932.

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• But here steps in Satan, the eternal rebel, the first freethinker and the emancipator of worlds. He makes man ashamed of his bestial ignorance and obedience; he emancipates him, stamps upon his brow the seal of liberty and humanity, in urging him to disobey and eat of the fruit of knowledge.

  Mikhail Bakunin

  Atheist, Ignorance, Men

  Mikhail Alexandrovich Bakunin (2009). “God and the State”, p.10, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Smoking dope and hanging up Che's picture is no more a commitment than drinking milk and collecting postage stamps.

  Abbie Hoffman

  Drinking, Commitment, Dope

  "Steal This Book". Book by Abbie Hoffman. Introduction, p. V, 1971.

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• Atheism is a religion like not collecting stamps is a hobby.

  Penn Jillette

  Atheism, Hobbies, Collecting

  Penn Jillette (2011). “God, No!: Signs You May Already Be an Atheist and Other Magical Tales”, p.130, Simon and Schuster

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• Merely by describing yourself as black you have started on a road towards emancipation, you have committed yourself to fight against all forces that seek to use your blackness as a stamp that marks you out as a subservient being.

  Steven Biko

  Fighting, Black, Use

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• People will never know how hard it is to get information, especially if it's locked up behind official doors where, if politicians had their way, they'd stamp 'top secret' on the color of the walls.

  Helen Thomas

  Wall, Color, Doors

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• Putting a stamp on things just helps you say, 'Hey, yesterday I was there, and today I'm here.' It's another step forward, and it feels like another turning point and an unleashing of creativity, and now I'm going to start focusing on the show and the production, the fun stuff that comes with it.

  Shania Twain

  Fun, Creativity, Yesterday

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

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• Well, first of all, we've got to get away from being offended by the truth. We've seen a 41 percent increase in food stamp recipients across the United States of America since President Obama was sworn in in January 2009. That has nothing to do with black, white, Hispanic or whatever. It's a fact, and we need to, you know, deal with that.

  Allen West

  America, White, Black

  "Rep. Allen West To Black Voters: Give GOP A Chance". "Tell Me More" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. January 27, 2012.

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• If there is an art of living, it is not something that can be taught timelessly. We have lessons to learn from Aristotle et al, for sure, but not if we simply uproot them from their epoch and stamp them into 21st-century soil.

  Julian Baggini

  Art, Lessons, Als

  "Everyday wisdom" by Julian Baggini, www.theguardian.com. September 1, 2008.

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• It was lonely on the hill, and cold. And all you could do was keep going. You could scream, cry, and stamp your feet, but apart from making you feel warmer, it wouldn’t do any good. You could say it was unfair, and that was true, but the universe didn’t care because it didn’t know what “fair” meant. That was the big problem about being a witch. It was up to you. It was always up to you.

  Terry Pratchett

  Lonely, Feet, Care

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