Mail Quotes - page 5

Jim Henson was the only piece of fan mail I ever wrote when I was a little kid. (Neil Patrick Harris)
Marital sex is kinda like ordering a Civil War chess set through the mail. You get one piece every four to six weeks, you don't know what kind of shape that piece is gonna be in when you get it, but you still gotta pay the handling charges. View quote
Bill Engvall
My mother answers all my fan mail. View quote
Patti Smith
If you guarantee the postage, I'll mail you back the key. View quote
Neil Young
An article on playwrights in the Daily Mail, listed according to Hard Left, Soft Left, Hard Right, Soft Right and Centre. I am not listed. I should probably come under Soft Centre. View quote
Alan Bennett
Always write angry letters to your enemies. Never mail them. View quote
James Fallows
In sports, the U.S. Open is not actually held because it's more efficient just to mail the check to Tiger Woods. View quote
Dave Barry
You know how it is, you go away for a week and all the work piles up like a big heap of mail holding your front door closed. View quote
Ben Croshaw
When I released GNU Emacs and people started using it, they started sending me improvements in the mail. So I would get a message with a bug fix, and a message with a new feature, and another bug fix, and another new feature, and another... and another... until they were pouring in on me so fast that just taking advantage of all of the help people were giving me was a big job. Microsoft doesn't have this problem. View quote
Richard Stallman
I thought about taking a shower but I could see the headlines: MAILMAN CAUGHT DRINKING THE BLOOD OF GOD AND TAKING A SHOWER, NAKED, IN A ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH. ...I found out later that mail for the church was delivered to the parish house around the corner. But now, of course, I knew where to... shower when I'm down and out. View quote
Charles Bukowski
We begin to think cosmically. Our sympathetic feelers reach out into the dim distance. The bacteria of the "Weltschmerz," are upon us. So far, however, universal harmony has been attained only in a single sphere of international relationship. That is the postal service. Its mechanism is working satisfactorily, but - how remote are we still from that scrupulous respect of the sanctity of the mail bag! And how much farther again is the next milestone on the road to peace - an international judicial service equally reliable as the postal! (Nikola Tesla)
Unfortunately, the current generation of mail programs do not have checkers to see if the sender knows what he is talking about. View quote
Andrew S. Tanenbaum
I understand there is a need for a stable and orderly transition to that leadership, but that people should give me the space to ensure that happens and that this debate is not best conducted in the pages of the Mail on Sunday. View quote
Tony Blair
I get some female attention from fans, but mostly it's people asking for advice about a situation with their ex or their boyfriend, so it's not all love letters and fan mail! View quote
Matthew Hussey
I want to be sitting in front of my computer, where you can press a button to block out your junk mail. These two are my junk mail. View quote
Melina Marchetta
It's rare to find someone excited over jury duty. If they're out there, I've never met them. Not a one. When the summons for jury duty arrives in the mail, how many people scream, 'Yes!' and run to clear the calendar? None. Our first and only reaction is, 'Oh, no,' quickly followed by, 'How can I get out of this?' View quote
Regina Brett
You know what you can buy at the supermarket?” Laws inquired acidly. "I'll tell you. Canned burnt offerings.” "You know what you can buy at the hardware store?” Hamilton answered. "Scales to weigh your soul on.” "That's silly,” the blond said petulantly. "A soul doesn't have any weight.” "Then,” Hamilton reflected, "you could put one through the U. S. mail for nothing.” "How many souls,” Laws conjectured ironically, "can be fitted into one stamped envelope? New religious question. Split mankind in half. Warring factions. Blood running in the gutters.” "Ten,” Hamilton guessed. "Fourteen,” Laws contradicted. "Heretic. Baby-murdering monster.” "Bestial drinker of unpurified blood. View quote
Philip K. Dick
Half my fan mail comes from Japan. View quote
Ben Barnes
Adamant," Doren said proudly, handing over the shield. "We fished it out of the tar pit where we found the shirt of mail." "Probably all belonged to the same careless adventurer," Newel speculated. "Too much money, not enough talent. View quote
Brandon Mull
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. View quote
Diane Lane
'You've got mail!' exclaims the cheery automaton at America Online. The flag on the mailbox icon waves invitingly on my computer screen. For a second, I'm 10 years old again, waiting for the postman's whistle to slice the stillness of an Australian afternoon. (Geraldine Brooks)
Mostly though, they waited. For the mail. For the news. For the bells. For breakfast and lunch and dinner. For one day to be over and the next day to begin. View quote
Julie Otsuka
It's funny; in this era of e-mail and voice mail and all those things that even I did not grow up with, a plain old paper letter takes on amazing intimacy. View quote
Elizabeth Kostova
I started writing it the day after Sept. 11. I was living in New York City. We didn't have any phone service and we didn't have any mail. Like a lot of writers do, I started to write in a voice that I missed. View quote
Kathryn Stockett
The Daily Mail can't say 'asylum-seeker' without saying 'foreign criminal' in the same sentence. I'm sure it's practically editorial policy. View quote
Chris Cleave