Email Quotes

• I don't believe in email. I'm an old-fashioned girl. I prefer calling and hanging up.

  Sarah Jessica Parker

  Inspirational, Girl, Believe

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• Email is very informal, a memo. But I find that not signing off or not having a salutation bothers me.

  Judith Martin

  Bother, Signing, Memos

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• Email is familiar. It's comfortable. It's easy to use. But it might just be the biggest killer of time and productivity in the office today.

  Ryan Holmes

  Office, Might, Killers

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• Amen' is like the Send button on an email.

  Steve Toltz

  Buttons, Amen

  Steve Toltz (2008). “A Fraction of the Whole”, p.8, Spiegel & Grau

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• There's life and death in every email.

  Bill Gates

  Life And Death

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• There’s a temptation in our networked age to think that ideas can be developed by email and iChat. That’s crazy. Creativity comes from spontaneous meetings, from random discussions. You run into someone, you ask what they’re doing, you say ‘wow,’ and soon you’re cooking up all sorts of ideas.

  Steve Jobs

  Running, Crazy, Creativity

  "Steve Jobs". Book by Walter Isaacson, www.businessinsider.com. 2011.

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• If I'm sending emails, and I get all wound up and stressed and don't know what to do with myself for 20 minutes, I just go soak in hot water and lie there, thinking, 'What should I do?' So it's meditative.

  Tom Ford

  Lying, Thinking, Water

  "Tom Ford: fashion's slickest control freak" by Tim Lewis, www.theguardian.com. February 9, 2013.

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• The age of technology has both revived the use of writing and provided ever more reasons for its spiritual solace. Emails are letters, after all, more lasting than phone calls, even if many of them r 2 cursory 4 u.

  Anna Quindlen

  Spiritual, Writing, Technology

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• The Internet, you know, 10 or 15 years ago sort of felt like the wild West. You could go out there and do anything and search for things, and, you know, find out about stuff. Now always in the back of my mind, you know, whether it's email or whatever else, it's like, well, is this going to show up somewhere? Is someone going to keep track of this and, you know, know I was searching for - maybe it's an embarrassing disease, maybe it's a weird hobby?

  Tim Wu

  Years, Track, Mind

  Source: www.npr.org

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• The mobile phone, the fax, emails. Call me old fashioned, but what's wrong with a chain of beacons?

  Harry Hill

  Phones, Fax, Chains

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• I get up early and open my emails, write cheques and answer the phone; whatever needs to be done.

  Martin Parr

  Writing, Phones, Up Early

  "My space". Interview with Edward Mostyn, www.theguardian.com. November 22, 2008.

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• I wake at 5 or 5:30 most mornings, make myself a latte and grab a cookie, write until 10 or 11, go have my favorite meal, 'second breakfast,' or grab coffee with friends, or play basketball. Then, around noon, I begin apologizing via email for the manuscripts I can't get to.

  Jess Walter

  Basketball, Morning, Coffee

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• Email is a system that delivers other people's priorities to your attention. It's up to you to decide when that priority should be managed into your world. It's not the other way around.

  Chris Brogan

  People, Priorities, Up To You

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• I have never, not once, gone on television and not received some email or tweet or comment about my hair. Without fail. Isn't that absurd? All it does is make me want to shape my bangs into a sort of middle finger-like sculpture.

  Sally Kohn

  Hair, Bangs, Doe

  "ORIGIN FEM SERIES: Sally Kohn – CNN Columnist". ORIGIN Interview, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• Whether it's foreign money or hiding emails, these stories are creating a narrative about Hillary Clinton trying to be above everyone else and operating under her own set of rules.

  Dana Perino

  Creating, Trying, Stories

  "Hillary Clinton, private email and more questions about character" by Dana Perino, www.foxnews.com. March 03, 2015.

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• Drive through a yellow light, and you may be ticketed thanks to a camera tied onto a pole. Everybody's watching everything. And then sending it out to the world via email.

  Bill O'Reilly

  Light, Yellow, Cameras

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• I am very bad at computers. I don't really know how to write email.

  Marjane Satrapi

  Writing, Computer, Know How

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• The bulk of the emails tend to come after a column. I can get about 2,000 after a column.

  Nicholas D. Kristof

  Literature, Columns, I Can

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• I've given up email. Well, almost. At the weekend I set up one of those auto-reply messages, informing my correspondents that I would no longer be checking my emails, and that instead they might like to call or write, as we used to in the olden days.

  Tom Hodgkinson

  Writing, Weekend, Might

  "Why I decided to pull the plug on email" by Tom Hodgkinson, www.theguardian.com. March 6, 2007.

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• Alongside my "no email" policy, I resolve to make better use of the wonderful Royal Mail, and send letters and postcards to people. There is a huge pleasure in writing a letter, putting it in an envelope and sticking the stamp on it. And huge pleasure in receiving real letters, too.

  Tom Hodgkinson

  Real, Writing, People

  "Why I decided to pull the plug on email" by Tom Hodgkinson, www.theguardian.com. March 6, 2007.

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• Deleting 200 spams a day is a drag. And I was checking my email constantly, rather than getting on with my real work, which is reading and writing. Email was becoming a distraction, a burden rather than a liberation.

  Tom Hodgkinson

  Real, Reading, Writing

  "Why I decided to pull the plug on email" by Tom Hodgkinson, www.theguardian.com. March 6, 2007.

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• I don't get emails from my corporate overlords.

  Craig Ferguson

  Corporate

  "Craig Ferguson took The Late Late Show to Scotland (even though he used to get beat up there)". Interview with Will Harris, www.avclub.com. May 14, 2012.

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• You'd be surprised how many kids and young people come to the website and send me email that they are actually going into the Marine Corps because of something that I said or did.

  R. Lee Ermey

  Kids, Marine, People

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

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• The major advances in speed of communication and ability to interact took place more than a century ago. The shift from sailing ships to telegraph was far more radical than that from telephone to email!

  Noam Chomsky

  Inspirational, Funny, Communication

  "Peace netter". Interview with Hamish Mackintosh, www.theguardian.com. October 16, 2002.

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• Email, instant messaging, and cell phones give us fabulous communication ability, but because we live and work in our own little worlds, that communication is totally disorganized.

  Marilyn vos Savant

  Communication, Phones, Cells

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