Envelopes Quotes - Page 2

• When I get sent manuscripts from aspiring poets, I do one of two things: if there is no stamped self-addressed envelope, I throw it into the bin.-If there is, I write and tell them to f**k off.

  Philip Larkin

  Writing, Self, Two

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• My boss at Christmas was a lot of fun: "I want you to look in your pay envelopes and you'll know that I keep the Christmas spirit around here. Because in each and every envelope you'll find ... snow."

  David Ketchum

  Funny, Snow, Boss

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• We as mayors have the opportunity to push the envelope and get people thinking, even when it is not politically popular. Cities hold the key.

  Greg Nickels

  Opportunity, Thinking, Keys

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• People don't think of their office as a workplace anymore. They think of it as a stationary store with Danish. You want to get your pastry, your envelopes, your supplies, your toilet paper, six cups of coffee, and you go home.

  Jerry Seinfeld

  Funny, Work, Coffee

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• The arts can open the door to the imagination, pushing the envelope of how peace can be created. It takes courage to take this kind of risk, and courage is what we all need to create a better world.

  Wayne Shorter

  Art, Creativity, Doors

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• Raffael's drapery is the assistant of character, in Michelangelo it envelopes grandeur; it is in Reubens the ponderous robe of pomp.

  Henry Fuseli

  Character, Criticism, Assistants

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• And you can tell that Britney Spears is struggling with who she is. I think she has a team of agents and managers who are saying, yes, push the envelope, kiss Madonna, take off all your clothes. And she’s doing that because she doesn’t want to sacrifice this enormous platform that she’s built. But at the same time, she is sacrificing herself and you can see that in her eyes when she talks.

  Christine O'Donnell

  Team, Struggle, Eye

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• Architecture has its own realm. It has a special physical relationship with life. I do not think of it primarily as either a message or symbol, but as an envelope and background for life which goes on in and around it, a sensitive container for the rhythm of footsteps on the floor, for the concentration of work, for the silence of sleep.

  Peter Zumthor

  Sleep, Thinking, Silence

  Peter Zumthor (1998). “Peter Zumthor”

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• my greatest problem was stamps, envelopes, paper and wine, with the world on the edge of World War II.

  Charles Bukowski

  War, Wine, World

  Charles Bukowski (2012). “The Pleasures of the Damned: Selected Poems 1951-1993”, p.364, Canongate Books

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• The purity men love is like the mists which envelope the earth, and not like the azure ether beyond.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Love, Men, Earth

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.512, Delphi Classics

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• I put all of my resources into pushing the evolution in an industry that is notoriously backwards and I enjoy pushing that envelope,.

  George Lucas

  Pushing, Evolution, Resources

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• The body always expresses the spirit whose envelope it is. And for him who can see, the nude offers the richest meaning.

  Auguste Rodin

  Beauty, Body, Spirit

  Auguste Rodin (2012). “Rodin on Art and Artists”, p.70, Courier Corporation

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• Hotel tea is when you have to mix together a plastic envelope containing too much sugar, a small plastic pot of something which is not milk but has curdled anyway, and a thin brown packet seemingly containing the ashes of a cremated mole.

  Frank Muir

  Tea, Together, Sugar

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• Everyday, the mail brings the thousands of letters, and you hand over to Me personally hundreds more. Yet, I do not take the help of anyone else, even to open the envelopes. For, you write to me intimate details of your personal problems, believing that I alone will read them and having implicit confidence in Me. You write, each one only a single letter, that makes for Me a huge bundle a day; and I have to go through all of them. You may ask how I manage it? Well I do not waste a single moment.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Believe, Single Mom, Writing

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• A handwritten letter carries a lot of risk. It's a one-sided conversation that reveals the truth of the writer. Furthermore, the writer is not there to see the reaction of the person he writes to, so there's a great unknown to the process that requires a leap of faith. The writer has to choose the right words to express his sentences, and then, once he has sealed the envelope, he has to place those thoughts in the hands of someone else, trusting that the feelings will be delivered, and that the recipient will understand the writer's intent. How childish to think that could be easy.

  Adriana Trigiani

  Writing, Thinking, Hands

  "Brava, Valentine: A Novel". Book by Adriana Trigiani, March 16, 2010.

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• It makes me ill how callously people talk about ripping their clients off I don’t know of any illegal behavior, but will people push the envelope and pitch lucrative and complicated products to clients even if they are not the simplest investments or the ones most directly aligned with the client’s goals? Absolutely. Every day, in fact.

  Greg Smith

  Goal, People, Facts

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• I pulled out the manuscript [from the envelope] and a great big stiff cardboard finger sprung up. This is someone that was so certain they would be rejected, they would be getting their revenge in advance. I was lucky - it could have been a pipe bomb.

  Gardner Dozois

  Revenge, Sprung Up, Would Be

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• I'm completely different from Pietersen. He would turn up to the opening of an envelope

  Andrew Flintoff

  Different, Turns, Opening

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• Univa developing and supporting Grid Engine is welcome news for the GE community. This move by Univa brings with it a new competitive spirit and sense of innovation to a market that continuously benefits from pushing the envelope.

  Ian Foster

  Moving, Community, Innovation

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• Historically, Hollywood comedy has arrived in skinny envelopes. From fence post Buster Keaton to herky-jerky Jerry Lewis to wiry nerve-bundle Woody Allen to hung-loose Richard Pryor to whippy contortionist Jim Carrey, its comics and clowns have tended to be sliced thin and bendable.

  James Wolcott

  Fence Post, Skinny, Hollywood

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• One of the key pleasures of receiving a letter is the act of holding and entering the envelope - a sort of cross between Christmas and sex.

  Nick Bantock

  Sex, Keys, Receiving

  Nick Bantock (2000). “The artful dodger: images & reflections”, Chronicle Books Llc

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• Could you double-check the envelope?

  Martin Scorsese

  Checks

  "The 79th Annual Academy Awards". www.imdb.com. 2007.

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• Consciousness is a pitiful hostage of its flesh-envelope, whose surges, circuits, and secret murmurings it cannot stay or speed. This is the chthonian drama that has no climax but only an enedless round, cycle upon cycle. Microcosm mirrors macrocosm. Free will is stillborn in the red cells of our body, for there is no free will in nature. Our choices come to us prepackaged and special delivery, molded by hands not our own.

  Camille Paglia

  Drama, Mirrors, Cells

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• If you have newspapers dating to the last millennium, magazines from the Seventies stacked on your nightstand, and countless envelopes filled with family photos stuffed in a drawer, you may be carrying procrastination to an extreme.

  Marilyn Sokol

  Procrastination, Dating, Magazines

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• Payday at my house is like the Academy Awards. My wife says: May I have the envelope please.

  Henny Youngman

  Funny, Awards, Wife

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