Envelopes Quotes - Page 8

• Spray a book with insect spray, drop it in a bag, add some mothballs and seal it. Put it in another bag and seal it. Another. The packages piled up on the floor, each a book sealed in four plastic envelopes.

  Larry Niven

  Book, Add, Bags

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• It's the job of the young to push the societal envelope.

  Jeanne Cordova

  Jobs, Young

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• I always not only want push the envelope in my career but I also have an itch for going against the grain.

  Bernard Hopkins

  Careers, Work Out, Want

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• That morning, she had found an envelope stuffed into her locker. It was from the Mercer Hotel, and held a plastic door key for their suite. "See you there tonight," Oliver had written. "Chomp! Chomp!

  Melissa de la Cruz

  Morning, Keys, Doors

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• He [Uncle Vernon] held up the envelope in which Mrs. Weasley’s letter had come, and Harry had to fight down a laugh. Every bit of it was covered in stamps except for a square inch on the front, into which Mrs. Weasley had squeezed the Dursleys’ address in minute writing. “She did put enough stamps on, then,” said Harry, trying to sound as though Mrs. Weasley’s was a mistake anyone could make.

  J. K. Rowling

  Uncles, Mistake, Writing

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• When you've been really beaten, you realize that you are just an envelope of skin, an easily penetrated envelope that holds together a lot of fluids and some rigid structures, which in their turn can simply be broken and invaded.

  Charlaine Harris

  Broken, Skins, Together

  Charlaine Harris (2009). “Sookie Stackhouse 8-copy Boxed Set”, p.741, Penguin

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• Sword, I name thee Brisingr! And with a sound of rushing wind the blade burst into flame, an envelope of sapphire-blue fire writhing about the razor-sharp steel.

  Christopher Paolini

  Fire, Blue, Flames

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• Hume develops his arguments by a series of models. He doesn't call them models in the pretentious way in which we envelope, very often, pure banalities in this jargon

  Lionel Robbins, Baron Robbins

  Jargon, Way, Argument

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• He pulled the envelope out of his pocket and ripped it open, then took out the slip of paper. The soft lights that ringed the mirror lit up the message in a warm glow. It was two short sentences: " KILL ME. IF YOU'VE EVER BEEN MY FRIEND, KILL ME.

  James Dashner

  Mirrors, Light, Two

  James Dashner (2013). “The Maze Runner Complete Collection”, p.1064, Chicken House

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• Oh, Kendra, before I forget, Gavin asked me to give you this letter." He held out a gray, speckled envelope. "Happy birthday to you!" Seth exclaimed, his voice full of implications. Kendra tried not to blush as she tucked the envelope away. "Dear Kendra," Seth improvised, "you're the only girl who really gets me, you know, and I think you're very mature for your age--" "What about some cake?" Grandma interrupted, holding the first piece out to Kendra and glaring at Seth.

  Brandon Mull

  Girl, Grandma, Thinking

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• Philosophy would long ago have reached a high level if our predecessors and fathers had put this into practice; and we would not waste time on the primary difficulties, which appear now as severe as in the first centuries which noticed them. We would have the experience of assured phenomena, which would serve as principles for a solid reasoning; truth would not be so deeply sunken; nature would have taken off most of her envelopes; one would see the marvels she contains in all her individuals.

  Marin Mersenne

  Nature, Truth, Father

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• Work hard, not in grunt work, but in chasing such opportunities and maximizing exposure to them. This makes living in big cities invaluable because you increase the odds of serendipitous encounters-you gain exposure to the envelope of serendipity.

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Hard Work, Opportunity, Odds

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2010). “The Black Swan: Second Edition: The Impact of the Highly Improbable Fragility"”, p.209, Random House

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• The country is now universally recognised as a nation on the move and takes its place amongst the successful economies in the region. The future potential is enormous but the country's destiny is in our hands. The time has come to move from small increments to bold, large initiatives. The time has come to stretch the envelope and set goals which were earlier not seen to be possible. The time has come for performance to be measured and for allocated funds of the government to reach the people for whom they were intended.

  Ratan Tata

  Inspirational, Country, Moving

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• If you can accept defeat and open your pay envelope without feeling guilty, you're stealing.

  George Allen

  Acceptance, Feelings, Pay

  George Allen (2010). “What Washington Can Learn From the World of Sports”, p.45, Regnery Publishing

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• The knives in my apartment are only sharp enough to open envelopes with. Cutting a slice of coarse bread is on the borderline of their ability. I don't need anything sharper. Otherwise, on bad days, it might easily occur to me that I could always go stand in the bathroom in front of the mirror and slit my throat. On such occasions it's nice to have the added security of needing to go downstairs and borrow a decent knife from a neighbor.

  Peter Høeg

  Nice, Suicidal, Bad Day

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• It's just impossible to ignore the activists in your party. These are the people who stuff the envelopes, and walk the precincts, and make the telephone calls, and do all the so-called grunt work that brings about a successful campaign.

  Pat Robertson

  Party, Successful, People

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• I can't build a simple shelf. I have no idea how to change an oil filter on a car. I can't even stick a stamp on an envelope straight. And I'm always dialling the wrong number. But I have come up with a few original cocktails that people seem to like.

  Haruki Murakami

  Simple, Wrong Number, Ideas

  Haruki Murakami (2011). “South Of The Border, West Of The Sun”, p.83, Random House

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• Taking delight in the journey takes confidence. It pushes the envelope of design.

  Seth Godin

  Journey, Design, Delight

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• Do you want to hold it?' she asked, dangling the padded envelope in front of Hale with two fingers. 'No.' 'Do you want to touch it and kiss it and wear it around your neck?' 'Don't be silly,' he told her. 'Everyone knows green isn't my color.

  Ally Carter

  Silly, Kissing, Color

  Ally Carter (2011). “Uncommon Criminals”, p.86, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Putting something in a movie because it's in the news doesn't make it political to me. If you're not going outside the same old, same old, if you're not pushing the envelope, then you're not doing anything. A good movie is a political thing.

  Sean Penn

  Political, Good Movie, News

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• Some people will go to the opening of an envelope. They live their lives in the public eye and get off on it, they need it. They need that kind of adoration. If their name isn't in the tabloids once a week they feel like a failure.

  Jensen Ackles

  Eye, Names, People

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

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• I don't want to push the envelope. Let the envelope stay in the middle of the table. I'll just make you laugh.

  Rita Rudner

  Laughing, Tables, Want

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• When I first started working in politics, as a junior aide on Walter Mondale's 1984 presidential campaign, it never occurred to me that I would one day work in the White House. There were plenty of women among the volunteers who stuffed envelopes and walked precincts. But there were fewer and fewer on each successive level of influence and access.

  Dee Dee Myers

  White, Volunteer, House

  "What if women ruled the world?" by Dee Dee Myers, www.today.com. February 23, 2008.

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• He was visited on a lunar basis by these great unspecific waves of horniness, whereby all women within a certain age group and figure envelope became immediately and impossibly desirable. He emerged from these spells with eyeballs still oscillating and a wish that his neck could rotate through the full 360 degrees.

  Thomas Pynchon

  Wish, Age, Groups

  Thomas Pynchon (2012). “V.”, p.22, Penguin

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• And the reason I am writing this on the back of a manila envelope now that they have left the train together is to tell you that when she turned to lift the large, delicate cello onto the overhead rack, I saw him looking up at her and what she was doing the way the eyes of saints are painted when they are looking up at God when he is doing something remarkable, something that identifies him as God.

  Billy Collins

  Writing, Eye, Together

  Billy Collins (2012). “Nine Horses”, p.30, Pan Macmillan

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