Mail Quotes - Page 12

• I communicate mostly via e-mail and receive hundreds of e-mails a day.

  Diane von Furstenberg

  Communicate

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• I have no idea how to get in touch with anyone anymore. Everyone, it seems, has a home phone, a cell phone, a regular e-mail account, a Facebook account, a Twitter account, and a Web site. Some of them also have a Google Voice number. There are the sentimental few who still have fax machines.

  Susan Orlean

  Home, Phones, Cells

  "Communication Fatigue" by Susan Orlean, www.newyorker.com. May 9, 2011.

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• I've noticed lately that it seems most intimate to not use any closing on your e-mail at all, because it seems to make it feel like you are engaged in an ongoing conversation - as if this one e-mail doesn't represent the beginning and end of the interaction but is just part of a perpetual loop of friendly back-and-forth.

  Susan Orlean

  Friendly, Beginnings And Ends, Use

  "Dear Reader" by Susan Orlean, www.newyorker.com. November 17, 2010.

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• My interactions with Sorkin were agonisingly weird. He is by far the weirdest person I have ever met. I had dinner with him and a few hours before I got an e-mail from his assistant saying, 'Sean, this does not need to be a long conversation. Aaron is only going to use it to win your trust.'

  Sean Parker

  Winning, Long, Doe

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• The federal government spends millions to run the Postal Service. I could lose your mail for half of that.

  Pat Paulsen

  Running, Government, Half

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• Leigh did what any sane female faced with such an e-mail would do: deleted it to resist the temptation of replying, cleared her trash to resist the temptation of recalling it, and then called tech support to restore all her recently deleted e-mails. (Chasing Harry Winston)

  Lauren Weisberger

  Support, Temptation, Female

  Lauren Weisberger (2009). “Chasing Harry Winston: A Novel”, p.269, Simon and Schuster

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• Life, it turns out, goes on. There is no cosmic rule that grants you immunity from the details just because you have come face-to-face with a catastrophe. The garbage can still overflow, the bills arrive in the mail, telemarketers, interrupt dinner.

  Jodi Picoult

  Garbage Cans, Details, Goes On

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• There were no mail-order catalogues in 1492. Marco Polo's journal was the wish book of Renaissance Europe. Then, Columbus sailed the ocean blue and landed in Sears' basement. Despite all the Indians on the escalator, Columbus' visit came to be known as a "discovery.

  Tom Robbins

  Ocean, Book, Blue

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Another Roadside Attraction”, p.254, Bantam

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• No job should, be beneath us. And if you can't(or won't) sort mail, Where is the proof that you can do anything?

  Randy Pausch

  Jobs, Proof, Should

  Randy Pausch, Jeffrey Zaslow (2008). “The last lecture”, Hyperion Books

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• Alive without breath, As cold as death; Never thirsty, ever drinking, All in mail never clinking.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Drinking, Alive, Cold

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Hobbit”, p.47, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• You need teeth like mine!" Grandma said. "You can just mail 'em to the dentist!

  Janet Evanovich

  Grandma, Teeth, Needs

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• They heard the click of the mail slot and flop of letters on the doormat. "Get the mail, Dudley," said Uncle Vernon from behind his paper. "Make Harry get it." "Get the mail, Harry." "Make Dudley get it." "Poke him with your Smelting stick, Dudley.

  J. K. Rowling

  Uncles, Paper, Letters

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• Plus, in one of his e-mails, the guy said he didn't like pancakes. What kind of asshole doesn't like pancakes?

  A. J. Jacobs

  Guy, Pancakes, Kind

  A. J. Jacobs (2009). “The Guinea Pig Diaries: My Life as an Experiment”, p.9, Simon and Schuster

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• I think most people are more susceptible to prejudice than to reason. And the parrots of talk radio are just sending out the same stuff. When I look at my e-mails, I see the same Limbaugh rhetoric; apparently, people don't have any ideas of their own. And there's just this drumroll of anti-progressive thought.

  Roger Ebert

  Thinking, Ideas, People

  Source: progressive.org

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• I get up about four times a night and go back to sleep, or not. Then I swill tea around 8 a.m. I answer e-mail, while I stall thinking about whatever scares me.

  Jenny Holzer

  Sleep, Thinking, Night

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• I mean a global warming advocate is as wrong as anybody could be about anything, folks. It's a hoax. There is no man-made global warming. It has been thoroughly debunked. The fact that it's a hoax has been proven, by them. E-mails that were uncovered at East Anglia University in Great Britain show that they worked together to perpetuate the hoax, that they lied about data, that they eliminate data that contradicted their political belief. So you'd have to assume from that that they are political advocates disguised as scientists who are purposely engaging in misinformation.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Mean, Men, Data

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• "I've learned what's funny verbally ain't so funny on e-mail: They don't hear your intonations. Melissa broke up with somebody over that. She tried to tell him: "That was a joke!" But he just didn't get it. Mick Jagger said, "F- 'em if they don't get the joke." And I love him. That comes with age: Knowing it's their problem, not mine."

  Joan Rivers

  Humor, I Love Him, Knowing

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• Answer e-mails from junior people before more senior ones. Junior people have further to go and tend to remember who slighted them.

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Leadership, Senior, People

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• One of my timesaving habits is to save all of my magazines and junk mail for airplane trips. I walk on the plane with a very heavy bundle, but by the time the trip is over, it can all be thrown away.

  Renee Fleming

  Airplane, Junk, Magazines

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• Right-wing propagandists like Limbaugh and Coulter are essentially entertainers, entertainers who stimulate prejudice, selfishness and meanness the way a comedian works for laughs or a tragedian plays for tears. Theirs is a new art form, exclusive to America and bewilderingly successful. In place of traditional conservative ideology, they offer their audience partisan belligerence and a complete package of mail-order hatreds, designed for the conceptually and ethically impaired.

  Hal Crowther

  Art, Successful, Order

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• We look at the Web as being our basic power plant, kind of like electricity, so the Web and communicating in this fashion is second nature to us now. It's not like we go brochure, television, mail. It's Web, and then everything else. It's social media first, and everything else.

  Ted Leonsis

  Fashion, Media, Looks

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• In my state, two women who came to the U.S. as 'mail-order brides' were killed by abusive husbands. They had risked everything to come to this country, and it cost them their lives. We must let women know they have options.

  Maria Cantwell

  Country, Husband, Order

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• And he supposed it might not be the best of days. But then, he was flying the mails and was not expected to squat on the ground like a frightened canary every time there was a cloud in the sky. If a pilot showed an obvious preference for flying only in the best conditions he soon found himself looking for work. This was the way of his life and he had always ascended when others had found excuse to keep their feet on the ground.

  Ernest K. Gann

  Clouds, Sky, Feet

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• As a result of the digital age and the decline of first-class mail, there is no question that the Postal Service must change and develop a new business model.

  Bernie Sanders

  Class, Age, Digital

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• If I'm home with no chore at hand, and a package of books has come, the television set and the chess board and the unanswered mail will have to manage without me if one of the books is a detective story.

  Rex Stout

  Book, Home, Hands

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