Shipping Quotes

It used to be that death and taxes alone were inevitable. Now there's shipping and handling.

Bert Murray

Used, Inevitable, Taxes

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Shipping is a feature. A really important feature. Your product must have it.

Joel Spolsky

Important, Products, Features

"The Duct Tape Programmer" by Joel Spolsky, www.joelonsoftware.com. September 23, 2009.

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Santa blows all these shipping companies away. He delivers more than 2 billion packages in just 24 hours. He does it by sleigh. He doesn't use tracking numbers and doesn't use trucks. He just uses midgets and a giant bag.

Craig Ferguson

Christmas, Blow, Numbers

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... except in the eyes of a few fanatics (untrustworthy as all lovers) an unmitigated expanse of water is dull even when blue: not in a small boat, where you are part of the winds and currents and tides and are allowed to hold the tiller now and then; but from those decks which the shipping companies with subconscious insight try to make as suburban as possible so that the impact of the monster outside may be lessened, and where the unrecognized boredom is so deep that a wispy smear of smoke on the horizon will queue up a crowd as if for a Valkyrie passing.

Freya Stark

Eye, Impact, Blue

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My best advice: win little battles. Get in the habit of winning, of shipping, of having customers that can't live without you. Once you've demonstrated you know how to do the art, then go after the windmills.

Seth Godin

Art, Winning, Advice

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I understand shipping - you have to expect to pay for the stamps or for the freight company - but what's this handling they always have? How much does handling cost, anyway? I don't want a lot of people handling something I'm going to buy before I get it. How much would it cost if you didn't handle it before you sent it to me?

Andy Rooney

People, Doe, Cost

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As things are now going the peace we make, what peace we seem to be making, will be a peace of oil, a peace of gold, a peace of shipping, a peace in brief.without moral purpose or human interest.

Archibald MacLeish

Peace, Oil, Gold

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My one remaining professional ambition is to read the shipping forecast. I live in hope.

Samuel West

Ambition, Forecasts

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It's so funny to think that I used to be a model and here I am doing arbitrage, shipping and negotiating margins, the list is endless.

Caprice Bourret

Thinking, Here I Am, Lists

"My nine to five: Caprice Bourret" by Deany Judd, www.theguardian.com. November 27, 2009.

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Since Europe is dependent on imports of energy and most of its raw materials, it can be subdued, if not quite conquered, without all those nuclear weapons the Soviets have aimed at it simply through the shipping routes and raw materials they control.

Barbara Amiel

Europe, Energy, Raw Materials

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I've had a million setbacks along the way--from kiln fires burning down buildings to shipping disasters--that should have put me out of business, or at least left me lying in the fetal position on my bed for a few days. Luckily, though, I've never for one second thought that I had any other option than to just keep going.

Jonathan Adler

Perseverance, Lying, Should Have

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To my knowledge, the Department of Homeland Security has focused on detection devices that are large, expensive, use a large amount of energy, and cannot easily be placed in or on a shipping container.

Jim Ryun

Energy, Use, Homeland Security

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Our shipping and sea service is our best and safest defence as being the only fortification and rampart of England.

Walter Raleigh

Sea, England, Fortification

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The Portuguese, Dutch and English have been for a long time year after year, shipping home the treasures of India in their big vessels. We Germans have been all along been left to watch it. Germany would do likewise, but hers would be treasures of spiritual knowledge.

Heinrich Heine

Spiritual, Home, Years

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I really think of it - acting and writing and producing, whatever - as shipping. You gotta ship. Put the widget together in the easiest, quickest way possible and ship the product.

Rob Corddry

Writing, Thinking, Acting

"Rob Corddry on Pain & Gain, Being from Boston, and Absurdity". Esquire Interview, www.esquire.com. April 25, 2013.

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As far as the quote-unquote shipping community goes, I love the passion behind anyone who ships Caroline and Klaus. They are very hardcore shippers.

Candice Accola

Passion, Community, Ships

"Candice Accola dishes on Steroline, Klaroline, and tonight's emotional 'Vampire Diaries' funeral" by Shaunna Murphy, www.mtv.com. February 19, 2015.

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For a lot of arcane shipping reasons, new comics, even digital ones, have a long history of only being released on Wednesdays.

Brian K. Vaughan

Long, Digital, Reason

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When approved, the SAFE Port Act will make progress toward protecting the physical infrastructure of our seaports as well as our national economy which is so clearly dependent on the commercial shipping business.

Lucille Roybal-Allard

Progress, Safe, Economy

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Yes; my brother Bobby used to distribute records at King Records. I had a job there, too, packing records up and shipping them off. But I always wanted to play sessions at Stax, so I figured out a way to do it.

Donald Dunn

Brother, Kings, Jobs

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Oh, so that's why you're up here. For a pity party." "This isn't a joke. I'm serious." I could tell Lissa was getting angry. It was trumping her earlier distress. He shrugged and leaned casually against the sloping wall. "So am I. I love pity parties. I wish I'd brought the hats. What do you want to mope about first? How it's going to take you a whole day to be popular and loved again? How you'll have to wait a couple weeks before Hollister can ship out some new clothes? If you spring for rush shipping, it might not be so long.

Richelle Mead

Wall, Couple, Spring

Richelle Mead (2016). “Vampire Academy 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.32, Penguin

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I think Mitt Romney has demonstrated repeatedly he has a penchant for - for secrecy, doesn't seem to have any interest in actually showing the American people his - his finances, decision - important decisions about his investments, refuses to come clean on his time at Bain Capital and when he was really there, and, you know, be held accountable for the outsourcing of jobs and the off-shoring of jobs and shipping jobs overseas.

Mitt Romney

Jobs, Thinking, People

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People on welfare are getting a price cut to join Amazon Prime, which means you're paying for that. So the food stamp recipients will now get Amazon Prime for $5.99 a month. Free shipping, unlimited streaming of movies and TV shows, which means that these people have to have internet accessibility.

Rush Limbaugh

Mean, Cutting, People

Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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By viewing nature, nature's handmaid art, Makes mighty things from small beginnings grow: Thus fishes first to shipping did impart, Their tail the rudder, and their head the prow.

John Dryden

Art, Nature, Tails

'Annus Mirabilis' (1667) st. 155

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After being in one movie, it didn't seem like that would be my life. I had done several jobs, briefly. I'd been a shipping clerk, I worked in a copy shop, I didn't think the acting was going to go on and on.

Wallace Shawn

Jobs, Thinking, Clerks

"Wallace Shawn juggles acting jobs and play writing". Interview with Dany Margolies, www.reuters.com. February 1, 2011.

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I meant no harm I most truly did not, but I had to grow bigger so bigger I got. I biggered my factory, I biggered my roads, I biggered the wagons, I biggered the loads, of the Thneeds I shipped out I was shipping them forth from the South, to the East, to the West. To the North, I went right on biggering selling more thneeds. And I biggered my money which everyone needs.

Dr. Seuss

Selling More, East, Needs

Dr. Seuss (1995). “Six by Seuss”, Prop Pub Juv

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