Parcel Post Quotes

#1. Whenever I send a book by parcel post and the clerk at the post office asks me, "Is there anything dangerous in the package?", I'm always tempted to answer: "Yes -- ideas.

Dave Zobel

#2. Could you look again, please?" the woman asked in a clipped, slightly British accent. "It was sent parcel post two weeks ago from Miss Felicity Worthington and addressed to Mrs. Rao, Mrs. Gemma Doyle Rao.

Libba Bray

#3. Riding trails with your dog restores a bond lost in some evolutionary belch. You travel at the same speed, over the same terrain, neither of you slowing to compensate for the other. You're equal playmates with mud in your teeth.

Allison Glock

#4. Patience is like good motor oil. It doesn't remove all the contaminants. It just puts them into suspension so they don't get into your works and seize them up. Patient people have, so to speak, a large crankcase. They can put a lot of irritants into suspension.

Cornelius Plantinga

#5. At sixteen, I was a funny, skinny little thing, all eyelashes and legs. And then, suddenly people told me it was gorgeous. I thought they had gone mad.

Twiggy

#6. If I missed out on some really big action, I'm going to be royally pissed off!

Becca Fitzpatrick

#7. Every actual democracy rests on the principle that not only are equals equal but unequals will not be treated equally. Democracy requires, therefore, first homogeneity and second - if the need arises elimination or eradication of heterogeneity.

Carl Schmitt

#8. My generals are a parcel of post inspectors.

Napoleon Bonaparte

#9. The music industry is in such poor shape; it's in a really bad way, and a lot of people in the industry are very depressed.

Kate Bush

#10. There is nothing to writing, all you have to do is, sit on the computer and bleed your thoughts.

Santosh Kalwar

#11. Changes, cyclic or otherwise, within the solar system or within our galaxy, would seem to be the easy and incontrovertible solution for everything that I have found remarkable in the stratigraphical record.

D. V. Ager

#12. The reason men don't know the law of life is because they're afraid to look Eternity in the face.

Erle Stanley Gardner