Postage Stamp Quotes

#1. Each had its own two-digit reference; when he punched that, the postage-stamp-size rectangle would expand until it neatly filled the screen and he could read it with comfort. When he had finished, he would flash back to the complete page and select a new subject for detailed examination.

Arthur C. Clarke

#2. I want any excuse to come home. My dad is not a spring chicken any more. If anyone says, 'Go buy a postage stamp in London,' I'll go and do it.

Emily Mortimer

#3. With full responsibility for my words as a professional biologist, I do not hesitate to say that all existing and genuine knowledge about the way in which the physical characteristics of human communities are related to their cultural capabilities can be written on the back of a postage stamp.

Lancelot Hogben

#4. I discovered that my own little postage stamp of native soil was worth writing about and that I would never live long enough to exhaust it.

William Faulkner

#5. He picked the postage stamp over the wall with aplomb.

Tim Flowers

#6. If the Queen can reject the advice of a minister on a little thing like a postage stamp, what would happen if she rejected the advice of the Prime Minister on a major matter? If the Crown personally can reject advice, then, of course, the whole democratic facade turns out to be false

Tony Benn

#7. There ain't any news in being good. You might write the doings of all the convents of the world on the back of a postage stamp, and have room to spare.

Finley Peter Dunne

#8. All those postage-stamp front yards we used to have were reminders that we like clear spaces to see predators coming.

Daniel H. Wilson

#9. The most interesting thing about a postage stamp is the persistence with which it sticks to its job.

Napoleon Hill

#10. Consider the postage stamp: its usefulness consists in the ability to stick to one thing till it gets there.

Josh Billings

#11. The average person's life can be summed up on a postage stamp. he came. He lived. He died.

Marilyn L. Rice

#12. If you're stuck you could always double up with me at my place. It's the size of a postage stamp, but the roses are the size of poodles. So it sort of evens out. -Austin

Katherine Applegate

#13. I never needed Panavision and stereophonic sound to woo the world. I did it in black and white on a screen the size of a postage stamp. Honey, that's talent.

Mae West

#14. I've read up to Lot #49, which is a valuable postage stamp.

Lemony Snicket

#15. I should be a postage stamp, because that's the only way I'll ever get licked. I'm beautiful. I'm fast. I'm so mean I make medicine sick. I can't possibly be beat.

Muhammad Ali

#16. Be like a postage stamp. Stick to it until you get there

Bob Proctor

#17. As long as I live under the capitalistic system I expect to have my life influenced by the demands of moneyed people. But I will be damned if I propose to be at the beck and call of every itinerant scoundrel who has two cents to invest in a postage stamp. This, sir, is my resignation.

William Faulkner

#18. Everything can't be a postage-stamp-sized project. Everything can't be a chamber piece. Musicals aren't even meant to be that, or identified with it ... It's none of it simple.

Harold Prince

#19. I love the rebelliousness of snail mail, and I love anything that can arrive with a postage stamp. There's something about that person's breath and hands on the letter.

Diane Lane

#20. The Russian writer Vladimir Nabokov once said: In a Democracy, portraits of a nation's leader should never exceed the size of a postage stamp. That won't happen so quickly in Russia.

Vladimir Sorokin

#21. I dream that my face appears on a postage stamp.

John Cheever

#22. I've discovered something interesting," she said. "If you ever want to avoid somebody, this city's as small as a postage stamp. But if you ever really want to run into somebody, if you really hope and pray, it's as big as an ocean.

John Burnham Schwartz

#23. Be like a postage stamp - stick to one thing until you get there.

Josh Billings

#24. Returning to his quarters, he opened the window (though it was only the size of a postage stamp),

Amor Towles

#25. The President of today is just the postage stamp of tomorrow.

Gracie Allen

#26. Don't ever make the mistake most New Yorkers do, of underestimating Chicago. They think it's only a postage stamp on a very large envelope, and they're the envelope.

Jeffrey Archer

#27. It's only when caterpillarness is done that one becomes a butterfly. That again is part of this paradox. You cannot rip away caterpillarness. The whole trip occurs in an unfolding process of which we have no control.

Ram Dass

#28. Dear optimist, pessimist, and realist
while you guys were busy arguing about the glass of wine, I drank it! Sincerely, the opportunist!

Lori Greiner

#29. I like to cook; it is, for me, a happy combination of mindlessness and purpose.

Paula Fox

#30. I also see you," she says fiercely, her hand closing around my arm. "And I know who you are.

Veronica Roth

#31. When I started Net-a-Porter, I knew nothing. And I was pregnant. Starting a new venture and being pregnant for the first time are pretty similar in many ways. If you knew what was going to happen to you, you wouldn't venture down that road.

Natalie Massenet

#32. It doesn't matter. Take Eddie's blood. Take Belikov's blood. Take your own for all I care. But If she doesn't want to give hers, then that's all there is to it. She said no. This conversation is done.

Richelle Mead

#33. Kindred's tale is a romantic, mature, and lyrical collage of heaven, hell, and a magical royal legend. The combination is divinely - and demonically - inspired.

Alethea Kontis

#34. Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.

Charlie Brown

#35. Tell truth, and shame the devil.

Jonathan Swift

#36. Fish don't know much about water, and people didn't know much about air.

Kary Mullis

#37. I feel old when I see mousse in my opponent's hair.

Andre Agassi

#38. Reason cannot break out of its own loop.

Mason Cooley

#39. I freighted a leaf with a mental message for the friends at home, and dropped it in the stream. But I put no stamp on it and it was held for postage somewhere.

Mark Twain

#40. The comment section of the internet is like gang graffiti, it makes no sense and is ugly to look at.

Michael P. Naughton