Top 70 Postcard Quotes: Famous Quotes & Sayings About Postcard

#1. I shot many scenes of Hamburg, albums full of postcard motifs, and I discarded almost all of them. I ride my bike through Hamburg every day. I go shopping here, I go to the doctor - and yet I no longer have the eye for telling stories about this damn city, even though I love it.

Fatih Akin

#2. so mom got the postcard today

Rebecca Stead

#3. A man was sitting on the float wearing a plaid shirt, jeans, and a worn Sox cap, working on a lobster trap. The place was classic Maine, like you'd see on a postcard. Tori

D.J. MacHale

#4. A postcard and I'm pining for New England. . .

Amy Ballard

#5. A penny will not buy a penny postcard or a penny whistle or a single piece of penny candy. It will not even, if you're managing the U.S. Mint, buy a penny.

P. J. O'Rourke

#6. Dear Alec and Magnus, How are you? Everything's just fine here. Thanks for you postcard with the picture of the Taj Mahal. It looks nice. Disregard my last few postcards. I see I overdid it. To make it up to you, I'm going to redecorate Magnus's loft for free. -Izzy

Cassandra Clare

#7. You ever get a postcard, you get so excited you don't even read it! "Hey I got a - who cares."

Jim Gaffigan

#8. You rarely know, in the moment, when it's the last time you'll do something. Most of the time, the whole thing just sneaks away in the night, never to be seen or heard from again, not even sending back so much as a postcard to say hello.

Michelle Cuevas

#9. I wanted things to be highly coloured, simple in outline, without ambiguity, which is what most children want when it comes to the stories of their parents. They want a postcard.

Margaret Atwood

#10. We all have alleys and gardens and secret rooftops and places where daisies sprout between the sidewalk cracks, but most of the time all we let each other see is a postcard glimpse of a skyline or a polished square.

Erin Lawless

#11. Who drops a postcard in someone's lap? I'm not sure who I think I am. Carmen Sandiego? That girl from Serendipity?

Lily Paradis

#12. Those moments aren't ours any more. They're shut up in a box, buried at the back of a cupboard, out of reach. They're frozen like on a postcard or a calendar. The colours will end up disappearing, fading. They're forbidden to our memories and our words.

Delphine De Vigan

#13. Our two postcard hearts were frightened in unison under the tenacious look of the unfathomable old man who kept on eating one banana after another

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

#14. The last we heard of him was a picture postcard from Mazatlan, on the Pacific coast of Mexico, containing a message of two words: "Hello - Goodbye!" and no address.

Tennessee Williams

#15. There just seems to be more acceptance now of ... other kinds of British films, than the picture-postcard ones.

Tim Roth

#16. A picture postcard is a symptom of loneliness.

Graham Greene

#17. I've never seen a postcard of my work in a museum.

Wade Guyton

#18. For email, the old postcard rule applies. Nobody else is supposed to read your postcards, but you'd be a fool if you wrote anything private on one.

Judith Martin

#19. Does the critic wish to influence the kind of film that costs more than Â£250,000? It is as if he were to send a postcard to General Motors explaining that he would like them to make a raft next year, or a helicopter, instead of a car.

Kenneth Tynan

#20. I write small poems
the kind that fit on a postcard ...
and still can break your heart

John Geddes

#21. The sky was as blue as a stupid postcard, and the islands were as green as islands.

M T Anderson

#22. Dallas closes the leather case, set to store it away in her closet. She looks at the message one last time, memorizes it, and leaves the postcard on the table before she walks away. You matter.

Suzanne Young

#23. Your past is just that, the past, a place within your psyche with no more reality to it then the picture of a castle on a postcard is made from stone.

Guy Finley

#24. I used to get so many letters from students about the ending of 'Pro Femina.' So I had a stamp made that said 'irony, irony, irony' to put on a postcard and mail it back.

Carolyn Kizer

#25. Despite living in an increasingly digital world, there are a few things I still like to keep as physical reminders. So every time I see an exhibition, I make a pit stop at the museum gift shop to buy a postcard of something that inspired me.

Ruzwana Bashir

#26. The pictures are postcard reproductions of Old Masters. She has lots of metal animals about an inch long, little wooden shoes, painted boxes only big enough to hold stamps.

Dodie Smith

#27. I love to receive a beautiful postcard from your place of voyage.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#28. Just as in writing, there are novelistic and sort of pedestrian ways of telling a story, to write a postcard with your little pocket camera and put it on websites. I think that's where the most exciting kind of imagery and content is being recorded and exchanged today.

Jonas Mekas

#29. Go to any Shinto temple in Japan and you'll see it: a simple stand from which hang hundreds of wooden postcard-size plaques with a colorful image on one side and, on the other, densely scribbled Japanese characters in black felt-tip pen, pleas to the gods for help or succor.

Hanya Yanagihara

#30. I would especially like to re-court the Muse of poetry, who ran off with the mailman four years ago, and drops me only a scribbled postcard from time to time.

John Updike

#31. You can only fit so many words in a postcard, only so many in a phone call, only so many into space before you forget that words are sometimes used for things other than filling emptiness.

Sarah Kay

#32. That's why when I send a postcard I quiz people. "Hey, did you get that postcard?" "Yeah, yeah yeah." "Well what'd I say?" "Uh, you were havin-" "I was in jail"

Jim Gaffigan

#33. It is not easy writing someone a postcard. The size and shape of the card cut you down to size ...

Ron Padgett

#34. Most mystics do not want to read religious wisdom; they want to be it. A postcard of a beautiful lake is not a beautiful lake, and Sufis may be defined as those who dance in the lake.

Huston Smith

#35. The world before us is a postcard, and I imagine the story we are writing on it.

Mary E. Pearson

#36. Why do you have to be out of town to write a postcard? I want a to write a postcard to my neighbor: "I still live near you!" The guy sees me go into my apartment, flips the card over, it's just a picture of me holding a rifle.

Jim Gaffigan

#37. Every American, I think, should be able to fill out their taxes on a postcard.

Ted Cruz

#38. Watching yourself on screen is always a little weird, but I didn't cringe when I saw myself on 'The Hour.' It actually exceeded my expectations; every shot looks like a vintage postcard and even my most brutally honest friends have said they think it's good.

Oona Chaplin

#39. In fact all he can remember of her is that he sent her a postcard he wished afterwards he'd kept for himself.

Ali Smith

#40. My mother always carries around these postcard pictures of me.

Angela Watson

#41. Men and women were declared equal one morning and everybody could divorce each other by postcard.

Kate Millett

#42. A postcard. Neat handwriting fills the rectangle.
Half my days I cannot bear to touch you.
The rest of my time I feel like it doesn't matter if I will ever see you again. It isn't the morality, it's how much you can bear.
No date. No name attached.

Michael Ondaatje

#43. His eyes were the same colour as the sea in a postcard someone sends you when they love you, but not enough to stay.

Warsan Shire

#44. One person's picture postcard is someone else's normal.

Barbara Kingsolver

#45. Occasionally an unsuspecting innocent will stumble into a movie like this and send me an anguished postcard, asking how I could possibly give a favorable review to such trash. My stock response is Ebert's Law, which reads: A movie is not about what it is about. It is about how it is about it.

Roger Ebert

#46. For a long time I wanted to draw, but I could never get the proportions right. My still life sketches were the artistic equivalent of someone who has misjudged the space constraints of a postcard, the handwriting shrinking uncomfortably at the bottom.

Sloane Crosley

#47. The feeling of freedom, driving into scenery as green and lush as a postcard of Ireland was close to bliss.

Diane Meier

#48. Remember that postcard Grandpa sent us from Florida of that Alligator biting that woman's bottom? That's right, we all thought it was hilarious. But, it turns out we were wrong. That alligator was sexually harassing that woman.

Homer

#49. I'm pretty satisfied with how 'Postcard' turned out. I think everybody did a great job.

Al Jardine

#50. It happened during the winter of 1973, when evenings rang out stillborn from far across the weathered moorland, and snow fell hard and heavy and clung atop the peppered veins of nature's tough bracken, all picture-postcard like.

Jordan Mason

#51. In the United States, we do a pretty good job of protecting iconic landscapes and postcard views, but the ocean gets no respect.

Jeff Goodell

#52. Life's never a postcard of life, is it? It never feels like how you'd want it to look.

Russell Brand

#53. Extras, in case you want to send some." "Irma," M.J. said. "Who am I going to write a postcard to? You're the

Stephanie Kallos

#54. He has a saying: he'll only believe what can be written on a postcard.

John Le Carre

#55. Where you travel to, I would love to receive a beautiful postcard.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#56. I don't think we should ever try to meet again; there's such freedom in that. Instead, let our words continue to meet. (See next postcard.)

Rachel Cohn

#57. That kind of creaming off the pretty postcard image of the past, I think, is a road to nowhere.

Lindsay Duncan

#58. Whenever I'm out of town for at least a week, I feel like I should write a postcard or something, but you can be a genius, you try and write a postcard you come across like a moron anyway: 'This city's got big buildings. I like food. Bye.'

Jim Gaffigan

#59. Hawaii is still the single most frequent fantasy destination, not because of political stability or conveniences, but because Hawaii seduces the imagination. It's the perfect postcard, no props, no fillers.

Robert Wintner

#60. I'd send them both letters wishing them safe travels. Maybe they'd send me a postcard. Maybe they'd call when they got back, or when they settled in at college. Maybe they wouldn't, and they'd end up in the book. It was uncertain, like life.
I was starting to be okay with that.

Sarah Ockler

#61. Don't ever forget the words on a postcard that my father sent me last year: If you win the rat race, you're still a rat.

Anna Quindlen

#62. I got a postcard from my gynecologist. It said, Did you know it's time for your annual check-up? No, but now my mailman does.

Cathy Ladman

#63. Eleanor hadn't written him a letter, it was a postcard.
Just three words long. pg. 325

Rainbow Rowell

#64. When I designed my loft, I literally framed the World Trade Center as a picture postcard I could see from my bed. I no longer have that image, and I mourn it.

Bernard Tschumi

#65. The road whinnies and rears up. The sky gallops.
You are permanent within me in this chaos.
Somewhere deep in my mind you shine forever, without
moving, silent, like the angel awed by death,
or like the insect burying itself
in the rotted heart of a tree.

Miklos Radnoti