Postmaster Quotes

#1. While Ratan was awaiting her call, the postmaster was awaiting a reply to his application.

Rabindranath Tagore

#2. Uncle Avery, who was not only postmaster but mayor of Pitchfork as well.

Beverly Cleary

#3. As a publishing magnate and then as a postmaster, he was one of the few to view America as a whole. To him, the colonies were not merely disparate entities. They were a new world with common interests and ideals.

Walter Isaacson

#4. The hotel-keeper, the postmaster, the blacksmith, the mayor, the constable, the city marshal and the principal citizen and property holder, all came out and greeted us cheerily, and we gave him good day.

Mark Twain

#5. Six days later, the president named a postmaster for New Salem, Illinois, a twenty-four-year-old lawyer who had lost a race for the state legislature. He was a Clay man, but the post was hardly major, and Abraham Lincoln was happy to accept the appointment.

Jon Meacham

#6. Became postmaster general, and Edwin M. Stanton, Lincoln's "Mars," eventually became secretary

Doris Kearns Goodwin

#7. A Caske and an ill custome must be broken.

George Herbert

#8. I don't want people losing respect for me as a player. I want to go out in every game and perform to the highest level. I have no retirement plans. I've had a lot of injuries but I want to continue playing.

Robbie Fowler

#9. Only love can last.

Madonna

#10. He loves me so much it makes me ache.

Paula Hawkins

#11. Women always seemed to bring the size they wished they were to the fitting room, rather than the size that would actually fit.

Ann Brashares

#12. Judgement is given to men that they may use it. Because it may be used erroneously, are men to be told that they ought not to use it at all?

John Stuart Mill

#13. I always love working with young actors, because there's always something to learn. It's always exciting to see the next generation and how they approach things and what's great about them and what's not so great about them.

Helen Mirren

#14. [A]lways get to the dialogue as soon as possible. I always feel the thing to go for is speed. Nothing puts the reader off more than a big slab of prose at the start.
(Interview, The Paris Review, Issue 64, Winter 1975)

P.G. Wodehouse

#15. As Republicans, our first concern is for those waiting tonight to begin or resume the climb up life's ladder.

Mitch Daniels