Top 29 Quotes About Mailboxes
#1. Even the people who do great jokes, [it's] always coming out of a very real place.
Brett Gelman
#2. I'm sorry,' I said. 'I'm sorry for everything. For the past and the future.' An apology, said while in dull pain, made me feel as close to human as it was possible to feel. I could almost have written a poem.
Matt Haig
#3. It's the way his pinky hooks with mine, just for a second, before he full-on cups my hand.
Krista Ritchie
#4. The light was cut to lace by the trees that had grown so thick with leaves in the last few months.
Ann Patchett
#5. The garbage cans and mailboxes on the sidewalk would stay the same, but the people would be just a beautiful blur of motion.
Cecily Von Ziegesar
#6. RRC remains the best publication to hit my mailbox
Cameron Crowe
#7. When I was a kid, I used to deliver the newspaper all over town, cramming papers between screen doors and into mailboxes and under doormats.
Jill Lepore
#8. America Online, of course, is a master of the hard sell, from stuffing mailboxes with free trial offers to forcing subscribers to click through ads before they can get their e-mail.
Alex Berenson
#9. One man can change the world with a bullet in the right place.
Malcolm McDowell
#10. Acting is a strange job because your control is very limited.
Romola Garai
#11. The walls inside were charred from some ancient fire, blackened and lichened and weathered hard, smelling faintly of a smoke so old there may be no one still alive who could possibly remember the flame.
Jean Hegland
#12. The world is filled with archaic objects - mailboxes which look like alarm boxes, banks which look like places to break out of rather than places to enter.
Raymond Loewy
#13. 1821, I told him, noting mailboxes of castles and pirate ships and the street numbers painted on them. I had to fis hmy penlight from my pack to see the numbers; streetlights were scarce, and the sky bulged with low, sooty clouds instead of helpful moonlight.
Dia Reeves
#14. My passion for writing cookbooks really came from my love of collecting cookbooks.
Wolfgang Puck
#15. There is no literature anymore, there are just single books that arrive in bookstores, just as letters, newspapers, advertising pamphlets arrive in mailboxes.
Tonu Onnepalu
#16. The people are maybe still as aware of the differences but they are more accepting of it that what we saw in the 70s and 80s, but the undercurrent is still there. There are maybe no racial slurs anymore, no firecrackers in mailboxes, the distinction is much more subtle.
Celeste Ng
#17. Society is always taken by surprise at any new example of common sense.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#19. But you - you notice mailboxes and wastebaskets and... and people. One who can see the ordinary is extraordinary indeed, Abigail Rook. - Jackaby
William Ritter
#20. A job for your family, a paycheck in your mailbox - they're the ultimate proof that your state is doing things right!
Bobby Jindal
#21. I leaned my head back and closed my eyes, my mind a jumble. So much for breaking it off gently, I thought. The humor helped my mind clear, but I couldn't laugh. What would happen next?
Margaret Peterson Haddix
#22. The level of discourse reaching a mailbox simply cannot be limited to that which would be suitable for a sandbox.
John Paul Stevens
#23. Rejoice with the day lily for it is born for a day to live by the mailbox and glorify the roadside
Anne Sexton
#24. One of the strongest of contemporary conventions is that of comparing to Thoreau every writer who has been as far out of the house as the mailbox.
Wendell Berry
#25. Maybe when they no longer receive Sierra magazine in their mailboxes, journalists will understand how campaign finance reform abridges free speech.
Matt Welch
#26. The sun is set; and in his latest beams Yon little cloud of ashen gray and gold, Slowly upon the amber air unrolled, The falling mantle of the Prophet seems.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
#27. If there exists in this universe anything more infuriating and crazy-making than a man, I don't know what it is, thank you, and I don't want to know.
Jill Conner Browne
#28. Inspiration is the tool God uses to communicate with humans. If God didn't exist, there would be no creativity or inventions in the world.
Robin Sacredfire
#29. In the foyer an array of mailboxes lined one wall, and sliding heaps of flyers and takeout menus covered the rickety bench beneath them. Kate walked past several offices, but only the Christians for Buddha door stood open.
Anne Tyler
