If efforts to do social work are couched in selfish motives, then they will die a premature death. Why would my efforts… — Sachin Tendulkar Copy Share Image
a man who has decided upon self-destruction is far removed from mundane affairs, and to sit down and write his will would… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
“This is how you must imagine your letters arriving, and me carrying them off to read in peace, and saying 'oh darling… — Vita Sackville-West Copy Share Image
I'm a Conservative, but I talk for the ordinary working classes. I get on with the boys at the pub, but I… — Vinnie Jones Copy Share Image
Foreign diplomats could have modeled their conduct on the way the Negro postmen, Pullman porters, and dining car waiters of Roxbury [Massachusetts]… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
“Postman argued that our society was sliding into a troubling relationship with technology. We were, he noted, no longer discussing the trade-offs… — Cal Newport Copy Share Image
I was cleaning out the pigsty at a farm in Wales, where my mother had rented a room, when the results of… — Nina Bawden Copy Share Image
Perhaps there is no greater test of a man's regularity and easiness of conscience than his readiness to face the postman. Blessed… — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
Why do they put pictures of criminals up in the Post Office? What are we supposed to do, write to them? Why… — Steven Wright Copy Share Image
If the knocking at the door is twice, it is not opportunity, it is postman. — Vikrant Parsai Copy Share Image
I don't celebrate because I'm only doing my job. When a postman delivers letters, does he celebrate? — Mario Balotelli Copy Share Image
“I have often thought of the postman’s bringing me a letter as one of the pleasures I shall miss in heaven.” — Elizabeth Gaskell Copy Share Image
I think if I was a postman I'd be quite respected in my community. The postman is always respected. — Naughty Boy Copy Share Image
Nobody notices postmen, yet they have passions like other men. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Hope is the letter that never arrives delivered by the postman of my fear. — Edward Kowalczyk Copy Share Image
I've started looking at my own father a bit funny. He assures me, though, that I really am the son of a… — Craig Ferguson Copy Share Image
The purpose of bread and circuses is, as Neil Postman said in his book Amusing Ourselves to Death, to distract, to divert… — Chris Hedges Copy Share Image
“Postman’s bag is always heavy because it carries the life itself: It carries all the sorrows and all the joys, all the… — Mehmet Murat ildan Copy Share Image
A letter is an unannounced visit, the postman the agent of rude surprises. One ought to reserve an hour a week for… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Umpires are necessary evils. That's just the nature of the beast. For years, people have looked on umpiring as a job they… — Doug Harvey Copy Share Image
I have a lot of nervous energy. Work is my best way of channelling that into something productive unless I want to… — Ben Stiller Copy Share Image
Luckily for you, you can close the book The Postman Always Rings Twice and break out of it, and James M. Cain… — Jonathan Dee Copy Share Image
Luck is always waiting for something to turn up. Labor, with keen eyes and strong will, always turns up something. Luck lies… — Richard Cobden Copy Share Image
If you've ever had to recall your past in some way and you open a drawer of old photographs that your parents… — Gail Zappa Copy Share Image
When I did a sitcom and played a postman, I was brought to tears playing that postman, because I felt like one.… — Andrew Dice Clay Copy Share Image
“Postmen have a legendary aura. A ring at the doorbell may inflame a sense of expectation, suspense, secrecy, hazard or even intrigue.… — Erik Pevernagie Copy Share Image
Slowly light strengthens, and the room takes shape. It stands plain as a wardrobe, what we know, Have always known, know that… — Philip Larkin Copy Share Image
That was a bizarre and unlikely event, which has misled a generation of drama students from my old drama school that dreams… — Olivia Williams Copy Share Image
Nothing will convince and convict those around us like the peaceful and positive way you and I respond to our twentieth century… — Joni Eareckson Tada Copy Share Image
My fiancé, you see, belonged to another religion. He was a Parsi. And this was something nobody could stand - all of… — Indira Gandhi Copy Share Image
I would have thought even a certified idiot like Gabriel here would have taken account of it and notified someone." "Notified who?"… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
As people who are women, who are Indigenous and live on Indigenous lands, we know, and this is something I understand the… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
It's not me, it's the songs. I'm just the postman, I deliver the songs. When I first heard Elvis' voice, I knew… — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image