“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 was reading Neil Postman's 'Amusing Ourselves to Death'. It's one of my favourites. — Brent Faiyaz Copy Share Image
I don't remember deciding to become a writer. You decide to become a dentist or a postman. For me, writing is like… — Mark Haddon Copy Share Image
I don't know if I can convey the postman as I feel him... Unfortunately he cannot pose, and a painting demands an… — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
My dad was very much a struggling actor and spent more of his life as a postman, as a member of a… — Kate Winslet 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
“Most witches don’t believe in gods. They know that the gods exist, of course. They even deal with them occasionally. But they… — Terry Pratchett 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
Tohru: Call a doctor, or a vet, or anybody! Oh, Mr. Postman, it's terrible! You see, they're animals! Postman: Uh, yes, they… — Natsuki Takaya 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
If you are sad, ask yourself why you are sad. Then pick up the phone and call someone and tell him the… — Miranda July Copy Share Image
'You've got mail!' exclaims the cheery automaton at America Online. The flag on the mailbox icon waves invitingly on my computer screen.… — Geraldine Brooks Copy Share Image
My old man works in the postal service, my mum in a hospital and my brother in a factory. They're my family… — Gareth Thomas Copy Share Image
For me, selfishly, The Postman didn't kill my career. It meant I didn't shoot straight and painfully into the limelight, but Rushmore… — Olivia Williams Copy Share Image
If, for instance, they have heard something from the postman, they attribute it to a semi-official statement; if they have fallen into… — Evelyn Waugh 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
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
... the advantages of being a postman seemed more and more dubious. It is not a congenial profession for anyone who is… — Sylvia Townsend Warner Copy Share Image
Sundays in France have a different atmosphere to other days, with fewer phone calls, no postman, no delivery men and no one… — Peter Mayle Copy Share Image
Postman is a media analyst and his theory is that television doesn't influence our culture, but that it is our culture and… — Val Kilmer 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
“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
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
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
I like extravagance. Letters which give the postman a stiff back to carry, books which overflow from their covers, sexuality which bursts… — Anais Nin 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
Luck lies in bed, and wishes the postman would bring him news of a legacy; labor turns out at six, and with… — Samuel Smiles 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
The postman wants an autograph. The cab driver wants a picture. The waitress wants a handshake. Everyone wants a piece of you. — John Lennon 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 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
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
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
“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
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
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
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
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
“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
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