Envelopes Quotes

135 Envelopes quotes by 123 unique authors

When I have interns, I always say, 'Handwritten thank-you notes can make a difference.' People remember that - not an e-mail, a handwritten note in… — Andre Leon Talley
Playing a bad guy is always a freeing experience, because you don't have the same envelope of restrictions as you have playing a good guy.… — John Travolta
Historically, Hollywood comedy has arrived in skinny envelopes. From fence post Buster Keaton to herky-jerky Jerry Lewis to wiry nerve-bundle Woody Allen to hung-loose Richard… — James Wolcott
Life is not a series of gig lamps symmetrically arranged; life is a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning of consciousness… — Virginia Woolf
Yet who can say how our souls have been stamped by witnessing such a cruel drama? All souls are hostages to their human envelopes, but… — Gregory Maguire
Her reputation for reading a great deal hung about her like the cloudy envelope of a goddess in an epic. — Henry James
I do not know if it has ever been noted before that one of the main characteristics of life is discreteness. Unless a film of… — Vladimir Nabokov
I'm not really the scented envelope kid of girl, preferring instead to send yellow Jiffy-lite mailers packed with whatever song is on my mind. — Sarah Vowell
Wind and storm colored July. Also, in the middle, cadaverous, awful, lay the grey puddle in the courtyard, when holding an envelope in my hand,… — Virginia Woolf
If I decided to send this to you, where would I send it? When I think of writing the whole address on the envelope I… — Alice Munro
The artist is a collector of things imaginary or real. He accumulates things with the same enthusiasm that a little boy stuffs his pockets. The… — Paul Rand
Why do you sit there looking like an envelope without any address on it? — Mark Twain
Inside the envelope with the letter was a little Princess Leia action figure USB flash drive. (they make these?) For me to store my novel… — Meg Cabot
What's that?" he snarled, staring at the envelope Harry was still clutching in his hand. "If it's another form for me to sign, you've got… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
I had the most boring office job in the world...I used to clean the windows on envelopes. — Rita Rudner
He was visited on a lunar basis by these great unspecific waves of horniness, whereby all women within a certain age group and figure envelope… — Thomas Pynchon
But I didn't frame it; I put into an envelope and sealed it and stuffed it far back into a corner drawer of a filing… — Jodi Picoult
A thought is a screen, not a mirror; that is why you live in a thought envelope, untouched by Reality. — Anthony de Mello
I don't want the words to be naked the way they are in faxes or in the computer. I want them to be covered by… — Siri Hustvedt
It is when we try to grapple with another man's intimate need that we perceive how incomprehensible, wavering and misty are the beings that share… — Joseph Conrad
my greatest problem was stamps, envelopes, paper and wine, with the world on the edge of World War II. — Charles Bukowski
I can't build a simple shelf. I have no idea how to change an oil filter on a car. I can't even stick a stamp… — Haruki Murakami
He [Uncle Vernon] held up the envelope in which Mrs. Weasley’s letter had come, and Harry had to fight down a laugh. Every bit of… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
That morning, she had found an envelope stuffed into her locker. It was from the Mercer Hotel, and held a plastic door key for their… — Melissa de la Cruz
When you've been really beaten, you realize that you are just an envelope of skin, an easily penetrated envelope that holds together a lot of… — Charlaine Harris

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