Postage – Quotes

I want any excuse

I want any excuse to come home. My dad is not a spring chicken any more. If anyone says, ‘Go buy a postage stamp in London,’ I’ll go and do it. Emily Mortimer

Ports are necessities, like

Ports are necessities, like postage stamps or soap, but they seldom seem to care what impressions they make. Elizabeth Bishop

There aint any news

There aint any news in being good. You might write the doings of all the convents of the world on the back of a postage stamp, and have room to spare. Finley Peter Dunne

I love the rebelliousness

I love the rebelliousness of snail mail, and I love anything that can arrive with a postage stamp. There’s something about that person’s breath and hands on the letter. Diane Lane

If the big publishers

If the big publishers are doing so well, why do they require writers to send return postage with their manuscripts? Dan Poynter

I emphasize the distinction between brackets and no brackets because it will affect your reading experience, if you will allow it. Brackets are exciting. Even though you are approaching Sappho in translation, that is no reason you should miss the drama of trying to read a papyrus torn in half or riddled with holes or … Read more

the pleasure of possession,

the pleasure of possession, whether we possess trinkets, or offspring – or possibly books, or prints, or chessmen, or postage stamps – lies in showing these things to friends who are experiencing no immediate urge to look at them. Agnes Repplier

Smoking dope and hanging

Smoking dope and hanging up Che’s picture is no more a commitment than drinking milk and collecting postage stamps. A revolution in consciousness is an empty high without a revolution in the distribution of power. We are not interested in the greening of Amerika except for the grass that will cover its grave.
Abbie Hoffman

Smoking dope and hanging

Smoking dope and hanging up Che’s picture is no more a commitment than drinking milk and collecting postage stamps.
Abbie Hoffman