Quotes for All
If you’ve ever had to recall your past in some way and you open a drawer of old photographs that your parents kept, there are always pictures of you smiling and charming, and then a bunch of people you don’t know who they are. Could be aunts, uncles, could be the postman for all you … Read more
If, for instance, they have heard something from the postman, they attribute it to a semi-official statement; if they have fallen into conversation with a stranger at a bar, they can conscientiously describe him as a source that has hitherto proved unimpeachable. It is only when the journalist is reporting a whim of his own, … Read more
Hope is the letter that never arrives delivered by the postman of my fear. Edward Kowalczyk
A letter is an unannounced visit, the postman the agent of rude surprises. One ought to reserve an hour a week for receiving letters and afterwards take a bath. Friedrich Nietzsche
I was a postman one Christmas and I developed a morbid fear of dogs. Diane Abbott
I’ve started looking at my own father a bit funny. He assures me, though, that I really am the son of a Scottish postman. Craig Ferguson
The purpose of bread and circuses is, as Neil Postman said in his book Amusing Ourselves to Death, to distract, to divert emotional energy towards the absurd and the trivial and the spectacle while you are ruthlessly stripped of power. Chris Hedges
I would have thought even a certified idiot like Gabriel here would have taken account of it and notified someone. Notified who? asked Jem, not unreasonably. He had moved closer to Tessa as the conversation had continued. As they stood side by side, the backs of their hands brushed. The Clave. The postman. Us. Anyone, … Read more
Message? What the hell do you think I am, a bloody postman? Brendan Behan
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 that I wasn’t going to work for anybody … hearing him for the first time was like busting out of jail. This land is your land and this land is my land, sure, … Read more