Mail famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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Plus, in one of his e-mails, the guy said he didn't like pancakes. What kind of ***** doesn't like pancakes?
-- A. J. Jacobs -
An article on playwrights in the Daily Mail , listed according to Hard Left, Soft Left, Hard Right, Soft Right and Centre. I am not listed. I should probably come under Soft Centre.
-- Alan Bennett -
Merv Griffin, who developed Jeopardy! and Wheel of Fortune, had a great line once. I used to personally answer all the mail that came in to Jeopardy! whether it was favorable or unfavorable, and Merv said, You know how I handle the nasty mail? I said no. He just grabbed it and folded it up and crunched it up and threw it in the wastebasket. He said, I don't bother with it.
-- Alex Trebek -
My fan mail is enormous. Everyone is under six.
-- Alexander Calder -
Those who are seeking ways to tap into the potential of e-mail will find themselves in a position to capitalize on the pending explosion in Internet usage.
-- Alexander Haig -
I'm so computer illiterate, I barely know how to send an e-mail. I mean, I have a laptop and Gmail, but I don't really look at it much.
-- Alfie Allen -
Texts and e-mails travel no faster than phone calls and telegrams, and their content isn't necessarily richer or poorer.
-- Alison Gopnik -
Where is love exchanged? Where is the love felt when a state administrator stuffs a welfare check into an outgoing mail?
-- Allen West -
Unfortunately, the current generation of mail programs do not have checkers to see if the sender knows what he is talking about.
-- Andrew S. Tanenbaum -
If you want something, it will elude you. If you do not want something, you will get ten of it in the mail.
-- Anna Quindlen -
Fan mail is one thing, but fans you meet in person are a different matter entirely.
-- Audrey Meadows -
I love reader mail, and I do read it, but I won't read hate mail.
-- Ayelet Waldman -
I have received hostile voice mail messages and e-mails. They are often anonymous, I'm sad to say, as anonymous messages are delivered only by very low forms of human life, in my opinion.
-- Ben Brantley -
I'm basically a dinosaur. I don't use e-mail. But I do recognize the importance of science and the resulting possibilities.
-- Bernard Marcus -
I think things are going to go right for me again. I'm not old. I'm old enough, but I photograph young, thank God, and I still have a public. I still get fan mail.
-- Betty Hutton -
I thought I made a little movie. All the mail that I get is about how it changed lives and that's wonderful.
-- C. C. H. Pounder -
The future of the airlines lay in hauling people, not in hauling mail for the government.
-- C. R. Smith -
They can call or e-mail, too, but I'd rather see the bug.
-- Carl E. Olson -
I have been ineluctably drawn to libraries ever since I entered that sanctum sanctorum. It was a place of quietude. In a world where things go beep and ding and ring, where you’ve got mail and you’ve got messages, when I enter a library, I feel that I am still entering a temple.
-- Carmen Agra Deedy -
If a fellow wants to be nobody in the business world, let him neglect sending the mailman to somebody on his behalf.
-- Charles Kettering -
AWWW ON THE MAIL. The mail man delivers, once again!
-- Charlie Flynn -
I also request that, starting today, you refer to me by my new name and use the feminine pronoun (except in official mail to the confinement facility).
-- Chelsea Manning -
If I dont get at least one e-mail every ten minutes, I feel unloved. Even junk mail makes me feel seen. Sad, I know. Sigh.
-- Chris Abani -
Of course you have an e-mail, you idiot, just read it!
-- Chris Jericho -
The exchange by e-mail is more intimate than conversation - you allow yourself to say things you otherwise wouldn't.
-- Christian Lacroix -
H. L. Mencken told me once that he answered all his mail, pleasant and unpleasant, with just one line, 'You may be right.' That's the way I feel now. It is in the realm of possibility, just barely, that I could be the one who's wrong.
-- Clare Boothe Luce -
I love home. I'll stay up there for days on end, I won't even go down the driveway to look for the mail.
-- Dan Fogelberg -
If you're spending so much time at the gym that your mail is forwarded there, you're not dedicated - you've got a mental disorder.
-- Dan John -
I've found that if you're not responsive to e-mail, it trains people to leave you alone.
-- David Karp -
I have no ghost writers. I personally write every message and every piece of published mail.
-- David Wilkerson -
In the office, the mail that came in was always 10 to 1 for me.
-- Davy Jones -
Any editing, software work, and mail is done in this exported Plan 9
-- Dennis Ritchie -
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 -
And I did Batman, too. I did Mr. Freeze. I get more mail for him than anything I've ever done.
-- Eli Wallach -
Never write when you can talk. Never talk when you can nod. And never put anything in an e-mail.
-- Eliot Spitzer -
I don't have any of the modern stuff. I don't have e-mail. I don't have a computer!
-- Elmore Leonard -
But music is reflection of self, we just explain it, and then we get our checks in the mail.
-- Eminem -
I do get a lot of mail. I get a lot of foreign mail because my mail gets mixed with Emilio Estevez.
-- Erik Estrada -
People respond faster to you on a text than an e-mail. Why is that? Why will they ignore an e-mail, but get back to a text?
-- Gayle King -
The worst thing about e-mail is that you can’t interrupt the other person. You have to read the whole thing and then e-mail them back, pointing out all their mistakes and faulty assumptions. It’s frustrating and it’s time-consuming. God bless phone calls.
-- George Carlin -
What does this mean 'mailer daemon'? Satan, are you messing with the e-mail system already?
-- Herbert Jay Stern -
It's more important to me to get an e-mail that says, 'I saw your page and it changed my life,' than how many hits the page got.
-- Howard Rheingold -
I started on the fringes of journalism as a cartoonist on The Daily Mail.
-- Humphrey Lyttelton -
In Britian we have a free press. It's not a pretty press, but it's free. The people who can't bear the Daily Mail, they say: 'you should ban it'. No no, no no, you don't ban it... you don't buy it.
-- Ian Hislop -
Alive without breath, As cold as death; Never thirsty, ever drinking, All in mail never clinking.
-- J. R. R. Tolkien -
You do it a day at a time. You write as well as you can, you put it in the mail, you leave it under submission, you never leave it at home.
-- James Lee Burke -
Every program attempts to expand until it can read mail. Those programs which cannot so expand are replaced by ones which can.
-- Jamie Zawinski -
You need teeth like mine!" Grandma said. "You can just mail 'em to the dentist!
-- Janet Evanovich -
I never looked at fan mail, for some reason. My mother and grandmother handled my mail - although it's not like I was ever in the stratosphere of Kirk Cameron or Scott Baio.
-- Jason Bateman -
At this point, I think I would garner a lot of hate mail if I was now on the cover of Modern Drummer seeing as I'm not a modern drummer anymore.
-- Jason Schwartzman -
Good. If you checked your e-mail every five minutes, or keep texting and Tweeting in the middle of our conversation, I might snap your neck out of sheer principle.
-- Jeaniene Frost -
I don't have a Madonna-sized fan base, so I can actually e-mail and talk to everyone that e-mails me, because I am totally appreciative and I like my fans!
-- Jill Sobule -
When I was a kid, the high point of the day was to go to the mailbox and see if any mail came for me, and I'm still stuck in that mode.
-- Jim Beaver -
I get an awful lot of fan mail, and I read all that I can.
-- John Denver -
The e-mails are mainly about a controversy over a particular data set and the ways a particular small group of scientists have displayed that dataset.
-- John Holdren -
I don't e-mail. I've never felt the particular need to e-mail.
-- John McCain -
People used to share things with e-mail on a massive scale. If you remember e-mail forwards from the late '90s, it was a terrible way to share content.
-- Jonah Peretti -
The nastier the e-mail, the more likely I am to respond because they`ll realize there`s a human being on the other side.
-- Jonathan Capehart -
Because Washington state now votes by mail, elections here tend to play out, at an agonizingly slow speed, over many days and, sometimes, weeks.
-- Jonathan Raban -
A writer can get into a vast deal of trouble through misquotation. If you ever want to receive lots of mail, I recommend you get a Shakespeare quote wrong in a magazine or newspaper.
-- Joseph Epstein -
Here's the problem: I don't like who I've become when my iPhone is within reach. I find myself checking e-mails and responding to texts throughout the day with some kind of Pavlovian ferocity - it's not a conscious act, but a reflexive one.
-- Josh Radnor -
I'm an e-mail junkie though I'm trying to read my in-box only twice a day and to answer all at once.
-- Judy Blume -
I'm not very technically minded. I mean, I don't know how to do e-mail on computers.
-- Kate Winslet -
I'm not computer literate. I e-mail. I know how to get on the Web, but I haven't crossed over into the internet world. I'm old-fashioned, I guess.
-- Katie Holmes -
I personally call one of my fans every month. I answer all of my own fan mail.
-- Keegan Allen -
You can't expect to work for the Daily Mail group and have the rest of society treat with you respect as a useful member of society, because you are not.
-- Ken Livingstone -
I say all the time I think there should be some courses in the regular schooling system that isn't, even like about credit, things that matter later in life. I learned the harder way: 'Look, I got a $500 credit card in the mail, let's go shopping!'
-- Khloe Kardashian -
I have to admit I've found myself doing the same things that a lot of other rock stars do or are forced to do. Which is not being able to respond to mail, not being able to keep up on current music, and I'm pretty much locked away a lot. The outside world is pretty foreign to me.
-- Kurt Cobain -
The jumbo jet is the airborne equivalent of the interstate highway...One might as well be stuffed into a cartridge and shot through a pneumatic tube, like interoffice mail.
-- Lance Morrow -
Every girl on the planet was familiar to one-last-time e-mail checks.
-- Lauren Myracle -
I get mail from people all over the world now from people who tell me that they didn't really understand Down syndrome, but because of me they have read about it and studied it and now they know a lot more about it.
-- Lauren Potter -
I text my girlfriends. I look at Facebook. I check my e-mail. If I'm away from the news cycle more than a few hours, I feel out of touch.
-- Leelee Sobieski -
I'm always afraid that I'm being unprofessional, yet I continue to sign all my e-mails 'xoxo.'
-- Lena Dunham -
I get a lot of fan mail and stuff, and usually it's for me to sign stuff.
-- Maisie Williams -
I would really hate to have e-mail. It's bad enough with all the mail I get.
-- Marian McPartland -
So I have a friend who works for me once a week. She's got e-mail, so anybody that must send an e-mail, they send it to her and she faxes it to me. Sounds like a long way of doing things, but it works for me.
-- Marian McPartland -
Dreams are like letters from God. Isn't it time you answered your mail?
-- Marie-Louise von Franz -
Love one another, push the perimeter of this glorious language. Lastly, please show proper courtesy; open not your neighbor's mail.
-- Mark Dunn -
I get so lonely sometimes, I could put a box on my head and mail myself to a stranger.
-- Mary Karr -
Everybody is a writer. Everybody uses e-mail and has Facebook pages and tweets.
-- Mary Norris -
YES. BECAUSE THAT'S HOW I ROLL. LIKE A SUAVE THING. In fact, from here on, please forward my mail to 1 Suave Hill, Suave Boulevard, Suavieland, Planet of She's-So-Smooth-I-Can't-Believe-She's-Not-Butter.
-- Michele Jaffe -
There are managers so preoccupied with their e-mail messages that they never look up from their screens to see what's happening in the nondigital world
-- Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi -
Jim Henson was the only piece of fan mail I ever wrote when I was a little kid.
-- Neil Patrick Harris -
Who needs fan mail when you have the Internet?
-- Nuno Bettencourt -
Every once in a while, someone will mail me a single popcorn kernel that didn't pop. I'll get out a fresh kernel, tape it to a piece of paper and mail it back to them.
-- Orville Redenbacher -
I still use quill and parchment. I do e-mails, and I write, but I don't go around surfing too much.
-- Oscar Nunez -
It makes me so much calmer when I’m responding to e-mails later.
-- Padmasree Warrior -
When I was training to be a pilot, there was a large section in the book on how to drop mail from the plane.
-- Rahul Gandhi -
E-mail, when it became mobile - what happened? Utilization of email went through the roof. Just pure Internet access and data - what happens when you mobilize it? Multiples. People are dependent upon broadband and as you mobilize it, they become even more dependent on broadband.
-- Randall L. Stephenson -
I am not overlooking any mail. I'm looking at all of it. I even wrote back to the Viagra people.
-- Randy Newman -
No job is beneath you. You ought to be thrilled you got a job in the mailroom And when you get there, here's what you do: Be really great at sorting mail.
-- Randy Pausch -
One of my timesaving habits is to save all of my magazines and junk mail for airplane trips. I walk on the plane with a very heavy bundle, but by the time the trip is over, it can all be thrown away.
-- Renee Fleming -
Would a dating service on the net be 'frowned upon' . . . ? I hope not. But even if it is, don't let that stop you from notifying me via net mail if you start one.
-- Richard Stallman -
I am a great believer in the OHIO principle: Only handle it once. When you read an e-mail, decide whether or not to reply to it, and, if you need to reply, do so right then and there. I have found that about 80 percent of all e-mails, whether internal or external, do not require a response.
-- Robert Pozen -
I think it's a sensible thing not to read your fan mail - not to take it too seriously.
-- Robin Trower