Quotes of Mail - somelinesforyou

“ The difference between e-mail and regular mail is that computers handle e-mail, and computers never decide to come to work one day and shoot all the other computers. ”

- Jamais Cascio

“ Like almost everyone who uses e-mail, I receive a ton of spam every day. Much of it offers to help me get out of debt or get rich quick. It would be funny if it weren't so exciting. ”

- Bill Gates

“ Kristin Brown looks as though she could have been mailed first-class to New York for about a dollar and a half. ”

- William E. Geist

“ There are about half a billion people around the world who use e-mail to 5 billion. ”

- Alexander Haig

“ 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 still get so much fan mail addressed to Carol Brady, and I think a lot of it's through the Net. And I always answer it, if it's legible. ”

- Florence Henderson

“ It is a picture postcard lost for eight decades in the mail. ”

- Wayne King

“ If a fellow wants to be a nobody in the business world, let him neglect sending the mail man to somebody on his behalf. ”

- Abraham Lincoln

“ There is no armor against fate. ”

- James Shirley

“ I believe in opening mail once a month, whether it needs it or not. ”

- Bob Considine

“ I'm going to introduce a resolution to have the postmaster general stop reading dirty books and deliver the mail. ”

- Gale W. McGee

“ There is a one woman in China that claimed she paid $50 to get my e-mail address. It was pretty shocking. I got one this morning from Scotland. A girl's requesting a signed photo of me. ”

- Michael Phelps

“ Against logic there is no armor like ignorance. ”

- Laurence J. Peter

“ The past is a guidepost, not a hitching post. ”

- L. Thomas Holdcroft

“ I have no life, just e-mail. ”

- Michael Jantze

“ If it looks like shit, smells like shit, mail it to your enemy — he'll know what to do with it. ”

- Doug Horton

“ Learning music by reading about it is like making love by mail. ”

- Luciano Pavarotti

“ She doesn't want to touch it. She doesn't want to smell it. She doesn't want to hear it. Lord love her. She's a Mail Order Freak. ”

- Jim Fishel

“ We grew up founding our dreams on the infinite promise of American advertising. I still believe that one can learn to play the piano by mail and that mud will give you a perfect complexion. ”

- Zelda Fitzgerald

“ It seems a long time since the morning mail could be called correspondence. ”

- Jacques Barzun

“ The girls have got a bit excited. I spoke to my agent and she says she's wading through the fan mail. We've got bags of it. ”

- Orlando Bloom

“ 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

“ Liberal soccer moms are precisely as likely to receive anthrax in the mail as to develop a capacity for linear thinking. ”

- Ann Coulter

“ He that respects himself is safe from others. He wears a coat of mail that none can pierce. ”

- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“ It's also just weird getting that much fan mail from strangers. I may just have to say that if I'm doing a book signing or you catch me on the street, then fine. But otherwise I cannot do it anymore. It takes hours everyday and it takes too much time away from other things I must do. ”

- Viggo Mortensen

“ More negatives write than call. It's a cheap shot for me to go on the air with the critical letters or E-mail I get because the reaction of the listeners is always an instantaneous expression of sympathy for me and contempt for the poor critic. ”

- John Hall

“ Reading someone else's e-mail is a quiet, clean enterprise. There is no pitter-pattering around the room, no opening and closing the desk drawers, no percussive creasing as you draw the paper from the envelope and unfold it. There is no sound but the melody of the dial-up, the purity of the following Gregorian tones, and the sweet nilhilistic measure of static. ”

- Jane Hamilton

“ I also hate those holidays that fall on a Monday where you don't get mail, those fake holidays like Columbus Day. What did Christopher Columbus do, discover America? If he hadn't, somebody else would have and we'd still be here. Big deal. ”

- John Waters

“ First, I'd become an avid reader of blogs, especially music blogs, and they seemed to be where the critical-thinking action was at, to have the kind of energy that I associate with rock writing of the 1970s or Internet e-mail discussion lists a decade ago. ”

- Carl Wilson

“ It requires humility to stop moving and shaking long enough to be present to people. To allow someone to pull you in on the tractor beam of their gaze is to submit to that person. Taking long enough to hear the details of the whole truth impinges on our longing to get ahead in a me-first, look-out-for-number-one way of living… ”

- Jan Johnson
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