Quotes About Envelope

Grace wanted to slit open the envelope now. There was always an excitement with a newly developed roll of film, an opening-a-gift expectation, a hurry-to-the-mailbox-even-though-it's-always-bills rush that digital photography, for all its conveniences, could never duplicate.

I can't speak for the Jewish population, but I attribute my sense of humor to the tragic moments of my life. The best way to overcome certain tragedies is to develop a thick skin and sense of humor about things. Of course, I am very politically conscious and careful about my comedy. But when I do push an envelope, it's with a purpose.

Transparent' does a good job of pushing the envelope in a real way, not in a sensational or salacious way.

An empty envelope that is sealed contains a secret.

So cartooning, for me, is an honorable thing. It's pushing the envelope. It's the truth of something through exaggeration

I always love the quirky stuff, which is why I love Childrens Hospital. That really pushes the envelope of comedy.

It is something like the way dame Nature gathers round a foreign body an envelope of some insensitive tissue which can protect from evil that which it would otherwise harm by contact. If this be an ordered selfishness, then we should pause before we condemn any one for the vice of egoism, for there may be deeper root for its causes than we have knowledge of.

We have a conversation before every season now and we just take inventory. Are we having fun? Can we do things? Can we push the envelope still? Can we evolve the show still? Are people still watching?

Her reputation for reading a great deal hung about her like the cloudy envelope of a goddess in an epic; it was supposed to engender difficult questions and to keep the conversation at a low temperature.

Oh, Kendra, before I forget, Gavin asked me to give you this letter. He held out a gray, speckled envelope. Happy birthday to you! Seth exclaimed, his voice full of implications. Kendra tried not to blush as she tucked the envelope away. Dear Kendra, Seth improvised, you're the only girl who really gets me, you know, and I think you're very mature for your age-- What about some cake? Grandma interrupted, holding the first piece out to Kendra and glaring at Seth.

Beauty is our escape from the murky flesh-envelope that imprisons us.

If you and every person in the county mailed me an envelope of five to ten dollars, I think I could rehabilitate the sheep.

for as the soul is glued inside of its fleshy tabernacle and cannot freely move about in it, nor even move out of it, without running great risk of perishing like an ignorant pilgrim crossing the snowy Alps in winter, so a watch coat is not so much of a house as it is a mere envelope or additional skin encasing you.

What is this? It's a wedding invitation, Julie said. I didn't order any. Julie grinned at me. Roman. Ugh. That's right. I waved the envelope at her. It has flowers on it. Did you want gore, swords, and severed heads? she asked.

A good many young writers make the mistake of enclosing a stamped, self-addressed envelope, big enough for the manuscript to come back in. This is too much of a temptation to the editor.

Very rarely does a mainstream film push the envelope. A film that's so-called mainstream and questions certain norms, certain notions of morality, and gets away with it opens doors. It means the common man, the majority of the people, have accepted it.

I never heard of the person on this return address. Calvin Vinesett. What a name. He's probably selling something, like all our other mail is. The expensive envelope is a sales trick.

I run my finger along the crease of the envelope, feel the weight of history inside. Wherever I'm going next, these are coming with me.

When we try to push the envelope, there are certain sectors of society that say this is a Zionist plot to sort of destabilize our country, or this is an American agenda.

I had a moment in the Library of Congress among the presidential papers. I opened a folder, and there was an envelope in it. The front of the envelope was facing the table, so I didn't know what was in it. I opened it and out spilled all this hair. I turned the envelop over and it says, 'Clipped from President Garfield's head on his deathbed.'

I'm sorry, but there is absolutely no reason why bacon envelope glue should exist, let alone be so popular that it's sold out.

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Nero should have felt just as proud—and satisfied—had the envelope contained statements of losses.

Mitchell sanders was sitting under a banyan tree and using a thumbnail to pry off all the body lice, working slowly, carefully depositing them in a USO envelope. When he was done he sealed the envelope, wrote 'Free' in the right hand corner, and sent it to his draft board in ohio.