Quotes About Post

He set fire to some potatoes, then cooked some undelivered post in the embers. - Dad Did he now? What a strange fellow. I would have done it the other way around. - Stafford

I like playing in the post, so a system that plays to my strengths is important.

Killick,' he cried, folding and sealing it. 'That's for the post. Is the Doctor ready?' 'Ready and waiting these fourteen minutes,' said Stephen in a loud, sour voice. 'What a wretched tedious slow hand you are with a pen, upon my soul. Scratch-scratch, gasp-gasp. You might have written the Iliad in half the time, and a commentary upon it, too.

how much time like this it holds on how much time resting is going to start up again --- knows it --- at the edge already the first words are waiting --- speech being reborn --- hitch still looking for its post

Friday's mail (the only day the post office still operated)

The fortified watchtower overlooking the Eastern Sea was officially called Ferrigan's Tower for the engineer who'd built it, but to the miserable soldiers stationed there, the post was known as the Snow Devil's Asshole.

We made one film called Thy Neighbor's Wife in which I got flogged at the public whipping post for adultery. I did my best acting in that film, I guess.

Also, she had been secretary to the soccer coach, an office pretty much without laurels in our own time, but apparently the post for a young girl to hold in Jersey City during the First World War.

against a backdrop of the continuing disappearance of objects both inside and outside the house. Tom eventually found his missing post digger. The only trouble was he found it perched twenty feet up a tree. It would have taken somebody of great strength to lift a seventy-pound post digger up into a tree.

Tom believed that too much activity and technology was guaranteed to drive the phenomenon into hiding. He thought the NIDS group should set up a command post in nearby Roosevelt or Vernal and silently and surreptitiously creep onto the property at night while disturbing as few geographical landmarks as possible.

I give my vote for Mr. Johnson to fill that great and arduous post. And I hereby declare that I make a total surrender of all my rights and privileges in the English language, as a freeborn British subject, to the said Mr. Johnson, during the term of his dictatorship. Nay more; I will not only obey him, like an old Roman, as my dictator, but, like a modern Roman, I will implicitly believe in him as my pope, and hold him to be infallible while in the chair; but no longer.

The punters know that the horse named Morality rarely gets past the post, whereas the nag named Self-interest always runs a good race.

The Post Office is very careful nowadays. When they get a package marked "Fragile," they throw it underhand.

The best way to get the right answer on the Internet is not to ask a question, it's to post the wrong answer.

He set fire to some potatoes, then cooked some undelivered post in the embers." - Dad "Did he now? What a strange fellow. I would have done it the other way around." - Stafford

The loss of reason seems to me honorable, like the death of a sentry at his post.

was remote, even for a Highland farm. No real roads led there, but the post still reached us by messenger, over the crags and the heather-clad slopes, a connection with the world outside. It was a world that sometimes seemed unreal in memory

Well, the post office is probably not the place you want to go if you want to be infused with patriotism and a renewed sense of vigor.

I know Juffure was a British trading post and my portrait of the village bears no resemblance to the way it was. But the portrait I gave was true of nearly all the other villages in Gambia. I, we, need a place called Eden. My people need Pilgrim's Rock.

I love sushi. A well made roll with just enough vinegar tang has always been a lifesaving post-bourbon remedy for me.

The 'Post' seems to think my strong stance on illegal alien criminals will be a liability in my run for governor of Virginia.

Living movements do not come of committees, nor are great ideas worked out through the post, even though it had been the penny post.

UPS had trackable packages for years while the government post office monopoly routinely lost mail and millions in taxpayer dollars.

Put in the post office at the corner of Signal Street and Ojai Avenue in Ojai." In the backseat, Scatty stirred. "Oh, not Ojai. Please tell me we're not going there.