Quotes of Envelope - somelinesforyou

“ For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed. ”

- Clifton Fadiman

“ In all things that involve social pressures, if we want to see change we have to force the envelope outwards. ”

- Gary Lee Phillips

“ 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. ”

- Ring Lardner

“ For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed. ”

- Clifton Fadiman

“ I'll always push the envelope. To me, the ultimate sin in life is to be boring. I don't play it safe. ”

- Cybil Shepherd

“ Life is not a series of gig lamps symmetrically arranged; life is a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning of consciousness to the end. ”

- Virginia Woolf

“ The high wage begins down in the shop. If it is not created there it cannot get into pay envelopes. There will never be a system invented which will do away with the necessity for work. ”

- Henry Ford

“ The man who works for the gold in the job rather than for the money in the pay envelope, is the fellow who gets on. ”

- Joseph French Johnson

“ The purity men love is like the mists which envelope the earth, and not like the azure ether beyond. ”

- Henry David Thoreau

“ The social object of skilled investment should be to defeat the dark forces of time and ignorance which envelope our future. ”

- John Maynard Keynes
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