“ In 1765, Parliament passed the Stamp Act, which, as any American high school student can tell you, was an act that apparently had something to do with stamps. ”
- Dave Barry- Copy
- 445
“ Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there. ”
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer- Copy
- 345
“ The postage stamp is a flimsy thingNo thicker than a beetle's wingAnd yet it will roam the world for youExactly where you tell it to. ”
- E. V. Lucas- Copy
- 3.5K
“ I do a lot of running and hiking, and I also collect stamps - space stamps and Olympics stamps. ”
- Sally Ride- Copy
- 1.4K
“ Consider the postage stamp, my son. It secures success through its ability to stick to one thing till it gets there. ”
- Josh Billings- Copy
- 2.1K
“ Consider the postage stamp: its usefulness consists in the ability to stick to one thing till it gets there. ”
- Josh Billings- Copy
- 628
“ Make it a life-rule to give your best to whatever passes through your hands. Stamp it with your manhood. Let superiority be your trademark… ”
- Orison S. Marden- Copy
- 3K
“ The most interesting thing about a postage stamp is the persistence with which it sticks to its job. ”
- Napoleon Hill- Copy
- 2.4K
“ After all the trouble you go to, you get about as much actual "food" out of eating an artichoke as you would from licking 30 or 40 postage stamps. ”
- Miss Piggy- Copy
- 1.7K
“ There ain't any news in being good. You might write the doings of all the convents of the world on the back of a postage stamp, and have room to spare. ”
- Finley Peter Dunne- Copy
- 1.5K
“ I am the signet which marks the page where the revolution has been stopped; but when I die it will turn the page and resume its course. ”
- Napoleon Bonaparte- Copy
- 2.8K
“ And when he had opened the seventh seal, there was silence in heaven about the space of half an hour. ”
- The Holy Bible- Copy
- 1.7K
“ I see upon their noble brows the seal of the Lord, for they were born kings of the earth far more truly than those who possess it only from having bought it. ”
- George Sand- Copy
- 3.4K
“ I have six locks on my door all in a row. When I go out, I lock every other one. I figure no matter how long somebody stands there picking the locks, they are always locking three. ”
- Elayne Boosler- Copy
- 3K
“ We have progressively improved into a less spiritual species of tenderness — but the seal is not yet fixed though the wax is preparing for the impression. ”
- Lord Byron- Copy
- 654
“ Writers are a little below the clowns and a little above the trained seals. ”
- John Steinbeck- Copy
- 407
“ Only the slow reader will notice the odd crowd of images-flier, butcher, seal-which have gathered to comment on the aims and activities of the speeding reader, perhaps like gossips at a wedding. ”
- William H. Gass- Copy
- 207
“ The speeding reader guts a book the way the skillful clean fish. The gills are gone, the tail, the scales, the fins; then the fillet slides away swifly as though fed to a seal. ”
- William H. Gass- Copy
- 3.5K
“ A round ball of a man with protruding lower lip and seal-colored eyes, he spun like a top from continent to continent, jabbing a pudgy forefinger at everything that stood in his way. ”
- Ted Morgan- Copy
- 4K
“ Giving jazz the Congressional seal of approval is a little like making Huck Finn an honorary Boy Scout. ”
- Melvin Maddocks- Copy
- 1.7K
“ I trained with an ex-Navy Seal. We shot a lot of guns. Real bullets… I underwent commando training. ”
- Michelle Rodriguez- Copy
- 403
“ A soulmate is someone who has locks that fit our keys, and keys to fit our locks. When we feel safe enough to open the locks, our truest selves step out and we can be completely and honestly who we are; we can be loved for who we are and not for who were pretending to be… ”
- Richard Bach- Copy
- 3.4K
“ To believe in something not yet proved and to underwrite it with our lives: it is the only way we can leave the future open. Man, surrounded by facts, permitting himself no surmise, no intuitive flash, no great hypothesis, no risk, is in a locked cell… ”
- Lillian Smith- Copy
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