Mail Quotes

CBS started to confiscate our packages and mail as a safety procedure. A lot of packages that people send for the holidays and to our kids we can't open. A lot of times they are from overseas. It's very upsetting at times.

Carloads of tourists would photograph the family mailbox, and there was weird mail, death threats.

At least for the people who send me mail about a new language that they're designing, the general advice is: do it to learn about how to write a compiler.

I like fruit baskets because it gives you the ability to mail someone a piece of fruit without appearing insane. Like, if someone just mailed you an apple you'd be like, 'huh? What the hell is this?' But if it's in a fruit basket you're like, 'this is nice!'

I get an awful lot of fan mail, and I read all that I can.

Now back in those days, to become a rural mail carrier you had to be approved by congress.

If I'm home with no chore at hand, and a package of books has come, the television set and the chess board and the unanswered mail will have to manage without me if one of the books is a detective story.

Whenever I do your show, sometimes I get a little check in the mail and then I take that check and buy a new pair of shoes, and then I wear those shoes the next time I do your show.

It is hard to check five email inboxes, three voice mail systems, or five blogs that you are tracking.

Most of my mail comes from young people.

One of my timesaving habits is to save all of my magazines and junk mail for airplane trips. I walk on the plane with a very heavy bundle, but by the time the trip is over, it can all be thrown away.

That's my dream job, to be able to mail songs out to people who want to hear them. Paste my face on them and not travel all over the world trying to sell them.

I don't even have voice mail or answering machines anymore. I hate the phone, and I don't want to call anybody back. If I go to hell, it will be a small closet with a telephone in it, and I will be doomed and destined for eternity to return phone calls.

If you take the biological weapons in the United States we still will have perhaps a single individual who was able to make anthrax, dry it, and spread it through the mail and cause terror.

And I love the hate mail I get, the unsigned, misspelled letters I get telling me to go back to Russia or wherever.

I got more mail than anybody on the history of The Today Show, but half of it was to get me off the air.

I get mail; therefore I am.

I guess I'm not that aware of such a big fan base. I have a few core people who write me no matter what I'm doing, but I hardly have sacks of mail being dropped on my door!

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.

As of today, the Postfix mail transport agent has almost 50,000 lines of code, comments not included.

I would say 90 percent of my mail and phone calls are from people who want some kind of help or succor or commitment from me to do something.

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

In the office, the mail that came in was always 10 to 1 for me.

To this day I get mail from women who say, I went to law school because of your song. But I would hate to think out of the wide spectrum of things I have done in my career, that's all I would be remembered for.

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.

One serious drawback about letters is that, in order to get them, one must send some out. When it comes to the mail, I feel it is better to receive than to give.

As many of the riders before me had been held up and robbed of their packages, mail and money that they carried, for that was the only means of getting mail and money between these points.

Politicians are just Daily Mail journalists writ large, aren't they? They're always telling us what's going to happen, and we know they don't know!

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

I do get a lot of mail. I get a lot of foreign mail because my mail gets mixed with Emilio Estevez.