I should be a postage stamp, because that's the only way I'll ever get licked. I'm beautiful. I'm fast. I'm so mean I make medicine sick. I can't possibly be beat.
I never needed Panavision and stereophonic sound to woo the world. I did it in black and white on a screen the size of a postage stamp. Honey, that's talent.
Consider the postage stamp: its usefulness consists in the ability to stick to one thing till it gets there.
The Russian writer Vladimir Nabokov once said: In a Democracy, portraits of a nation's leader should never exceed the size of a postage stamp. That won't happen so quickly in Russia.
The most interesting thing about a postage stamp is the persistence with which it sticks to its job.
I love the rebelliousness of snail mail, and I love anything that can arrive with a postage stamp. There's something about that person's breath and hands on the letter.
Designs in connection with postage stamps and coinage may be described, I think, as the silent ambassadors on national taste.
If the big publishers are doing so well, why do they require writers to send return postage with their manuscripts?
I want any excuse to come home. My dad is not a spring chicken any more. If anyone says, 'Go buy a postage stamp in London,' I'll go and do it.
I think I sent out some résumés for marketing jobs, and they all came back in the mail because I didn't have enough postage.
I should be a postage stamp. That’s the only way I’ll ever get licked!
I dream that my face appears on a postage stamp.
I collect postage stamps. That's the only thing I can afford to collect! I hope in five years' time to say, "Yes, I specialize in Gustav Dore first editions. "
He picked the postage stamp over the wall with aplomb.
I emphasize the distinction between brackets and no brackets because it will affect your reading experience, if you will allow it. Brackets are exciting. Even though you are approaching Sappho in translation, that is no reason you should miss the drama of trying to read a papyrus torn in half or riddled with holes or smaller than a postage stamp--brackets imply a free space of imaginal adventure.
