(62 quotes found)
“[Before opening an envelope for best supporting actress] I feel like Adam when he said to Eve, `Back up, I don't know how big this gets.”
Robin Williams
“The life of our city is rich in poetic and marvelous subjects. We are enveloped and steeped as though in an atmosphere of the marvelous; but we do not notice it.”
Charles Baudelaire
“The pains of childbirth were altogether different from the enveloping effects of other kinds of pain. These were pains one could follow with one's mind.”
Margaret Mead
“For most men, life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed”
Clifton Fadiman
“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
“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
“This trial provoked interest on the part of the press, which pushed the envelope of free inquiry to meet public interest. The matter was so sensitive the press was reined in by authorities who put a lid on coverage.”
Carlyle Thayer
“It's July 13 and she receives the check for $12,000 and it comes in an envelope with no return address, ... It was a Bank of America check drafted July 5 out of San Antonio. Remember, this man is supposed to be from the UK.”
Bruce McKay
“And don't use green ink on red envelopes. It looks Christmassy, but we don't recommend it.”
Brenda Ryans
“This is a whole different ballgame, with so many people being displaced, ... We have to push the envelope of the rules that were appropriate in the past. If we wait, people will be stuck in these cavernous shelters.”
Charles Figley
