I have often wondered how they manage to get return envelopes which miss, by one-quarter of an inch, fitting the blank you are sup...posed to return. They say, "Please fill out and return the enclosed envelope," and the enclosed envelope is always one-quarter of an inch too small.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
... all my letters are read. I like that. I usually put something in there that I would like the staff to see. If some of the staf...f are lazy and choose not to read the mail, I usually write on the envelope "Legal Mail." This way it will surely be read. It's important that we educate everybody as we go along.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Geroge Peatty: I'm gonna have it, Sherry. Hundreds of thousands, maybe a half million. Sherry Peatty: Of course you are, darl...ing. Did you put the right address on the envelope when you sent it to the North Pole?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Another evening wasted! I begin Writing the envelope, and a bitter smoke... Of self-contempt, of boredom too, ascends. What use is an endearment and a joke?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Just as the mother's womb holds us for ten months not in preparation for itself but for the region to which we seem to be discharg...ed when we are capable of drawing breath and surviving in the open, so in the span extending from infancy to old age we are ripening for another birth. Another beginning awaits us, another status. We cannot yet bear heaven's light except at intervals; look unfalteringly, then, to that decisive hour which is the body's last but not the soul's. All that lies about you look upon as the luggage in a posting station; you must push on. At your departure Nature strips you as bare as at your entry. You cannot carry out more than you brought in; indeed, you must lay down a good part of what you brought into life. The envelope of skin, which is your last covering, will be stripped off; the flesh and the blood which is diffused and courses through the whole of it will be stripped off; the bones and sinews which are the structural support of the shapeless and precarious mass will be stripped off. That day which you dread as the end is your birth into eternity.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The prince was getting tired. He began to feel like a shoe salesman.... But he gave it one last try. This time Cinderella fit into the shoe like a love letter into its envelope.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
If you think about it, a peer group is nothing but an empathic envelope without adults around. It has the same three characteristi...cs of a family. It has its own type of empathy ("We understand you, even if no one else does."); it has clear expectations ("Break rules and you're out."); and it offers kids a chance to spend time with one another.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Open the envelope quickly, O this is not our son's writing, yet his name is sign'd,... O a strange hand writes for our dear son, O stricken mother's soul! All swims before her eyes, flashes with black, she catches the main words only, Sentences broken, gunshot wound in the breast, cavalry skirmish, taken to hospital, At present low, but will soon be better.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
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.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »