Mail Quotations

At a time when the Post Office is losing substantial revenue from the instantaneous flow of information by email and on the Internet, slowing mail service is a recipe for disaster.

Every once in a while, someone will mail me a single popcorn kernel that didn't pop. I'll get out a fresh kernel, tape it to a piece of paper and mail it back to them.

I'm basically a dinosaur. I don't use e-mail. But I do recognize the importance of science and the resulting possibilities.

What happened was I saw this ad for a yogurt plant for sale. It was in my junk mail pile, and I threw it into the garbage can. And then about half an hour later, with the dirt on it, I picked it up from the garbage can, and I called out of curiosity.

I get a lot of fan mail addressed to Bilbo and sometimes Sir Bilbo - it's hardly ever addressed to Ian Holm, in fact. My business manager drafts the replies, and then I pop in to the office and sign them, 'Bilbo!'

I still use quill and parchment. I do e-mails, and I write, but I don't go around surfing too much.

I have received hostile voice mail messages and e-mails. They are often anonymous, I'm sad to say, as anonymous messages are delivered only by very low forms of human life, in my opinion.

The people who send us fan mail written in blood say the nicest things, so it doesn't freak us out too much.

I still get so much fan mail addressed to Carol Brady, and I think a lot of it's through the Net. And I always answer it, if it's legible.

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.

Who needs fan mail when you have the Internet?

I get mail from people all over the world now from people who tell me that they didn't really understand Down syndrome, but because of me they have read about it and studied it and now they know a lot more about it.

One time I got fan mail that was from Africa. It's really neat.

Our customers call and e-mail us to say that's how it feels when a Zappos box arrives. And that's how we view this company.

When I go to business meetings, I'm still told way too often by some receptionist, 'The mail room is downstairs,' to believe that racial perceptions don't still exist. But I figure there are always going to be knuckleheads no matter how many of their herd get stuck in the tar pits of progress.

The Net is not television. It is the finest direct-marketing mechanism in the history of mankind. It is direct mail with free stamps, and it allows you to create richer and deeper relationships than you've ever been able to create before.

The stance I took was there is no room for racial bias anywhere in sports. I believe that was basically all I said about it. Certainly I was cast as an abolitionist. Death threats came. Hate mail came.

Some very famous directors have started in the mail room, which is just getting inside the studio, getting to know people, getting to know the routine.

And I did Batman, too. I did Mr. Freeze. I get more mail for him than anything I've ever done.

Getting snail mail is one of my favorite indulgences, and I think receiving mail is actually a common joy.

My fan mail is enormous. Everyone is under six.

Turkey Hollow is a small country town in Sullivan County, a remote region of the Catskill Mountains. Surrounded by forests, it counts 10 full-time residents, has no mail service, and no cell phone reception. However, what it lacks in amenities, it compensates for in sheer natural wonder.

So I have a friend who works for me once a week. She's got e-mail, so anybody that must send an e-mail, they send it to her and she faxes it to me. Sounds like a long way of doing things, but it works for me.

And indeed, last week, the FBI executed a search warrant on my residence. This happened one day after my attorneys had left a message on the lead FBI investigator's voice mail confirming my continued readiness to answer questions and otherwise cooperate.

Letters had always defeated distance, but with the coming of e-mail, time seemed to be vanquished as well.

I used to get so many letters from students about the ending of 'Pro Femina.' So I had a stamp made that said 'irony, irony, irony' to put on a postcard and mail it back.

I have too many friends who tell me that they spend the first hour of every morning going through their e-mail messages. I'd like to use my time more carefully.

I get a lot of mail from men who really identify with Stuart, you know, Sparrow's boyfriend. I love that. Even though I used to say I wanted men to read the strip even though there weren't any men in it, so they'd be forced to identify with the women.

Any beings advanced enough to traverse interstellar distances are at least a thousand years beyond our technical level. Spending gobs of time examining our missiles is equivalent to sending the Air Force back to the Middle Ages and insisting they examine the chain mail factories.

I personally call one of my fans every month. I answer all of my own fan mail.

I would really hate to have e-mail. It's bad enough with all the mail I get.

I am a great believer in the OHIO principle: Only handle it once. When you read an e-mail, decide whether or not to reply to it, and, if you need to reply, do so right then and there. I have found that about 80 percent of all e-mails, whether internal or external, do not require a response.

I am not overlooking any mail. I'm looking at all of it. I even wrote back to the Viagra people.

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

You do it a day at a time. You write as well as you can, you put it in the mail, you leave it under submission, you never leave it at home.

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

I was 16 and got my boyfriend's name tattooed on me. Don't do it. 'Cause it hurts. The moment you do it, the next month, the next year, you'll be broken up - trust me - and cover-ups hurt. You can show your love in other ways. Ink is not it. Write it on a piece of paper and mail it to him.

I am one of the graduates of the William Morris famous, famous mail room from the 60s.

I'm not computer literate. I e-mail. I know how to get on the Web, but I haven't crossed over into the internet world. I'm old-fashioned, I guess.

Here's the problem: I don't like who I've become when my iPhone is within reach. I find myself checking e-mails and responding to texts throughout the day with some kind of Pavlovian ferocity - it's not a conscious act, but a reflexive one.

Although I get so much fan mail from Great Britain, tell me, am I more famous there than Michael Madsen?

Our mail product, Hotmail, is the market leader globally.

Any editing, software work, and mail is done in this exported Plan 9

I love home. I'll stay up there for days on end, I won't even go down the driveway to look for the mail.

One reason I relate to 'Veronica Mars' fans is because I can totally geek out about shows. I mean, I write Vince Gilligan fan mail every year.

I'm an e-mail junkie though I'm trying to read my in-box only twice a day and to answer all at once.

My fan mail is what keeps me going.

I dont want no mail. Send me a Facebook message.

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.

I get e-mails from mothers asking me to call their daughters for a date. I have a great life.

I think it's a sensible thing not to read your fan mail - not to take it too seriously.

Those who are seeking ways to tap into the potential of e-mail will find themselves in a position to capitalize on the pending explosion in Internet usage.

Even if you're walking through the airport or going to pick up your mail, if you meet a fan and they have a camera, they will take a picture of you and millions could potentially see that picture - if it's picked up by a blog or whatever.

I'm hopeless by e-mail, by phone, by text.

I have no ghost writers. I personally write every message and every piece of published mail.

Unlike then, the mail stream of today has diminished by such things as e-mails and faxes and cell phones and text messages, largely electronic means of communication that replace mail.

If you want to write an angry e-mail, write it but don't send it. It's based on my experience that whenever I have acted out in some manner, I have always regretted it.

I never looked at fan mail, for some reason. My mother and grandmother handled my mail - although it's not like I was ever in the stratosphere of Kirk Cameron or Scott Baio.

People respond faster to you on a text than an e-mail. Why is that? Why will they ignore an e-mail, but get back to a text?

I get a lot of fan mail from girls. It's interesting because it's not just the U.S. - you get things from people all over the world. They send these postage stamps and you're like, 'Where do you live?' It's crazy. I'll get letters from the troops, too.

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

The exchange by e-mail is more intimate than conversation - you allow yourself to say things you otherwise wouldn't.

There's so much stuff said about me that's not true, so now if something is hurtful and wrong, I send an e-mail or letter immediately, saying, This is not true.

Texts and e-mails travel no faster than phone calls and telegrams, and their content isn't necessarily richer or poorer.

I sent one e-mail in my life. I sent it to Jeff Raikes at Microsoft, and it ended up in court in Minneapolis, so I am one for one.

I was one of the first authors to have an active website. I'm totally obsessed with technology. I'm always looking for ways to connect with my readers. I answer all my fan mail.

I don't want anybody to not recognize how appreciative I am of the volume of e-mails I get.

In 'The Secret Agent,' it's basically a character that was admired by Theodore Kaczynski, which is some fan mail you don't really want to open. This is a man who is a chemist and who specializes in making bombs and despises humanity.

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

Direct mail was the basis of a lot of new Right organizations in the '70s and early '80s, and it actually led to the downfall of the majority of them. It's very expensive, and you end up putting your organization more and more in debt if you're not successful with it.

Some of the best fan mail I get are from our men and women in the military and intelligence communities. They say, 'Boy you do your homework, this is exactly how we're doing it.'

I'm predicting that we'll finally have a computer will search my e-mail automatically and delete every message that begins with 'thought you'd be interested,' and then give an electrical shock to the sender to remind him or her to stop send that kind of message.

We don't have real control over death. You could die of a heart attack, a building could fall on you, you could be in an accident, you could have a fatal disease. So, how should you conduct your life? You just go ahead and live, taking reasonable precautions - like handling the mail more carefully.

Running started as a way of relaxing. It's the only time I have to myself. No phones or e-mails or faxes.

Nobody actually talks to anybody anymore. People in cubicles next to each other, they e-mail each other.

E-mail is far more convenient than the telephone, as far as I'm concerned. I would throw my phone away if I could get away with it.

I communicate mostly via e-mail and receive hundreds of e-mails a day.

I'm not very technically minded. I mean, I don't know how to do e-mail on computers.

Jim Henson was the only piece of fan mail I ever wrote when I was a little kid.

The mail amazes me. I sometimes get these letters that are ten pages, and handwritten, from women pouring their hearts out and, for security reasons, I can only respond with a headshot and 'Dear so and so, be good. WM.' It never feels like enough.

I love reader mail, and I do read it, but I won't read hate mail.

It's more important to me to get an e-mail that says, 'I saw your page and it changed my life,' than how many hits the page got.

Where is love exchanged? Where is the love felt when a state administrator stuffs a welfare check into an outgoing mail?

I hate the computer. I hate their spell-check. I won't ever do e-mail.

As a result of the digital age and the decline of first-class mail, there is no question that the Postal Service must change and develop a new business model.

My heart goes out to a missionary who does not receive regular mail from home. Generally, a letter once a week is a good rule. But on the other hand, too much mail can be damaging to a missionary's morale.

People will now go to films with subtitles, you know. They're not afraid of them. It's one of the upsides of text-messaging and e-mail. Maybe the only good thing to come of it.

The number of e-mails and letters that I get from choreographers, from sculptors, from composers who are being inspired by science is huge.

Whether you are a low-income elderly woman living at the end of a dirt road in Vermont or a wealthy CEO living on Park Avenue, you get your mail six days a week. And you pay for this service at a cost far less than anywhere else in the industrialized world.

Using e-mail, I can communicate with scientists all over the world.

If you count E-mail, I'm on the Internet all day, every day.

SPAM is taking e-mail, which is a wonderful tool, and exploiting the idea that it's very inexpensive to send mail.

Typically, your corporate e-mail account is not, today, that spam-targeted. It's more the free e-mail accounts that are spam-targeted.

The post office is able to measure at least $200 million in mail fraud per year. Anything they can do to prevent that only helps them.

There are some companies that use it for a direct mail piece they have within a community.

When we come to Miami, we need to just mail it in. We don't even need to stop.

Unfortunately, no, ... man responsible for the mail bombings.

Years ago, when I first started wearing hair extensions, I would get mail from young girls, or young girls would come up to me and they would say, 'Tyra you have the most beautiful hair, like I could never grow hair like that!' And I would say 'Child, this is a weave!'

With the Hotmail breach, the mail was quite secure as it was going over the Internet. It was the back-end system that wasn't secure.

We're getting a lot of mail but I don't have a definite feeling about the final number.