A Quote by Robert Benchley

I have often wondered how they manage to get return envelopes which miss, by one-quarter of an inch, fitting the blank you are supposed 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.

Robert Benchley

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Robert Benchley
American - Comedian
September 15, 1889 - November 21, 1945

Would you please publish the enclosed manuscript or return it without delay, as I have other irons in the fire.

Elinor Glyn

Every day in America, about 25,000 people buy a quarter-inch drill. But nobody in America wants a quarter-inch drill. What they want are holes.

Angus King

[Economy] is flat on the floor, and the paramedics have arrived. And they shouldn't argue about whether they put the resuscitation equipment a quarter of an inch this way or a quarter of an inch this way, or they shouldn't start criticizing the patient, because he didn't have a blood pressure test or something like that. They should do what's needed right now.

Warren Buffett

People don't want quarter-inch drills. They want quarter-inch holes.

Theodore Levitt

I get thousands of requests for mentorship, but they don't offer anything in return, like filing, cleaning my house, or something. All too often, it's "please mentor me; I need my shot." But they don't offer anything in return.

Ryan Blair

People don’t want to buy a quarter-inch drill. They want to buy a quarter-inch hole!

Theodore Levitt

Often writers cast their words out prophetically, as a sorceress might cast a spell, and many times when the words return to you, enclosed between covers, your phantom is so fully fleshed out in its own persona, you don't recognize your own creation.

Sarah Ban Breathnach

We are all a quarter good, a quarter bad, a quarter animal and a quarter child which equals a whole bunch of crazy.

Cara Delevingne

I don't have any intentions to return to England. I would go back if I could return as a free person. I don't want to return to prison.

Ronald Biggs

I always get mad when guys make shots in the first quarter, second quarter, pumping their chest, and then the game on the line, they miss. So you're doing all that for no reason.

Tyronn Lue

You cannot disown what is yours. Flung out, there is always the return, the reckoning, the revenge, perhaps the reconciliation. There is always the return.

Jeanette Winterson

Never in any case say I have lost such a thing, but I have returned it. Is your child dead? It is a return. Is your wife dead? It is a return. Are you deprived of your estate? Is not this also a return?

Epictetus

Entire populations of market strategists, fund managers, and economists are employed to try and intuit for clients which securities to bet on for the best possible return each year - or quarter.

Kelly Evans

The return from the walk, and the arrival of tea, should be exactly coincident, and not later than a quarter past four.

C. S. Lewis

You have to emote much more to get what you're trying to get across to come through a quarter inch of latex that's superglued to your face.

Armie Hammer

We'll invest in infrastructure and productive infrastructure like railroads and ports and bridges and schools, things that will have a return, economic return or social return.

Nayib Bukele

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