A Quote by Finley Peter Dunne

There aint any news in being good. You might write the doings of all the convents of the world on the back of a postage stamp, and have room to spare. — © Finley Peter Dunne
There aint any news in being good. You might write the doings of all the convents of the world on the back of a postage stamp, and have room to spare.
There ain't any news in being good. You might write the doings of all the convents of the world on the back of a postage stamp, and have room to spare.
I need to write in a small room - the smaller the better. I can't write in a big room where someone might sneak up behind my back.
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 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.
I dream that my face appears on a postage stamp.
With full responsibility for my words as a professional biologist, I do not hesitate to say that all existing and genuine knowledge about the way in which the physical characteristics of human communities are related to their cultural capabilities can be written on the back of a postage stamp.
He picked the postage stamp over the wall with aplomb.
The President of today is just the postage stamp of tomorrow.
Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there.
I should be a postage stamp. That’s the only way I’ll ever get licked!
Of course, it is possible for any citizen with time to spare, and a canny eye, to work out what is actually going on, but for the many there is not time, and the network news is the only news even though it may not be news at all but only a series of flashing fictions.
The most interesting thing about a postage stamp is the persistence with which it sticks to its job.
Consider the postage stamp: its usefulness consists in the ability to stick to one thing till it gets there.
I just tell you and though I dont sound like it I've got plenty of sense, there aint any answer, there aint going to be any answer, there never has been any answer, that's the answer.
People ask me what I do in my spare time, and I look at them blankly, truly believing that I don't even have spare time, and if I did, I'd probably use it for something mundane, like chipping away at the mound of laundry rising to dangerous proportions in the back room.
Well you're in your little room and you're working on something good but if it's really good you're gonna need a bigger room and when you're in the bigger room you might not know what to do you might have to think of how you got started sitting in your little room
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