Top 295 Envelope Quotes & Sayings

I'm completely different from Pietersen. He would turn up to the opening of an envelope

An empty envelope that is sealed contains a secret.

When you see a handwritten envelope addressed to you in your packet of mail when you get your mail out of the mailbox - when you see a personal letter waiting for you - it's exciting. It touches you. You say "Oh, somebody really thought of me and didn't just slap a mailing label across an envelope. Somebody wrote something to me."

The fun part for me is to just really push that envelope.

I've always pushed the envelope when it comes to action.

As a father I am extremely proud of Beyonce. I mean, Beyonce just keeps pushing the envelope, pushing the envelope and setting an example of the whole industry.

Nobody wants to take a risk with scripts that push the envelope.

Lance Armstrong pushes the envelope in terms of the human experience. You can have a personal best, you can push your own envelope. For Lance, the person pushing him is him. The only person he's competing with, I think, is himself. To push that limit to the next step. There's a lot to learn from him. Lots.

The part of the envelope that tells a person where to place the stamp when they can't quite figure it out for themselves.

So cartooning, for me, is an honorable thing. It's pushing the envelope. It's the truth of something through exaggeration

Taking delight in the journey takes confidence. It pushes the envelope of design.

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.

I just want to keep pushing the envelope without it feeling forced.

The cable makers are the ones who are willing to take risks and do something original and push the envelope some.

If you can accept defeat and open your pay envelope without feeling guilty, you're stealing.

We want to push it. We feel we are the envelope.

Edie Sedgwick had a cool style; she pushed the envelope for the time.

My wife is a real Puritan. She thinks licking the stamp on the envelope of a Valentine is foreplay.

Because my dad died when I was young, and I have a severely disabled sister, I couldn't really push the envelope at home.

Fastidiousness is the envelope of indelicacy.

'Blackheart' is purely falling into the electronic world and pushing the envelope.

When it comes to putting together a new show, we always push the envelope, and that's part of Motley Crue's legacy.

I wrote short stories for seven years and used to mail them out. You couldn't send them by e-mail. I called them manila boomerangs. I'd seal the self-addressed stamped envelope inside an envelope and I'd mail it off, and it would come back six weeks later with a rejection letter in it.

I had a moment in the Library of Congress among the presidential papers. I opened a folder, and there was an envelope in it. The front of the envelope was facing the table, so I didn't know what was in it. I opened it and out spilled all this hair. I turned the envelop over and it says, 'Clipped from President Garfield's head on his deathbed.'

Today is the anniversary of the Gettysburg Address. President Lincoln wrote it on his way to the site of the speech on the back of an envelope. One guy on the back of an envelope wrote the great Gettysburg Address - while every night it takes six guys to write this crap!

Pushing the envelope' sort of implies that you're inside the envelope with everyone else, and you're trying to find the edges on the outsides.

It is not easy to stop brown envelope because journalists are part of the society

I like people who push the envelope.

Could you double-check the envelope?

Even if we are 50 or 60 years old, if we can do it we will continue to create content that pushes the envelope.

Letters are expectation packaged in an envelope.

If something can't be explained on the back of an envelope, it's rubbish.

I always think you should push your envelope every chance you get.

I've always liked outrageous comedy and pushing the envelope.

It's the job of the young to push the societal envelope.

For most men, life is a search for the proper Manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.

Pushing the envelope, musically speaking, is what needs to be done to rise to the top.

If you are always pressing the envelope, you will suffer many paper cuts.

You can't raise the standard of women's morals by raising their pay envelope. It lies deeper than that.

Why do you sit there looking like an envelope without any address on it?

I always not only want push the envelope in my career but I also have an itch for going against the grain.

I like to stretch myself and push the envelope, so anything that's new or different or not of my daily routine, I am so for.

For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.

A real thank you does not come by e-mail. They come in the mail in an envelope. And what comes out of an envelope is a beautiful thing to touch and to handle and to pass around for everyone to read.

I get an award for being the best dressed, but at the end of the day I'm not Daphne Guinness. I don't like people to look at me for my dress. The letter is more important than the envelope. But if you feel good in your envelope, then you will feel better about yourself.

Throughout all of human history we've enjoyed certain benign circumstances: an envelope of atmosphere, an envelope of temperature. A kind of resilience that if you cut down trees, then they'll grow back. You take fish, they recover. You put stuff into the atmosphere that you know is not good for us, but we can still breathe. We haven't awakened, generally, to the sense of urgency that does exist.

Sometimes you have to push the envelope in pursuit of the right thing.

Starz is a network that's going for the content that's extremely honest and pushing the envelope and is provocative.

You don't know what the country is ready for unless you're pushing that envelope, and I was told that I couldn't develop 'Will and Grace'.

We were just trying to make the films that we could get made, and to push the envelope. We didn't realize how far we had pushed the envelope. That all came later. That all came from books and articles about the golden age of the '70s. Believe me, to a lot of us, it was no golden age. The studio heads were very powerful then. They would fire guys right and left. They would look at your dailies and tell you what was wrong with them... a lot of stuff that doesn't go on today. Young filmmakers who are successful today, they don't often have that to put up with.

So cartooning, for me, is an honorable thing. It's pushing the envelope. It's the truth of something through exaggeration.

After 'Urinetown,' 'Avenue Q' and now 'Mormon,' is there an envelope remaining to be pushed?

I'm in competition only with myself, and I always want to push the envelope.

I can now tell from the envelope whether or not it is a good script.

Payday at my house is like the Academy Awards. My wife says: May I have the envelope please.

I don't want to push the envelope. Let the envelope stay in the middle of the table. I'll just make you laugh.

Oh, Kendra, before I forget, Gavin asked me to give you this letter." He held out a gray, speckled envelope. "Happy birthday to you!" Seth exclaimed, his voice full of implications. Kendra tried not to blush as she tucked the envelope away. "Dear Kendra," Seth improvised, "you're the only girl who really gets me, you know, and I think you're very mature for your age--" "What about some cake?" Grandma interrupted, holding the first piece out to Kendra and glaring at Seth.

I'll always push the envelope. To me, the ultimate sin in life is to be boring. I don't play it safe.

We're at this place where we're pushing the next stylistic envelope.

Many of my colleagues and I do films, which push the envelope and try to bring some change.