#stamp

He reads every book in his home but it is not enough. The country boy craves stories. He devours every poem and fable in his school and library. Still he hungers. For stories. ↗

— Jennifer Lanthier

#freedom-of-speech #journalism #prison #stamps #writing

You find that all men are successes or failures. Success is the stamp of truth. I will say all men who fail to place their feet on the dome of facts do so by not sieving all truth and throwing the faulty to one side. ↗

— Andrew Taylor Still

#facts #fail #failures #faulty #feet

Nearly all our originality comes from the stamp that time impresses upon our sensibility. ↗

— Charles Baudelaire

#impresses #nearly #originality #our #sensibility

Putting a stamp on things just helps you say, 'Hey, yesterday I was there, and today I'm here.' It's another step forward, and it feels like another turning point and an unleashing of creativity, and now I'm going to start focusing on the show and the production, the fun stuff that comes with it. ↗

— Shania Twain

#comes #creativity #feels #focusing #forward

Preserving tradition has become a nice hobby, like stamp collecting. ↗

— Mason Cooley

#collecting #hobby #like #nice #preserving

Vice is its own reward. It is virtue which, if it is to be marketed with consumer appeal, must carry Green Shield stamps. ↗

— Quentin Crisp

#carry #consumer #green #marketed #must

If we can't stamp out literature in the country, we can at least stop its being brought in from outside. ↗

— Evelyn Waugh

#brought #country #least #literature #out

The idea of licking stamps seemed great fun for me. ↗