Words matter. These are the best Postman Quotes from famous people such as Val Kilmer, Peter Mayle, Craig Ferguson, Michael Bisping, Geraldine Brooks, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
Postman is a media analyst and his theory is that television doesn’t influence our culture, but that it is our culture and the presidency and anything that relies on television.
Sundays in France have a different atmosphere to other days, with fewer phone calls, no postman, no delivery men and no one banging on the door.
I’ve started looking at my own father a bit funny. He assures me, though, that I really am the son of a Scottish postman.
I worked in factories, slaughterhouses, as an upholsterer. I did demolition work, was a postman, was a tiler, a plasterer. I even sold double-glazing door-to-door. But I always dreamed of being a world champion, first of all as a boxer.
‘You’ve got mail!’ exclaims the cheery automaton at America Online. The flag on the mailbox icon waves invitingly on my computer screen. For a second, I’m 10 years old again, waiting for the postman’s whistle to slice the stillness of an Australian afternoon.
Never take your makeup off before bed. Sleep in it. That way, you’re all ready to go if a hot postman rings the doorbell early.
I am one of the new characters in the brand new series of ‘Postman Pat.’ It has been a joy to do.
I was in ‘The Postman Always Rings Twice’ with Jack Nicholson. That was fun. I think I made, like, $33 or something. I got to miss a whole day of school, and when you’re a little kid, that’s cool.
The postman wants an autograph. The cab driver wants a picture. The waitress wants a handshake. Everyone wants a piece of you.
I love movies like ‘The Postman Always Rings Twice’ that are based on short novellas.
I had gone to New York with no plan at all. I did a lot of jobs – barman, teacher, security guard, postman and construction worker – and I was meeting many eccentric characters, and they were saying funny things, which I always wrote down.
I have a lot of nervous energy. Work is my best way of channelling that into something productive unless I want to wind up assaulting the postman or gardener.
When I was young, for some reason, I thought a postman’s job was quite cool, and once, I even contemplated becoming a lawyer. Finally, I decided to dabble in something creative like fashion designing or photography. Till I joined college, I had no clue that one day, I will face the camera.
I don’t want the giant ego. I don’t want to become Kevin Costner, singing on the soundtrack to The Postman.
If efforts to do social work are couched in selfish motives, then they will die a premature death. Why would my efforts get politicised? I have values I inherited from my father. He helped many. Anyone, even a postman knocking on our door would get a glass of water and some sweets.
Umpires are necessary evils. That’s just the nature of the beast. For years, people have looked on umpiring as a job they could get any postman to do.
The measure of success was writing a song, recording it and for it being in the hit parade in England. Success was about the postman walking up the garden whistling my song. I wasn’t trying to conquer the world.
When I was born, my dad was a scaffolder, and my mum worked in a chip shop. Then my mum taught herself how to be a hairdresser and ended up with her own salon; my dad became a postman and then a counter clerk. Our first house didn’t have a bathroom.
I’ve never sent an email to anybody. I believe in keeping the postman in work.
I’m as happy doing ‘Postman Pat’ as I am doing ‘Hamlet.’
