Quotes about Stamp

The Internal Revenue Service is more ruthless than the Gestapo. Abolish the IRS! Stamp out organized crime! Votes: 4

My sentiments for the American cause, from the Stamp Act downward, have never changed... I am still of opinion that it is the cause of liberty and of human nature. Votes: 4

In the sixties, everyone you knew became famous. My flatmate was Terence Stamp. My barber was Vidal Sassoon. David Hockney did the menu in a restaurant I went to. I didn't know anyone unknown who didn't become famous. Votes: 4

The Stamp Act was a direct tax imposed on the colonies by King George III. This act inevitably led to the American Revolution. Just as the Stamp Act did in 1765, Obamacare should act as a wake-up call. Chief Justice Roberts provides us with a similar call to action. Votes: 4

Stamp your performance with excellence. Votes: 3

On March 10, 1764, preliminary resolutions passed the House of Commons looking towards the Stamp Act. Votes: 3

The Who would never have been successful without two special people, Kit Lambert and Chris Stamp Votes: 3

Make it a life-rule to give your best to whatever passes through your hands. Stamp it with your manhood. Let superiority be your trademark... Votes: 3

For Quality: Stamp out fires, automate, computerize, M.B.O., install merit pay, rank people, best efforts, zero defects. WRONG!!!! Missing ingredient: profound knowledge. Votes: 3

In 1765, Parliament passed the Stamp Act, which, as any American high school student can tell you, was an act that apparently had something to do with stamps. Votes: 3

Imagine the word CANCEL being a huge rubber stamp in your mind. Stamp CANCEL on any self-defeating image you place in your head, and begin to think in a self-enhancing way. Votes: 3

The Stamp Act imposed on the colonies by the Parliament of Great Britain is an ill-judged measure. Parliament has no right to put its hands into our pockets without our consent. Votes: 3

The morning breaks; the steeds in their stalls Stamp and neigh, as the hostler calls; The day returns, but nevermore Returns the traveler to the shore, And the tide rises, the tide falls. Votes: 3

I'd been a Superman fan since the time I was a little kid. We had great respect for the Donner movie, and Superman II with Terence Stamp as Zod but I felt it was time to bring the character into the 21st century. Votes: 3

Up with life. Stamp out all small and large indignities. Leave everyone alone to make it without pressure. Down with hurting. Lower the standard of living. Do without plastics. Smash the servo-mechanisms. Stop grabbing. Snuff the breeze and hug the kids. Love all love. Hate all hate. Votes: 3

A lot of newspapers say, Terence Stamp is playing himself and we're as bored as he is. Votes: 3

All science is either physics or stamp collecting. Votes: 2

Every man bears the whole stamp of the human condition. Votes: 2

The President of today is just the postage stamp of tomorrow. Votes: 2

Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there. Votes: 2

The most interesting thing about a postage stamp is the persistence with which it sticks to its job. Votes: 2

I look around me and nowhere do I see a stamp of disapproval with which nature marked a woman's candid brow. Votes: 2

In our music, in our everyday life, there are so many negative things. Why not have something positive and stamp it with blackness? Votes: 2

I am really enjoying the new Martin Luther King Jr stamp - just think about all those white bigots, licking the backside of a black man. Votes: 2

Faced with crisis, the man of character falls back on himself. He imposes his own stamp of action, takes responsibility for it, makes it his own. Votes: 2

War alone brings up to their highest tension all human energies and imposes the stamp of nobility upon the peoples who have the courage to make it. Votes: 2

As a minister, you shouldn't imagine you know better than the technical experts in your ministry. In the end you're there to apply the political stamp of approval. Votes: 2

We must, however, acknowledge, as it seems to me, that man with all his noble qualities... still bears in his bodily frame the indelible stamp of his lowly origin. Votes: 2

I should be a postage stamp, because that's the only way I'll ever get licked. I'm beautiful. I'm fast. I'm so mean I make medicine sick. I can't possibly be beat. Votes: 2

The god of love lives in a state of need. It is a need. It is an urge. It is a homeostatic imbalance. Like hunger and thirst, it's almost impossible to stamp out. Votes: 2

Each victim of suicide gives his act a personal stamp which expresses his temperament, the special conditions in which he is involved, and which, consequently, cannot be explained by the social and general causes of the phenomenon. Votes: 2

Down through the centuries, this trick has been tried by various establishments throughout the world. They force people to get involved in the kind of examination that has only one aim and that is to stamp out dissent. Votes: 2

I don't really have a domestic inclination. Even my apartment has a semblance of a storage facility. It's just stacks, there are no bookshelves, just books and piles of stamp collections and weird little sewing and knitting projects. Votes: 2

Formulate and stamp indelibly on your mind a mental picture of yourself as succeeding. Hold this picture tenaciously. Never permit it to fade. Your mind will seek to develop the picture... Do not build up obstacles in your imagination. Votes: 2

You want to know how I'm feeling? Just look at me, and I'll tell you how I'm feeling. Nothing is hidden. I'm all out there. I cry like a baby, I get upset, I stamp my feet. I'm not stoic. Votes: 2

Merely by describing yourself as black you have started on a road towards emancipation, you have committed yourself to fight against all forces that seek to use your blackness as a stamp that marks you out as a subservient being. Votes: 2

Alongside my 'no email' policy, I resolve to make better use of the wonderful Royal Mail, and send letters and postcards to people. There is a huge pleasure in writing a letter, putting it in an envelope and sticking the stamp on it. And huge pleasure in receiving real letters, too. Votes: 2

We only had a couple of ways for people to hate us on 'X-Files,' including still writing actual fan letters. Now people can instantly tell you, 'Oh my God, I love you,' or 'Oh my God, you are the worst person on the planet.' They actually had to hate you enough or love you enough to write a letter, put a stamp on it and send it. Votes: 2

Lord, stamp eternity on my eyeballs. Votes: 0

Disobedience is the stamp of the hero. Votes: 0

You can't triple stamp a double stamp! Votes: 0

Money is the seal and stamp of success. Votes: 0

I get airsick just licking an airmail stamp. Votes: 0

Fifteen cents of every twenty-cent stamp goes for storage. Votes: 0

Preserving tradition has become a nice hobby, like stamp collecting. Votes: 0

The impulse for personal adornment is hard to stamp out. Votes: 0

We're born first humans then after they stamp our passport. Votes: 0

All of science can be divided into physics and stamp-collecting. Votes: 0

I dream that my face appears on a postage stamp. Votes: 0

He picked the postage stamp over the wall with aplomb. Votes: 0

Great men stamp their mind upon their age and nation. Votes: 0

Character is "a stamp of good repute on a person." Votes: 0

You can't stamp on people and not get hurt in return. Votes: 0

Of this stamp is the cant of, Not men, but measures. Votes: 0

Advice and consent does not mean rubber stamp in the Senate. Votes: 0

Physics is the only real science. The rest are just stamp collecting. Votes: 0

In science there is only physics; all the rest is stamp collecting. Votes: 0

It can be a bit frustrating to always get the soft-rock stamp. Votes: 0

As a people we do not need anyone else's stamp of approval. Votes: 0

Our statute is a currency which we stamp with our own portrait. Votes: 0

Art is great only when it bears the stamp of the individual. Votes: 0

Idiosyncrasy and vicissitude had combined to stamp Sergeant Troy as an exceptional being. Votes: 0

In manufacturing, we try to stamp out variance. With people, variance is everything. Votes: 0

It would be hard to conceive of any activity more useless than stamp collecting. Votes: 0

Nearly all our originality comes from the stamp that time impresses upon our sensibility. Votes: 0

Never bully anyone because Karma has everyone’s address and a motherf**king stamp! Votes: 0

Genius is essentially creative; it bears the stamp of the individual who possesses it. Votes: 0

You can't stamp on a man's corns when he's got his feet cut off. Votes: 0

The great poem must have the stamp of greatness as well as its essence. Votes: 0

The rank is but the guinea's stamp, The man's the gowd for a' that. Votes: 0

I should be a postage stamp. That's the only way I'll ever get licked! Votes: 0

Why does a person spend money on a stamp to spout bile at a stranger? Votes: 0

The use of criticism, in periodical writing, is to sift, not to stamp a work. Votes: 0

I feel like every running back should have their own little stamp on the game. Votes: 0

Did you seriously just stamp your foot? I thought girls only did that on TV. Votes: 0

Self-laudation abounds among the unpolished, but nothing can stamp a man more sharply as ill-bred. Votes: 0

Do you think if the stamp-act is repealed, that the North Americans will be satisfied? Votes: 0

I think too many artists from my era tend to just stamp out a record. Votes: 0

I don't think being obsessed with sex is any stranger than being obsessed with stamp collecting. Votes: 0

I think, some countries, you have to be dead to have your picture on a stamp. Votes: 0

Custom is the most certain mistress of language, as the public stamp makes the current money. Votes: 0

That which is not measurable is not science. That which is not physics is stamp collecting. Votes: 0

Even virtue followed beyond reason's rule May stamp the just man knave, the sage a fool. Votes: 0

I weigh the man, not his title; 'tis not the king's stamp can make the metal better. Votes: 0

Classic art was the art of necessity: modern romantic art bears the stamp of caprice and chance. Votes: 0

Arranging is the way I put my stamp on my music as much as my guitar playing. Votes: 0

Books, like proverbs, receive their chief value from the stamp and esteem of ages through which they passed. Votes: 0

I think as an artist that's the best thing you can have - a personal stamp on something. Votes: 0

A leader without a vision is just a letter without a stamp; it can never reach his destination. Votes: 0

I do not intend to allow the Senate to rubber-stamp the president's plan to reward the Chinese Communists. Votes: 0

The stamp of the Saint is that he can waive his own rights and obey the Lord Jesus. Votes: 0

On 'Ant-Man', I took a rubber stamp from the office of Hank Pym, who's played by Michael Douglas. Votes: 0

On respect for the Queen: When I lick a stamp I always do it with my eyes closed. Votes: 0

Course, that's the trouble with politics, it breeds politics! So that makes it pretty hard to stamp out. Votes: 0

The object of punishment is to... lift the man up; to stamp out his bad nature and wicked disposition. Votes: 0

One of the exciting things about producing a comic is seeing the artist stamp his own interpretation on it. Votes: 0

Consider the postage stamp: its usefulness consists in the ability to stick to one thing till it gets there. Votes: 0

I believe babies are born as innovative personalities... But our social processes work to stamp out exploration and questioning. Votes: 0

My wife is a real Puritan. She thinks licking the stamp on the envelope of a Valentine is foreplay. Votes: 0

The walls have ears, ears that hear each little sound you make every time you stamp, throw a lamp. Votes: 0

Any foolish boy can stamp on a beetle, but all the professors in the world cannot make a beetle. Votes: 0

Neither team has really taken the baton by the scruff of the neck and put their stamp on it Votes: 0

The furnace of affliction refines us from earthly drossiness, and softens us for the impression of God's own stamp. Votes: 0

Look, isn't there any way you can just stamp me as not crazy and let me get outta here. Votes: 0

The only way you can learn about making films is by making them, by putting your stamp on the thing. Votes: 0

If we can't stamp out literature in the country, we can at least stop its being brought in from outside. Votes: 0

Death's stamp gives value to the coin of life; making it possible to buy with life what is truly precious. Votes: 0

I don't like to say bad things about paleontologists, but they're not very good scientists. They're more like stamp collectors. Votes: 0

Books, like proverbs, receive their chief value from the stamp and esteem of the ages through which they have passed. Votes: 0

Our Lord was 30 years preparing for 3 years of service. The modern stamp is to spend 3 hours preparing for 30 years of service. Votes: 0

I am ready and prepared to work with the President, but I will not be a rubber stamp for any president. Votes: 0

Bless people when they revile you. Think how much good they are doing by helping to stamp out the false ego. Votes: 0

Proud to be a Muslim isn't a stamp you have on your heart, it's a light you have in your heart. Votes: 0

Like a warrior in the battlefield, a writer must endeavour to use his pen to stamp the paper with his identity. Votes: 0

As General Eisenhower discovered, it is easier to end the Cold War or stamp out poverty than to master this devilish pastime. Votes: 0

Our character is but the stamp on our souls of the free choices of good and evil we have made through life. Votes: 0

America and Americans always rise to the occasion. If we say we are going to stamp out hunger, I believe we will. Votes: 0

The dictator can be removed in a day, but it can take years to stamp out the lingering remnants of his dictatorship Votes: 0

I'll have a stamp on me forever. There will always be questions. I brought new fans to the Orioles' organization, and that's good. Votes: 0

Games played with the ball, and others of that nature, are too violent for the body and stamp no character on the mind. Votes: 0

The part of the envelope that tells a person where to place the stamp when they can't quite figure it out for themselves. Votes: 0

The Arab monarchies, especially Jordan and Morocco, are more legitimate than the false republics, with their stolen elections, regime-dominated courts and rubber-stamp parliaments. Votes: 0

Cramming seeks to stamp things in by intense application immediately before the ordeal. But a thing thus learned can form but few associations. Votes: 0

I hope someday we can stamp out illiteracy in America. Of course you'll have to kill alot of my relatives to do it. Votes: 0

Marriage is another trap. If you are someone who likes independence, it's another stamp against that. And you have to swear to fidelity. Votes: 0

Intelligence is power; it is the flame behind the spark of intrigue. Find out all the facts and stamp out the fire. Demystify. Votes: 0

What is there in the vale of lifeHalf so delightful as a wife;When friendship, love and peace combineTo stamp the marriage-bond divine? Votes: 0

Be what you wish your children to be. Parents have perpetuated by precept and example their own stamp of character to their posterity. Votes: 0

The resurrection of Jesus Christ was necessary to establish the truth of his mission and put the stamp of all-conquering power on his gospel. Votes: 0

Breezy journalistic sentences about wealthy white people unaware that other human beings are real became the rubber stamp product of the elite MFA programs. Votes: 0

When things get really bad, just raise your glass and stamp your feet and do a little jig. That's about all you can do. Votes: 0

People see weakness in a woman and they want to help. They see weakness in a man and they want to stamp it out Votes: 0

Lincoln did more than any other man to put the stamp of righteousness, to put the stamp of compassion, on the name of America. Votes: 0

Watch your life as if it were a film. Absorb everything. What you see, hear, and feel will stamp every alphabet of your work. Votes: 0

I'm not a rubber stamp, and people know that. If you can convince me of the merits, you will have my vote every time. Votes: 0

Persecution, in short, is like the goldsmith's stamp on real silver and gold - it is one of the marks of a converted man. Votes: 0

President Obama is the most successful food stamp president in American history. I would like to be the most successful paycheck president in American history. Votes: 0

Truth takes the stamp of the souls it enters. It is rigorous and rough in arid souls, but tempers and softens itself in loving natures. Votes: 0

I've got to include things like "I've Got A Crush On You," and put my stamp on it with the (openly gay) saxophonist Dave Koz. Votes: 0

And every time the Takers stamp out a Leaver culture, a wisdom ultimately tested since the birth of mankind disappears from the world beyond recall. Votes: 0

Standardization of our educational systems is apt to stamp out individualism and defeat the very ends of education by leveling the product down rather than up. Votes: 0

I think that an industrial process is not like a rubber stamp. Everything has to be put together and, as such, should have its own expression. Votes: 0

After you've dated someone it should be legal to stamp them with what's wrong with them so the next person doesn't have to start from scratch. Votes: 0

In the moment of our creation we receive the stamp of our individuality; and much of life is spent in rubbing off or defacing the impression. Votes: 0

Do you reckon the Queen has ever pulled a blanket up so just her head's showing and gone 'Philip, look at me! I'm a stamp!' Votes: 0

I discovered that my own little postage stamp of native soil was worth writing about and that I would never live long enough to exhaust it. Votes: 0

The very nature of the Chinaman holds him back. If his fellow should fall, John thinks it quite proper that he stamp on the underdogs face. Votes: 0

As soft wax is apt to take the stamp of the seal, so are the minds of young children to receive the instruction imprinted on them. Votes: 0

Why didn't Eternity have this deformed age aborted ? Its birthmark is the stamp of a newspaper, its medium is printer's ink, and in its veins flows ink. Votes: 0

I'm not thrilled that I have a tramp stamp. When you see people bend over in their really low-cut jeans, I'm like, 'Oh... that's what I have. Votes: 0

For particulars, as everyone knows, make for virtue and happiness; generalities are intellectually necessary evils. Not philosophers but fretsawyers and stamp collectors compose the backbone of society. Votes: 0

Anyone who's ever put a stamp on an envelope or a note on their refrigerator knows what it's like to make a collage. There's no esoteric technique. Votes: 0

Traces of nobility, gentleness, and courage persist in all people, do what we will to stamp out the trend. So, too, do those characteristics which are ugly.... Votes: 0

I'm attracted to images that come from a personal exploration of a subject matter. When they have a personal stamp to them, then I think it becomes identifiable. Votes: 0

I'm not thrilled that I have a tramp stamp. When you see people bend over in their really low-cut jeans, I'm like, 'Oh... that's what I have.' Votes: 0

Everything can't be a postage-stamp-sized project. Everything can't be a chamber piece. Musicals aren't even meant to be that, or identified with it... It's none of it simple. Votes: 0

Teams, not individuals, are the fundamental learning unit in modern organizations. This is where the "rubber stamp meets the road"; unless teams can learn, the organization cannot learn. Votes: 0

As it is she will probably turn out to be one of these acid-faced virgins that sit behind little desks in public libraries and stamp dates in books. Votes: 0

To trace in Nature's most minute design The signature and stamp of power divine. ... The Invisible in things scarce seen revealed, To whom an atom is an ample field. Votes: 0

Five years ago, when I was elected, I had the feeling that the president doesn't have much to do. I've realized, though, that this is not a rubber-stamp position. Votes: 0

I love the rebelliousness of snail mail, and I love anything that can arrive with a postage stamp. There's something about that person's breath and hands on the letter. Votes: 0

I love people. Everybody. I love them, I think, as a stamp collector loves his collection. Every story, every incident, every bit of conversation is raw material for me. Votes: 0

Not as ours the books of old - Things that steam can stamp and fold; Not as ours the books of yore - Rows of type, and nothing more. Votes: 0

There are personalities so powerful that they leave their stamp on any place they inhabit. Their presence is always there, like a spoor, whether or not they themselves are. Votes: 0

Standardization of our educational systems [which includes testing]is apt to stamp out individualism and defeat the very ends of education by leveling the product down rather than up. Votes: 0

The common people do not judge of vice or virtue by morality or immorality, so much as by the stamp that is set upon it by men of figure. Votes: 0

Let the dream unroll itself to its very end. You cannot help it. But you can look at the dream as a dream, refuse it the stamp of reality. Votes: 0

Jazz music is as American as it gets, and so is the U.S. Postal Service. A Miles Davis stamp is a perfect marriage of two great American institutions. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

A federal court has ruled that the U.S. Postal Service must reduce its stamp prices. The change in stamp prices is expected to affect as many as seven Americans. Votes: 0

There are as many fools at a university as anywhere? But their folly,I admit, has a certain stampthe stamp of university training, if you like. It is trained folly. Votes: 0

Usually, new producers and writers want to put their stamp on a show. They don't want to continue what's working. They want to reinvent the wheel. It's an ego thing. Votes: 0

Even though other people wrote my songs I put my stamp on them. I have a connection, but there is no truer connection than an artists and their own song. Votes: 0

I'm always fascinated when people say, "We found rude conversations people had via e-mail." Why are you e-mailing this stuff? It has your signature on it! It has a time stamp! Votes: 0

We are going to have the candidate of food stamps, the finest food-stamp president in the American history, in Barack Obama, and we are going to have a candidate of paychecks. Votes: 0

The Russian writer Vladimir Nabokov once said: In a Democracy, portraits of a nation's leader should never exceed the size of a postage stamp. That won't happen so quickly in Russia. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

It is indeed probable that more harm and misery have been caused by men determined to use coercion to stamp out a moral evil than by men intent on doing evil. Votes: 0

It was nice, though, to have the long term benefit to be able to pare away those things and eventually make the character my own and put my own unique stamp. Votes: 0

I do love directing. I'm only comfortable working in the independent film arena for a very small budget where I have creative control and I can put my stamp on it. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

The man whose action habitually bears the stamp of his mind is a genius, but the greatest genius is not always equal to himself, or he would cease to be human. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

To be converted you have to destroy your past, destroy your history. You have to stamp on it, you have to say 'my ancestral culture does not exist, it doesn't matter.' Votes: 0

Software suppliers are trying to make their software packages more 'user-friendly'... Their best approach so far has been to take all the old brochures and stamp the words 'user-friendly' on the cover. Votes: 0

The career of a great man remains an enduring monument of human energy. The man dies and disappears, but his thoughts and acts survive and leave an indelible stamp upon his race. Votes: 0

I'm disappointed that Senator DeWine once again chose to go along with his party leaders and their big corporate lobbyist supporters. Ohio deserves a Senator who will be more than a rubber stamp. Votes: 0

The poet in prose or verse - the creator - can only stamp his images forcibly on the page in proportion as he has forcibly felt, ardently nursed, and long brooded over them. Votes: 0

There are things and there are faces which, when felt or seen for the first time, stamp themselves upon the mind like a sun image on a sensitized plate and there remain unalterably fixed. Votes: 0

In some ways, what I learned is that you can take a character and breathe with them, and its up to the audience to interpret rather than you putting moral stamp on the character. Votes: 0

I mean whatever I do it's important that I put my stamp on it and keep it in my world, whether I'm doing a dance track or something like the Russian album for example. Votes: 0

O Zeus, why is it you have given men clear ways of testing whether gold is counterfeit but, when it comes to men, the body carries no stamp of nature for distinguishing bad from good. Votes: 0

Profaneness is a brutal vice. He who indulges in it is no gentleman, I care not what his stamp may be in society; I care not what clothes he wears, or what culture he boasts. Votes: 0

If the poet wants to be a poet, the poet must force the poet to revise. If the poet doesn't wish to revise, let the poet abandon poetry and take up stamp-collecting or real estate. Votes: 0

I'm kind of surprised that so many of those other books were almost exactly like mine. They even follow the form. There were some books that even copied the stamp. It shows so little imagination. Votes: 0

People will never know how hard it is to get information, especially if it's locked up behind official doors where, if politicians had their way, they'd stamp 'top secret' on the color of the walls. Votes: 0

I never thought to stay here without papers. I had visa. I travel every few months back to the country, to Slovenia, to stamp the visa. I came back. I apply for the green card. Votes: 0

[R]efusing or not refusing to execute a law to stamp it with its final character . . . makes the Judiciary department paramount in fact to the Legislature, which was never intended and can never be proper. Votes: 0