#envelope

A good many young writers make the mistake of enclosing a stamped, self-addressed envelope, big enough for the manuscript to come back in. This is too much of a temptation to the editor. ↗

— Ring Lardner

#big #big enough #come #editor #enclosing

With BSG, sci-fi is the human experience taken beyond the envelope. When I first became involved with the project, I knew that I would be able to play a human being for many years, exploring and reflecting on issues that would impact people's lives. ↗

— Mary McDonnell

#became #being #beyond #envelope #experience

The other thing I felt was that the philosophical concept behind the experiences also looked like it had been designed by technicians and not by entertainers. I felt I needed to grab hold of it and try and push the envelope as much as I possibly could right now. ↗

— Thomas Dolby

#been #behind #concept #could #designed

While they're building a solid foundation that will support whatever is coming down the road, Todd and I are itching to see further, to push the envelope. ↗

— Sam Wood

#coming #down #down the road #envelope #foundation

Life is not a series of gig lamps symmetrically arranged; life is a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning of consciousness to the end. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

#beginning #consciousness #end #envelope #gig

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. ↗

— Louis C. K.

#else #envelope #everyone #find #implies

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

— Bill Sienkiewicz

#envelope #exaggeration #honorable #me #pushing

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

— Rita Rudner

#i #just #laugh #make #middle

I sat with him for three hours and we did not exchange a single word. At the end he handed me, as he had done before, an envelope with money in it. It would have been much nicer if he had enclosed a greeting or a loving word. I would have been so pleased if he had. ↗

— Eva Braun

#before #did #done #enclosed #end

It is going to be an experiment of how it works, and I see I have all reasons to believe that it will work fine. But it's a short time. And we also have pushed the envelope here a little beyond what has been done in the past. ↗

— Claude Nicollier

#been #believe #beyond #done #envelope