Greeting Card Quotes

• I squirrel away sealed greeting cards that people give me so I can open them later when I'm having a bad day.

  Emily Procter

  Bad Day, Squirrels, People

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• I ignore Hallmark Holidays. And this comes from a guy who has sold a million Opus greeting cards.

  Berkeley respiró

  Holiday, Guy, Cards

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• Si las mujeres estuvieran al mando de todas las naciones del mundo, sinceramente no habría conflictos militares, y cuando hubiera un conflicto militar, todos los implicados se sentirían fatal y pronto habría un intercambio de notas de alto nivel escritas en tarjetas de felicitación con flores en el anverso, seguido de un almuerzo por la paz.

  Dave Barry

  Hilarante, Militar, Creer

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• En el mundo hay todo tipo de amor, y no todo se parece al de las tarjetas de felicitación.

  Jennifer Weiner

  Cards, Looks, World

  Jennifer Weiner (2010). “Best Friends Forever”, p.130, Simon and Schuster

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• Sinceramente, nunca tuve la intención de que la comida ocupara tanto espacio en mi trabajo creativo. Escribir sobre comida a menudo parece caer en el sentimentalismo. Creo que puede ser peligroso escribir sobre comida porque, si no consigues mediarla de alguna manera, puede convertirse en la peor tarjeta de felicitación.

  Diana Abu-Jaber

  Writing, Thinking, Creative

  Fuente: www.guernicamag.com

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• I wrote home to say how lovely everything was, and I used flourishing words and phrases, as if I were living life in a greeting card - the kind that has a satin ribbon on it, and quilted hearts and roses, and is expected to be so precious to the person receiving it that the manufacturer has placed a leaf of plastic on the front to protect it.

  Jamaica Kincaid

  Live Life, Home, Heart

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• Podemos hablar de valentía, amor y compasión hasta que parezcamos una tienda de tarjetas de felicitación, pero a menos que estemos dispuestos a mantener una conversación sincera sobre lo que nos impide ponerlos en práctica en nuestra vida cotidiana, nunca cambiaremos. Nunca, jamás.

  Brené Brown

  Love, Compassion, Practice

  "Los dones de la imperfección: Deja ir quién crees que se supone que debes ser y abraza quién eres". Libro de Brené Brown, 27 de agosto de 2010.

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• i found religion in the greeting card aisle now i know hallmark was right

  Ani DiFranco

  Women, Religion, Cards

  Song: Superhero, Album: Dilate, 1996

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• For Dad, the perfect Father's Day would be one in which he didn't even realize that it was Father's Day, because nobody was making him appreciate gifts he didn't want, or read greeting cards filled with lame Father's Day poetry.

  Dave Barry

  Dad, Father, Appreciate

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• My skin may have wrinkles but it's because I'm smiling so much. That might sound like some terrible American greetings card, but I feel it's immoral for me to castigate my body for getting older, when it does everything I ask of it.

  Olivia Williams

  Wrinkles, Getting Older, Skins

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Romance isn't about proving to someone you love them with flowers and greeting cards and chocolate. Or even a lock on a fence. It's a daily reminder. It's saying, I choose you. Today and every day.

  Kristen Proby

  Love, Flower, Romance

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• Valentine's Day was created by the greeting card industry to get pussy.

  Anthony Jeselnik

  Valentine, Pussy, Cards

  Twitter post from Feb 14, 2012

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• I'm interested in humor, and greeting cards just happen to be a perfect medium for my message. They're accessible to everyone, and thanks to all the advances that have been made by environmentally conscientious printers, I can get my message across while keeping my carbon footprint relatively small.

  Anne Taintor

  Carbon Footprint, Perfect, Cards

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• If you live in your senses, slowly, with attention, if you use your eyes and your fingertips and your taste buds, then romance is something you’ll never need a greeting card to make you remember.

  Erica Bauermeister

  Eye, Romance, Taste Buds

  Erica Bauermeister (2009). “The School of Essential Ingredients”, p.113, Penguin

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• Cada vez que tiras una tarjeta de felicitación "cantada", estás desechando más potencia de cálculo que la que existía en todo el mundo antes de 1950.

  Paul Saffo

  Singing, Cards, World

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• Whether it's watching a $4,000 laptop fall off the conveyor belt at airport security, contending with a software conflict that corrupted your file management system, or begging your family to stop opening those virus-carrying 'greeting cards' attached to emails, all computer owners are highly leveraged and highly vulnerable technology investors.

  Douglas Rushkoff

  Fall, Technology, Airports

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• Permítanme decir algo sobre esa palabra: milagro. Durante demasiado tiempo se ha utilizado para caracterizar cosas o acontecimientos que, aunque agradables, son totalmente normales. Pollitos que espían en Pascua, la primavera en general, un amanecer despejado tras una semana nublada... un milagro, dice la gente, como si hubieran sido educados a partir de tarjetas de felicitación.

  Leif Enger

  Semana Santa, Primavera, Largo

  Leif Enger (2001). "Peace Like a River", p.3, Atlantic Monthly Press

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• Greeting cards routinely tell us everybody deserves love. No. Everybody deserves clean water. Not everybody deserves love all the time.

  Zadie Smith

  Deserve Love, Water, Cards

  Zadie Smith (2000). “White Teeth: A Novel”, Random House Incorporated

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• Some days I do appreciate things more, eggs, flowers, but then I decide I'm only having an attack of sentimentality, my brain going pastel Technicolor, like a beautiful-sunset greeting cards they used to make so many of in California. High-gloss hearts. The danger is grayout.

  Margaret Atwood

  Beautiful, Flower, Heart

  Margaret Atwood (1986). “The Handmaid's Tale”, p.200, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• We are so convinced of the goodness of ourselves, and the goodness of our love, we cannot bear to believe that there might be something more worthy of love than us, more worthy of worship. Greeting cards routinely tell us everybody deserves love. No. Everybody deserves clean water. Not everybody deserves love all the time.

  Zadie Smith

  Believe, Deserve Love, Water

  Zadie Smith (2000). “White Teeth: A Novel”, Random House Incorporated

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• I'm not sure I knew what an entrepreneur was when I was ten, but I knew that starting little businesses and trying to sell greeting cards or newspapers door-to-door or just vending machine kind of thing is.. there's just something very intriguing to me about that.

  Steve Case

  Business, Doors, Entrepreneur

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• To say that George Lucas cannot write a love scene is an understatement; greeting cards have expressed more passion.

  Roger Ebert

  Passion, Writing, Cards

  "Spoiling for 'Star Wars'" by Todd Leopold, www.cnn.com. May 19, 2005.

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• Las madres no son estereotipos sin nombre ni rostro que aparecen una vez al año en una tarjeta de felicitación con sus virtudes en prosa, sino mujeres a las que se les ha repartido una mano para toda la vida y que juegan cada carta de una en una de la mejor manera que saben. Ninguna madre es buena o mala, risueña o seria, cariñosa o enfadada. La ambivalencia corre por sus venas.

  Erma Bombeck

  Madre, Manos, Años

  "La maternidad: La segunda profesión más antigua".

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• Don't send funny greeting cards on birthdays or at Christmas. Save them for funerals when their cheery effect is needed.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Birthday, Funeral, Cards

  P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “Modern Manners: An Etiquette Book for Rude People”, p.12, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• I don't turn to greeting cards for wisdom and advice, but they are a fine reflection of the general drift of the culture.

  Susan Orlean

  Reflection, Advice, Culture

  "Susan Orlean: Stress in the Cards". www.newyorker.com. May 7, 2009.

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