Hallmark Card Quotes

Watching ‘The Sound of Music’ is like being beaten to death by a Hallmark card.

I don’t want to sound like a Hallmark card, but to be able to wake up each day with food and shelter, that alone is good. Forget aging and the fact that my butt is becoming a little more familiar with my knees than my tailbone. If you are six feet above ground it’s a good day. So, give me more!

I know some people might think it odd – unworthy even – for me to have written a cookbook, but I make no apologies. The U.S. poet laureate Billy Collins thought I had demeaned myself by writing poetry for Hallmark Cards, but I am the people’s poet so I write for the people.

It was moving, but so absurd that I nearly laughed out loud. I imagined a new line of Hallmark cards: “Thank you for not killing my boyfriend, even if it risks killing you.

I’m not greedy. I have love, blue skies, rainbows and Hallmark cards and that has to be enough. It has to be enough, but it’s everything in the world and everything in the world is plenty for me. It seems just rude to beg the invisible for more.

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

The world of enlightenment, and that which creates enlightenment, is much different than what most people would think. Most people have Hallmark Card descriptions of what creates enlightenment. And if their descriptions were correct, then everyone who is in religious practice would be enlightened.

I want to explore marriage without the usual Hallmark Card platitudes. Life is difficult, and I like movies that acknowledge that.