Boxes Quotes - Page 13

• Using the Internet as as vehicle to work with people is fascinating. It's sort of a Pandora's box of energy for me.

  Jon Anderson

  People, Pandora's Box, Energy

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• In architecture, the demand was no longer for box-like forms, but for buildings that have something to say to the human emotions.

  Kenzo Tange

  Demand, Architecture, Emotion

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• I had just settled Grandma on her folding chair and popped open our box lunch when the corpse floated by.

  Thomas McGuane

  Grandma, Lunch, Chairs

  Thomas McGuane (2015). “Crow Fair: Stories”, p.35, Vintage

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• From Pandora's Box, where all the ills of humanity swarmed, the Greeks drew out hope after all the others, as the most dreadful of all. I know no more stirring symbol; for, contrary to the general belief, hope equals resignation. And to live is not to resign oneself.

  Albert Camus

  Greek, Humanity, Pandora's Box

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays”, p.153, Vintage

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• We have plenty to learn from the numerous ants. Sawako Nakayasu-writer, antologist, Baudelaire's sister-turns daily life inside out and upside down then puts it into perfect little boxes. Here we follow the lines of black legged, syntactical units-the words-as they cross and they tickle the heart of the matter with us.

  John Granger

  Heart, Perfect, Black

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• I can never feel that setting fire to houses and churches and litter boxes and destroying valuable pictures really helps to convince people that women ought to be enfranchised.

  Millicent Fawcett

  Sex, Fire, People

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• They call me eccentric. They used to call me nuts. I haven't changed. The only difference between being eccentric and being nuts is the number of security boxes you own.

  Al McGuire

  Money, Nuts, Differences

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• Near that a dusty paint-box, some odd hooks, A half-burnt match, an ivory block, three books, Where conic sections, spherics, logarithms, To great Laplace, from Saunderson and Sims, Lie heaped in their harmonious disarray Of figures,-disentangle them who may.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Block, Lying, Book

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (1994). “The Selected Poetry and Prose of Shelley”, p.435, Wordsworth Editions

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• I don't want anyone to ever put himself or herself in a box of, "I lost my second chance!" Because life brings you ebbs and flows, and if you miss out on this second chance, guess what, you're going to get another one if you decide that you're ready to have one.

  Bob Harper

  Second Chance, Ebb And Flow, Missing

  Source: movieweb.com

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• You can measure films on box office success, or people lovin' the movie whenever they see it. That's what I measure my movies on. How much people love these movies after they get a chance to see them, no matter how they get a chance to see them.

  Ice Cube

  People, Office, Matter

  "AGENT ORANGE: Talking to Ice Cube, Eve, and Cedric the Entertainer about BARBERSHOP 2: BACK IN BUSINESS!". Interview with B. Alan Orange, movieweb.com. February 6, 2004.

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• When something doesn't go exactly to plan, money is tight or a business is struggling - see it as a challenge rather than a failure. Look outside the box and try and find a solution - you'll be surprised how many great opportunities and possibilities arise when things look bad. You've just got to open your mind and not be afraid of sticking your neck out!

  Richard Branson

  Struggle, Opportunity, Challenges

  "Gentleman's Journal" Interview, www.thegentlemansjournal.com. December 10, 2012.

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• As gay people, we always think outside of the box. The irreverent is always important to a drag queen and anyone else who lives outside the box. And this is why drag's important: remember to not take life seriously. It's always important to see the laughter in the illusion that we pretend is real.

  RuPaul

  Queens, Laughter, Real

  "T Lo Interviews The One and Only RuPaul". tomandlorenzo.com. March 03, 2009.

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• When you represent the state of Washington, we have a tradition of deciding social issues by vote. Washington State passed abortion rights before Roe v. Wade and affirmed it at the ballot box later.

  Michael Baumgartner

  Rights, Issues, Abortion

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• I would, if checking boxes in a questionnaire, say I would oppose abortion except when the life of the mother is in danger.

  Michael Baumgartner

  Mother, Abortion, Danger

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• I must say, some are not very beautifully made. They’re coffee-table books for people who drink alcohol. I have nothing against coffee-table books as long as they are well done. They must not look like gravestones on a table. Sometimes they are too big, they come in boxes and things like this. No, a book has to be easy to open and you don’t have to be a bodybuilder to lift it. I like books I can read in bed. Those big tombstones would kill me.

  Karl Lagerfeld

  Tombstone, Book, Coffee

  "Media People: Q&A With Karl Lagerfeld". Interview with Miles Socha, wwd.com. September 12, 2014.

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• In this country we're unprecedentedly safe, comfortable, and well fed, with more and better venues for stimulation. And yet if you were asked, 'Is this a happy or unhappy country?' you'd check the 'unhappy' box. We're living in an era of emotional poverty, which is something that serious drug addicts feel most keenly.

  David Foster Wallace

  Country, Emotional, Drug

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• People want to put women in one box, and Im interested in how women can be everything at once.

  Elizabeth Meriwether

  People, Want

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• In my mind, I gave the woman gifts. I gave her a candle stub. I gave her a box of wooden kitchen matches. I gave her a cake of Lifebuoy soap. I gave her a ceilingful of glow-in-the-dark planets. I gave her a bald baby doll. I gave her a ripe fig, sweet as new wood, and a milkdrop from its stem. I gave her a peppermint puff. I gave her a bouquet of four roses. I gave her fat earthworms for her grave. I gave her a fish from Roebuck Lake, a vial of my sweat for it to swim in.

  Lewis Nordan

  Baby, Sweet, Dark

  Lewis Nordan (1992). “Music of the Swamp”, Algonquin Books

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• Big ideas come from forward thinking people who challenge the norm, think outside the box, and invent the world they see inside rather than submitting to the limitations of current dilemmas

  T. D. Jakes

  Thinking, Ideas, People

  T.D. Jakes (2013). “Let It Go: Forgive So You Can Be Forgiven”, p.18, Simon and Schuster

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• People can criticise all day long, I think I've proven myself, I think I deliver. And I agree, box office does not mean a movie's good, but I feel like I'm making good movies and I'm delivering in box office.

  Brett Ratner

  Mean, Thinking, Long

  "Brett Ratner: 'If it wasn't for Eddie Murphy, Rush Hour wouldn't exist'". Interview with Alex Godfrey, www.theguardian.com. October 28, 2011.

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• Ive got tapes that Im so thankful that my father made - old reel-to-reel tapes. Ive got a ton of those things at home. He kept those like fine diamonds, I mean he kept them, you know, in a box and was very, very careful of them, you know.

  Ricky Skaggs

  Father, Home, Mean

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• We are not very much to blame for our bad marriages. We live amid hallucinations, and especial trap is laid to trip up our feet with, and all are tripped up first or last. But the mighty mother, who had been so sly with us, as if she felt she owed us some indemnity, insinuates into the Pandora box of marriage some deep and serious benefits, and some great joys.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Mother, Feet, Joy

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Barbara L. Packer, Joseph Slater, Douglas Emory Wilson (2003). “The Conduct of Life”, p.169, Harvard University Press

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• The most precious research to me came from the paperwork filed on behalf of my grandparents and great-grandfather. The ship's manifest showed that they could read and write. I am still emotional when I look at those boxes checked yes.

  Adriana Trigiani

  Writing, Emotional, Grandparent

  "Best Selling Novelist Pens Tale of Grandparents Star-Crossed Romance". Interview with Julie A. Carlson, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 2, 2012.

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• I used to box a bit, and once fought as an amateur welterweight.

  Alexander Hanson

  Used, Bits

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• I tried to make a point of doing things outside the box, of not having basketball consume me.

  Grant Hill

  Basketball, Outside The Box

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