Boxes Quotes - Page 37

• I was a daredevil before, and after I lost my sight I was the same. I loved riding bikes, scooters and horses. I even learned to box. Muhammad Ali is my hero.

  Andrea Bocelli

  Horse, Hero, Sight

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• I am thankful the most important key in history was invented. It's not the key to your house, your car, your boat, your safety deposit box, your bike lock or your private community. It's the key to order, sanity, and peace of mind. The key is 'Delete.'

  Elayne Boosler

  Keys, Order, Car

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• There are comics who treat women fairly appallingly. But I can be great friends with them because I don't tend to do that ticking of boxes: it can make life too simplistic.

  Jo Brand

  Great Friend, Treats, I Can

  "Jo Brand: 'National treasure? I'd rather maintain a taint of national disgrace'". Interview with Euan Ferguson, www.theguardian.com. September 10, 2011.

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• We believe that within five years, 96 percent of British consumers will have access to the Internet, whether it be through a personal computer, a set-top box or a mobile phone.

  Richard Branson

  Believe, Phones, Years

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• If God came down here with the box that had the reason for living in it, I'd like to find just 2 words: The Music. That would be neat.

  Garth Brooks

  Would Be, Reason, Neat

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• I love to box. I once took a kickboxing class in college and got totally hooked.

  Sophia Bush

  College, Class, Kickboxing

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• I guess I'd like to be known for being an innovator, fostering creativity, thinking outside the box. You know, keeping people playful.

  Nolan Bushnell

  Creativity, Thinking, People

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• I'm at the point now where I know I'm doing something right when a movie gets mixed reviews, because then I'm not in the box. I don't want to make it too easy for people and I don't want to make it too easy for myself. I want to try something unusual.

  Nicolas Cage

  People, Trying, Want

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• God, for example, appealed to me as a beardless man wearing a quilted silk cap; holiness was something burning, forbidding, something connected with fire while a day had the form of an oblong box.

  Abraham Cahan

  Men, Fire, Example

  Abraham Cahan (1917). “The Rise of David Levinsky: A Novel”

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• I was sort of traumatized by girls in the third grade. Because there was a girl in my third grade class I had a crush on. I bought her a box of Valentine's Day chocolate. And I put it in her cubby with a note that said something like, "I am deeply in love with you, Your Secret Admirer." And I didn't sign my name.

  Steve Carell

  Crush, Girl, Love You

  "From "The Office" to the ark". Interview with Stone Phillips, www.nbcnews.com. June 17, 2007.

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• In a democracy, supposedly we hold power by what we do at the ballot box, so therefore the more we know about political power the better our choices should be and the better, in theory, our democracy should be.

  Robert Caro

  Political, Choices, Democracy

  "Robert Caro: a life with LBJ and the pursuit of power". Interview with Chris McGreal, www.theguardian.com. June 9, 2012.

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• When I was young I didn't care about education, just money and box office.

  Jackie Chan

  Office, Care, Young

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• Very difficult to understand American audience, what they like, what they don't like. Some movie I like very much, it doesn't work. Some movie I don't like, it gets big box office. Very difficult.

  Jackie Chan

  Movie, Office, Actors

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• There's certain things that you can do on cable that you can't do here on network TV, so then you have to think outside the box a little bit.

  Josh Charles

  Thinking, Littles, Tvs

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I have a box of awards in the closet. I think it is weird to put them out. I might if I had an Emmy or Oscar, but I don't.

  Margaret Cho

  Thinking, Awards, Oscars

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• Voters tell politicians what they want through the ballot box. Constantly second-guessing them by speculating whether the parties should gang up on each other misses the point.

  Nick Clegg

  Party, Missing, Guessing

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• You know, people call mystery novels or thrillers 'puzzles.' I never understood that, because when I buy a puzzle, I already know what it is. It's on the box. And even if I don't, if it's a 5,000-piece puzzle of the 'Mona Lisa', it's not like I put the last piece in and go, 'I had no idea it's the 'Mona Lisa'!'

  Harlan Coben

  Ideas, People, Lasts

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• I fell in love with Erica Kane the summer before my freshman year of high school. Like all red-blooded teen American boys, I'd come home from water polo practice and eat a box of Entenmann's Pop'Ems donut holes in front of the TV while obsessively fawning over 'All My Children' and Erica, her clothes, and her narcissistic attitude.

  Andy Cohen

  Summer, Children, Attitude

  Andy Cohen (2012). “Most Talkative: Stories from the Front Lines of Pop Culture”, p.7, Macmillan

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• When I was in New York it was like a maze, a rat maze, going from one little box to another little box and passing through passageways to get from one safe haven to another.

  Bruce Conner

  New York, Safe Haven, Mazes

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• I love you is the inscription on Pandora's box.

  Mason Cooley

  I Love You, Literature, Pandora's Box

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• When newspapers started to publish the box office scores of movies, I was horrified. Those results are totally fake because they never include the promotion budget.

  Francis Ford Coppola

  Office, Fake, Promotion

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• Sex appeal is in the workplace every day of the week. I'm not saying that's the only calling card, but it's a whole crayon box.

  Barbara Corcoran

  Sex, Cards, Calling

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• At the end of each year, I sit on the floor and go page by page through the old calendar, inking annual events into the new one, all the while watching my year in 'dinner withs' skate by. When I'm done, I save the old calendar in the box of the new one and put it with the others on a shelf.

  Sloane Crosley

  Years, Events, Calendars

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• The film is not a success until it makes money. It's only good when there's a dollar figure attached to the box office.

  John Cusack

  Office, Dollars, Figure Skating

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• I used to do the beat box. A friend of mine, he was the rapper and after, we'd be doing a block party or something or a house party, and he's gettin' all the attention and I'd end up with a handful of spit, you know, from doing the beats.

  DMX

  Block, Party, Rapper

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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