Boxes Quotes - Page 6

• My kids would come in from school and sit on the floor in front of the TV and line up duck call boxes and put the stickers on the duck call and then put them in the boxes.

  Kay Robertson

  School, Kids, Ducks

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• The South resented giving the Afro-American his freedom, the ballot box and the Civil Rights Law.

  Ida B. Wells

  Law, Rights, Giving

  Ida B. Wells-Barnett (2014). “On Lynchings”, p.16, Courier Corporation

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• Cesky Krumlov, the little jewel box of a city in southern Bohemia.

  Laini Taylor

  Jewels, Cities, Southern

  Laini Taylor (2011). “Daughter of Smoke and Bone: Daughter of Smoke and Bone Trilogy”, p.24, Hachette UK

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• Not everything that can be extracted appears in anthologies of quotations, in commonplace books, or on the back of Celestial Seasonings boxes. Only certain sorts of extracts become quotations.

  Gary Saul Morson

  Book, Anthology, Certain

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• Gina Hyams has put together a fabulous fun book/gift: Pie Contest in a Box: Everything You Need to Host a Pie Contest. There’s a great book inside, with recipes, pie history, and plenty of inspiration for gathering your friends together to see who can make the best pie. Plus, ribbons! And scorecards! This would be a great party.

  Shauna James Ahern

  Fun, Party, Book

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• Kids don't like being put into boxes, and your kid can act in different ways in different situations.

  Rosalind Wiseman

  Kids, Different, Way

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• I believe in my privacy. I always have, and I always will. I don't think that my private life needs to be on display for me to get a better response at the box office or for me to get a better choice of movies.

  Kajol

  Believe, Thinking, Office

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• Nearly everyone has his box of secret pain.

  John Steinbeck

  Pain, Secret

  John Steinbeck (1952). “East of Eden”

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• There's a good deal in common between the mind's eye and the TV screen, and though the TV set has all too often been the boobtube, it could be, it can be, the box of dreams.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Dream, Eye, Mind

  Ursula K. Le Guin (1997). “Dancing at the Edge of the World: Thoughts on Words, Women, Places”, p.32, Grove Press

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• We should return to the Greeks, play in the open air: the drama dies of stalls and boxes and evening dress, and people who come to digest their dinner.

  Eleanora Duse

  Drama, Air, Play

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• Selling cookies helped me to realize that you needed to have a certain way to communicate with people. You also needed business skills. You knew you needed to sell a certain amount of boxes, so that gave me some business sense.

  Maria Bartiromo

  Skills, People, Cookies

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• The last thing I stole was a box of Coca Cola from a parked truck in Adelaide. I was nice and drunk. It was New Year's Eve. And that was about 28 years ago.

  Ronald Biggs

  New Year, Nice, Years

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• We are several people fitted inside each other. Chinese boxes. Our bodies are the outside box. Or the inside one if you like.

  Doris Lessing

  People, Chinese, Body

  Doris May Lessing (1992). “Canopus in Argos: Archives”

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• And I often dream of chemistry at night, dreams that conflate the past and the present, the grid of the periodic table transformed to the grid of Manhattan. Sometimes, too, I dream of the indecipherable language of tin (a confused memory, perhaps, of its plaintive "cry"). But my favorite dream is of going to the opera (I am Hafnium), sharing a box at the Met with the other heavy transition metals my old and valued friends Tantalum, Rhenium, Osmium, Iridium, Platinum, Gold, and Tungsten.

  Oliver Sacks

  Dream, Memories, Confused

  "Uncle Tungsten". Book by Oliver Sacks, 2001.

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• I started getting back into buying old analog gear while we were recording. Lots of old drum machines and synths. It wasn't a conscious thing. I didn't consider myself a collector, but boxes of vintage gear would turn up virtually every day.

  Martin Gore

  Vintage, Gears, Machines

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• The monarchy that I hand over to my son is not going to be the same one that I have inherited. ... There is a tendency by a lot of officials to hide behind the king. And it's about time that officials take their responsibility and are responsible in front of the people. Because today, if you're appointed by the king, they don't feel that they're responsible for the people. If you have a government that is elected, they need to do the hard work — because if they don't, they won't be around the next time the ballot box is open.

  Abdallah II

  Kings, Responsibility, Hard Work

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• The only gift my dad ever bought me is still in my jewelry box. It died at 10 minutes to 11 decades ago, but the gold Caravelle watch keeps my dad alive. A watch isn't about keeping time. It's about stopping it.

  Regina Brett

  Dad, Gold, Watches

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• Of course it's also a lot easier to slap a health claim on a box of sugary cereal than on a potato or carrot, with the perverse result that the most healthful foods in the supermarket sit there quietly in the produce section, silent as stroke victims, while a few aisles over, the Cocoa Puffs and Lucky Charms are screaming about their newfound whole-grain goodness.

  Michael Pollan

  Cereal, Lucky Charms, Puff

  "Unhappy Meals". www.nytimes.com. January 28, 2007.

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• People say, "How would you like to be remembered?" I don't want to be remembered. Gimme a break. What I want is to hear what's great about me now. Let me hear it! In the box you don't hear these eulogies.

  Jerry Lewis

  People, Eulogy, Want

  "Jerry Lewis talks about his love for Dean Martin". The Associated Press Interview, www.today.com. November 12, 2005.

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• I always thought there was some place I was going, that there was some success or some achievement or some box-office number that was going to fill the hole. And what I realize is that life is a hole. It's a process of continually trying to find and reinvent myself.

  Will Smith

  Numbers, Office, Achievement

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• Audiences and critics they don't like seeing what happens in real life. Why do you think comedies make all the money at the box office? People want to go and laugh. I can understand that.

  Channing Tatum

  Real, Thinking, People

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• When you start defining yourself, you put yourself in boxes and I don't want to be trapped in anything because I will always evolve - I will always change. It's like water. I take on many shapes. Everyone should be that way and not define themselves. I am everything.

  Karrine Steffans

  Water, Defining, Shapes

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• The thing about hip-hop is they always want to classify you as one particular artist, but hip-hop is about going outside the box and expressing yourself however you want to.

  Kendrick Lamar

  Artist, Hip Hop, Want

  Interview with Jordan Sargent, pitchfork.com. October 15, 2012.

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• Twenty years ago the computer was a babbling box. Now it is a boasting beast.

  David Luiz

  Technology, Years, Twenties

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• What makes a tight circle or a tight little square box more of an intellectual statement than something done emotionally, I don't know. Art is an essence, a center.

  Eva Hesse

  Art, Squares, Essence

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