Boxes Quotes - Page 2

• If you want an interesting party sometime, combine cocktails and a fresh box of crayons for everyone.

  Robert Fulghum

  New Year, Party, Color

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• I've never done a box set, and Eddie's full of it if he says otherwise.

  Sammy Hagar

  Done, Ifs

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• When we first broke into that forbidden box in the other dimension, we knew we had discovered something as surprising and powerful as the New World when Columbus came stumbling onto it.

  Ken Kesey

  Powerful, Ghouls, Firsts

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• Nobody has ever before asked the nuclear family to live all by itself in a box the way we do. With no relatives, no support, we've put it in an impossible situation.

  Margaret Mead

  Family, Impossible Situations, Support

  "Culture and Commitment: A Study of the Generation Gap". Book by Margaret Mead, 1970.

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• When I retire I'm going to spend my evenings by the fireplace going through those boxes. There are things in there that ought to be burned.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Retirement, Evening, Fireplaces

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• The records are black boxes for me. Like, if you want to know who I am, my views, my perspective, things I love, things I hate, my convictions, my anthems. I've never let people's opinions affect the way I write.

  Katy Perry

  Hate, Writing, Views

  "Katy Perry: 'You have to bust your ass at this'". Interview with Tom Shone, www.theguardian.com. August 6, 2010.

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• Make a Goal Box, a chart of positive daily contact with a family when you are working with them.

  Richard G. Scott

  Family, Goal, Contact

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• You can always tell an old soldier by the inside of his holsters and cartridge boxes. The young ones carry pistols and cartridges; the old ones, grub.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Art, Soldier, Pistols

  Arms and the Man (1898) act 1

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• Every actor wants to break out of the box that they put you in and that's where I'm heading, out of the box as fast as I can.

  Rick Springfield

  Break Out, Actors, Want

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• I believe in using words, not fists.

  Susan Sarandon

  Believe, Fists, Using Words

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• When people put their ballots in the boxes, they are, by that act, inoculated against the feeling that the government is not theirs. They then accept, in some measure, that its errors are their errors, its aberrations their aberrations, that any revolt will be against them. It's a remarkably shrewd and rather conservative arrangement when one thinks of it.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Thinking, Errors, Democracies Have

  "The Age of Uncertainty". Book by John Kenneth Galbraith. Chapter 12, p. 330, 1977.

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• I have never understood the saying 'To think outside the box.' Why would anyone sit inside of a box and then think outside of it. Rather just get out of the box.

  Lawrence Anthony

  Thinking, Think Outside The Box, Understood

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• Some of the most wonderful people are the ones who don't fit into boxes.

  Tori Amos

  Inspirational, Life, People

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• To a child, often the box a toy came in is more appealing than the toy itself.

  Allen Klein

  Children, Toys

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• To be black and an intellectual in America is to live in a box. On the box is a label, not of my own choosing.

  Stephen L. Carter

  America, Black, Intellectual

  Stephen L. Carter (1991). “Reflections of an affirmative action baby”, Basic Books

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• The insurance industry communicates through codes and check-off boxes. If there's no check-off box for you, you don't exist.

  Jack Anderson

  Checks, Communicate, Code

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

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• You know, IBM was almost knocked out of the box by other types of computer software and manufacturing.

  Roy Romer

  Computer, Type, Ibm

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• It is ludicrous to read the microwave direction on the boxes of food you buy, as each one will have a disclaimer: THIS WILL VARY WITH YOUR MICROWAVE. Loosely translated, this means, You're on your own, Bernice.

  Erma Bombeck

  Food, Mean, Microwaves

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• When you make his sandwiches, put a sexy or loving note in his lunch box.

  Anne Rice

  Sexy, Lunch, Sandwiches

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• Now I have to have the biggest P.O. box in the entire post office to get all the manuscripts coming in.

  Susie Bright

  Office, Posts, Manuscripts

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• I've never been opposed to nudity. I've been opposed to nudity for box-office draw.

  Neve Campbell

  Office, Nudity, Draws

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• They are born, put in a box; they go home to live in a box; they study by ticking boxes; they go to what is called "work" in a box, where they sit in their cubicle box; they drive to the grocery store in a box to buy food in a box; they talk about thinking "outside the box"; and when they die they are put in a box.

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Funny, Life, Humorous

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2010). “The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms”, p.31, Random House

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• My mother would put me on a wooden box at the stove and tell me to call her if certain things would happen. Like if the steam turns blue, that is danger!

  Paul Prudhomme

  Mother, Blue, Danger

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• Venice is like eating an entire box of chocolate liqueurs in one go.

  Truman Capote

  Travel, Food, Italian

  In Observer 26 Nov. 1961

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• The creative act lasts but a brief moment, a lightning instant of give-and-take, just long enough for you to level the camera and to trap the fleeting prey in your little box.

  Henri Cartier-Bresson

  Photography, Art, Creativity

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