Boxes Quotes

• I love the smell of juice boxes in the morning.

  Robert Duvall

  Good Morning, Smell, Juice

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• When the strong box contains no more both friends and flatterers shun the door.

  Plutarch

  Friendship, Strong, Money

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• Your attitude is like a box of crayons that color your world. Constantly color your picture gray, and your picture will always be bleak. Try adding some bright colors to the picture by including humor, and your picture begins to lighten up.

  Allen Klein

  Attitude, Positive Thinking, Positivity

  "Soul Rays: Discover the Vibratory Frequency of Your Soul". Book by Candia L Sanders, p. 125, 2013.

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• Virtue has its own reward, but no sale at the box office.

  Mae West

  Office, Rewards, Virtue

  Mae West (1967). “The wit and wisdom of Mae West”

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• I mean people just have a way of - y'know they'll review your record in two sentences and put you in this little stupid box that you don't want to be in

  Elliott Smith

  Stupid, Mean, Two

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• Women do feel like they're in a box. Society, Hollywood, some men... they want to wrap women up in a neat little package.

  Sherilyn Fenn

  Men, Hollywood, Want

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

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• The idea that you can merchandise candidates for high office like breakfast cereal - that you can gather votes like box tops - is, I think, the ultimate indignity to the democratic process.

  Adlai E. Stevenson

  Thinking, Cereal, Election Process

  Speech at the Democratic National Convention, August 18, 1956.

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• I remember walking into drugstores when I was younger and seeing all the hair color boxes on the shelves and just being so in awe. Having the control to dye your hair and change your look is such a part of self-expression.

  Olivia Wilde

  Hair, Self, Expression

  "Olivia Wilde Talks Adventures in Beauty". Interview with Taylor Barringer, www.elle.com. March 27, 2013.

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• When I was a little kid we had a sand box. It was a quicksand box. I was an only child... eventually.

  Steven Wright

  Funny, Children, Humor

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• I regard this novel as a work without redeeming social value, unless it can be recycled as a cardboard box.

  Ellen Goodman

  Social Values, Recycling, Novel

  "Saigon Swap". www.nytimes.com. June 10, 1990.

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• I really don't consider myself to be a conventional Hollywood star. I've never really been marketed by the big studios to do mass market box office films.

  Laura Dern

  Stars, Office, Hollywood

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• We are not inferring design to account for a black box, but to account for an open box.

  Michael Behe

  Design, Black, Accounts

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• People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order so they'll have good voice boxes in case there's ever anything really meaningful to say.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Meaningful, Communication, Order

  Kurt Vonnegut (1988). “Conversations with Kurt Vonnegut”, p.152, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Life is like a box of cookies.

  Haruki Murakami

  Life Is Like, Cookies, Life Is

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• Life is like a box of chocolates.

  Winston Groom

  Cute, Chocolate, Life Is Like

  "Forrest Gump". www.imdb.com. 1994.

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• Thanks to my mother, not a single cardboard box has found its way back into society. We receive gifts in boxes from stores that went out of business twenty years ago.

  Erma Bombeck

  Mom, Mother, Years

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• Always keep your composure. You can't score from the penalty box; and to win, you have to score.

  Bobby Hull

  Sports, Anger, Hockey

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• People have different reasons for the way they live their lives. You cannot put everyone's reasons in the same box.

  Kevin Spacey

  People, Different, Way

  "Kevin Spacey On His New Film Casino Jack: Interview and Trailer". Interview with Kevin Sessums, www.thedailybeast.com. December 14, 2010.

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• A box without hinges, key, or lid, yet golden treasure inside is hid.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Keys, Treasure, Golden

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Hobbit: 75th Anniversary Edition”, p.105, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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