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

  Tori Amos

  Inspirational, Life, People

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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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• There's no better feeling in the world than a warm pizza box on your lap.

  Kevin James

  Funny, Feelings, Lap

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Life is like a box of crayons. Most people are the 8-color boxes, but what you're really looking for are the 64-color boxes with the sharpeners on the back. I fancy myself to be a 64-color box, though I've got a few missing.

  John Mayer

  Color, People, Missing

  "The Best Excellently Random Horror Movie Performances" by Lauren Sarner, www.inverse.com. October 27, 2015.

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• Pay attention; don't let life go by you. Fall in love with the back of your cereal box.

  Jerry Seinfeld

  Falling In Love, Cereal, Attention

  "Oprah Talks to Jerry Seinfeld". Interview with Oprah Winfrey, www.oprah.com. November, 2007.

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• Why don't they make the whole plane out of that black box stuff.

  Steven Wright

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

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• My momma always said, "Life was like a box of chocolates. You never know what you're gonna get."

  Winston Groom

  Life, Motivational, Movie

  "Fictional character: Forrest Gump". "Forrest Gump", www.imdb.com. 1994.

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• We could learn a lot from crayons; some are sharp, some are pretty, some are dull, while others bright, some have weird names, but they all have learned to live together in the same box.

  Robert Fulghum

  Names, Together, Dull

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• If black boxes survive air crashes - why don't they make the whole plane out of that stuff?

  George Carlin

  Funny, Travel, Airplane

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• I'm furious about the Women's Liberationists. They keep getting up on soap-boxes and proclaiming that women are brighter than men. That's true, but it should be kept very quiet or it ruins the whole racket.

  Anita Loos

  Women, Justice, Diversity

  Quoted in the Observer, 30 Dec1973.

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• A man's rights rest in three boxes: the ballot box, the jury box, and the cartridge box.

  Frederick Douglass

  Men, Gun, Rights

  "How 'Crazy Negroes' With Guns Helped Kill Jim Crow" by Thaddeus Russell, reason.com. July 22, 2014.

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• I believe in using words, not fists. I believe in my outrage knowing people are living in boxes on the street. I believe in honesty. I believe in a good time. I believe in good food. I believe in sex.

  Bertrand Russell

  Sex, Honesty, Believe

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