Boxes Quotes - Page 10

• We all like people who do things, even if we only see their faces on cigar-box lids.

  Willa Cather

  People, Faces, Cigar

  Willa Cather (2013). “The Best of Willa Cather”, p.274, Simon and Schuster

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• Raisins are a thing that lasts, they come in small boxes, and you always feel like eating raisins, even at six in the morning. A raisin is always an appropriate snack.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Morning, Food, Snacks

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• I find that when I've seen a certain number of people my mind becomes like an old match box -- the part one strikes on, I mean.

  Virginia Woolf

  Mean, Numbers, People

  Virginia Woolf (1975). “The letters of Virginia Woolf”, Harcourt

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• When I feel that I'm going to write a detective story, I buy a five pound box of chocolates and a ream of paper. When the candy is all gone and the paper all used up, I know that the book is long enough.

  Carolyn Wells

  Book, Writing, Long

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• The audience that storms the box-office of the theater to gain entrance to a sensational show is small and sleepy compared with the throng that crashes the courthouse door when something concerning real life and death is to be laid bare to the public.

  Clarence Darrow

  Real, Doors, Office

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• You cannot build up a standing army and then throw it back into a box like tin soldiers. Armies equipped to the teeth with weapons, with highly developed instruments of murder and backed by their military interests, have their own dynamic functions.

  Emma Goldman

  Military, Army, Soldier

  Emma Goldman (1917*). “Preparedness, the road to universal slaughter”

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• The ballot box is a most inadequate mechanism of change.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Ballots, Mechanism, Inadequate

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• The advice nearest to my heart and deepest in my convictions is that the union of the states be cherished and perpetuated. Let the open enemy to it be regarded as a Pandora with her box opened, and the disguised one as the serpent creeping with his deadly wiles into paradise.

  James Madison

  Heart, Advice, Enemy

  James Madison, Ralph Ketcham “Selected Writings of James Madison”, Hackett Publishing

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• A box of crayons and a big sheet of paper provides a more expressive medium for kids than computerized paint programs.

  Clifford Stoll

  Kids, Paper, Crayon

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• A musical audience is at best uninspiring, at worst definitely drab. ... Respectability hangs like a pall over the orchestra and the boxes; a sort of sterile sobriety ill-fitted to the passionate geometry of music.

  Marya Mannes

  Sobriety, Musical, Passionate

  Marya Mannes (1948). “Message from a Stranger: A Novel”

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• A book is a box brimming with incendiary material. The reader strikes the match.

  Erica Jong

  Reading, Book, Strikes

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• I would like a simple life / yet all night I am laying / poems away in a long box.

  Anne Sexton

  Simple, Night, Long

  Anne Sexton, “The Ambition Bird”

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• There are those of us who believe that under certain conditions the cruelest thing you can do to people you love is to force them to live. There are those of us who define living not by whether the heart beats and the lungs lift but whether the spirit is there, whether the music box plays.

  Anna Quindlen

  Believe, Heart, Love Is

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• Do not set out to write with your eyes on the box office. It can't be done.

  Ayn Rand

  Writing, Eye, Office

  Ayn Rand (1997). “Letters of Ayn Rand”, p.161, Penguin

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• Little boxes made of ticky-tacky, and they all look just the same.

  Pete Seeger

  Cities, Tacky, Looks

  Song: Little Boxes

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• The Federal Building's large Ceremonial Courtroom, reserved for show trials, is veneered in executive teak. Bench, counsel tables, jury boxes, entrances, and exits -- all are as formally arranged as an Elizabethan stage. Only the drama is shapeless, at least to those of us who have never seen a trial before. We see only random movements, sequences, comings and goings, no form or agenda apparent. To us the action is less like watching a play than watching an aquarium.

  Shana Alexander

  Drama, Aquariums, Play

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• Never forgive at the ballot box!

  Wendell Phillips

  Forgiving, Ballots, Never Forgive

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• When it's time to focus in and play ball during the season, 100% of my focus is on that. When it's the offseason and I've got time to be away and I can do other interests - they don't conflict. I'm good at compartmentalizing. I can put everything in its appropriate box at the time and open it up when I need to at a later time.

  Larry Fitzgerald

  Play, Focus, Needs

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• Fortunately for me, I don't come from the school where you only measure success by how much money something makes or whether it has a big box-office weekend. I measure it by how much people actually participate in the process.

  Kevin Spacey

  School, Weekend, Office

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• You have to be precisely in the moment in order to box. And I just love that. I just love the idea of right now we're here, be here.

  Hilary Swank

  Order, Ideas, Moments

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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• it is extraordinary how much you are theirs, and how little they are yours. The child grows inside you and there is something mystical and mythical in that, but then you actually see that you are nothing more than the box in which they come. There is this total person, already formed, themselves.

  Glenda Jackson

  Children, Pregnancy, Littles

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• Chutzpah' is best defined as a small boy peeing through someone's letter box, then ringing the doorbell to ask how far it went.

  Maureen Lipman

  Boys, Letters, Definitions

  Maureen Lipman (2013). “Past-It Notes”, p.88, JR Books Limited

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• all through my childhood, my father kept from me the knowledge that the daily papers printed daily box scores, allowing me to believe that without my personal renderings of all those games he missed while he was at work, he would be unable to follow our team in the only proper way a team should be followed, day by day, inning by inning. In other words, without me, his love for baseball would be forever incomplete.

  Doris Kearns Goodwin

  Baseball, Father, Team

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• in a way it doesn't matter whether you open doors or close them, you still end up in a box.

  Marilyn French

  Depression, Doors, Matter

  Marilyn French (2011). “The Women's Room”, p.10, Simon and Schuster

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• By about a week before the big day, you will have received less than half of your invitation response cards. Panic sets in when it occurs to you that everyone invited will actually show up. You couldn't have made it easier for your guests. You have included a card that had boxes for 'will attend' or 'will not attend.' You included a pre-addressed, stamped envelope. How inconvenient could it be for them simply to check it off and drop it in in a mailbox? Very inconvenient. You, evil bride-to-be, are confronting two basic human fears. A terror of correspondence and the dread of decision-making.

  Mimi Pond

  Two, Evil, Decision

  Mimi Pond (1993). “A Groom of One's Own: And Other Bridal Accessories”, Plume Books

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