Boxes Quotes - Page 24

• [Boxed] Multiple bouncing balls in a box are a metaphor for community. Notice how the escaping balls explode. This is what happens to people who move from Perl to Ruby.

  Larry Wall

  Moving, Escaping, People

  "The State of the Onion". www.perl.com. August 19, 2004.

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• If you go to Cass Sunstein, what net neutrality means is now if you go to FoxNews.com, you will have Arianna Huffington, a little box pop up with her showing that Bill O’Reilly is wrong on this or here’s an opposing view of Bill O’Reilly.

  Glenn Beck

  Mean, Views, Neutrality

  "The Glenn Beck Program", www.glennbeck.com. December 2, 2010.

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• Remember when the music Came from wooden boxes strung with silver wire And as we sang the words, it would set our minds on fire, For we believed in things, and so we'd sing.

  Harry Chapin

  Fire, Mind, Wire

  Song: Remember When The Music, Album: Sequel, 1981

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• Some chick came up to me and said something, so I kicked her in the box and shoved her.

  Avril Lavigne

  Said, Chicks

  Maxim, September 2004.

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• I'm excited by the band [White Stripes]. It really excites me. But it wouldn't excite me if there weren't those limitations, if we weren't living in that box, if we weren't trapped. Once that goes away, then I'll know that it's not worth doing it any more.

  Jack White

  White, Stripes, Band

  "What's Eating Jack?". Interview with Andrew Perry, www.theguardian.com. November 14, 2004.

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• I do not want to heap coals of fire on anyone's head, but I would like to advise those who keep the living thought of the dead hidden away in cardboard boxes, to pass on as quickly as possibly such explosive material, whose only legitimate heir is the whole world, that is to say, my neighbor.

  Pierre Schaeffer

  Fire, Coal, World

  "The Old Man and His Movements" by Pierre Schaeffer, 1964.

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• They don't make poles long enough for me want to touch Microsoft products, and I don't want any mass-marketed game-playing device or Windows appliance near my desk or on my network. This is my workbench, dammit, it's not a pretty box to impress people with graphics and sounds. When I work at this system up to 12 hours a day, I'm profoundly uninterested in what user interface a novice user would prefer.

  Erik Naggum

  Games, Long, People

  Re: Why lisp failed in the marketplace (Usenet article), groups.google.com. February 16, 1997.

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• There are three kinds of forms in the human figure: Ovoid forms - egg, ball and barrel masses; Column forms - cylinder, cone; Spatulate forms - box, slab and wedge blocks.

  Burne Hogarth

  Block, Eggs, Cylinders

  Burne Hogarth (1996). “Dynamic Figure Drawing”

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• Imagine a revised edition of Shakespeare... a big, thick book with an elegant cover... You open it and find that there are no pages, just an empty box of space. On the back wall of the box is a small mirror. You look into it, see yourself, and now you know all you need to know about Shakespeare.

  Carter Ratcliff

  Wall, Book, Mirrors

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• The most exciting part of finding out who we are is discovering our own uniqueness, who we are outside the box, beyond the categories in a Psychology 101 textbook. In our inimitable singularity, there is an infinite range of possibility that cannot be tied to any one description of what it means to be human or healthy.

  David Richo

  Mean, Psychology, Healthy

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• Jurors have found, again and again, and at critical moments, according to what is their sense of the rational and just. If their sense of justice has gone one way, and the case another, they have found "against the evidence," ... the English common law rests upon a bargain between the Law and the people: The jury box is where the people come into the court: The judge watches them and the people watch back. A jury is the place where the bargain is struck. The jury attends in judgment, not only upon the accused, but also upon the justice and the humanity of the Law.

  E. P. Thompson

  Law, People, Justice

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• After the second Die Hard, Bruce Willis stated he would never do another. He should have stayed firm in his resolve. If quality is any indication (and it may be, with all the available blockbusters), box office returns will be disappointing this time around and, if nothing else, that will do to John McClane what dozens of assorted bad guys couldn't manage: kill him.

  James Berardinelli

  Should Have, Office, Guy

  "Die Hard with a Vengeance (1995)". A movie review at www.reelviews.net,

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• Live Free or Die Hard may work better for an audience that doesn't know much about the series is than it will for Die Hard die hards, who will be wondering who that impersonator is and what he did with the real John McClane. The original Die Hard came out of nowhere to blitz the 1988 summer box office. The fourth installment arrives with a weight of expectations that Atlas would have trouble shouldering and, when the dust settles in September, it's unlikely that Live Free or Die Hard will be one of this year's big success stories.

  James Berardinelli

  Summer, Real, Dust

  "Live Free or Die Hard (United States, 2007)". Movie Review, www.reelviews.net.

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• I hyperventilate opening a box of chocolates. I'm the most nervous guy in the world, a frightened little man on red alert from when I wake until I go to sleep. I was born with fear.

  Ozzy Osbourne

  Sleep, Men, Guy

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• Democracy is more than a ballot box.

  Mohamed ElBaradei

  Democracy, Ballots

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• Bernie Sanders' presidential campaign announced that it raised over $1.5 million in the 24 hours after he announced his bid. Meanwhile, a 12-year-old on Kickstarter just raised $7 million in five minutes after announcing his idea for juice box water guns.

  Jimmy Fallon

  Gun, Years, Ideas

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• I wish I could Buy Time - just write a cheque, and a few days later a brown cardboard box would arrive at the door containing three months (along with an extra bonus sunny weekend for being a good customer).

  Neil Gaiman

  Writing, Weekend, Doors

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• Trout fisherman often give away their presence to the fish by the equipment they are wearing. The yo-yo hanging on the fly fishing vest that attaches to the hemostats or line clippers is often plated with chrome, giving off flashes of light. Some fly boxes that you wear on the chest are also bright aluminum-not a good idea. I recently fished with a fellow who wore a bright yellow hat on a meadow stream in Pennsylvania. From 100 yards away you could see his every movement,-I'm sure that trout near him could, too.

  Lefty Kreh

  Yellow, Lakes, Light

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• About the only certainty, other than uncertainty, in fly fishing is that a fly won't catch fish if it stays in its box.

  Arnold Gingrich

  Lakes, Sea, Fishing

  Arnold Gingrich (1973). “The Joys of Trout”

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• Liverpool can play for only five minutes and win the game, that is the way they are. They pump the ball into the box and with good set-piece delivery they keep you under pressure.

  Alex Ferguson

  Soccer, Football, Winning

  "Crouch rises to the occasion but Smith laid low with a broken leg" by Paul Wilson, www.theguardian.com. February 18, 2006.

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• An American has invented a remote control that will turn off any telly within a 20ft radius. What a marvellous device! What a splendid invention! What a really helpful and improving way of devoting your time to building something that turns off culture. Next week, I'm instigating Burn a Book Week, to encourage even more conversation. I've come up with a fantastic little device which I'll call a box of matches.

  A. A. Gill

  Book, Next Week, Culture

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• In my childhood I was obsessed with cameras but could not afford one. After much persuasion my father Harivansh Rai Bachchan bought me a box camera which I treasured for years. Initially I clicked trees and nature and as I grew up started noticing prettier things-motorbike, sleek cars and cool girls. But the hamartia of life is when you desire something you cannot afford it and when you are able to afford it you are too old to use it. Now I don't need all gadgets but it's satisfying to know that at least I can afford them.

  Amitabh Bachchan

  Girl, Father, Years

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• The war imbued my tin soldiers with quite a new interest. It was impossible to have boxes enough of them.

  Georg Brandes

  War, Soldier, Tin

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Just in the past few years - since I've been making movies, which isn't a very long time - you now have a culture that is fascinated and informed about the box office in a way that sometimes filmmakers weren't even.

  Neil LaBute

  Past, Years, Long

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• I don't think you can name a good picture where the production or the possible promotion isn't "cast-contingent." That means the film needs not just star power but star box office power.

  Larry Gelbart

  Stars, Mean, Thinking

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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