Boxes Quotes - Page 34

• Here on the drawing board fingers and noses leak from the air brush maggots lie under if i should die before if i should die in the back room stacked up in smooth boxes like soapflakes or tunafish wait the undreamt of.

  Maxine Kumin

  Dream, Lying, Air

  Maxine Kumin (1970). “The nightmare factory”

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• When I step into the batter's box, the fans, the noise, the cheers, they all disappear. For that moment, the world is just a battle between me and the pitcher. And more than anything, I want to win.

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

  Softball, Cheer, Winning

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• What do you want me to do,
  To watch for you,
  To see you through?
  A box of rain will ease the pain,
  and love, will see you through.

  Robert Hunter

  Song, Pain, Rain

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• During a mock battle attended by President Warren Harding in 1921, Marine Corps General Smedley D. Butler exhumed the arm [of Stonewall Jackson; he didn't believe it was buried there] and reburied it in a metal box.

  Tony Horwitz

  War, Believe, Marine

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• These systems attempt to box God into a government confined within the perspective of man. Yet when humanity is used as the starting point for interpreting and interacting with God's creation, faulty theology and sociology emerge as mankind attempts to fashion God into the image of man.

  Tony Evans

  Christian, Fashion, Men

  Tony Evans (2014). “One Nation Under God: His Rule Over Your Country”, p.24, Moody Publishers

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• Come children, let us shut up the box and the puppets, for our play is played out.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Children, Play, Childhood

  Vanity Fair ch. 67 (1847 - 1848)

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• A good organization is like a box of crayons. You need different colors of the spectrum, but all the crayons should fit in the box.

  Barbara Corcoran

  Motivational, Color, Organization

  FaceBook post by Barbara Corcoran from Apr 29, 2013

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• It was a fair decision, the penalty, even though it was debatable whether it was inside or outside the box

  Bobby Charlton

  Soccer, Decision, Penalties

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• The drama's altar isn't on the stage: it is candle-sticked and flowered in the box office. There is the gold, though there be no frankincense or myrrh; and the gospel for the day always The Play will Run for a Year. The Dove of Inspiration, of the desire for inspiration, has flown away from it; and on it's roof, now, the commonplace crow caws candidly.

  Sean O'Casey

  Running, Drama, Inspiration

  Sean O'Casey (2011). “Autobiographies III: Rose and Crown and Sunset and Evening Star”, p.413, Faber & Faber

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• To save the theatre, the theatre must be destroyed, the actors and actresses must all die of the plague. They poison the air, they make art impossible. It is not drama that they play, but pieces for the theatre. We should return to the Greeks, play in the open air; the drama dies of stalls and boxes and evening dress, and people who come to digest their dinner.

  Eleanora Duse

  Art, Drama, Air

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• How many young men, in all previous times of unprecedented steadiness, had turned suddenly wild and wicked for the same reason, and, in an ecstasy of unrequited love, taken to wrench off door-knockers, and invert the boxes of rheumatic watchmen!

  Charles Dickens

  Heartbreak, Taken, Unrequited Love

  Charles Dickens (1868). “Barnaby Rudge, And, Hard Times: With Ten Illustrations”, p.193

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• I play chess about four hours a day in training camp. You have to decide what move to use, or what combination of moves. I think less when I box because the reaction time is a lot quicker, but some people call me the chess boxer because they say I think too much in the ring. I take my time and they don't see the action they want. Some boxers just go in there and just throw punches and hope to win.

  Lennox Lewis

  Sports, Moving, Winning

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• I had a feeling that Pandora's box contained the mysteries of woman's sensuality, so different from a man's and for which man's language was so inadequate. The language of sex had yet to be invented. The language of the senses was yet to be explored.

  Anais Nin

  Sex, Men, Feelings

  Anais Nin (1977). “DELTA OF VENUS EROTICA”

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• I didn't know how to box so I would have looked like a complete street fighter actually, but what we did have to do was pick up some sides and then just memorize them within two days and go there and audition.

  Michelle Rodriguez

  Two, Auditions, Sides

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• Under a Presidential government, a nation has, except at the electing moment, no influence; it has not the ballot-box before it; its virtue is gone, and it must wait till its instant of despotism again returns.

  Walter Bagehot

  Government, Presidential, Waiting

  Walter Bagehot (1930). “The English Constitution: And Other Political Essays”, p.44, Lulu.com

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• Architects are today routinely indoctrinated against the dumb box. Even advertising urges us to "think outside the box." Why? Because it is thought we all hate the box for being too dumb, too boring, and we want to escape it. If we do escape, by buying the advertised product, we usually find ourselves inside another dumb box populated by boring people just like us. It is clearly possible to live an extraordinary life inside a dumb box. Question: is it possible to lead an extraordinary life in anything other than a dumb box?

  Lebbeus Woods

  Hate, Thinking, People

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• A man can please his wife with a box of candy, surprise her with a bouquet of flowers, and make her suspicious with a gold bracelet.

  Sam Ewing

  Flower, Men, Wife

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• There is no suggestion box in the Psych Ward.

  Emilie Autumn

  Psych, Suggestions, Suggestion Boxes

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• When I was sixteen, I began to think outside the box of my small town. Not that the people in my small town are in a box - they're not! There's a brilliant college there, and I had brilliant teachers from that college. But in terms of a conservative upbringing, which I did have within my own family, I just began to question things and to think for myself.

  Ronee Blakley

  Teacher, College, Thinking

  Interview with Amanda Shubert, therumpus.net. December 20, 2013.

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• I have tried every amp, distortion box, gadget etc. that has ever been made since 1967 to present and nothing has sounded like the Tonebone. It has become an incredible asset to my sound and I recommend this to anyone who is looking for that NATURAL warm sound with sustain for days and days! Buy this now!

  Steve Lukather

  Etc, Sound, Gadgets

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• Wheaties was the big sponsor in those days (1940s). They sponsored almost all the baseball games in the majors and the minors. That was a lot of Wheaties. I think there were twenty-four boxes in a case and some of these guys were hitting twenty-five and thirty home runs a season. We had a dog in those days named Blue Grass and the players used to give us their Wheaties for him. Blue Grass loved Wheaties and so did I.

  Ernie Harwell

  Baseball, Running, Dog

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• Little boxes on the hillside, Little boxes made of ticky-tacky, Little boxes on the hillside, Little boxes all the same.

  Malvina Reynolds

  Tacky, Littles, Made

  "Little Boxes" (song) (1962)

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• Box about: 'twill come to my father anon.

  John Aubrey

  Father, Anon

  'Brief Lives' 'Sir Walter Raleigh'

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• I write box notes for Kino International, which specializes in distributing foreign films.

  Bruce Bennett

  Writing, Film, Notes

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• Love is not always about ‘everything’s fine’…love is about truth. Truth and love are one in the same. It doesn’t always come in a sweet little box with a bow on it.

  Tom Shadyac

  Sweet, Love Is, And Love

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