Box Quotes

For me an object is something living. This cigarette or this box of matches contains a secret life much more intense than that of certain human beings. (Joan Miró)
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. View quote
Margaret Mead
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. View quote
Adlai Stevenson II
Sweet spring, full of sweet days and roses, a box where sweets compacted lie. View quote
George Herbert
Some men's memory is like a box where a man should mingle his jewels with his old shoes. View quote
George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax
I'll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there's evidence of any thinking going on inside it. View quote
Terry Pratchett
We were young. We were bored. And the old electroshock therapy machine was just under the stairs in a box next to the Hoover. View quote
Augusten Burroughs
It's fascinating that people, there's so many people now who will make judgments based on what you look like. I'm black. So I'm supposed to think a certain way. I'm supposed to have certain opinions. I don't do that. You don't create a box and put people in and then make a lot of generalizations about them. View quote
Clarence Thomas
The ballot box is the surest arbiter of disputes among free men. View quote
James Buchanan
Ah! Vanitas Vanitatum! Which of us is happy in this world? Which of us has his desire? or, having it, is satisfied?-Come, children, let us shut up the box and the puppets, for our play is played out. View quote
William Makepeace Thackeray
When I was a little kid we had a sand box. It was a quicksand box. I was an only child... eventually. (Steven Wright)
Why don't they make the whole plane out of that black box stuff. View quote
Steven Wright
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. View quote
Jack White
Those who have the immense dishonesty to fight with a ballot box in one hand and a rifle in the other have no place in democratic politics. View quote
Neil Kinnock
I don't smoke but I keep a match box in my pocket, when my heart slips towards sin, I burn the matchstick and heat my palm with it, then say to myself, "Ali you can't even bear this heat, how would you bear the unbearable heat of hellfire?". View quote
Muhammad Ali
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. View quote
Erma Bombeck
Young man, young man, your arm's too short to box with God. View quote
James Weldon Johnson
I will not retire while I've still got my legs and my make-up box. View quote
Bette Davis
Users do not care about what is inside the box, as long as the box does what they need done. View quote
Jef Raskin
But what many psychologists have done, probably because they did well on a test themselves and everyone wants high self esteem, is to create this little box and then do their research inside it. View quote
Robert Sternberg
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)
As you can appreciate over my lifetime I've developed a large vocabulary of sounds each requiring certain physical techniques often combined with a specific effect box. View quote
Adrian Belew
Mourning Ruby is not a flat landscape: it is more like a box with pictures painted on every face. And each face is also a door which opens, I hope, to take the reader deep into the book. View quote
Helen Dunmore
Agents and producers have to get you into a box to accommodate their limited imaginations. View quote
Imelda Staunton
When you finish a poem, it clicks shut like the top of a jewel box, but prose is endless. I haven't experienced an awful lot of clicking shut! View quote
Kenneth Koch