Box Quotes - page 3

I can saw a woman in two. But you won't want to look in the box when I do. (Warren Zevon)
Take these chances Place them in a box until a quieter time Lights down, you up and die. View quote
Dave Matthews
Once she remembered trying to box her own ears for having cheated herself in a game of croquet she was playing against herself, for this curious child was very fond of pretending to be two people. View quote
Lewis Carroll
You learn very very quickly that it is mostly about swearing, actually. That's all you're doing, swearing, in a box with wheels. View quote
Dylan Moran
Caddy got the box and set it on the floor and opened it. It was full of stars. When I was still, they were still. When I moved, they glinted and sparkled. I hushed. View quote
William Faulkner
Granted, not really a joke, but how often do you get a mic in your hand? You know? So. I am sorry but don't anybody trip on my soap box on the way out. Don't anybody trip over that. And the chip on my shoulder's a little heavy. I have back problems now. View quote
Janeane Garofalo
Woman stock is rising in the market. I shall not live to see women vote, but I'll come and rap on the ballot box. View quote
Lydia Maria Child
I think that it's when we step out of the road, step outside the box, become our own person and we walk fearlessly down paths other people wouldn't look at, that true progress comes. And sometimes true beauty as well. View quote
John McAfee
Everyone's heard of Erwin Schrodinger's famous thought experiment. You put a cat in a box with a bottle of poison, which many people would suggest is about as far as you need to go. View quote
Terry Pratchett
I regard this novel as a work without redeeming social value, unless it can be recycled as a cardboard box. View quote
Ellen Goodman
[J]amming a coin into a monopoly newspaper box or liberating a billboard in the middle of the night can be a rather honest and joyful thing to do. (Kalle Lasn)
I thank the Prime Minister for his remarks about me. Debating with him at the Dispatch Box has been exciting, fascinating, fun, an enormous challenge and, from my point of view, wholly unproductive in every sense. I am told that in my time at the Dispatch Box I have asked the Prime Minister 1,118 direct questions, but no one has counted the direct answers-it may not take long. View quote
William Hague
U.S. News Organizations observe the anniversary of September 11 with investigations about the nation's continuing vulnerability to terrorism. First, the New York Daily News reports that two of its reporters carried box cutters, razor knives, and pepper spray on fourteen commercial flights without getting caught. Then ABC News reports that it smuggled fifteen pounds of uranium into New York City. Then Fox News reports that it flew Osama bin Laden to Washington, D.C., and videotaped him touring the White House. View quote
Dave Barry
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. View quote
James Berardinelli
In a museum in London there is an exhibit called "The Value of Man": a long coffinlike box with lots of compartments where they've put starch-phosphorus-flour-bottles of water and alcohol-and big pieces of gelatin. I am a man like that. View quote
Stéphane Mallarmé
A convincing demonstration of correctness being impossible as long as the mechanism is regarded as a black box, our only hope lies in not regarding the mechanism as a black box. View quote
Edsger W. Dijkstra
[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. View quote
Larry Wall
There's more evil in the charts than in an Al-Qaeda suggestion box. View quote
Bill Bailey
Life is like a box of Hand grenades, You never know what will blow you to kingdom come. View quote
Mario Puzo
Hollywood embraced me in the late '80s because there was a good project I was in and it was different. Nowadays, it's about corporate mentality, box office, youth. View quote
Marlee Matlin
I'm a quasi-only child. With my brother and sister, I've more of a tendency to be semi-maternal. So, yes, I spent a lot of time talking to myself - I had this big dressing-up box and would just dress up as lots of characters and talk back to myself... Verging on schizophrenia, I suppose, if you analyse it carefully. (Natalie Dormer)
The biggest handicap in research is an ability to think outside the box. The handicap is being encumbered by all the conventional wisdom in a given field. View quote
Aubrey de Grey
I started hiding my paintings in certain ways, like behind panes of glass for example. Then, instead of hiding them I did something quite cold and clinical: I built a wooden box, filled it with enamel paint and dunked the painting in so you could only see a suggestion of it from a controlled point of view. View quote
Oliver Jeffers
I sometimes forget to have breakfast in the morning, but when I actually buy a box of cereal, I will probably eat it not only for breakfast but also as a snack later on. View quote
Ryan Gosling
I past another telkhine, who was so startled he dropped his Lil' Demons lunch box. I left him alive - partly because he had a cool lunch box... View quote
Rick Riordan