Container Quotes

A book is simply the container of an idea like a bottle; what is inside the book is what matters. (Angela Carter)
We live in a world where the funeral matters more than the dead, the wedding more than love and the physical rather than the intellect. We live in the container culture, which despises the content. View quote
Eduardo Galeano
By phonemic trans-formation into visual terms, the alphabet became a universal, abstract, static container of meaningless sounds. View quote
Marshall McLuhan
Architecture is basically a container of something. I hope they will enjoy not so much the teacup, but the tea. View quote
Yoshio Taniguchi
I always tell people, anger is like liquid. It's fluid, it's like water. You put it in a container and it takes the shape of that container. So many people you see in prison, unleashing war on their people, they are angry, and they take their anger and put it into a violent container. View quote
Leymah Gbowee
Human nature is like water. It takes the shape of its container. View quote
Wallace Stevens
We are in the position of the man who has only two ambitions in life. One is to invent the universal solvent which will dissolve any solid substance, and the second is to invent the universal container which will hold any liquid. Whatever this inventor does, he will be frustrated. View quote
Norbert Wiener
Luxurious food and drinks, in no way protect you from harm. Wealth beyond what is natural, is no more use than an overflowing container. Real value is not generated by theaters, and baths, perfumes or ointments, but by philosophy. View quote
Epicurus
Man's mind is not a container to be filled but rather a fire to be kindled. View quote
Dorothea Brande
In my experience, psychotherapy at its best is like dual meditation - it's like a container in which you can be compassionate and mindful toward yourself. View quote
Jack Kornfield
The Internet is a container, not a substance. (Alison Owen)
Life does not acommodate you, it shatters you. It is meant to, and it couldn't do it better. Every seed destroys its container or else there would be no fruition. View quote
Florida Scott-Maxwell
A novel, in the end, is a container, a shape which you are trying to pour your story into. View quote
Helen Dunmore
I will continue to push for doubling the strength of the U.S. Border Patrol, and to make sure that every cargo container that enters this nation is screened for radiation and potential weapons of mass destruction. View quote
Nick Lampson
I knew a woman, lovely in her bones, When small birds sighed, she would sigh back at them; Ah, when she moved, she moved more ways than one: The shapes a bright container can contain! View quote
Theodore Roethke
I didn't feel like I was in my own body; my body was just a lonely, temporary container I happened to be borrowing. View quote
Haruki Murakami
The idea that a pupil is a passive recipient, a container waiting to be filled by the teacher's knowledge and instruction - all this is nonsense. Teaching is a living relationship, of give and take, of mutual learning. View quote
Yehudi Menuhin
I approach each building as a sculptural object, a spatial container, a space with light and air, a response to context and appropriateness of feeling and spirit. To this container, this sculpture, the user brings his baggage, his program, and interacts with it to accommodate his needs. If he can't do that, I've failed. View quote
Frank Gehry
I must avert here once again to my view of the opposition that exists between individuality and personality, notwithstanding the fact that the one demands the other. Individuality is, if I may so express it, the container or thing which contains, personality the content or thing contained, or I might say that my personality is in a certain sense my comprehension, that which I comprehend or embrace within myself - which is in a certain way the whole Universe - and that my individuality is my extension; the one my infinite, the other my finite. View quote
Miguel de Unamuno
The pre-atomist multisensory void was an animate, pulsating, and moving vibrant interval, neither container nor contained, acoustic space penetrated by tactility. View quote
Marshall McLuhan
Environment is process, not container. (p. 30) (Marshall McLuhan)
I had always thought that once you grew up you could do anything you wanted - stay up all night or eat ice-cream straight out of the container. View quote
Bill Bryson
The book is not really the container for the book. The book itself is the narrative. It's the thing that people create. View quote
Jeff Bezos
A snowball is simple, direct and familiar to most of us. I use this simplicity as a container for feelings and ideas that function on many levels. Occasionally I have come across a last patch of snow on top of a mountain in late May or June. There's something very powerful about finding snow in summer. It's as if the whole of winter has drained through that white hole - a concentration of winter. View quote
Andy Goldsworthy
A snowball is simple, direct and familiar to most of us. I use this simplicity as a container for feelings and ideas that function on many levels. View quote
Andy Goldsworthy