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Quotes About Box

You're interested only in the history you've decided to target. In other words, you will be seeing bits and pieces of all possible targets that will ever be placed within the box, or the contents of the box before it is used for targeting.
~ Joseph McMoneagle
There are people who put their dreams in a little box and say, 'Yes, I've got dreams, of course I've got dreams.' Then they put the box away and bring it out once in awhile to look in it, and yep, they're still there. These are great dreams, but they never even get out of the box. It takes an uncommon amount of guts to put your dreams on the line, to hold them up and say, 'How good or how bad am I' That's where courage comes in.
~ Erma Bombeck
She drilled a hole in the side of her jewelry box that allowed her to shake out two earrings. She wore them regardless of whether they matched or not.
~ Evan Roskos
I was born in 1973, so I did not see 'Alien' when it was released theatrically. I saw 'Alien' when it was on Home Box Office. I think I was probably 10.
~ Damon Lindelof
I sure can't do television. The screen is only 24 inches. How are they ever gonna get someone like me in that little box?
~ John Matuszak
How many people have a family grave in the backyard? I'm sure I'll end up there, or I'll shrink my head and put it in a glass box in the living room. I'll get more tourists to Graceland that way.
~ Lisa Marie Presley
I saw that it was all over, put away in a box like a doll no longer cared for, the magical intimacy of our childhood together
~ Tennessee Williams
I was a daredevil before, and after I lost my sight I was the same. I loved riding bikes, scooters and horses. I even learned to box. Muhammad Ali is my hero.
~ Andrea Bocelli
She held out the box of fudge. "I made this. I don't know if you like chocolate. If not, you could take it into the office or…" Instead of taking the candy, he grabbed her wrist and pulled her inside. The second the door closed behind her, she was in his arms, his mouth on hers.
~ Susan Mallery
And what do you keep in such a pretty little box, sir? Snuff?' Oh, no! It is a great treasure of mine that I wish Lady Pole to wear tonight!' He opened the box and showed Stephen a small, white finger.
~ Susanna Clarke
And all the nursemaids and kitchen maids I ever knew when I was a child, always had a aunt, who knew a woman, whose first cousin's boy had been put into just such a box, and had never been seen again.
~ Susanna Clarke
How quickly, how neatly the chaos of a living person could be reduced to an insignificant box.
~ Josh Lanyon
But everything written has style. The list of ingredients on the side of a cornflakes box has style. And everything literary has literary style. And style is integral to a work. How something is told correlates with - more - makes what's being told. A story is its style.
~ Ali Smith
Tis not need we know our every thought or see the work shop where each mask is wrought wherefrom we view the world of box and pit, careless of wear, just so the mask shall fit and serve our jape's turn for a night or two.
~ Ezra Pound
A token of love comes in a box because love itself cannot be contained.
~ Binnie Kirshenbaum
In this blizzard of wonderment, Mike Kami asked me a simple and penetrating question: "What's in the box?" When
~ Bob P. Buford
I now believe that television itself, the medium of sitting in front of a magic box that pulses images at us endlessly, the act of watching TV, per se, is mind crushing. It is soul deadening, dehumanizing, soporific in a poisonous way, ultimately brutalizing. It is, simply put so you cannot mistake my meaning, a bad thing.
~ Harlan Ellison
It's cold here; I have a sparrow in a box with his foot frozen off; I'm afraid I'm going to have to kill him as I cannot keep him in that box & he can't possibly live if I turn him loose. This is a tough world for lots of people, including sparrows.10
~ Harold Schechter
Revolutions are of no us;, it is necessary to work on transforming the brain: on sowing a different knowledge/awareness, on creating a new conscience, that is like a magic box full of brains.
~ Alejandro Jodorowsky
Allan is good in transition, going box to box, leading counter attacks and breaks. He's mobile and brings protection defensively.
~ Tite
The day you ever have that much control over my behavior, it will be because somebody's asking you, should she get the pine box or a plain white shroud?
~ Michael Chabon
For geniuses, they are really dumb," she said. "Some of them are really pampered: They can't even put together a cardboard box. They don't think you do something. They think you call somebody.
~ Michael Lewis
Even in comedy, I'm always the straight guy, which is okay because that's a skill. But it would be nice to get out of that box.
~ Maura Tierney
Oblivion eyes on a cereal box, the warm blinds of a father lost and last to know lost and last to love last boy lost you can't see even a bubble once it's popped
~ Kami Garcia