Quotes About Box

William James, who was a professor at Harvard from 1872 to 1907 as well as a lecturer at numerous universities, is often referred to as "the father of American psychology." Yet in his lifetime, he was ridiculed for forming The American Society for Psychical Research. Unfortunately, we have a long-standing practice of criticizing those who look outside the traditional medical box.

What did Pandora do with her box after she'd unleashed despair into the world? Did she keep it on her mantel as a reminder of what she'd done?

Abbott was all over the shop on emissions trading. He feared destruction at the ballot box if the Opposition blocked Rudd. "The government's emissions trading scheme is the perfect political response to the public's fears," he had said in late July 2009.

Nothing is more disgusting than a glass of milk, especially French milk, which comes in a box and can sit unrefrigerated for five months, at which point it simply turns into cheese and is moved to a different section of the grocery store.

My life was like that box. The best things in all the imperfections.

I feel now as though I've been sitting all my life inside a box, and suddenly someone is lifting the lid and I can look up and see the stars.

This sentence cribbed from the back of a cereal box (organic flax and raisin bran) is not the less poignant for its source.

Michelle's Note: When I make these at my rented house just off the Macalester campus, I put the rolls in a box and write "FROZEN KIDNEYS FOR HANNAH'S CAT" on the box. So far, none of my roommates, every one of them a cookie hound, has ever opened the box to see what's inside.

Noo the candy box from last Christmas is empty.

I was Pandora, bound and determined to open that box.

I have a sort of Christmas-morning sense of the library as a big box full of beautiful books.

The micro recorder is in the same box, sans batteries.

I'm just bones in a box, Teddy.

Sure enough, at the bottom of the box lay a note, crisply folded and sealed with blue wax. The insignia, though, was not Lord John's customary smiling half-moon-and-stars, but an unfamiliar crest, showing a fish with a ring in its mouth. Jamie glanced at this, frowning, then broke the seal and opened the note.

I really liked the atmosphere at Wembley, and I would like to box there, too.

I'm walking on air and I'm so excited. I just came home. I have a box of chocolates next to me — I'm eating them, but I only bite into those with the creamy filling to find out if they have nuts in them — if not, I don't like them — so I press them back together, so they will look like new — and tomorrow I'll give them to my mother and Therese.

Binge viewing has been around since DVD box sets.

WHAT FOR IS THIS BOX PADDED? IS IT TO BE SAT ON? CAN IT BE THAT IT IS CAT-FLAVOURED?

My arm began moving, turning the invisible crank of Death's music box. Somewhere inside, I didn't want the melody to end.

An upturned life is righted in the box.

There's nowhere else to escape to ... Except in a wooden box, that is.

We are not inferring design to account for a black box, but to account for an open box.

And love is a force much misunderstood by humans, who put it into a very tiny, narrow little box.

It is not that they looked in the ark and saw something that they should not have seen. That is not the point. The ark was a box. That is all it ever was. The point is that it was at the ark in the Holy of Holies that God met with His people. He is not meeting with them now. They have turned from Him. Their rebellion and blasphemy are revealed in their disobedience. Because of this, God brings judgment upon them.