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Quotes About Box

What's in the box? Not a severed head—again—I trust?" It seemed too small for that, fortunately. Cordelia's gray eyes glinted. "Now, now, Oliver. Bring home one dismembered body part, once, mind you, once, and people get twitchy about checking your luggage ever after.
~ Lois McMaster Bujold
You chose love like a belief, a faith, a place, a box for one's heart to knock against like a spook in the house.
~ Lorrie Moore
It was a box of tissues.
~ Louis Sachar
The prose poem for me becomes a kind of chamber with no way out… a kind of hunt, because what is hunt but a breathing thing caught inside the house or the body or the box without the possibility of an exit?
~ Sabrina Orah Mark
It's a choice, it's a bold move - disassembling the Box - and one that requires assertion, but the rewards are remarkable!!
~ Heidi Reagan
The quality of the box matters little. Success depends upon the man who sits in it.
~ Manfred von Richthofen
APPEAL, v.t. In law, to put the dice into the box for another throw.
~ Ambrose Bierce
You think Tide is better, or All?' 'Which has a prettier box?' I ask. 'I don't want a pretty box. I want a dude box.' Uh-huh,' I deadpan. 'You want a dude box of laundry detergent.' 'Yes, I do.' 'Good luck with that.
~ E. Lockhart
Philosophy, is the talk on a cereal box. Religion, is a smile on a dog.
~ Edie Brickell
This little box, this chapter, ends here, sealed tight from those others that surround it, so that those other people of different chapters may not come in here and disturb, so that its vault may be sealed up, never spilling beyond its boundaries but kept tight shut and precious, and Godly and triumphant, and wonderful too.
~ Edward Carey
But sport is about character. It is about understanding how a team works, about pushing the team. I also wanted to do it because of where I am from as a human being. That's what London people want: thinking outside the box, new ideas.
~ Sol Campbell
Liberal members of Congress and their media allies are furious with Attorney General William Barr because he blew up the Mueller report smear job before it was out of the box.
~ Tom Fitton
It's all changed now at Wimbledon. There's just one big loo for the whole Royal Box. I don't think we're treated differently.
~ Princess Michael of Kent
The one thing Marvel does is think outside the box, going all the way back to Ang Lee directing the first 'Hulk.' They like to go outside the genre.
~ Anthony Russo
They put Omani in his box, They're using nails instead of locks. But at his funeral don't despair, The chances are he won't be there.
~ Ronald Cunningham
The otter's picnic ground is a large rock where we always find empty turtle shells. It is rather sad, but I can't help thinking how conveniently packaged a turtle is to an otter. Like a kind of Big Mac in a crushproof box.
~ Louise Erdrich
Nell found adults to be constrained. It was as if sometime during their late youth, someone had drawn a box for them to step into. The box had four sides, a bottom, and a top; the adult would hop in—willingly, it seemed—and never get out again.
~ Luanne Rice
There is no reasoning, no process of inference or comparison there is no thinking about things, no putting two and two together there are no ideas - the animal does not think of the box or of the food or of the act he is to perform.
~ Edward Thorndike
An animal who talks to remove Wolf from the position of power and bring Jackal or wild beast in its place in jungle is either a crafty fox or one whose mind is an empty box.
~ Anuj Somany
I feel like I'm quick enough, and on my day, I can be dangerous in the box.
~ Bradley Wright-Phillips
My first film out of the gate was financially so successful that I guess, being in Hollywood, you get kind of put into a certain box.
~ James Wan
In Germany it's more physical. It's a lot of aggressive runs in behind and getting into the box.
~ Reiss Nelson
I saw the Count lying within the box upon the earth, some of which the rude falling from the cart had scattered over him. He was deathly pale, just like a waxen image, and the red eyes glared with the horrible vindictive look which I knew so well.
~ Bram Stoker
Americans do not want to think that there is an alternative to what we have. Therefore, as soon as you say 'fascism' or whatever it might be, then the American response is to say 'no' because we lack the categories that allow us to think outside of the box that we are no longer in.
~ Timothy D. Snyder