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Quotes About Packaging

If you go to the supermarket and buy a package of food and look at the photo on the front, the food never looks like that inside, does it? That is a fundamental lie we are sold every day.
~ Martin Parr
We have the whitest kitchens and the most shining bathrooms in the world. But in the lovely white kitchen the average [person] can't produce a meal fit to eat, and the lovely shining bathroom is mostly a receptacle for deodorants, laxatives, sleeping pills, and the products of that confidence racket called the cosmetic industry. We make the finest packages in the world, Mr Marlowe. The stuff inside is mostly junk.
~ Raymond Chandler
Men are boys in bigger packages.
~ Nora Roberts
Sorry, am I being rude?" she asks. "I'm used to saying whatever is on my mind. Mom used to say that politeness is deception in pretty packaging
~ Veronica Roth
Mother's milk would be banned by the food safety laws of industrialized nations if it were sold as a packaged good.
~ Paul Hawken
Often people try and just consider music as music, in a musical context. People seem to forget that music is not just audio material - it's also the artwork, the packaging it comes in.
~ Herbert
Philosophy is talk on a cereal box.
~ Edie Brickell
The manufacturing and packaging of homogeneous experience is what politics in America is about.
~ Howard Rheingold
USA does such a great job sort of branding and packaging their shows and you know, they move and they sort of you got to keep up, you've really got to keep up with the train.
~ James Roday
Irrationality is the exclusive preserve of humans as among all creatures only we have the power to rationalise, that being the art of packaging patently irrational as apparently rational.
~ R.N. Prasher
Read…packaged food labels like they're the hottest thing from Oprah's book club.
~ Dr. Joseph Mercola
My obsession is plastic packaging. It makes me sick, all the waste. Everything about it disappoints me.
~ Theo James
I used to love those little cute bottles of amenities in the hotel room. And while the soap, shampoo, conditioner, and lotion may smell great, they waste an incredible amount of plastic and space in your luggage.
~ Ashlan Gorse Cousteau
The CD is now the wax album and so it is a collector's item for people who collect music and love to look at the liner notes and feel paper. I don't know what would turn them on about having to go through that terrible exercise of trying to open the packaging - it's unbelievable when you're trying to open a CD, right? You need a box cutter .
~ MC Hammer
Wayne Coyne has put out Flaming Lips records in gummy bear skulls and all these different kinds of packaging that's really, really inventive. And that's what you should always do.
~ Fred Armisen
I knew people would see 'PKP.' Although the packaging was weak, the product was good.
~ Nushrat Bharucha
I became a spokeswoman for Future Friendly - a partnership between sustainability experts and household brands trying to inspire people to save water, energy, and packaging.
~ Tamzin Outhwaite
cream is put in a cardboard container, and the container is put in a carton on a bed of dry ice, and chunks of dry ice are packed on both sides of it and on top.
~ Rex Stout
Lactomangulation, n.: Manhandling the "open here" spout on a milk carton so badly that one has to resort to using the "illegal" side.
~ Rich Hall, "Sniglets"
I was happy to see Bennie's liquor, if a bit disenchanted by its packaging. The prescription trick worked, but it always struck me as smug, inelegant, the wrong kind of clever. Most of us preferred to get our booze from honest crooks, who tended to be nicer and more interesting. It's hard to deny that a willingness to risk prison imparts a certain magnetism in social settings.
~ Kathleen Rooney
The packaging for a microwavable "microwave" dinner is programmed for a shelf life of maybe six months, a cook time of two minutes and a landfill dead-time of centuries.
~ David Wann
The candy bars in their paper wrappers also had interesting names such as "Nummy Bar
~ Elizabeth Enright
I collect candy packaging from around the world and believe it has the value of Pop Art.
~ Dylan Lauren
Jon said, "Two hundred kilograms is four hundred forty pounds. That much C-4 takes up about eight cubic feet, which is your basic cardboard box." Amy
~ Robert Crais