Boxes famous quotes

There's a little bit of magic in every box!
-- Adam Rex

#Magic #Littles #Boxes

I used to box a bit, and once fought as an amateur welterweight.
-- Alexander Hanson

#Used #Boxes

To a child, often the box a toy came in is more appealing than the toy itself.
-- Allen Klein

#Children #Toys #Boxes

Appeal. In law, to put the dice into the box for another throw.
-- Ambrose Bierce

#Law #Dice #Boxes

MF Doom is like so out-of-the-box and just crazy.
-- Andy Milonakis

#Crazy #Boxes #Doom

Genghis Miliband roars up to the despatch box like a caged donkey.
-- Andy Zaltzman

#Donkey #Boxes

I want to be an artist you cannot categorize at all. You can't put a box around me. You can't put anything around me.
-- Angel Haze

#Artist #Want #Boxes

If you don't get out of the box you've been raised in, you won't understand how much bigger the world is.
-- Angelina Jolie

#Inspiring #World #Boxes

Either you are a feminist or you are a sexist/misogynist. There is no box marked 'other.'
-- Ani DiFranco

#Feminist #Sexist #Boxes

Life does not seem to present itself to me for my convenience, to box itself up nicely so I can write about it with wisdom and a point to make before putting it on a shelf somewhere.
-- Anne Lamott

#Writing #Doe #Boxes

Some chick came up to me and said something, so I kicked her in the box and shoved her.
-- Avril Lavigne

#Boxes #Said #Chicks

A token of love comes in a box because love itself cannot be contained.
-- Binnie Kirshenbaum

#Boxes

Every book is a box of ideas.
-- Blue Balliett

#Book #Ideas #Boxes

I didn't come out of a cereal box.
-- Bob Dylan

#Cereal #Boxes

Being able to ‘think out of the box’ presupposes you were able to think in it.
-- Bob Lutz

#Thinking #Able #Boxes

It was a fair decision, the penalty, even though it was debatable whether it was inside or outside the box
-- Bobby Charlton

#Soccer #Decision #Boxes

Staying out of the penalty box will really help.
-- Bobby Orr

#Stay Strong #Helping #Boxes

Jermaine Jenas is a fit lad. He gets from box to box in all of 90 minutes
-- Bobby Robson

#Fit #Boxes #Minutes

It’s not difficult to coach to just get 10 players right on your 18-yard box.
-- Brendan

#Player #Yards #Boxes

I keep everything that is most important to me close to me: my family, my bible, my X-Box - just kidding.
-- Brian Littrell

#Important #My Family #Boxes

To keep creating something with this type of music, you have to take it out of the box.
-- Brian Setzer

#Creating #Boxes #Type

Father! Can I box him? Please!
-- C. S. Lewis

#Father #Boxes #Please

Enough small empty boxes thrown into a big empty box fill it full.
-- Carl Sandburg

#Empty #Enough #Boxes

Hi-def is merely the latest in a string of evolutional leaps that have transformed the way we sit slumped in front of a box wishing we were dead.
-- Charlie Brooker

#Wish #Way #Boxes

I like to do 'Garfield Mondays': lasagna and napping in a box.
-- Chris Pratt

#Monday #Garfield #Boxes

That tv box has a tremendous capacity to reach people.
-- Clint Walker

#People #Tvs #Boxes

The sharpest tools in the box are not always the best tools for the job.
-- Craig Stone

#Jobs #Tools #Boxes

Someone created the box score, and he should be shot.
-- Daryl Morey

#Basketball #Boxes #Should

If there was ever any truth to the trickle-down theory, the only evidence of it I've ever seen was in that period of 1960 to 1965. All of sudden they were handing out major label recording contracts like they were coming in Cracker Jack boxes.
-- Dave Van Ronk

#Labels #Crackers #Boxes

Without inspiration, we’re all like a box of matches that will never be lit.
-- David Archuleta

#Inspiration #Boxes #Lit

Nashville has a formula, and it works a lot of the time, but it wasn't right for me. They're afraid to step outside the box - even though, with me, my success came because I was outside of the box to begin with.
-- Deana Carter

#Nashville #Steps #Boxes

Instead of thinking outside the box, get rid of the box.
-- Deepak Chopra

#Attitude #Thinking #Boxes

I don't make movies thinking: 'Oh, this is going to be a huge box-office hit.'
-- Diane Kruger

#Thinking #Office #Boxes

If you're more susceptible to interruption, you do more out of the box thinking.
-- Donald A. Norman

#Thinking #Design #Boxes

Once again, we shall have to operate not only outside the box, but outside the room containing the box.
-- Douglas Preston

#Rooms #Boxes #Outside The Box

The closer a Negro got to the ballot box, the more he looked like a rapist.
-- E. Franklin Frazier

#Boxes #Ballots

Do we find happiness so often that we should turn it off the box when it happens to sit there?
-- E. M. Forster

#Finding Happiness #Boxes #Should

Philosophy is talk on a cereal box.
-- Edie Brickell

#Philosophy #Cereal #Boxes

Our 'pathway' is straight to the ballot box, with no variableness nor shadow of turning.
-- Elizabeth Cady Stanton

#Shadow #Pathways #Boxes

People want to put women in one box, and Im interested in how women can be everything at once.
-- Elizabeth Meriwether

#People #Want #Boxes

I regard this novel as a work without redeeming social value, unless it can be recycled as a cardboard box.
-- Ellen Goodman

#Recycling #Social #Boxes

There is no suggestion box in the Psych Ward.
-- Emilie Autumn

#Psych #Suggestions #Boxes

Not everything that can be extracted appears in anthologies of quotations, in commonplace books, or on the back of Celestial Seasonings boxes. Only certain sorts of extracts become quotations.
-- Gary Saul Morson

#Book #Boxes #Anthology

You can't put democracy and freedom back into a box.
-- George W. Bush

#Freedom #Democracy #Boxes

I know they are going to be doing a box set in Europe of Danzig 5 and 6 and some other stuff.
-- Glenn Danzig

#Europe #Stuff #Boxes

Repression in the human psyche is tightly bundled. When it has been pulled out of the sprung package so often it is perhaps difficult to push it back in the box.
-- Graham Joyce

#Boxes #Difficult #Sprung

I tried to make a point of doing things outside the box, of not having basketball consume me.
-- Grant Hill

#Basketball #Boxes #Outside The Box

I don't know what the big deal about Cracker Jack is. Did you ever go buy a pack of Cracker Jack, thinking you'd get a prize and find no prize in the box? (pause) Here's the pitch...
-- Harry Caray

#Thinking #Crackers #Boxes

Here's what happens when you die--you sit in a box and get eaten by worms. I guarantee you that when you die, nothing cool happens.
-- Howard Stern

#Guarantees #Boxes #Worms

it's 12 amyl nitrites (one box), in conjunction with as many beers as necessary.
-- Hunter S. Thompson

#Hangover #Beer #Boxes

Agents and producers have to get you into a box to accommodate their limited imaginations.
-- Imelda Staunton

#Imagination #Agents #Boxes

The insurance industry communicates through codes and check-off boxes. If there's no check-off box for you, you don't exist.
-- Jack Anderson

#Checks #Boxes #Communicate

I became a connoisseur of that nasty thud a manuscript makes when it comes through the letter box.
-- James Herriot

#Letters #Nasty #Boxes

It's easier to think outside the box if you don't draw one around yourself.
-- Jason Kravits

#Thinking #Easier #Boxes

If Kyle Korver blocks your shot there should be a penalty box you should go to!
-- Jeff Van Gundy

#Block #Boxes #Should

I like to box. It's a great release.
-- Jeremy Piven

#Release #Boxes

I don't come from a rich family - it's not like we lived in a cardboard box, but we didn't have a ton of money.
-- Jessica Lynch

#Rich #Boxes #Cardboard Boxes

The best place to defend is in the opposition penalty box.
-- Jock Stein

#Boxes #Penalties

The Great Gatsby' ticked so many boxes for me.
-- Joel Edgerton

#Boxes

Box about: 'twill come to my father anon.
-- John Aubrey

#Father #Anon #Boxes

The time has come for justice at the ballot box, and justice in the courts, and justice in the legislative halls, and justice in the governor's office.
-- John Jay Hooker

#Justice #Office #Boxes

I think what you have to do is have a box office success in every genre and then you're set for life. And fortunately, I happened to do that, so I get a myriad of offers of various sorts.
-- John Travolta

#Thinking #Office #Boxes

My boxes are life's experiences aesthetically expressed.
-- Joseph Cornell

#Boxes

I'd love to make a sequel to 'The Rocketeer.' The film didn't do as well at the box office as we all hoped, but it has endured and generated a following.
-- Joseph E. Johnston

#Office #Film #Boxes

You have this resonant box that sounds cool when you smack it, so why not go for it?
-- Kaki King

#Sound #Why Not #Boxes

I'm about to rupture something," he was informed, as the big, gaily wrapped box she was carrying smacked into the small of his back again. She had an uncanny ability to hit the same spot every time.
-- Karen Chance

#Rupture #Uncanny #Boxes

In elections, you can't tell the outcome until you open the ballot boxes.
-- Katsuya Okada

#Outcomes #Election #Boxes

He must not laugh at his own wheeze: a snuff box has no right to sneeze.
-- Keith Preston

#Laughing #Snuff #Boxes

Stuffing people into boxes is for those who have issues about their own box.
-- Kelley Armstrong

#Issues #People #Boxes

I love doing collaborations - it's always good to do something that's out the box.
-- Kelly Rowland

#Collaboration #Boxes

When you finish a poem, it clicks shut like the top of a jewel box, but prose is endless. I haven't experienced an awful lot of clicking shut!
-- Kenneth Koch

#Jewels #Awful #Boxes

Unless you're Mary Lou Retton, in the right place at the right time with the right personality, you're not going to be on a Wheaties box and have all these endorsements.
-- Kerri Strug

#Time #Personality #Boxes

Never tell the box-office man that you can't hear well or he will sell you a seat where can can't see either.
-- Kin Hubbard

#Men #Office #Boxes

You can’t think yourself out of a box that’s made of your thoughts.
-- Krishna Das

#Thinking #Made #Boxes

I’m an insomniac lately. It’s one of the many prizes you find in the Cracker Jack box of a crumbling [relationship],
-- Kristin Hannah

#Crumbling #Crackers #Boxes

If vaudeville had died, television was the box they put it in.
-- Larry Gelbart

#Television #Vaudeville #Boxes

I don't turn my nose up at anything. If it's a great part, it's a great part. I'd love to do a box-office hit.
-- Laura Dern

#Office #Noses #Boxes

Life's too short to be shoehorned into a box that isn't for you.
-- Lauren Mayberry

#Too Short #Boxes

I get out, I get out of all your boxes.
-- Lauryn Hill

#Boxes

I have never understood the saying 'To think outside the box.' Why would anyone sit inside of a box and then think outside of it. Rather just get out of the box.
-- Lawrence Anthony

#Thinking #Boxes #Think Outside The Box

If I don't feel the same hunger as I once did then I definitely shouldn't box any more.
-- Lennox Lewis

#Hunger #Boxes #Feels

Oh, is that what's in the box? You threw my engagement ring at me?
-- Linda Howard

#Engagement #Boxes #Rings

I always like to challenge myself. I never want to be put into a box.
-- Lionel Richie

#Challenges #Want #Boxes

I just don't fit into the box.
-- Liz Phair

#Fit #Boxes

I don't know how people box for a living. I don't know how they can just hurt people for a living and be OK with it.
-- Maggie Q

#Hurt #People #Boxes

We sat like that for a long while, and when we stood up, all my sad things were in boxes, and Beck was my father.
-- Maggie Stiefvater

#Father #Long #Boxes

The Internet has always been, and always will be, a magic box.
-- Marc Andreessen

#Magic #Internet #Boxes

Your mission statement says Galer Street is based on global "connectitude." (You people don't just think outside the box, you think outside the dictionary!)
-- Maria Semple

#Thinking #People #Boxes

Finding a really good weblog is like finding the peanuts in a box of Cracker Jacks. They are in there, but you have to hunt for them. And when you find one, you savor it.
-- Mark R. Woodward

#Peanuts #Crackers #Boxes

I've had cats all my life and obviously loved them, but the litter box, and the having to always get a house sitter, they're just too - they're too rigid. Cats are too needy somehow.
-- Martha Plimpton

#Cat #House #Boxes

The most innovative designers consciously reject the standard option box and cultivate an appetite for thinking wrong.
-- Marty Neumeier

#Thinking #Design #Boxes

Martial arts just normally would not draw me to the box office.
-- Mary Hart

#Art #Office #Boxes

If you *think* you think outside the box, you're trapped in one.
-- MC Paul Barman

#Thinking #Boxes #Think Outside The Box

I love the freedom to do whatever I want with style and not be put into a box.
-- Melanie Fiona

#Style #Want #Boxes

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

#Design #Black #Boxes

My first playpen was a cardboard box.
-- Michael Lee-Chin

#Firsts #Boxes #Cardboard Boxes

If they have to put the word 'natural' on a box to convince you, it probably isn't.
-- Michele Simon

#Natural #Boxes #Convince

Hollywood's famous for putting you in a box.
-- Mickey Rourke

#Hollywood #Boxes

Democracy is more than a ballot box.
-- Mohamed ElBaradei

#Democracy #Boxes #Ballots

You keep thinking that you'll never get burned, I just found me a brand new box of matches.
-- Nancy Sinatra

#Thinking #Evil #Boxes