Boxes Quotes

• I'm good at thinking outside the box, so much that you realise it's not a box to begin with.

  

  will.i.am
  • Thinking
  • Boxes
  • Realising

• It's funny, I don't really feel that nostalgic. I only recently started putting up some photos from some of the sessions I've done over the years and some of the Garbage sessions because my daughter, who's 10-years-old, when she was about 6 or 7 she was more curious about what I do. I have all these platinum records and stuff, they've all just been in boxes in storage for years but I started just digging through those things because I sort of want her to be aware of my past. I never really put the old recordings on and listen to them and go, "Oh that sounds great."

  

  Butch Vig Garbage
  • Daughter
  • Records
  • Nostalgic

• People have different reasons for the way they live their lives. You cannot put everyone's reasons in the same box.

  

  Kevin Spacey
  • People
  • Different
  • Live

• I loved to read, and I think any child who loves to read will read anything, including the back of the cereal box, which I did every morning.

  

  Judy Blume
  • Children
  • Morning
  • Including

• Lean Pockets, I don't even wanna know what's in those. I wonder what the directions are on a box of Lean Pockets: 'Remove from box, place directly in toilet.' Flush Pocket!

  

  Jim Gaffigan
  • Wonder
  • Pockets
  • Toilets

• As ever with modern Britain, we are let down by a vast, over-manned, over-funded, hidebound, obstructive, box-ticking and incompetent bureaucracy.

  

  Frederick Forsyth
  • Modern
  • Bureaucracy
  • Incompetent

• I get out, I get out of all your boxes.

  

  Lauryn Hill Fugees
  • Boxes
  • Your
  • Get Out

• The first Garbage record sounds bizarre, it's not a pristine sounding album. We ran everything through stomp boxes and through samplers and that definitely gave it a vibe.

  

  Butch Vig Garbage
  • Record
  • Album
  • Sounds

• From our broadcasting box you can't see any grass at all. It is simply a carpet of humanity.

  

  Richie Benaud
  • Humanity
  • Cricket
  • Grass

• God is in the slums, in the cardboard boxes where the poor play house. God is in the silence of a mother who has infected her child with a virus that will end both their lives. God is in the cries heard under the rubble of war. God is in the debris of wasted opportunity and lives, and God is with us if we are with them.

  

  Bono U2
  • House
  • Silence
  • God Is

• Surely these women won't lose any more of their beauty and charm by putting a ballot in a ballot box once a year than they are likely to lose standing in foundries or laundries all year round. There is no harder contest than the contest for bread, let me tell you that.

  

  Rose Schneiderman
  • Beauty
  • Bread
  • Harder

• All great programmers learn the same way. They poke the box. They code something and see what the computer does. They change it and see what the computer does. They repeat the process again and again until they figure out how the box works.

  

  Seth Godin
  • Process
  • Computer
  • Figures

• How many young men, in all previous times of unprecedented steadiness, had turned suddenly wild and wicked for the same reason, and, in an ecstasy of unrequited love, taken to wrench off door-knockers, and invert the boxes of rheumatic watchmen!

  

  Charles Dickens
  • Boxes
  • Young Men
  • Steadiness

• On my income tax 1040 it says 'Check this box if you are blind.' I wanted to put a check mark about three inches away.

  

  Tom Lehrer
  • Blind
  • Checks
  • Inches

• There's one thing I'm really good at, and that's hitting the ball over a net, in a box. I'm excellent.

  

  Serena Williams
  • Balls
  • Excellent
  • Hitting

• I used to go on runs, it's kind of hard for me now unfortunately in Paris because it's a little bit hectic. My knees aren't that great, so recently I haven't been on the treadmill that much but that's why I like to box on a soft floor. It's good for me.

  

  Gigi Hadid
  • Running
  • Kind
  • Hectic

• I do have a trophy room. It's in my attic in boxes.

  

  Troy Polamalu
  • Rooms
  • Trophies
  • Attics

• If real, regular, normal, boring life, when you're at home every day, seeing the same people, doing the same things is like sitting at home on the floor surrounded by toys... traveling feels to me like going to Toys R Us with your toy box and getting to trade stuff in and buy new things and explore whole new ideas.

  

  Alex Day Chameleon Circuit
  • People
  • Real
  • Home

• My experience is that I find myself having to constantly define myself to others, day-in, day-out. The quote that's helped me the most through that is from Toni Morrison's "Beloved" where she says, "Definitions belong to the definers, not the defined" - so I find myself defining myself for other people lest I be defined by others and stuck into some box where I don't particularly belong.

  

  Wentworth Miller
  • Stuck
  • Definitions
  • Beloved

• My first playpen was a cardboard box.

  

  Michael Lee-Chin
  • Boxes
  • Cardboard

• Ah! Vanitas Vanitatum! Which of us is happy in this world? Which of us has his desire? or, having it, is satisfied?-Come, children, let us shut up the box and the puppets, for our play is played out.

  

  William Makepeace Thackeray
  • World
  • Children
  • Desire

• This is the 21st century, we are a highly evolved race, our capabilities are so great compared to what we are doing. We have been lulled into addiction and everything is built around it and you have to break out of it and think outside of the box.

  

  Neil Young Buffalo Springfield
  • Thinking
  • Break
  • Addiction

• On the morning of the fourth day, Jamie tipped a switchblade out of his box of cornflakes. “I think these promotional campaigns have really got out of hand,” he said, freezing with his hand on the milk carton. “One shiny free knife with every packet of cereal bought is not a good message to send out to the kiddies.

  

  Sarah Rees Brennan
  • Thinking
  • Morning
  • Campaigns

• Vegetable box schemes, local greengrocers, farmers' markets and organic stores are a great place to source package-free foods.

  

  Sheherazade Goldsmith
  • Source
  • Farmers
  • Vegetables

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