Boxes Quotes
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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
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Fortunately for me, I don't come from the school where you only measure success by how much money something makes or whether it has a big box-office weekend. I measure it by how much people actually participate in the process.
Kevin Spacey
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Trying to explain or define grace is like catching the wind in a cardboard box or describing the color green.
Cathleen Falsani
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To a bibliophile, there is but one thing better than a box of new books, and that is a box of old ones.
Will Thomas (novelist)
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Hollywood likes to put actors in boxes, and it likes to put Asian actors in really small boxes.
Sandra Oh
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Come children, let us shut up the box and the puppets, for our play is played out.
William Makepeace Thackeray
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I find that when I've seen a certain number of people my mind becomes like an old match box -- the part one strikes on, I mean.
Virginia Woolf
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I want to do exactly what I want to do. I'd rather gamble on the box office than beg for a grant.
Mikhail Baryshnikov
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It doesn't matter if you use a box camera or you use a Leica; the important thing is what motivates you when you are photographing.
Eve Arnold
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If I was Bridget Jones and had a tick-list of things to look for in the perfect man, he would tick all the boxes.
Edith Bowman
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I was never young. Whoever I was then is dead. That's more of your quills. I don't want a hide full, thanks. I have always figured that you die each day and and each day is a is a box, you see, all numbered and neat; but never go back and lift the lids, because you have died a couple thousand times in your life, and that's a lot of corpses, each dead a different way, each with a worse expression. Each of those days is a different you, somebody you don't know or understand or want to understand.
Ray Bradbury
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The best hope for Australia is the ballot box and good education.
John Monash -
I sometimes forget to have breakfast in the morning, but when I actually buy a box of cereal, I will probably eat it not only for breakfast but also as a snack later on.
Ryan Gosling
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In Darwin's time all of biology was a black box: not only the cell, or the eye, or digestion, or immunity, but every biological structure and function because, ultimately, no one could explain how biological processes occurred.
Michael Behe
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In November I'll be releasing my new solo record, entitled 'Box Of Bees'. There's no music, it's just a box full of live bees. The deluxe edition comes with more bees.
Thomas Edward Yorke Atoms for Peace
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Learn to use your brains as deftly as your powder box, and then maybe you have a powder box and do not need.
Sofia Villani Scicolone
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You often hear this about directors, how its like having the best set of toys. This fabulous train set, the biggest box of toys that a kid could possibly have. The best directors look like a kid having more fun than youre supposed to have.
William Sadler
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Obviously the more transparency we have as auditors, the more we can get, but the main goal is to understand important characteristics about a black box algorithm without necessarily having to understand every single granular detail of the algorithm.
Cathy O'Neil
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There are a few more boxes coming to you guys. Feel free to open them, and use them.
Bowe Bergdahl
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We all like people who do things, even if we only see their faces on cigar-box lids.
Willa Cather
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Everyone wants to be liked, so of course you want critical acclaim. After that, box office acclaim isn't bad. More than anything I think you have to try and make something you're proud of.
Cary Fukunaga
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Wheaties was the big sponsor in those days 1940s. They sponsored almost all the baseball games in the majors and the minors. That was a lot of Wheaties. I think there were twenty-four boxes in a case and some of these guys were hitting twenty-five and thirty home runs a season. We had a dog in those days named Blue Grass and the players used to give us their Wheaties for him. Blue Grass loved Wheaties and so did I.
Ernie Harwell
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The box was a universe, a poem, frozen on the boundaries of human experience.
William Gibson
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I've always loved words. I ate up all the books I could get my hands on, and when I couldn't get books, I read candy wrappers and labels on cereal and toothpaste boxes.
Judy Holliday