Boxes Quotes · Page 27

(P)eople’s good intentions can wind up putting us in boxes as confining as coffins.

— Gayle Forman

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

— Melanie Fiona

The universe was exploding, each particle away from the next, hurtling us into dark and lonely space, eternally tearing us away from…

— Daniel Keyes

I've never wanted to be put into a box, not musically.

— Queen Latifah

I didn't know how to box so I would have looked like a complete street fighter actually, but what we did have…

— Michelle Rodriguez

Life is like a box of Hand grenades,You never know what will blow you to kingdom come

— Mario Puzo

Mostly I sit at home in the evenings watching the box and hoping that one day I'll evolve into plankton.

— Tom Holt

Technology changes the medium. I grew up on watching a box in my living room that made my parents happy. After something…

— Dan Harmon

It was a really strange experience. It was very creative for Alejandro Amenábar. It was almost like it was the most I…

— Ethan Hawke

it is extraordinary how much you are theirs, and how little they are yours. The child grows inside you and there is…

— Glenda Jackson

Just think about it yourself; you don't want to put the [cat's] litter box down the basement because that's too far, on…

— Temple Grandin

You cannot think your way out of a box made of thought.

— Krishna Das

I mean, come on, Beyonce's the queen of pop music. She's the queen. If you could run for queen... I would put…

— Darren Criss

[Nancy Reagan] took that career, that obviously mattered to her, and just tucked it away in a box, because she thought, "That's…

— Cynthia Nixon

I just don't know when we all decided that if it doesn't fit in a Happy Meal box, it's not for kids.…

— Gore Verbinski

Is not the very beginning of privilege, monopoly and industrial slavery this erecting of the ballot-box above the individual?

— Benjamin Tucker

If you're eating or drinking something made from cow's milk, it's because a calf chained in a box somewhere isn't.

— Dan Piraro

If you censor yourself, if you cannot articulate your needs, if you cannot articulate your priorities, then whatever you do, putting a…

— Alfred-Maurice de Zayas

My entire career has been people trying to put me in boxes.

— Ariana DeBose

Finding a photograph is often like picking up a piece from a jigsaw-puzzle box with the cover missing. There’s no sense of…

— Susan Meiselas

Science is unflinchingly deterministic, and it has begun to force its determinism into morals. On some shining tomorrow a psychoanalyst may be…

— H. L. Mencken

It's great that New York has large spaces for art. But the enormous immaculate box has become a dated, even oppressive place.…

— Jerry Saltz

I have everything in boxes. Thousands of those tapes. I've saved everything.

— Patti Hansen

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

— will.i.am

Caddy got the box and set it on the floor and opened it. It was full of stars. When I was still,…

— William Faulkner