The national budget is not a safe-deposit box. It is a spray can. — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
Mathematical thinking is not the same as doing mathematics - at least not as mathematics is typically presented in our school system.… — Keith Devlin Copy Share Image
For me, people are like the black boxes found in the debris of airplane crashes. — Svetlana Alexievich Copy Share Image
Protective coloration...you learn to use it to get along in the world if you want. Only I got sick of living in… — Bruce Coville Copy Share Image
the cracked plate has to be retained in the pantry, has to be kept in service as a household necessity. It can… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
Common sense should tell us that reading is the ultimate weapon--destroying ignorance, poverty and despair before they can destroyus. A nation that… — Jim Trelease Copy Share Image
I used to link up boom boxes, record one take, play it into another boom box then play all that back into… — Benny Blanco Copy Share Image
My father was a pressman for the New Haven Board & Carton Co. He operated a large five-color press that stamped out… — Richard Carpenter Copy Share Image
I'm furious about the Women's Liberationists. They keep getting up on soap-boxes and proclaiming that women are brighter than men. That's true,… — Anita Loos Copy Share Image
The attackers are the people with bold, innovative ideas, who are trying to disrupt the status quo, and usher in a better… — Steve Case Copy Share Image
Now I got a time machine at home. It only goes foreword at regular speed. It's essentially a cardboard box and on… — Demetri Martin Copy Share Image
I've got a bunch of circuit-bent boxes and things that are controlled by my Mac through a big breakout box. I want… — Keith Fullerton Whitman Copy Share Image
I don't want to be 'box-office girl,' but I don't want to be 'that indie girl' either. — Kirsten Dunst Copy Share Image
I would like a simple life / yet all night I am laying / poems away in a long box. — Anne Sexton Copy Share Image
I was taken to concerts when I was six, seven years old, and sat in a box throughout the whole evening. — Kitty Carlisle Copy Share Image
Take these chances Place them in a box until a quieter time Lights down, you up and die — Dave Matthews Copy Share Image
Rich, 'the Old Man said dreamily, 'is not baying after what you can't have. Rich is having the time to do what… — Robert Ruark Copy Share Image
Hazel!” he yelled. “That box! Open it!” She hesitated, then saw the box he meant. Te label read WARNING. DO NOT OPEN.… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
Populus me sibilat, at mihi plaudo Ipse domi stimul ac nummos contemplar in arca. (The public hiss at me, but I cheer… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
How wrong to think I was anyone else, like thinking grass stains make you a beautiful view, like getting kissed makes you… — Daniel Handler Copy Share Image
My first tape piece was made with that Sears Roebuck recorder. I modified sound using cardboard tubes with a microphone in the… — Pauline Oliveros Copy Share Image
-“Say no more,” Leif interrupted. “I understand. I will simply have to kill them all myself.” -"There he goes again. I’m telling… — Kevin Hearne Copy Share Image
When I go and speak now at all sorts of conferences, later in the night there's always a better Maxie Walker than… — Max Walker Copy Share Image
When we started in television, there was that magic box in the corner of the room, and 'Oh my gosh - look… — Betty White Copy Share Image
