Box Quotes

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The breaking of the alabaster box and the anointing of the Lord filled the house with the odor, with the sweetest odor. Everyone could smell… — Watchman Nee
Human beings have the capacity to learn to want almost any conceivable material object. Given, then, the emergence of a modern industrial culture capable of… — Jules Henry
Collectivism doesn't work because it's based on a faulty economic premise. There is no such thing as a person's "fair share" of wealth. The gross… — P.J. O'Rourke
The world is the geologist's great puzzle-box; he stands before it like the child to whom the separate pieces of his puzzle remain a mystery… — Louis Agassiz
Science can give us only the tools in the box, these mechanical miracles that it has already given us. But of what use to us… — Frank Lloyd Wright
If you walk down the street and see someone in a box, you have a choice. That person is either the other and you're fearful… — Susan Sarandon
I was a daughterless mother. I had nowhere to put the things a mother places on her daughter. The nail polish I used to paint… — Ann Hood
The 'feminine' woman is forever static and childlike. She is like the ballerina in an old-fashioned music box, her unchanging features tiny and girlish, her… — Susan Faludi
When I was a young boy, I loved spending hours in St. Franics Xavier's school library at Saint Louis University. The feel of the books… — William Lacy Clay, Jr.
You've got to learn the footwork, the positioning, how to box out, how to pass, how to shoot your free throws. All these things are… — Oscar Robertson
You have to teach now - tell a kid how to box out, tell him how to pass, teach him footwork. Players don't understand that… — Oscar Robertson
I regard this novel as a work without redeeming social value, unless it can be recycled as a cardboard box. — Ellen Goodman
Quit putting yourself in a little box by trying to live consistently with your past and explaining every little action you take. BE YOU. Fully.… — Brian Johnson
Using encryption on the Internet is the equivalent of arranging an armored car to deliver credit card information from someone living in a cardboard box… — Gene Spafford
It would indeed be a tragedy if the history of the human race proved to be nothing more than the story of an ape playing… — David Ormsby-Gore, 5th Baron Harlech
Keep your dreams ALIVE. No matter how hard it gets, no matter how many people talk about you; they're going to throw dirt on you… — Tyler Perry
A box is more a coffin for the human spirit than an inspiration. — Frank Lloyd Wright
The special effects team designed everything, which basically allowed me to stand on a green box and look and stay relatively expressionless and all these… — Robert Pattinson
I'd love to be able to fit in a box. Like one of those people who fit into small boxes. I'd love it. — Robert Pattinson
I used to wear my mom's Wayfarers. When the people of Ray Ban noticed that, they sent me a box full of sunglasses, two and… — Robert Pattinson

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