Box Quotes

1451 quotes by 1150 authors

He held the book up to his nose. It smelled like Old Spice talcum powder. Books that smelled that way were usually fun to read.… — John Bellairs
My arms are too short to box with God. — Johnny Cash
[Calvin and Hobbes are playing Scrabble.] Calvin: Ha! I've got a great word and it's on a "Double word score" box! Hobbes: "ZQFMGB" isn't a… — Bill Watterson
As a writer, I need an enormous amount of time alone. Writing is 90 percent procrastination: reading magazines, eating cereal out of the box, watching… — Paul Rudnick
Life in a box is better than no life at all, I expect. You'd have a chance at least. You could lie there thinking: Well,… — Tom Stoppard
All writers should be put in a box and thrown in the sea. — Gordon B. Hinckley
Books, books, books! I had found the secret of a garret room Piled high with cases in my fatherâ€™s name; Piled high, packed large,--where, creeping… — Elizabeth Barrett Browning
If you lived today as if it were your last, you'd buy up a box of rockets and fire them all off, wouldn't you? — Garrison Keillor
Oh, is that what's in the box? You threw my engagement ring at me? — Linda Howard
We were young. We were bored. And the old electroshock therapy machine was just under the stairs in a box next to the Hoover. — Augusten Burroughs
I didn't come out of a cereal box. — Bob Dylan
Porthos: He thinks he can challenge the mighty Porthos with a sword... D'Artagnan: The mighty who? Porthos: Don't tell me you've never heard of me.… — Alexandre Dumas
If you take a book with you on a journey," Mo had said when he put the first one in her box, "an odd thing… — Cornelia Funke
Normally Connor would walk away from a conversation like this. His life is about tangibles: things you can see, hear and touch. God, souls, and… — Neal Shusterman
Let's say that when I was a little baby, and all my bones soft and malleable, I was put in a small Episcopal cruciform box… — John Steinbeck
Father! Can I box him? Please! — C.S. Lewis
God never slams a door in your face without opening a box of Girl Scout cookies. — Elizabeth Gilbert
Nudge threw her arms around my neck. 'I love you Max! I love all of us too!' Yeah, me too,' Said the Gasman. 'I don't… — James Patterson
He invented the Fuse Box Dwarf, a little man who popped out at you from behind the paint cans in the cellarway and screamed, "Dreeb!… — John Bellairs
â€¦. Query: How contrive not to waste one's time? Answer: By being fully aware of it all the while. Ways in which this can be… — Albert Camus

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