Boxes Quotes
1285 quotes by 1069 authors
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The wireless music box has no imaginable commercial value. Who would pay for a message sent to nobody in particular?
— David Sarnoff
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While you remain at home your hair is at the hairdresser's; you take out your teeth at night and sleep tucked away in a hundred…
— Martial
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(Talking about his first computer) Like all kids we not only fooled around with our toys, we changed them. If you've ever watched a child…
— Bill Gates
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I used to collect hockey cards. It was like Vegas at my school. You'd go to school with your box of cards, and at recess…
— Steve Nash
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For toddlers I suggest leaving their mittens on year-round, indoors and out. That way they can't get into aspirin bottles, liquor cabinets, or boxes of…
— P.J. O'Rourke
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Everyone's heard of Erwin Schrodinger's famous thought experiment. You put a cat in a box with a bottle of poison, which many people would suggest…
— Terry Pratchett
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When there was room on the ledge outside of the pots and boxes for a cat, the cat was there- in sunny weather- stretched at…
— Mark Twain
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Think outside the box, collapse the box, and take a f**king sharp knife to it.
— Banksy
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The history of men of science has one peculiar advantage, as it shows the importance of little things in producing great results. Smeaton learned his…
— Robert Aris Willmott
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Appeal. In law, to put the dice into the box for another throw.
— Ambrose Bierce
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I don't smoke but I keep a match box in my pocket, when my heart slips towards sin, I burn the matchstick and heat my…
— Muhammad Ali
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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The chemist in America has in general been content with what I have called a loafer electron theory. He has imagined the electrons sitting around…
— Robert Andrews Millikan
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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
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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
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Evolutionary biologists have been able to pretend to know how complex biological systems originated only because they treated them as black boxes. Now that biochemists…
— Phillip E. Johnson
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