Boxes Quotes
1285 quotes by 1069 authors
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There used to be a tradition of the loveable rogue who would steal from the honour boxes in churches and buy a round of drinks…
— Douglas Coupland
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In Los Angeles, I drive a hybrid and live in a very simple home. Anything you do from carrying a canteen of water to starting…
— Rachel Boston
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I spent my thirties living out of boxes and moving every six months to a year. It was my cloud period: I just wandered like…
— Sandra Cisneros
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I would love to play an unexpected character. Really raw and simple and not a cliche - something rugged. People like to put actors in…
— Eva Green
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Sports has always been a pass-through. You pay for something, and then you pass it through to television, you pass it through to advertisers, or…
— John Madden
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The world is filled with archaic objects - mailboxes which look like alarm boxes, banks which look like places to break out of rather than…
— Raymond Loewy
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My dad goes through war novels like I go through boxes of Cinnamon Toast Crunch.
— Mike Birbiglia
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I think that if you grind your spices and keep them in small batches, you can use them in endless ways. The key thing is…
— Marcus Samuelsson
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Gadgets - our houses are filled with them: ones we need, ones we think we need, and others that were a good idea at the…
— Sheherazade Goldsmith
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We have very pretty Dutch gardens, so called, in America, but their chief claim to being Dutch is that they are set with bulbs, and…
— Alice Morse Earle
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The biggest container ship can carry fifteen thousand boxes. It can hold 746 million bananas, one for every European, on one ship.
— Rose George
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I know that the last thing a book wants is to just sit around unread, serving as an element of interior decorating. So when I…
— Barbara Ehrenreich
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Desktop computers - boxes inside boxes - began appearing in those cubicles in the mid-eighties, electrical cords curling on the floor like so many ropes.
— Jill Lepore
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My interests and obsessions have always been so wide-ranging that I keep popping my head out of different boxes as much as possible.
— Tim Curry
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The house I grew up in had large plate-glass windows, which birds frequently crashed into headfirst. My father helped me assemble a bird hospital, consisting…
— Patti Davis
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As movers and the moved both know, books are heavy freight, the weight of refrigerators and sofas broken up into cardboard boxes. They make us…
— John Updike
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Years ago, I tore out a Nike ad featuring Allyson Felix and Maria Sharapova looking super fierce and tough. I always told my family that…
— Ashley Wagner
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Clean, tasty, real foods do not come processed in boxes or bags; they come from the earth, the sea, the field, or the farm.
— Suzanne Somers
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When I was seven, I decided to buy all my friends some ice cream, but the problem was where to get the money. Sneaking into…
— Suzi Quatro
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I have five television sets. (I like to think of them as a set of five televisions.) I have two DVR boxes, three DVD players,…
— Rick Moranis
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