Container Quotes

79 quotes by 74 authors

The book is not really the container for the book. The book itself is the narrative. It's the thing that people create. — Jeff Bezos
I had always thought that once you grew up you could do anything you wanted - stay up all night or eat ice-cream straight out… — Bill Bryson
Think of yourself as a container for wealth. If your container is small and your money is big, what's going to happen? You will lose… — T. Harv Eker
A book is simply the container of an idea-like a bottle; what is inside the book is what matters. — Angela Carter
Life does not acommodate you, it shatters you. It is meant to, and it couldn't do it better. Every seed destroys its container or else… — Florida Scott-Maxwell
Information can't be put in any container that isn't leaky. — Spider Robinson
Luxurious food and drinks, in no way protect you from harm. Wealth beyond what is natural, is no more use than an overflowing container. Real… — Epicurus
Architecture has its own realm. It has a special physical relationship with life. I do not think of it primarily as either a message or… — Peter Zumthor
I've wanted to be a drummer since I was about five years old. I used to play on a bath salt container with wires on… — John Bonham
For the Persian poet Rumi, each human life is analogous to a bowl floating on the surface of an infinite ocean.Â As it moves along,… — Bill Viola
People don't dream all their lives of escaping the hellish countries they live in and pay their life savings to underworld types for the privilege… — Sean Hannity
By phonemic trans-formation into visual terms, the alphabet became a universal, abstract, static container of meaningless sounds — Marshall McLuhan
If you spend time with crazy and dangerous people, remember â€“ their personalities are socially transmitted diseases; like water poured into a container, most of… — Stefan Molyneux
The pain of life is pure salt; no more, no less. The amount of pain in life remains the same, exactly the same. But the… — Mark Nepo
A novel, in the end, is a container, a shape which you are trying to pour your story into. — Helen Dunmore
You only tasted the water. I tasted the gift. The water was simply the container for an act of loving-kindness and nothing could be sweeter. — Michael Josephson
Software is a gas; it expands to fill its container. — Nathan Myhrvold
Just as a mirror, which reflects all things, is set in its own container, so too the rational soul is placed in the fragile container… — Hildegard of Bingen
My mother didn't really cook. But she did make key lime pie, until the day the top of the evaporated milk container accidentally ended up… — William of Norwich
Nowadays I find chocolate and/or chocolate-based snacks to be great motivators. Everyone loves chocolate. If someone has a lot of work to do, put a… — Michael Scott

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