Boxes Quote by Joyce Carol Oates

“I personally feel that a box, far from being a dead end, is an entrance to another world. I don't know to where, but…

— Kōbō Abe

“Clearly it's not all that pacific on the Pacific Ocean”

— Ilya Ilf, Yevgeni Petrov

“There is only one sensible way to think of the Pacific Ocean today. It is the highway between Asia and America, and whether we…

— James A. Michener

“The Sea has no shore. There is no Light in the West.”

— J.R.R. Tolkien

“The world is a box: on the inside is what you have to do, but on the outside is what you can do.”

— Jessi May

“I keep a large map of the world hanging above my bed. Everybody wants to own land, but I want to own the oceans.”

— Jarod Kintz

“You cannot discover new oceans until you are willing to lose sight of the shore.”

— Sharon Leaf

“An ocean could not explain the distance we have traveled.”

— Jonathan Safran Foer

“Trying not to let your lack of depth bring out the irritable in me-- there is only so much shallow an ocean can handle.”

— Melody Lee

“The ocean is not to be trusted. It's dark and cold with a treacherous current that pulls you whichever way it wants. It can…

— Em Bailey

“...a dark Illimitable ocean, without bound, Without dimension; where length, breadth, and height, And time, and place are lost;”

— John Milton

“Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.”

— Lord Chesterfield