A Box Quotes

#1. Josie watched him leave then turned to me. "I swear to God, if I had the money, you'd be the one making cookies while he slobbers all over you." "You're the one who said he was harmless." I reached under the counter to get a box ready for Ellen's order.

Catherine Bruns

#2. When a band becomes as truly iconic as the Velvet Underground, there will often be a box set released, overburdened with mediocre material that dilutes what was fine left on its own.

Henry Rollins

#3. Easy as cake."
"Pie."
"Yeah. I can't make pie. My cousin got all the baking genes, but if it comes out of a box and has very detailed instructions, I can make an edible cake. Cake is easy. Pie's a bitch.

Vivi Andrews

#4. It is better not to have a box rather than trying to think outside of one.

Geoffroy Birtz

#5. Now all I have to worry about is what might crawl out of the darkness to get me in the night."
"Yeah, well, I think there's a box of doughnuts under the chair. You can toss those to distract it.

Elle Parker

#6. You couldn't think about how you thought. It was like opening a box with the crowbar that was inside.

Terry Pratchett

#7. I think God calls and encourages us to dream big, but sometimes we put God in a box in a very small way, when God wants us to look outside the box.

Jodi Benson

#8. You'll know if you're a famous composer if 20 years from now your name appears on a pull-down menu in Band in a Box, alongside Hans Zimmer.

Cliff Martinez

#9. You don't make a friend," Jacob said with a scowl. "It's not like they come with directions like you'd find on a box of macaroni and cheese.

Jodi Picoult

#10. She hadn't had many lovers but the men she'd been with in the past had convinced her that sex was like a box of chocolates - you never knew what you were going to get when you went to bed with a man. And

Evangeline Anderson

#11. You have no idea how many times I've been barricaded inside a box in my life. I know it's for my protection. But that doesn't mean I have to like it. (Kiara)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#12. Teen problem novels? I can go through them like a box of chocolates. And there are fantasy books out now that need a lot more editing. Fantasy got to be so popular that people began to think 'We don't need to be as diligent with the razor blade,' but they do.

Tamora Pierce

#13. At some point you stop trying to convince people you don't fit inside a box.

Dani Wyatt

#14. It's really hard to not get put in a box when you're acting and get typecast.

Andrew-Lee Potts

#15. It was as if, Pulaski sometimes thought, the '60s had tipped the entire country on end and shaken it like a box of cereal until all the flakes ended up in the East Village.

Garth Risk Hallberg

#16. The past should be culled like a box of fresh strawberries, rinsed of debris, sweetened judiciously and served in small portions, not very often.

Laura Palmer

#17. Can you just kill me? Carry me out in a box?" I looked up at her. "Do you even have a gun?""What kind of bodyguard would I be if I needed a gun to kill someone?" Becca smiled

Nichole Chase

#18. What's that?"
"Jane!" Gansey said joyfully.
Adam said, "It's a wizard in a box."
"It will do your homework," Noah added.
"And it's been dating your girlfriend," Ronan finished.
Blue scowled. "Are you all drunk?

Maggie Stiefvater

#19. The best moment for a box of chocolates was before you bit into one. Once you knew it was coconut, the magic was over.

Diane Hammond

#20. I've come to realize that an unencumbered U.S. senator is a profound threat to the whole system. It's somebody that they can't put in a box and say, 'Oh, well, we know how this guy is going to vote.'

Angus King

#21. Chocolate, something salty, and a box of hag rags gave

Debra Anastasia

#22. People have tried to put me in a box my whole life. I'm too tall. I'm too pretty. Too Miss USA. Wonder Woman. Prettiest woman in the world. And all of that. It doesn't matter because I've gone my own way and have tried to approach my career from a gut level, doing what I thought was right.

Lynda Carter

#23. Some men's memory is like a box where a man should mingle his jewels with his old shoes.

George Savile

#24. Post kept bound books with typed lists of gifts sent and received ... jeweler Harry Winston sent her a box of cheese

Estella M. Chung

#25. It's so important to never limit yourself, to find yourself in a box.

Ashanti

#26. Derek was telling her something about a hand in a box. It was a dead hand. Why the hell did he have to bring it to me right this second? Was it going anywhere?

Gordon Andrews

#27. The last thing I stole was a box of Coca Cola from a parked truck in Adelaide. I was nice and drunk. It was New Year's Eve. And that was about 28 years ago.

Ronald Biggs

#28. I like my fruitcake like I like my men. I like them to have tasty nuts, usually cum in a box, and last forever.

Mamrie Hart

#29. Why is it that we are happy to see change of system happening in movies but, when it comes to real life, we are afraid of it. Are we a Box Office Democracy?

Sukant Ratnakar

#30. To be black and an intellectual in America is to live in a box. On the box is a label, not of my own choosing.

Stephen Carter

#31. Even for the people in the business who are real music lovers it's really about putting things in the right boxes, and my style doesn't fit into a box.

Teddy Thompson

#32. Liberty, finally, is not a box into which people are to be forced. Liberty is a space in which people may live. It does not tell you how they will live. It says, eternally, only that we can.

Karl Hess

#33. Some ghost of myself still lived back in the days when we'd shared a bed and talked of the future. But that love we'd had and those selves we'd been were gone, placed in a box like old photographs and letters you'd never read again.

Dennis Lehane

#34. I used a geological sample container (also known as "a box").

Andy Weir

#35. Sure, you can mix the flour, baking soda, salt, shortening, and the whole nine yards, but why wouldn't you just pull out a box of Bisquick?

Sandra Lee

#36. Those who have advanced rise to the mind which is in the head, - they have the play of their mental movements in the head itself. But all these are inside the body; man is, as it were, shut up in a box, his entire consciousness is confined within the organism. This imprisonment has to be undone.

Sri Aurobindo

#37. I'm often in a situation that I have to prepare a pudding for surprise guests, only to find that the only thing I have in my cupboard is a box of dried figs.

Clarissa Dickson Wright

#38. Philip Johnson is a highbrow. A highbrow is a man educated beyond his capacity. His house is a box of glass - not shelter. The meaning of the word shelter includes privacy.

Frank Lloyd Wright

#39. Nobody has ever before asked the nuclear family to live all by itself in a box the way we do. With no relatives, no support, we've put it in an impossible situation.

Margaret Mead

#40. I like to do 'Garfield Mondays': lasagna and napping in a box.

Chris Pratt

#41. Sometimes they try to put you inside a box, but I look at my filmography and I've been able to do a lot.

Marlon Wayans

#42. I think what you have to do is have a box office success in every genre and then you're set for life. And fortunately, I happened to do that, so I get a myriad of offers of various sorts.

John Travolta

#43. And besides, the thing about committing yourself to a lie is that mostly you end up in twice the trouble, 'cause truth is like a whirlwind and you can't keep it in a box.

Sarah Monette

#44. Personally, it's a comfort and happiness to know that my work is taken seriously and is not marginalised and put in a box of ethnic immigrant writing in America.

Dinaw Mengestu

#45. Here's what I've learned: that someone can change the course of history with a box cutter.

Carrie Fisher

#46. Don't ignore half of me so you can fit me into a box. Don't do that.

Taylor Jenkins Reid

#47. Kill all the men you have slept with. Put the bones in a box and send it into the sea with flowers.

Yoko Ono

#48. Blivet is when a man has a box or a bag that is designed to hold five pounds worth of stuff and he tries to shove ten pounds worth of stuff into it instead.

Rose Gordon

#49. The dog (the poet) is on top of a locomotive," ... "He's got a box full of track, and he's frenetically laying down track in front of the train.

Billy Collins

#50. Life is the inside of a box, and we can't open it.

Siddharth Katragadda

#51. I went to a box room at the top of the house and locked myself in, in order to be alone with my aching miseries.

H.G.Wells

#52. Someone I loved once gave me a box full of darkness. It took me years to understand that this too, was a gift.

Mary Oliver

#53. Realities that kept the music silent, the dreams in a box.

Robert James Waller

#54. They flew her," Matt pointed out. "Sure they did - and my hat's off to them. But it takes heroes to fly a box as primitive as this and I'm not the hero type.

Robert A. Heinlein

#55. I get so lonely sometimes, I could put a box on my head and mail myself to a stranger.

Mary Karr

#56. I know I have to give her that freedom. Otherwise I've just caged her, haven't I? And what kind of love would it be, that only came from inside a box?

Jane Lovering

#57. The three now faced the moving wall. Trapped, like the last fries in a box with a hungry kid ready to pounce. They had no way to escape.

S.W. Lothian

#58. I always wanted to experience what performance would be like without the fourth wall, so I formed a company in Australia, and we did avant-garde theater, playing with gender norms, conversations about race - we just had a box of issues that we wanted to subvert with our stories, with dance.

DeObia Oparei

#59. I want to strangle my husband and slam the door as I leave. I want to leave a box of pasta on the counter with a note that says, cook your own dinner and suck your own dick.

Pella Grace

#60. Those moments aren't ours any more. They're shut up in a box, buried at the back of a cupboard, out of reach. They're frozen like on a postcard or a calendar. The colours will end up disappearing, fading. They're forbidden to our memories and our words.

Delphine De Vigan

#61. I have a box of things from Becca, my high school girlfriend, and Vanessa; and each one of them was love. I have the notes, the valentines, 20 mixed tapes, all of it. It's important to keep that stuff.

Oliver Hudson

#62. As a professional athlete, there aren't too many things as gratifying as being on the front of a box. Whether it be a cereal box or a game box. It's very gratifying.

Jeremy Roenick

#63. I see all these old people who don't have anything to do but eat, drink and sleep. I will never say 'retired' because that's such a finality that I don't want to be part of my life. I'll work until they throw me in a box.

Mario Andretti

#64. I'm going to try to not let anyone put me in a box, and that certainly applies to the things I do outside of acting.

James Franco

#65. All writers should be put in a box and thrown in the sea.

Gordon B. Hinckley

#66. Her memories were beads jumbled loose in a box, unstrung.

Kate Maloy

#67. As with most of life's problems, this one can be solved by a box of pure radiation.

Andy Weir

#68. People put me on a box, and I love when people think they know what I am capable of or not capable of. I thrive off of that.

T.I.

#69. I don't even have children, it's just been an excuse to play jenga and hit softballs in my backyard with a box of laundry detergant wearing baby clothes.

Thom Yorke

#70. When I left SNL, I gave Seth a badge of courage, like Dorothy give to the Cowardly Lion ... He kept it in his pocket during "Update" until he didn't need it anymore. Now it sits in a box on his desk at Late Night.

Amy Poehler

#71. To a bibliophile, there is but one thing better than a box of new books, and that is a box of old ones.

Will Thomas

#72. Copywriting basically consists of taking something dreadful, putting it in a box with a shiny ribbon, and presenting it to someone. Any disappointment the recipient has upon opening the box is entirely due to their own high expectations and therefore their fault.

David Thorne

#73. To unwind after training, I love to have a long hot soak in the bath, then veg out on the sofa with a box set. I'm a box-set junkie! I absolutely love 'Grey's Anatomy.'

Jessica Ennis

#74. My cell phone, back in my training days, was the size of a box of girl scout cookies

J.D. Holmes

#75. Man armed with science is like a baby with a box of matches.

John B. S. Haldane

#76. People just try to put you in a box and I don't see myself in any particular box. I'm making my own box. There's no way I would be able to make the music I'm making without dancing ...

Jillian Hervey

#77. Education is not filling up a box but seeing what you can create with one and don't you ever forget that!

Jill Telford

#78. I'm more contented and at peace with myself now than I was as a box-office queen. I'm less uptight. I've even reached a stage where it doesn't shatter me if somebody prints something bad about me.

Julie Andrews

#79. If I had a box full of all the evils of the world, I'd open it just a little way and push you inside. Then I'd close it again for always.

Mike Carey

#80. the fact that he'd never before seen her in the evening. He was just short of being astounded that she could exist at this hour. He must have been the type who thought that beauty gets put in a box at night. But it couldn't be true, no, because there she was, facing him.

David Foenkinos

#81. When I was 5 years old, we had nothing in the village. One day, in front of my house, some soldiers in a big Cadillac started to do a picnic. I looked at them like they were coming from the moon. I remember they gave me a box of rice pudding - that, for me, was the American Dream.

Renzo Rosso

#82. Are your ass cheeks touching my desk right now?" "You don't even insult me the normal way that you used to," she said. "I actually miss that." I pulled out a box of Clorox wipes.

Whitney G.

#83. Dream big; at least you will have the joy of reaching for the stars instead of living in a box filled with unopened gifts.

David Robinson

#84. Strategic management is not a box of tricks or a bundle of techniques. It is analytical thinking and commitment of resources to action. But quantification alone is not planning. Some of the most important issues in strategic management cannot be quantified at all.

Peter Drucker

#85. We had left the flea market - collecting Malena from a stall that sold live birds, where she'd purchased a box of pigeons which she had proceeded to suck dry in the car -

Seanan McGuire

#86. Undeveloped, the whole thing,tossed into a box before we really had a chance to know what we had, and that's why we broke up.

Daniel Handler

#87. If someone seems to have changed from one session to another, make sure you haven't changed instead. A warning from his mother, once upon a time, delivered as if she'd upended a box of spy-advice fortune cookies and chosen one at random.

Jeff VanderMeer

#88. It's not up to you to help other people fit you into a box.

Nicola Yoon

#89. 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, at least I'm not dead.

Tom Stoppard

#90. I wouldn't try to put myself in a box or put God in a box.

Lauryn Hill

#91. I don't put a girl in a box and clap my hands three times, and she's gone. I get in the box, and I vanish, and I reappear at the other side of the stage. That way, people don't think, 'That's a great illusion.' They think, 'Doug's a great magician.'

Doug Henning

#92. I remember being intrigued by the idea of school-in-a-box, just-add-water-and-Sam.

Maggie Stiefvater

#93. Ove gives the box a skeptical glance, as if it's a highly dubious sort of box, a box that rides a scooter and wears tracksuit pants and just called Ove "my friend" before offering to sell him a watch.

Fredrik Backman

#94. It was as if her own heart had been surgically removed from her body and was being kept at a remote location, still connected to her and pumping blood through her veins, but exposed to dangers she couldn't see: her heart in a box somewhere, in the open air, unprotected.

Jeffrey Eugenides

#95. I was taken to concerts when I was six, seven years old, and sat in a box throughout the whole evening.

Kitty Carlisle

#96. I invested in a box of paper bags today." ~ Andrew Hamilton

Whitney G.

#97. Jeb had always said to think with your brain, not your emotions. He'd been right, as usual. So I put all my feelings in a box and locked it.

James Patterson

#98. You'll be given a tape machine which is about the size of a box of popcorn. It weighs six pounds. With it, you'll be given sixty tape clips which are about four inches long. The equipment will fit inside a coat pocket without a bulge. It's a triumph of modern technology.

Richard Bachman

#99. Green eggs, or not green eggs? That is the question. Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to eat them in a box, with a fox -

Christopher Moore

#100. My dinner spot is usually in front of the TV. I'll grill a steak and whip up a salad and watch 'Hoarders'. I love it because a) I'm kind of voyeuristic, and b) every time I see an episode, I go to the one room where all my unpacked boxes wound up, and I throw out a box of stuff.

Nathan Fillion