Chinese Box Quotes

#1. Like a Chinese box, the world of the novel contained smaller worlds, and inside those were yet smaller worlds. Together, these worlds made up a single universe, and the universe waited there in the book to be discovered by the reader.

Haruki Murakami

#2. I always wanted to make a film that had this sort of Chinese-box effect, in which you keep opening it up and opening it up, and finally at the end you're at the beginning.

Martin Scorsese

#3. At the circus, a careless mother may let her child take part in the experiments of a Chinese magician. He puts him in a box. He opens the box; it's empty. He closes it again. He opens it; the child reappears and goes back to his seat. Now it is no longer the same child. Nobody doubts it.

Jean Cocteau

#4. I've always wanted to be a real universal artist, one that every type of audience could relate to.

Bryan White

#5. We can get the task done without being paid.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#6. You must remember this, a kiss is still a kiss, A sigh is just a sigh; The fundamental things apply, As time goes by.

Herman Hupfeld

#7. The United States now imprisons more people16 for drug offenses than Western European nations imprison for all crimes combined. No human society has ever before imprisoned this high a proportion of its population.

Johann Hari

#8. Most people figured I'd be in jail. I've been proving people wrong my whole life.

Gary Sheffield

#9. Finally I was naked on the table, my legs spread with big hands gripping tight at the sides of my knees, and he was down. As in down. On his knees on the floor, his mouth between my legs. Feeding. God. Oh God. Not feeding. Feeding.

Kristen Ashley

#10. When I was a child, I was always nicking my mum's jewellery to wear, and I loved to drape a massive Chinese shawl around me from our fancy-dress box. I was obsessed with a feather and rabbit-fur collar from the age of three and attempted to make one with my friend, whose father was a gamekeeper.

Alice Temperley

#11. We are several people fitted inside each other. Chinese boxes. Our bodies are the outside box. Or the inside one if you like.

Doris Lessing

#12. I walked out of the Chinese restaurant with a fat check, a record deal, and a box of shrimp egg foo yung!

Solomon Burke

#13. That which we can't remember, we will repeat.

Sigmund Freud

#14. Sometimes, you have to shot block a friend's prayer because she's asking God to bless an obviously bad dating relationship.

Jonathon Acuff

#15. Let's order cheap Chinese and eat it out of the box with chopsticks."
"Let's order good Chinese and do that.

Sylvia Day

#16. Ardiles strokes the ball like it was a part of his anatomy.

Jimmy Magee

#17. Nothing. Stay warm, is all. Be careful." "I will." "You've got this. ...You always did impress me.

Nathan Edmondson

#18. Nothing is difficult in the eyes of a lover.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#19. Englishmen are so odd. They are like a nest of Chinese boxes. It takes a very long time to get to the centre of them. When one gets there the result is unrewarding, but the process is instructive and entertaining.

Ian Fleming