Match Box Sayings

#1. I don't smoke but I keep a match box in my pocket, when my heart slips towards sin, I burn the matchstick and heat my palm with it, then say to myself, "Ali you can't even bear this heat, how would you bear the unbearable heat of hellfire?"

Muhammad Ali

#2. thanks to mommy and match-box cars, thanks for dad and to the stars.

Dixie Chicks

#3. And yet there was not a definable thought in his mind. Only a terrifying effort to get from one side of a match box to another.

Hubert Selby Jr.

#4. I find that when I've seen a certain number of people my mind becomes like an old match box
the part one strikes on, I mean.

Virginia Woolf

#5. It feels strange to me to be living in a box, hiding from the steadying influence of the moon; wearing the hide of a cow, which is supposed to be dyed to match God-knows-what, on my feet; making promises over the telephone about things I will do at a precise hour next year.

Barbara Kingsolver

#6. I'll never know how to love you the right way if I don't also know how to be your friend, Mia.

Bella Andre

#7. Since music is a reflection of our mindset and our culture, it is bound to change with time. I am glad that India is such a receiving country and is always open to all kinds of music. Our composers, singers and writers are open to experimenting.

Sonu Nigam

#8. Growing older is not upsetting; being perceived as old is.

Kenny Rogers

#9. Fools act on imagination without knowledge, pedants act on knowledge without imagination.

Alfred North Whitehead

#10. Near that a dusty paint-box, some odd hooks, A half-burnt match, an ivory block, three books, Where conic sections, spherics, logarithms, To great Laplace, from Saunderson and Sims, Lie heaped in their harmonious disarray Of figures,-disentangle them who may.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

#11. Waiting on God isn't wasting time; it's training time. Whether

Wendy Pope

#12. A book is a box brimming with incendiary material. The reader strikes the match.

Erica Jong

#13. All my ambition is, I own, to profit and to please unknown; like streams supplied from springs below, which scatter blessings as they go.

Charles Cotton

#14. Biting my lip, I trace the cigarette-butt scars along Jeb's bared torso. I've often wished he could replace all those bad memories with the good ones we've made together since. But now, more than ever, I realize how important every memory is, bad or good, because they shape who we become.

A.G. Howard

#15. Humans to ashes,
People to dust,
Its all because in God we trust.

Sanjay Singh

#16. Be yourself! Fill yourself up with light and fly!

Jodi Livon

#17. Nothing went exactly right. And yet it was perfect.

Julie Cross

#18. No one ever escapes Gloucester. Kids go off to college and settle somewhere else. But they always come back. If Gloucester is all you know, every place else seems a little phony.

Mark Kurlansky