Shadow Box Sayings

#1. Programmed in self-hatred, many of us shadow-box the light of day away and chase everything meaningless the night through until we perish more ignorant and confused than the very day we were born.

D. Allen Miller

#2. Of course he was there, a removed audience
of my redemption songs from beyond the grave,
the way Kafka and his father continued to shadow-box,
long after they quit staring at each other
at the dinner table.

Thabo Jijana

#3. In the end it was only Peter who had something he could say from the heart.
"Am I the only one here who sees something of himself in the man who's lying inside this box?"
No one had an answer for him, either yes or no.

Orson Scott Card

#4. The Bible is our fire-guard. Some read God's Word critically but the Word is their critic and by their own attitude towards the Word they condemn themselves.

Reinhard Bonnke

#5. Chose? If you believe that I chose any part of the pitiful shadow of a life you see before you, you are very much mistaken. I chose glory and success. The box did not contain what was written on the lid.

Joe Abercrombie

#6. The sun rolls along up Fourteenth Street and the ghost of a habit turns Cat's face into the light. She shields her eyes and looks east, half expecting to see her father, a sun-blown shadow in the diorama box of his newsstand.

Cari Luna

#7. her head and her face was in shadow. She'd pushed

C.J. Box

#8. Fear has a large shadow, but he himself is small.

J. Ruth Gendler

#9. Leave the light and travel the shadow-lands, said Blaise, repeating the inscription on the silver box.

Teresa Flavin

#10. For in and out, above, about, below, 'Tis nothing but a Magic Shadow-show, Played in a Box whose Candle is the Sun, Round which we Phantom Figures come and go.

Omar Khayyam

#11. The writer cannot be a mere storyteller; he cannot be a mere teacher; he cannot merely X-ray society's weaknesses, its ills, its perils. He or she must be actively involved shaping its present and its future.

Ken Saro-Wiwa

#12. You sit beside the sorcerer, your love, and unzip your ribs. Tucked under your heart is a small oak box, plain and unvarnished. You offer it to the sorcerer. 'I brought this for you.

A. Merc Rustad

#13. Nathan had just announced that come hell or high water,he was going to fix his flower.He just needed time to find out how.

Julie Garwood

#14. Maybe you should say goodbye, Cal.'
'No.'
'It might be important.'
'It might make her die.

Jenny Downham

#15. Destiny is not preordained. Destiny is ordained totally by you. Every single moment of your NOW existence is the result of your previous thought. The idea that everything is already laid out for you in advance is a hallucination. You can and do manifest your own destiny.

Wayne Dyer

#16. We've no use for intellectuals in this outfit. What we need is chimpanzees. Let me give you a word of advice: never say a word to us about being intelligent. We will think for you, my friend. Don't forget it.

Louis-Ferdinand Celine

#17. I'm trying to satirize what it's like to be a recording artist in 2011. I realize that standing on a soap box and ranting and raving about my opinions on the digital age and its effect on music is only going to get you so far.

DJ Shadow

#18. Our 'pathway' is straight to the ballot box, with no variableness nor shadow of turning.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

#19. If you cannot stand a spoon upright in the cup, then the coffee is too weak.

Lawrence Block

#20. If you believe that I chose any part of the pitiful shadow of a life you see before you, you are very much mistaken. I chose glory and success. The box did not contain what was written on the lid." "The

Joe Abercrombie

#21. If you were born by the sea, there's always a magnet that draws you back there.

Marc Almond

#22. I have always enjoyed performing, but I think when I was in the fifth grade was when I discovered that I really loved acting.

Cindy Busby

#23. But as usual there's no answer to this. As usual, that's just how it is.

Audrey Niffenegger

#24. However, the resources at our people's disposal are very few and we require assistance from the neighboring Arab countries, and for weapons in order to fight the enemy.

Ahmed Yassin

#25. There is a fine line between stubborn and stupid.

Pete Dexter

#26. The real aim of romance is to provide escape and entertainment.

Violet Winspear