Shoebox Quotes

#1. I hate living in a really small apartment, living in a shoebox, not being able to play the drums, not having space. It sucks.

Mac DeMarco

#2. It's like when a kitten tries to bite something to death. The kitten clearly has the cold-blooded murderous instinct of a predator, but at the same time, it's this cute little kitten, and all you want to do is stuff it in a shoebox and shoot a video of it for grandmas to watch on YouTube.

Jesse Andrews

#3. Little things really belong to you," she said, folding the fan. "They don't have to be left behind. You can carry them in a shoebox.

Truman Capote

#4. When you have no money in New York, you're living in a shoebox, and it's freezing. When you have no money in L.A., you're living in a slightly larger shoebox, and you can go outside and feel okay about your life for a minute.

Anna Kendrick

#5. Every shoebox offers an opportunity to share the Good News of the Savior with a hurting child

Franklin Graham

#6. Our dreams are made of real things, like a shoebox full of photographs.

Jack Johnson

#7. I earned my writing stripes with a large man's shoebox overflowing with rejection slips ... more than 100 before I got my first, 'Yes, we want this,' accompanied by a check.

Holly Lisle

#8. You do it a day at a time. You just put your rejection slips in a shoebox and tell yourself one day you're going to autograph them and sell them at auction.

James Lee Burke

#9. Like two r's trapped in a spanish songbook, tilli and max lurked in their shoebox castle, waiting to be rolled.

Tom Robbins

#10. The brain is not a shoebox that 'gets full,' but rather a muscle that expands its capacity with increased use. The more you know, the more you can know.

Douglas Wilson

#11. Under my bed, my shoebox of shame, and when I felt anxious or lost I would pull it out and touch all of my socks. All loners. All waiting to be reunited with their twin. I eventually outgrew the shoebox ... and by that I mean there were too many socks.

Tarryn Fisher

#12. Old post cards, tin wind-up toys with rusted gears, buttons long out of fashion, ticket stubs found in a shoebox in the attic - these are the things Alice likes, not new stuff that comes sealed in plastic.

Jan Strnad

#13. If you want to be a theater actor, where do you live now? Young actors struggle on a Broadway salary. A lot of them live in shoe boxes; some of them are literally three to a shoebox. New York has gotten prohibitively expensive.

Stephen Spinella

#14. Everything large enough to love eventually disappoints you, then betrays you, and finally, forgets you. But the things small enough to fit into a shoebox, these stay as they were.

Anthony Marra

#15. The great problem of the concert hall is that the shoebox is the ideal shape for acoustics but that no architect worth their names wants to build a shoebox.

Rem Koolhaas

#16. Once I'm given an idea for a story I have a million ideas on how it should be illustrated, but I don't have a big shoebox full of unfinished ideas.

Brian Selznick

#17. I had one year of struggle. My parents were always there, but I didn't want to rely on them. Now it's moving pretty fast. I'm not rich, but obviously this is fantastic. All I know to do with money is put it in a shoebox anyway.

Ben McKenzie

#18. Being crazy about someone isn't nice or passionate or deeply moving; it is, surprisingly enough, crazy.

Jaida Jones

#19. Take it easy, have fun, and everything important will follow!

Rob Parnell

#20. Repeat after me, Mr. Black: I do believe in commas. I do, I do.

Jaida Jones

#21. I just don't think one person has that much to contribute to any subject.

Bernice Johnson Reagon

#22. The face of the team are the people who're playing on the cricket field. The team is not about one individual.

Gautam Gambhir

#23. Mom. He didn't do drugs. I've told you that before. He was just weird.

Huntley Fitzpatrick

#24. If I have become so pathetically dulled that I hold freedom as my right and the privileges of liberty as my due, I can stand beside the stilled graves of a thousand soldiers fallen in defense of freedom and not feel a thing. And my most solemn prayer is that I will never be this.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#25. I will learn by screwing up.

Greg Bear

#26. Writing helps me create a different world that I can escape to.

Ashwin Sanghi

#27. Happiness isn't something you work toward, the same way misery isn't something you work toward.

Brent Jones

#28. Difference is the essence of humanity. Difference is an accident of birth, and it should therefore never be the source of hatred or conflict. Therein lies a most fundamental principle of peace: respect for diversity.

John Hume

#29. I've seen people wearing clothes that don't look good on them, but they're really loving those clothes and the experience of wearing those clothes. Fine. At the end of the day, it's fashion.

Ian Astbury