Wooden Box Sayings

#1. My mother would put me on a wooden box at the stove and tell me to call her if certain things would happen. Like if the steam turns blue, that is danger!

Paul Prudhomme

#2. In my sleep I had a dream and this dream was a dream of guilt. It was not human guilt but the kind of helpless, hopeless despair that would be felt by a small wooden box or geometrical cube if such objects had consciousness; it was the guilt of sheer existence.

Joanna Russ

#3. Tangling with the Goliath Corporation generally left you in one of two places: inside a wooden box with a grieving family outside, or inside a wooden box under six foot of soil with family wondering where you were. The former was if they didn't hold a grudge.

Jasper Fforde

#4. Jesus," said Clary.
"I doubt he'd fit (in the wooden box)."
"Jace." Clary was apalled.
-Clary & Jace, pg.255-

Cassandra Clare

#5. There's nowhere else to escape to ... Except in a wooden box, that is.

H.M. Forester

#6. She's eighty-four and still has all her teeth. She keeps them in a little wooden box on her dressing table.

Simon Hugh Wheeler

#7. He had learned something already in the course of his journey. If you carried a closed wooden box, people want to know what is in it.

Marcus Sedgwick

#8. I have something to check out. You ... guard the truck."
"Sylvie," Wright said, "no one wants this truck. I'm broke and on foot, and I don't want this truck.

Lyn Benedict

#9. Mammoth was more controlled than Valor and made a point to keep his attention hinged on Ivo - as if disgusted by Valor's eagerness. "Mammoth, greet the lady properly," Ivo said. To Cinderella's surprise and delight, Mammoth slid forward on his front paws, bowing to her.

K.M. Shea

#10. There is something beyond power. The totality of one's being. Some call it nirvana. We have a higher destiny. Before you can scratch the surface, you have to bring your life into order.

Frederick Lenz

#11. There are so many little dyings that it doesn't matter which of them is death.

Kenneth Patchen

#12. A successful trader is rational, analytical, able to control emotions, practical, and profit oriented.

Monroe Trout

#13. He understood well enough how a man with a choice between pride and responsibility will almost always choose pride
if responsibility robs him of his manhood.

Stephen King

#14. Yet Betty would learn among the black Muslims that any black person clever or lucky enough to reach adulthood must choose between slumber and strugle.

Russell J. Rickford

#15. A tiny little wooden man [was] slowly ascending the steps to a real set of gallows, both perched on a box that read: Reusable Hangman - Spell It Or He'll Swing!

J.K. Rowling

#16. The thing is that oftentimes, we want to be everything all at once. We want to be strong and mature, and God wants that for us, too. But just like that flowerpot had to sit in the sun and receive water day after day, we have to sit in God's presence every day, too.

Victoria Osteen

#17. There were wooden toys moldering in a box; crayons on a windowsill, their colors dulled by the light of ten thousand afternoons; a dollhouse with dolls inside, lifers in an ornate prison. In a modest library, the creep of moisture had bowed the shelves into crooked smiles.

Ransom Riggs

#18. The rain battered the cottage. Valkyrie risked a look up at Skulduggery.
"What is it?" she whispered.
"It's a box," he whispered back.
"What kind of box?"
"A wooden one."
She gave him a look.

Derek Landy

#19. In the face of every reason for breaking don't break because if nothing, absolutely nothing else I'm here with my hand on you. You're not alone.

Glen Duncan

#20. I like talking to a brick wall- it's the only thing in the world that never contradicts me!

Oscar Wilde

#21. Once you learn what the disease or physical block has to teach you and finally let go of the emotional issues stored in the cells, then, and only then, can real healing begin on all levels - emotional, spiritual and physical.

Brandon Bays

#22. Imagine that, a poncho sombrero combo, I'll be off my tits on happiness.

Noel Fielding

#23. God sees you not only as a mortal being on a small planet who lives for a brief season - He sees you as His child. He sees you as the being you are capable and designed to become. He wants you to know that you matter to Him.

Dieter F. Uchtdorf

#24. 1266What matters to the children's well-being isn't so much the level of the family's wealth as whether it is controlled by the mother or the father.

Nicholas D. Kristof