“I went to Brunel University and very much wanted to go on to do a PhD in management, but then my acting career started to take off. In those days when you switched on the box there were hardly any brown or black faces.” WantedFacesBlackActingCareersGoes OnManagementUniversityBoxesBrownPhdsBlack Face Author:Archie Panjabi
“A convincing demonstration of correctness being impossible as long as the mechanism is regarded as a black box, our only hope lies in not regarding the mechanism as a black box.” LongLyingBlackImpossibleBoxesMechanismConvincingDemonstrationCorrectnessBlack Boxes Author:Edsger Dijkstra
“Liberal economists conceive of societies as black boxes connected by exchange rates; as long as exchange rates are correct, what goes on inside the black box is regarded as not very important.” LongImportantBlackGoes OnRateBoxesConnectedEconomistBlack Boxes Author:Robert Gilpin
“The Democrats were crushed in the midterm elections. The Republican juggernaut pounded the Democrats, and the pundits say they will not really know what happened to the Democrats until they find the black box.” KnowsBlackHappenedRepublicanElectionDemocratBoxesCrushedPunditsMidtermsJuggernautMidterm ElectionsBlack Boxes Author:David Letterman
“As for breaking up, once the relationship is over, you never really know what went wrong; you just feel nauseous whenever the subject comes to mind. After a plane crash there's the black box that tells the FAA what caused the crack-up. Too bad there's no black box of relationships.” KnowsFeelsMindBlackSubjectsBoxesDivorcePlanesOver YouCracksCrashPlane CrashesBlack Boxes Author:Linda Sunshine
“We have plenty to learn from the numerous ants. Sawako Nakayasu-writer, antologist, Baudelaire's sister-turns daily life inside out and upside down then puts it into perfect little boxes. Here we follow the lines of black legged, syntactical units-the words-as they cross and they tickle the heart of the matter with us.” HeartLittlesMatterTurnsBlackLinesPerfectCrossesBoxesPlentyDaily LifeUnitsAntsUpside DownBaudelaire Author:John Granger
“My first time performing was in the black box theater of my high school's basement as a member of 'Clownaz,' the school's improv team. We charged money for tickets, saying the proceeds went to our school's recycling program. Then, immediately after the show, we divided up all the money and kept it.” FirstsShowsSchoolBlackTeamMembersHigh SchoolFirst TimeProgramTheaterBoxesPerformingDividedTicketsBasementsRecyclingBlack Boxes Author:Joe Mande
“It must be a source of great chagrin to those in charge to think of so many people being able to stick a stamp on a letter and drop it in a mail box without any trouble or suffering at all. They are probably working on a system this very minute, trying to devise some way in which the public can be made to fill out a blank, stand in line, consult some underling who will refer him to a superior, and then be made to black up with burned cork before they can mail a letter.” PeopleThinkingWayTryingMadeAbleSufferingBlackLinesTroubleModernMinutesSourceLettersSticksBoxesSuperiorsMailBurnedBlankStampsModern LifeCorkChagrin Author:Robert Benchley
“In the music industry it's just you're either Black or white, and this is the box you get put in.” BlackWhiteIndustryBoxesMusic IndustryBlack Or White Author:India.Arie
“Hollywood is designed to check the box office on Monday morning and see: "How'd we do? How much?" It's another facet of this whole culture of accumulation and consumption. Black people are caught up in it, white people are caught up in it, white actors, black actors, female actresses - everybody's caught up in it.” PeopleWholeCultureActorsBlackWhiteMorningOfficeFemaleHollywoodCaughtBoxesActressesChecksBlack PeopleConsumptionCaught UpMondayAccumulationFacetsMonday MorningBox Office Author:Danny Glover