“Every time I step up to the plate, I expect to get a hit. If I don't expect to get a hit, I have no right to step into the batter's box in the first place.” IfsFirstsStepsBoxesPlatesStep Up Author:Pete Rose
“In fact, the mere act of opening the box will determine the state of the cat, although in this case there were three determinate states the cat could be in: these being Alive, Dead, and Bloody Furious.” StatesFactsThreeCasesAliveCatMereDetermineBoxesOpeningBloodyFuriousDiscworldLords And Ladies Author:Terry Pratchett
“When you are wanting to comfort someone in their grief take the words 'at least' out of your vocabulary. In saying them you minimise someone else's pain...Don't take someone else's grief and try to put it in a box that YOU can manage. Learn to truly grieve with others for as long as it may take.” TryingMayLongPainGriefComfortBoxesManageGrievingVocabulary Author:Kay Warren
“Here's the thing about movies, all movies end up on television. That's their life. Whether you like it or not, I don't care how much money you spend on it, or how big or broad the film is, or who the actors are in it, eventually it's all coming out of the box.” EndsBigsCareFilmActorsTelevisionBoxesDon't CareI Don't CareBroadsComing OutYou Like It Author:Greg Kinnear
“Keep believing in yourself, and don't ever give up, even if people tell you otherwise. Just believe in yourself and take every action you need to get there, whether it's taking more lessons or a fun, cool job in New York or LA and stepping out of the box. Be a little bit risky, but still confident.” PeopleIfsNeedsGivingBelieveLittlesStillsActionJobsFunBitsNew YorkLessonsGiving UpLittle BitBoxesBelieve In YourselfBelieve In YouJust BelieveKeep BelievingJust Believe In YourselfDon't Ever Give Up Author:Julianne Hough
“In anything I do I try to stay true to myself because I think that's what matters most, and then the challenge is getting all these different sides of my personality to fit together in one box. It isn't an easy task. But that's basically what the end result represents.” ThinkingTryingDifferentEndsMatterTogetherEasySidesChallengesResultsPersonalityFitTasksBoxesWhat MattersStay TrueEnd ResultsDifferent SidesTrue To MyselfEasy Tasks Author:G-Eazy
“My best business decision was going into business for myself and owning the box my pretty face was on instead of just being the pretty face on the box. And my worst was letting other people run my business.” PeopleRunningFacesDecisionWorstBoxesJust BeingBest BusinessPretty FaceBusiness Decisions Author:Kam Williams
“The trick generally is to break programs into pieces and have those pieces be individually testable and so then when you move on to the other pieces you treat it as a black box knowing that it either works or doesn't work.” MovingBlackBreakKnowingPiecesProgramTreatsBoxesTricksBlack Boxes Author:Bill Gates
“In the earlier days I did most of the song writing by myself, and I got to a place in my life where I felt it was necessary to go outside my box and get some outside inspiration.” WritingInspirationSongFeltBoxes Author:Jason Wade
“I do love the prose poem because it's such a perverse and provocative little box - always asking to be questioned, never giving a straight or definitive answer.” GivingLittlesAnswersAskingBoxesProseProvocative Author:Matthea Harvey
“I think any film that is based on life or real events you want it to be accurate but what really matters is that it's truthful. That is not always the same thing. You really want to convey the spirit of the enterprise rather than ticking every single factual box.” ThinkingWantRealMatterFilmSpiritEventsBoxesEnterpriseTruthfulAccurateFactual Author:Lucinda Coxon
“While I was in the NFL, I would eat five times a day. I only eat twice a day now, and I box and play basketball every day. I'm extremely happy with my body and mind...” MindPlayBodyFiveBasketballBoxesNflMind And BodyExtremely Happy Author:Thomas Jones
“I'd say the purest experience for the movie is not to have read the book because I think when you've read the book you're just ticking off boxes. I think that after you see the movie, reading the book is a cool thing. I always say the movie's not meant to replace the book. That's ridiculous. I'm a huge fan of the book.” ThinkingBookReadingFansHugeBoxesRidiculousCool Things Author:Zack Snyder
“I love the box that such a decision puts you in, and I love the interest the reader has in seeing how you negotiate that box: that seemingly hugely narrowed set of options. I also like the way in which it reminds us that we connect to the real world. That our relationship to the world matters.” WorldWayRealMatterInterestDecisionSeeingReaderBoxesReal WorldOur Relationship Author:Jim Shepard
“I started as an artist and I had a side job moving some heavy boxes for a publishing company. They had just gotten a Mac for their art department, the department that creates the book covers. I was kind of showing the art director a thing or two about how to use a Mac. And one day everyone went out to lunch and I jumped on the computer and designed a book jacket and slipped it in the pile to go to the review board in New York. They picked my jacket and when the art director got back to Boston, he wanted to know who designed it and I said, "Me." He was like, "The box guy?"” KnowsKindArtSaidTwoBookUseWantedJobsMovingArtistGuySidesCompanyNew YorkOne DayDirectorsComputerBoxesHeavyBoardsDepartmentReviewsLunchPublishingBostonJacketsMacsBook CoversArt Director Author:Biz Stone
“As a professional athlete, there aren't too many things as gratifying as being on the front of a box. Whether it be a cereal box or a game box. It's very gratifying.” GamesFrontsAthleteBoxesCerealProfessional Athlete Author:Jeremy Roenick
“The competitiveness, playing in front of 18-19,000 people every single night, people asking for my autograph, getting recognized, being able to do something like this with Sega and being on the front of a box, and being involved in video games, and listening to movies where they reference my name like in Swingers. All these things they make life so exciting, you don't know what to expect next.” PeopleKnowsAbleNightNextGamesNamesFrontsListeningInvolvedExcitingAskingBoxesVideoAutographsCompetitiveness Author:Jeremy Roenick
“I received rejection letters for ten years (one on a napkin, written in crayon.) I had all my rejection notices stored in a box. When the box was finally full I took it to the curb and set it on fire. The next day I went out and got a temp job.” YearsJobsNextFireWrittenTenLettersBoxesRejectionNext DayCurbCrayonNapkinsYear OneRejection Letters Author:Janet Evanovich
“It's difficult to really be an artist nowadays. People are just on another page. You have a society that needs you to say something, but they don't want to give you the environment to be able to be just a functioning, happy, normal person. It's like, the industry is at odds with you, the society is at odds with you. You start to live in this very confined box where it's like, It's "me" and "them."” PeopleWantNeedsGivingPersonsAbleArtistDifficultEnvironmentIndustryNormalPagesBoxesOddsNeed YouConfined Author:Mos Def
“While I was writing the book, I went to see Louise Brooks's most famous film, Pandora's Box, at the Tivoli in Kansas City, and it was a lovely experience. You can watch old silent films on DVD or even on YouTube, but it was a different feeling watching her up on the big screen, seeing the film the way people saw it all those years ago.” PeopleWayWritingYearsBookDifferentFeelingsBigsFilmCitiesWatchesSawsSeeingYears AgoSilentBoxesScreensLovelyYoutubeBrooksDvdsKansasBig ScreenPandoraKansas CityPandora's BoxSilent FilmsDifferent Feelings Author:Laura Moriarty
“When I was really young, my mom enrolled me in dance classes. "Mom, I'm too young to dance," I told her. She kind of forced me, but I ended up loving it, and after the first lesson I came back and said, "Come on, Mom, I'll show you the box step." That introduced me not just to dancing but also to working with someone without having a goal.” KindSaidShowsYoungGoalStepsClassMomLessonsDancingBoxesMy MomDance Class Author:Jeff Bridges
“You know, when you go into the store and buy a box of laundry detergent, and the price has gone up - you know, 50 cents because of regulations....And everything is costing more money, and we are killing our people like this....It's the evil government that is putting all these regulations on us so that we can't survive.” PeopleKnowsGovernmentEvilGoneKillingBoxesStoresRegulationCentsMore MoneyLaundryEvil GovernmentLaundry Detergent Author:Benjamin Carson
“When I was sixteen, I began to think outside the box of my small town. Not that the people in my small town are in a box - they're not! There's a brilliant college there, and I had brilliant teachers from that college. But in terms of a conservative upbringing, which I did have within my own family, I just began to question things and to think for myself.” PeopleThinkingTermMy OwnTeacherCollegeTownsConservativeBoxesBrilliantSmall TownUpbringingSixteenOutside The BoxThink Outside The Box Author:Ronee Blakley
“I prefer assonance and internal rhyme to end rhyme. I mean, the sonnet already looks like a box. Best not to get too boxed in, though.” LooksMeanEndsBoxesInternalsRhymeSonnetAssonance Author:Anna Journey
“What you create when you're teaching fiction writing is a kind of literary salon, not a social club or a mutual admiration society, not a debating society, not a repair shop, not a fight club or a soap box. It's a place to have a conversation about a story.” WritingKindStoriesFightingSocialFictionTeachingConversationBoxesClubsShopsMutualAdmirationSoapFiction WritingSalonsMutual Admiration Author:John Dufresne
“And by banning [smartphones] from the set, the whole crew tends to work tighter with each other. And then it just becomes a thing where people kind of fall in love with the idea, 'This is the film-industry that I signed up for! This is really wonderful.' But then they go back to another set and everybody's on their cellphone, everyone's in their own little box, and they get depressed about it.” PeopleKindLittlesIdeasWholeFilmFallWonderfulIndustryFalling In LoveBoxesCrewFilm IndustrySmartphonesCellphone Author:Quentin Tarantino
“Many years ago, we were only able to build boxes. Today, architects from all over the world are working with us - Zaha Hadid from London, Gerkan, Marg and Partner from Hamburg, Kengo Kuma from Japan. We brought design and digitalization from abroad to China.” WorldYearsTodayAbleDesignYears AgoBoxesChinaLondonPartnersJapanArchitect Author:Zhang Xin
“Once you do a character in Hollywood and people haven't seen you before, they put you in a box and they think that's all that you can do and it's hard to get people to take a risk on you.” PeopleThinkingHardCharacterCan DoRiskHavensHollywoodBoxes Author:Aubrey Plaza
“I like garage band for writing because you only have crayons and there are only five crayons in the box. Your choices are limited and I find that to be very good for me.” WritingChoicesFiveBandVery GoodBoxesGarageCrayon Author:Erin McKeown
“You don't have to fit into a particular box. You fit into a box that you're comfortable in, and you'll attract people with like minds. It took me a while to figure this out, but there are many ideals. You have to figure right what's best for you and that will radiate out of you. I think a certain amount of letting go and being brave and not being afraid to make mistakes to get there.” PeopleThinkingMindCertainMistakeFiguresParticularAmountFitLetting GoComfortableIdealsBraveBoxesMaking MistakesBeing Afraid Author:Evan Rachel Wood
“P.I.L. has been a favorite of mine since high school especially there metal box album. The guitarist Keith Levine gets some of the best sounds ever to come out of a guitar. The songs are really free form and experimental and have a heavy dub influence.” Has BeensSchoolFormSongSoundInfluenceMinesHigh SchoolGuitarAlbumsBoxesHeavyMetalsGuitaristKeith Author:Marcel Dzama
“I've always hated quotation marks: they're ugly on the page and they classify the text for you, putting dialogue in one box and narration in another.” PagesMarkBoxesUglyDialogueHatedQuotationsNarrationQuotation Marks Author:Catherine Brady
“I didn't have many friends. I was very shy ... And, then, even worse, when I was 14 I became Gothic. I had long, black hair. I was going to school with makeup. Because I was trying to find my language, to scream to the world that I felt so closed in a box where I was living.” WorldTryingLongSchoolLanguageFeltBlackHairBoxesShyMakeupScreamGothicMany FriendsBlack HairLong Black Hair Author:Riccardo Tisci
“To leave Italy at 17 without money and go to a country like England is very rare; Italians stay with the family until 30, 35. But I couldn't stand to live in this box anymore. I was getting bigger, and the box was getting smaller.” CountryBiggerEnglandBoxes Author:Riccardo Tisci
“It was a really strange experience. It was very creative for Alejandro Amenábar. It was almost like it was the most I ever felt like I was helping someone paint. They had a very clear idea of what they wanted it to look like, sound like, be like. So, there was no operating outside the box. The only way to help him was to try to really be a part of his imagination and try to make it happen. He's a super kind and loving person. So, you wanted to help him. It just was none of my normal ways of helping a director work at all. So, it was a unique experience for me that way.” WayTryingLooksKindPersonsIdeasHelpingHappensWantedFeltSoundImaginationCreativeClearStrangeDirectorsNormalUniquePaintBoxesBarsMake It HappenAmenOutside The BoxLoving PersonUnique ExperiencesHelping Someone Author:Ethan Hawke
“It would be nice if all the Republicans could put poetry in a little box and put the box under the bed and sit on it, but they can't.” IfsLittlesWould BeNiceRepublicanBedBoxesBeing Nice Author:Sam Hamill
“I do yoga and weights, mainly. I still box. I box once a week, but I don't get punched in the face anymore. I just hit the bags now. I'm done with that competitive side of it.” StillsDoneFacesSidesWeekYogaWeightBoxesBags Author:Neil Jackson
“People will always put you in a box that they think you fit in, and it's up to you to not fall into it.” PeopleThinkingFallFitBoxesUp To You Author:Tricia Helfer
“It just feels like I'm on the right path musically and I'm in the right mindset to continue out my mission in music because I'm not putting myself in a box.” FeelsPathMusic IsBoxesMissionsMindsetRight Path Author:Brandy Norwood
“I like [that] there's a certain inherent drama to those jobs that is exciting to tell stories about and it's still real life. I'm a little less interested in the current fad of being obsessed with superheroes and things that are so out of the box.” LittlesStillsRealStoriesJobsCertainDramaExcitingCurrentsBoxesReal LifeObsessedInherentSuperheroFads Author:Ethan Hawke
“Marvel and Disney and all the other superhero movies have to stay within this box and this is an opportunity to jump outside that box. To be the apple among oranges, and really embrace it. So, in terms of us getting what we wanted and what we originally wrote, we largely stayed consistent to that.” WantedOpportunityTermEmbraceBoxesApplesConsistentOrangeSuperhero Author:Paul Wernick
“I don't think you're going to get nominated every time you jump out of the box.” ThinkingBoxes Author:Morgan Freeman
“I would say the songs that have different lyrics. I always write the music first, and there's a couple of songs on this box set that have different lyrics from what ended up on the final recording.” WritingFirstsDifferentSongCoupleFinalsBoxes Author:Billy Joel
“You need to just understand where the ball is and how to use your body. Timing your jump the right way is crucial. Learn how to use your body to shield the receiver and box him out, again, much like a rebound. Trying to beat a receiver to a ball can be a lot like you're posting him up. Rebounding is great practice because you can employ those skills - body position, leverage, timing - a lot more than you might in a football game or practice if the quarterback doesn't look your way.” IfsWayNeedsTryingLooksUseBodyMightGamesPracticePositionFootballLike YouSkillsBeatsBallsBoxesYour BodyCrucialTimingRight WayShieldsQuarterbackFootball GameReceiverRebound Author:Antonio Cromartie
“To me, the building [of Museum of Arts and Design]now looks like a lovely jewel box, and the tiled façade reminds me of a heat shield.” LooksArtDesignBuildingBoxesLovelyHeatMuseumsJewelsShields Author:Jerry Saltz
“Where I trained at in Florida, though, they didn't have Jack in the Box. There were a couple of nights where they were all I could think about. But, it worked out for me at the combine. It paid off.” ThinkingNightCouplePaidBoxesFloridaPaid Off Author:Virgil Green
“My perfect Valentine's Day would be coming home to a giant box waiting for me, and it has a gorgeous dress and high-heeled shoes and a handbag. And someone's waiting to do my hair and makeup. You can tell I've been in too many romantic comedies.” HomeWould BeWaitingPerfectComedyHairDressesShoesBoxesGiantsMakeupComing HomeValentineGorgeousValentine's DayHandbagsHair And Makeup Author:Judy Greer
“The very first practice we [Woody Weatherman, Mike Dean & myself ] did it was like, "Oh ok, I get it." We were jamming on some crazy ass, out of the box, weird time signature riffs and I got it, whereas anyone else who was playing with them recently would have been like, "What? What are you doing?" So I think there's something unspoken between the three of us that makes us Corrosion of Conformity.” ThinkingFirstsHas BeensThreePracticeCrazyBoxesAssConformityMikeDeanSignaturesUnspokenWoodyWeathermen Author:Reed Mullin
“When email and the Internet came along, I never publish an email address. I just stuck with this P.O. Box address.” InternetBoxesStuckAddressesEmailPublish Author:Adrian Tomine
“Schrödinger's cat has a 50% quantum chance of coming out of the box alive and a 50% quantum chance of coming out dead. If you got in the box with it, the same would apply to you. So you really don't want to do that.” IfsWantChanceAliveCatBoxesComing OutQuantum Author:David Papineau