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“The true and lasting genius of humour does not drag you thus to boxes labelled 'pathos,' 'humour,' and show you all the mechanism of the inimitable puppets that are going to perform. How I used to laugh at Simon Tapperwit, and the Wellers, and a host more! But I can't do it now somehow; and time, it seems to me, is the true test of humour. It must be antiseptic.”

Doe I Can Shows Humor Seems Used Laughing Humour Genius Tests Boxes Lasting Host Mechanism Drag Puppets Pathos

Author:Mark Twain

“Very difficult to understand American audience, what they like, what they don't like. Some movie I like very much, it doesn't work. Some movie I don't like, it gets big box office. Very difficult.”

Bigs Actors Difficult Audience Office Boxes Movie Box Office

Author:Jackie Chan

“If you like to make things out of wood, or sew, or dance, or style people's hair, or dream up stories and act them out, or play the trumpet, or jump rope, or whatever you really love to do, and you love that in front of your children, that's going to be a far more important gift than anything you could ever give them wrapped up in a box with ribbons.”

Source: Many Ways to Say I Love You: Wisdom for Parents and Children from Mister Rogers

“It's like Forrest Gump said, 'Life is like a box of chocolates.' Your career is like a box of chocolates - you never know what you're going to get. But everything you get is going to teach you something along the way and make you the person you are today. That's the exciting part - it's an adventure in itself.”

Knows Way Persons Said Today Life Is Work Careers Teach Adventure Exciting Boxes Chocolate Life Is Like Motivational Work Forrest Gump Said Life Box Of Chocolates

Author:Nick Carter

“Christmas is a box of tree ornaments that have become part of the family.”

Tree Boxes Christmas Ornaments

Author:Charles M. Schulz

“A woman spent all Christmas Day in a telephone box without ringing anyone. If someone comes to phone, she leaves the box, then resumes her place afterwards. No one calls her either, but from a window in the street, someone watched her all day, no doubt since they had nothing better to do. The Christmas syndrome.”

Ifs Doubt Streets Window Phones Boxes Christmas No Doubt Telephones Resumes Syndromes Christmas Day

Book:Cool memories

Source: Cool memories

“Our ideas, like orange-plants, spread out in proportion to the size of the box which imprisons the roots.”

Inspirational Ideas Growth Self Improvement Roots Plant Personal Growth Size Boxes Spread Proportion Orange Self Development Personal Growth And Development

Author:Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

“There's certain things that you can do on cable that you can't do here on network TV, so then you have to think outside the box a little bit.”

Thinking Littles Certain Bits Can Do Tvs Little Bit Boxes Cables Outside The Box Think Outside The Box

Author:Josh Charles

“Worship without wonder is lifeless and boring. Many have lost their sense of awe and amazement when it comes to God. Having begun with the arrogant presumption of knowing about God all that one can, they reduce Him to manageable terms and confine Him to a tidy theological box, the dimensions of which conform to their predilections of what a god ought to be and do.”

Lost Term Wonder Knowing Ought Worship Boxes Boring Dimensions Awe Arrogant Conform Theological Amazement Presumption Tidy Lifeless Manageable

Author:Sam Storms

“I just kinda do what I feel. I never knew what lane I would fill, [or that] I would fill a lane at all. I didn't even really contemplate that far down the road. I just started having fun, and a lot of that came from me seeing Wayne dare to be different, and I started feeling like I can be a multifaceted rapper. I don't have to be a one-dimensional female rapper. Once I put that in perspective, it was like everything just got easier for me, because I no longer wanted to fit in anybody's box... I just wanted to be Nicki.”

“Science is unflinchingly deterministic, and it has begun to force its determinism into morals. On some shining tomorrow a psychoanalyst may be put into the box to prove that perjury is simply a compulsion neurosis, like beating time with the foot at a concert or counting the lampposts along the highway.”

May Force Moral Feet Tomorrow Prove Shining Boxes Free Will Concerts Highways Compulsion Counting Neurosis Determinism Perjury

Book:Prejudices Fourth Series

Source: Prejudices Fourth Series

“Life is about using the whole box of crayons.”

Life Whole Life Is Creativity Teacher Color Boxes Appreciation Crayon Colors Of Life

Author:RuPaul

“Socialism in America will come through the ballot box.”

America Historical Boxes Socialism Communism Ballots

Author:Gus Hall

“The most innovative designers consciously reject the standard option box and cultivate an appetite for thinking wrong.”

Thinking Design Standards Boxes Designer Rejects Appetite Bad Ass Innovative Badass Graphic Design Architecture And Design Graphic Artist Graphic Designer

Author:Marty Neumeier

“The Bible rose to the place it now occupies because it deserved to rise to that place, and not because God sent anybody with a box of tricks to prove its divine authority.”

Divine Prove Authority Bible Rose Boxes Tricks Biblical Prove It

Author:Bruce Barton

“It isn't enough to think outside the box. Thinking is passive. Get used to acting outside the box.”

Thinking Inspirational Enough Motivational Used Acting Boxes Passive Outside The Box Think Outside The Box

Author:Tim Ferriss

“Always think outside the box and embrace opportunities that appear, wherever they might be.”

Thinking Might Motivational Opportunity Embrace Boxes Outside The Box Think Outside The Box

Author:Lakshmi Mittal

“If black boxes survive air crashes - why don't they make the whole plane out of that stuff?”

Ifs Whole Funny Stuff Black Air Travel Boxes Flying Flight Planes Aviation Pilots Airplane Crash Great Aviation Pilots And Flying Plane Crashes Black Boxes Airplane Crashes

Author:George Carlin

“The greatest threat now is a 9/11 occurring with a group of terrorists armed not with airline tickets and box cutters, but with a nuclear weapon in the middle of one of our own cities...there's a high probability of such an attempt.”

Cities Groups Middle Weapons Threat Boxes Terrorism Nuclear Terrorist Nuclear Weapons Tickets Probability Airline Cutters Airline Ticket

Author:Dick Cheney

“My own view of this, by the way, is, if the war on terrorism is successful over time, in its own way it's going to box Saddam in in a way that's going to make it much more difficult for him to maintain his power, and that he's going to become increasingly isolated. I think that's going to take time.”

Ifs Thinking Way War Difficult My Own Views Successful Boxes Terrorism Isolated Take Time Saddam War On Terror War On Terrorism

Author:Lawrence Eagleburger

“Every time you turn on your new car, you're turning on 20 microprocessors. Every time you use an ATM, you're using a computer. Every time I use a settop box or game machine, I'm using a computer. The only computer you don't know how to work is your Microsoft computer, right?”

Knows Use Humor Funny Turns Games Know How Car Computer Machines Boxes Turn-on Microsoft New Car Atm Microprocessor

Author:Scott McNealy

“Woman stock is rising in the market. I shall not live to see women vote, but I'll come and rap on the ballot box.”

Culture Justice Diversity Vote Social Justice Boxes Rap Rising Ballots

Author:Lydia M. Child

“I'm furious about the Women's Liberationists. They keep getting up on soap-boxes and proclaiming that women are brighter than men. That's true, but it should be kept very quiet or it ruins the whole racket.”

Men Should Whole Women Justice Quiet Diversity Social Justice Boxes Libertarian Ruins Women Empowerment Soap Brighter Furious Wise Women Racket Proclaiming Anti Feminist Soapbox

Author:Anita Loos

“We put limitations on the way that we think about things, on ourselves, think about all the boxes we live in, male or female, you're this age, that age, this is your job, this is not your job, everything is about getting boxed in. I think we accept a lot of those boxes, that labeling, and the way that we perceive the world, but what even is perception? It all seems pretty flexible to me.”

Thinking World Way Inspirational Seems Motivational Age Jobs Accepting Healthy Perception Female Suicide Males Boxes Limitation Well Being Perceive Flexible Suicidal Thoughts Labeling

Author:Brit Marling

“The nicest Father's Day surprise of all for Dad would be if you handed him a box, and he unwrapped it, and there, inside, sitting on a bed of folded tissue, was the pair of his undershorts that somebody threw away six months ago (without asking Dad) because they had reached the stage where they were 3 percent undershorts and 97 percent holes. Dad misses those undershorts. They were his Faithful Undershorts Companion.”

Ifs Would Be Father Stage Missing Months Dad Bed Six Percent Sitting Asking Surprise Boxes Holes Faithful Pairs Companion Six Months Fathers Day Tissues

Author:Dave Barry

“Sir Walter, being strangely surprised and put out of his countenance at so great a table, gives his son a damned blow over the face. His son, as rude as he was, would not strike his father, but strikes over the face the gentleman that sat next to him and said, "Box about: twill come to my father anon."”

Giving Said Faces Next Father Son Tables Blow Boxes Strikes Gentleman Sat Rude Fathers Day Countenance Anon

Author:John Aubrey

“When autumn shadows throw their patterns across the land, they are not the images of fragile, dying leaves, not the bared arms of lofty elms, not shadows of a fading summer; but swinging shapes as of books upon a strap, of round and square boxes held under an arm, of hurrying little people heading towards the nearest school.”

People Littles Book School Land Dying Arms Shapes Summer Shadow Rounds Patterns Boxes Autumn Squares Fragile Headings Lofty Fading Hurrying

Book:New York

Source: New York

“I have a box of awards in the closet. I think it is weird to put them out. I might if I had an Emmy or Oscar, but I don't.”

Ifs Thinking Might Boxes Awards Oscars Closets Emmys

Author:Margaret Cho

“The world should be worried about those who go around the planet with a can of gasoline in one hand and a box of matches in the other, pretending to sell fire insurance.”

World Should War Hands Fire Planets Sells Boxes Worried Pretending Anti War Antiwar Gasoline Fire Insurance

Author:Rodrigue Tremblay

“Our cause is a common one. It is war between poverty and wealth. ... This moneyed power is fast eating up the substance of the people. We have made war upon it, and we mean to win it. If we can, we will win through the ballot box; if not, then we shall resort to sterner means.”

People Ifs Mean Made War Winning Causes Wealth Common Poverty Struggle Eating Boxes Substance Resorts Ballots Economic Inequality We Will Win

Author:William H. Sylvis

“Instead of thinking outside the box, get rid of the box.”

Thinking Attitude Boxes Mindset Outside The Box Think Outside The Box

Author:Deepak Chopra

“The wireless music box has no imaginable commercial value. Who would pay for a message sent to nobody in particular?”

Values Pay Creativity Particular Computer Messages Boxes Silly Dumb Predictions Last Words Follow Your Dreams Wireless Predicting Forecasts Predicting The Future Crazy Ideas

Author:David Sarnoff

“While you remain at home your hair is at the hairdresser's; you take out your teeth at night and sleep tucked away in a hundred cosmetics boxes - even your face does not sleep with you.”

Doe Home Faces Night Sleep Hair Hundred Boxes Teeth Sarcastic Your Face Cosmetics Hairdresser

Author:Martial

“(Talking about his first computer) Like all kids we not only fooled around with our toys, we changed them. If you've ever watched a child with a cardboard carton and a box of crayons create a spaceship with cool control panels, or listened to their improvised rules, such as "Red cars can jump all others," then you know that this impulse to make a toy do more is at the heart of innovative childhood play. It is also the essence of creativity.”

Ifs Knows Firsts Heart Children Play Kids Fun Talking Creativity Childhood Car Changed Computer Red Essence Boxes Impulse Toys Innovative Fooled Spaceships Crayon

Author:Bill Gates

“I used to collect hockey cards. It was like Vegas at my school. You'd go to school with your box of cards, and at recess and lunchtime there were all these games we'd play.”

Play School Used Games Basketball Boxes Cards Hockey Vegas Las Vegas Recess Lunchtime

Author:Steve Nash

“For toddlers I suggest leaving their mittens on year-round, indoors and out. That way they can't get into aspirin bottles, liquor cabinets, or boxes of kitchen matches.”

Way Years Children Humor Kids Funny Baby Humorous Leaving Rounds Boxes Kitchen Bottles Liquor Cabinets Toddler Aspirin Mittens

Book:The Bachelor Home Companion: A Practical Guide to Keeping House Like a Pig

Source: The Bachelor Home Companion: A Practical Guide to Keeping House Like a Pig

“Everyone's heard of Erwin Schrodinger's famous thought experiment. You put a cat in a box with a bottle of poison, which many people would suggest is about as far as you need to go.”

People Needs Heard Cat Boxes Experiments Poison Bottles Schrodinger

Author:Terry Pratchett

“When there was room on the ledge outside of the pots and boxes for a cat, the cat was there- in sunny weather- stretched at full length, asleep and blissful, with her furry belly to the sun and a paw curved over her nose.”

Rooms Sun Cat Boxes Weather Noses Length Pot Belly Sunny Paws Furry Ledges Sunny Weather

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Mark Twain (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Mark Twain (Illustrated)

“Think outside the box, collapse the box, and take a f**king sharp knife to it.”

“The history of men of science has one peculiar advantage, as it shows the importance of little things in producing great results. Smeaton learned his principle of constructing a lighthouse, by noticing the trunk of a tree to be diminished from a curve to a cyclinder ... and Newton, turning an old box into a water-clock, or the yard of a house into a sundial, are examples of those habits of patient observation which scientific biography attractively recommends.”

“Appeal. In law, to put the dice into the box for another throw.”

Law Boxes Appeals In-laws Dice

Author:Ambrose Bierce

“I don't smoke but I keep a match box in my pocket, when my heart slips towards sin, I burn the matchstick and heat my palm with it, then say to myself, "Ali you can't even bear this heat, how would you bear the unbearable heat of hellfire?"”

Heart Sin Bears My Heart Boxes Smoke Heat Islamic Pockets Slips Palms Unbearable Hereafter Matchsticks

Author:Muhammad Ali

“The breaking of the alabaster box and the anointing of the Lord filled the house with the odor, with the sweetest odor. Everyone could smell it. Whenever you meet someone who has really suffered; been limited, gone through things for the Lord, willing to be imprisoned by the Lord, just being satisfied with Him and nothing else, immediately you scent the fragrance. There is a savor of the Lord. Something has been crushed, something has been broken, and there is a resulting odor of sweetness.”

Has Beens Pain Suffering House Lord Gone Willing Broken Filled Boxes Smell Satisfied Just Being Scent Sweetness Fragrance Crushed Sweetest Odor Anointing

Author:Watchman Nee

“Collectivism doesn't work because it's based on a faulty economic premise. There is no such thing as a person's "fair share" of wealth. The gross national product is not a pizza that must be carefully divided because if I get too many slices, you have to eat the box. The economy is expandable and, in any practical sense, limitless.”

Ifs Persons Wealth Liberty Economy Share Economic Products Fairs Boxes Libertarian Practicals Divided Libertarianism Gross Limitless Premises Pizza Collectivism Fair Share

Author:P. J. O'Rourke

“Human beings have the capacity to learn to want almost any conceivable material object. Given, then, the emergence of a modern industrial culture capable of producing almost anything, the time is ripe for opening the storehouse of infinite need!... It is the modern Pandora's box, and its plagues are loose upon the world.”

World Want Needs Giving Humans Culture Given Human Beings Modern Objects Materials Capable Capacity Infinite Boxes Opening Plague Ripe Emergence Pandora Pandora's Box

Author:Jules Henry

“The world is the geologist's great puzzle-box; he stands before it like the child to whom the separate pieces of his puzzle remain a mystery till he detects their relation and sees where they fit, and then his fragments grow at once into a connected picture beneath his hand.”

World Children Hands Earth Science Grows Pieces Mystery Fit Relation Boxes Connected Puzzles Fragments Geology Geologist

Book:Geological Sketches

Source: Geological Sketches

“Science can give us only the tools in the box, these mechanical miracles that it has already given us. But of what use to us are miraculous tools until we have mastered the humane, cultural use of them? We do not want to live in a world where the machine has mastered the man; we want to live in a world where man has mastered the machine.”

Men World Want Giving Use Science Given He Man Tools Machines Accounts Miracle Boxes Miraculous Humane

Author:Frank Lloyd Wright

“The chemist in America has in general been content with what I have called a loafer electron theory. He has imagined the electrons sitting around on dry goods boxes at every corner [viz. the cubic atom], ready to shake hands with, or hold on to similar loafer electrons in other atoms.”

Hands America Science Imagination Ready Theory Sitting Boxes Corners Dry Shakes Goods Atoms Sitting Around Chemist Electrons Loafers

Author:Robert Andrews Millikan

“If you walk down the street and see someone in a box, you have a choice. That person is either the other and you're fearful of them, or that person is an extension of your family.”

Ifs Persons Choices Walks Streets Diversity Boxes Our Family Brotherhood Fearful Extensions Unity In Diversity Self Serving

Author:Susan Sarandon

“I was a daughterless mother. I had nowhere to put the things a mother places on her daughter. The nail polish I used to paint our toenails hardened. Our favorite videos gathered dust. Her small apron was in a box in the attic. Her shoes - the sparkly ones, the leopard rain boots, the ballet slippers - stood in a corner.”

Used Mother Daughter Rain Paint Shoes Boxes Corners Video Dust Ballet Boots Nails Polish Hardened Slippers Attics Leopards Aprons Nail Polish Toenails

Author:Ann Hood

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