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“I've always felt it's ridiculous to say, of any of the females in my life: You're my friend, you're my wife, you're my girlfriend, you're my co-worker. 'This is your box, and you're not allowed to stray outside of it.'”

Felt Wife My Friends Female Workers Boxes My Wife Ridiculous Girlfriend My Girlfriend Co Worker

Author:Jack White

“We do not believe in government through the voting booth. The Spanish national will was never freely expressed through the ballot box. Spain has no foolish dreams.”

Believe Dream Government Boxes Foolish Voting Spain Ballots

Author:Francisco Franco

“Everything I've ever done is out. I don't have boxes of unreleased stuff. There's nothing in the files. I can never keep anything unless I don't like the sound of it or it didn't work. If I can sing it to an engineer, I can sing it to anyone.”

Ifs I Can Done Stuff Sound Music Boxes Engineers Files

Author:John Lennon

“As an artist, program directors always want to put you in a little box.”

Want Littles Artist Directors Program Boxes

Author:Angie Stone

“London life was very full and exciting [...] But in London there would be no greenhouse with a glossy tank, and no apple-room, and no potting-shed, earthy and warm, with bunches of poppy heads hanging from the ceiling, and sunflower seeds in a wooden box, and bulbs in thick paper bags, and hanks of tarred string, and lavender drying on a tea-tray.”

Source: Lolly Willowes: or, The loving huntsman

“I walk into a large white room. It's a dance studio in midtown Manhattan. The room is clean, virtually spotless if you don’t count the thousands of skid marks and footprints left there by dancers rehearsing. Other than the mirrors, the boom box, the skid marks, and me, the room is empty.”

Ifs Left White Walks Rooms Empty Mark Mirrors Clean Boxes Studios Dancer Manhattan Footprint Rehearsing

Book:The Creative Habit: Learn It and Use It for Life

Source: The Creative Habit: Learn It and Use It for Life

“The ‘friend zone’ is like the penalty box of dating, only you can never get out. Once a girl decides you’re her ‘friend,’ it’s game over. You’ve become a complete non-sexual entity in her eyes, like her brother, or a lamp.”

Eye Girl Games Brother Dating Boxes Zone Over You Entity Penalties Her Eyes Lamps Like Her Game Over

Author:Ryan Reynolds

“In the Vortex that lies beyond time and space tumbled a police box that was not a police box.”

Lying Space Police Boxes Time And Space Vortex

Author:Stephen Baxter

“My love for my children makes me glad that I am what I am, and keeps me from desiring to be otherwise; and yet, when I sometimes open a little box in which I still keep my fast yellowing manuscripts, the only tangible remnants of a vanished dream, a dead ambition, a sacrificed talent, I cannot repress the thought, that after all I have chosen the lesser part, that I have sold my birthright for a mess of pottage”

Children Littles Stills Sometimes Dream Talent Ambition Boxes Glad Chosen Mess My Children Tangible Manuscripts Birthright Remnants I Am What I Am

Book:James Weldon Johnson: The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man

Source: James Weldon Johnson: The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man

“Like the sundial, my paint box counts no hours but sunny ones.”

Hours Paint Boxes Sunny Sundials

Author:Arthur Rackham

“Your body is a jewel box.....the jewel is your soul”

Soul Body Boxes Your Body Your Soul Jewels

Author:Kay Boyle

“Now you must raise your children up in a world where that union of man and box turtle is on the same legal footing as man and wife”

Men World Children Wife Our Children Raises Unions Boxes Your Children Turtles

Author:John Cornyn

“The idea that we live in a post-modern culture is a myth. In fact a post-modern culture is an impossibility; it would be utterly unlivable. Nobody is a post-modernist when it comes to reading the labels on a medicine bottle versus a box of rat poison! You better believe that texts have objective meaning!”

Believe Ideas Facts Would Be Culture Reading Modern Medicine Boxes Myth Objectives Labels Posts Poison Bottles Rats Versus Impossibility Modern Culture

Author:William Lane Craig

“I hope the car they (Sport Magazine who awarded it to the World Series MVP) give him (Brooks Robinson) has an extra large glove box.”

World Giving Sports Car Series Boxes Magazines Extras Gloves Brooks World Series Mvp

Author:Sparky Anderson

“The film is not a success until it makes money. It's only good when there's a dollar figure attached to the box office.”

Film Figures Office Dollars Boxes Making Money Figure Skating Box Office

Author:John Cusack

“All elongated objects, such as sticks, tree-trunks and umbrellas(the opening of these last being comparable to an erection) may stand for the male organ...Boxes, cases, chests, cupboards, and ovens represent the uterus...Rooms in dreams are usually women...Many landscapes in dreams, especially any containing breidges or wooded hills, may clearly be recognized as descriptions of the genitals.”

May Dream Lasts Rooms Cases Tree Objects Sticks Males Boxes Opening Hills Landscape Description Chests Organs Umbrella Trunks Containing Ovens Cupboards Uterus Tree Trunks

Author:Sigmund Freud

“I got a standard box. I don't never want nothing special. Then if I drop my box, I can borrow somebody else's.”

Ifs Want I Can Music Special Standards Boxes

Author:Wes Montgomery

“I figure guys are like Whitman's Samplers. I like to take a little bite out of each and then move on before the whole box gets stale.”

Littles Whole Moving Guy Figures Boxes Bites Stale

Book:Kinsey Millhone: First Three Novels

Source: Kinsey Millhone: First Three Novels

“As far as her mom was concerned, tea fixed everything. Have a cold? Have some tea. Broken bones? There's a tea for that too. Somewhere in her mother's pantry, Laurel suspected, was a box of tea that said, 'In case of Armageddon, steep three to five minutes'.”

Said Mother Three Cases Five Minutes Broken Mom Cold Concerned Boxes Bones Tea Fixed Five Minutes Steep Laurels Armageddon Pantry Broken Bone

Author:Aprilynne Pike

“Our customers call and e-mail us to say that's how it feels when a Zappos box arrives. And that's how we view this company.”

Inspirational Feels Views Company Boxes Customers Mail

Author:Tony Hsieh

“Some of the most wonderful people are the ones who don't fit into boxes.”

People Life Inspirational Wonderful Fit Boxes Live Life

Author:Tori Amos

“It doesn’t matter if you use a box camera or a Leica, the important thing is what motivates you when you are photographing. What I have tried to do is involve the people I was photographing. To have them realize without saying so, that it was up to them to give me whatever they wanted to give me . . . if they were willing to give, I was willing to photograph.”

People Ifs Giving Important Matter Use Wanted Realizing Willing Give Me Cameras Important Things Photograph Boxes Leica

Author:Eve Arnold

“I found a way of working which pleased me because I didn’t have to frighten people with heavy equipment. It was that little black box and me.”

People Way Littles Found Black Boxes Heavy Equipment Black Boxes

Author:Eve Arnold

“I'll be working the rest of my life because I'm a character actor and don't have to worry about box office.”

Character Actors Worry Office Boxes Box Office Character Actors

Author:Vincent D'Onofrio

“But really, I can only be dangerous for the team in one place, and that is in the box.”

I Can Sports Team Dangerous Boxes Team Building

Author:Ruud van Nistelrooy

“A house that has been experienced is not an inert box. Inhabited space transcends geometrical space.”

Has Beens House Space Boxes

Book:The Poetics of Space

Source: The Poetics of Space

“I believe in using words, not fists. I believe in my outrage knowing people are living in boxes on the street. I believe in honesty. I believe in a good time. I believe in good food. I believe in sex.”

People Believe Hands I Believe Sex Knowing Streets Honesty Boxes I Believe In Good Times Fists Outrage Good Food Using Words

Author:Bertrand Russell

“I do not share the general view that market forces are the basis for political liberty. Every time I see a homeless person living in a cardboard box in London, I see that person as a victim of market forces. Everytime I see a pensioner who cannot manage, I know that he is a victim of market forces”

Knows Persons Political Force Views Liberty Share Bases Victim Boxes London Manage Homeless Cardboard Boxes

Author:Tony Benn

“I used to do the beat box. A friend of mine, he was the rapper and after, we'd be doing a block party or something or a house party, and he's gettin' all the attention and I'd end up with a handful of spit, you know, from doing the beats.”

Knows Ends Used House Party Attention Mines Beats Boxes Block Rapper Handful Spit House Party Spit Up

Author:DMX

“I don't come from a rich family - it's not like we lived in a cardboard box, but we didn't have a ton of money.”

Rich Boxes Cardboard Boxes Rich Family

Author:Jessica Lynch

“There's a direct relationship between the ballot box and the bread box, and what the union fights for and wins at the bargaining table can be taken away in the legislative halls.”

Fighting Winning Taken Direct Tables Unions Boxes Bread Halls Ballots Bargaining Union Solidarity

Author:Walter Reuther

“Those who have the immense dishonesty to fight with a ballot box in one hand and a rifle in the other have no place in democratic politics.”

Hands Fighting Democratic Boxes Immense Dishonesty Ballots Rifles

Author:Neil Kinnock

“We have to think outside the box, inside the Constitution, find ways to do things that will elevate our security, reduce the risk of the incidence of terrorist attack”

Thinking Way Risk Security Constitution Boxes Terrorist Terrorist Attacks Outside The Box Think Outside The Box Incidence

Author:John Ashcroft

“We often try to put God in a box. The God who fits in our boxes isn't the God & Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.”

Trying Father Jesus Christ Lord Fit Jesus Christ Boxes Our Lord Lord Jesus Christ Our Lord Jesus Christ God Father

Author:Aiden Wilson Tozer

“The closer a Negro got to the ballot box, the more he looked like a rapist.”

Boxes Ballots

Author:E. Franklin Frazier

“I pore over every word on the cereal box at breakfast, often more than once. You can ask me anything about shredded wheat.”

Asks Boxes Ask Me Breakfast Wheat Cereal

Author:Chris Van Allsburg

“I am convinced that the greatest legacy we can leave our children are happy memories: those precious moments so much like pebbles on the beach that are plucked from the white sand and placed in tiny boxes that lay undisturbed on tall shelves until one day they spill out and time repeats itself, with joy and sweet sadness, in the child now an adult.”

Source: The Choice: A Surprising New Message of Hope

“To me a lawyer is basically the person that knows the rules of the country. We're all throwing the dice, playing the game, moving our pieces around the board, but if there's a problem, the lawyer is the only person that has actually read the inside of the top of the box.”

Ifs Knows World Persons Country Problem America Moving Games Pieces Modern Boxes Lawyer Boards Throwing Modern World Dice Funny Lawyer

Author:Jerry Seinfeld

“A gift - be it a present, a kind word or a job done with care and love - explains itself!... and if receivin' it embarrasses you, it's because your 'thanks box' is warped.”

Ifs Kind Done Care Jobs And Love Boxes Thanks Kind Words

Book:Like One of the Family: Conversations from a Domestic's Life

Source: Like One of the Family: Conversations from a Domestic's Life

“My own idea of a $5,500 .45 auto is a used Volkswagon with a Glock 30 in the glove box.”

Ideas Used My Own Boxes Gloves Glocks

Author:Massad Ayoob

“I didn't go to Harvard or Princeton, but I can count - the defunding box canyon is a tactic that will fail and weaken our position.”

I Can Failing Position Boxes Tactics Harvard Canyons Princeton

Author:Bob Corker

“If you never venture outside the box, you will probably not be creative. But if you never get inside the box, you will certainly be stupid.”

Ifs Creative Stupid Boxes Venture Be Creative Outside The Box

Book:Pursuing the Good Life: 100 Reflections on Positive Psychology

Source: Pursuing the Good Life: 100 Reflections on Positive Psychology

“Listen deeper than the music before you put it in the box.”

Music Is Boxes Deeper

Author:Tyler, The Creator

“I remember opening my dad's closet and there were, like, 40 suits, every color of the rainbow, plaid and winter and summer. He had two jewelry boxes full of watches and lighters and cuff links. And just... he was that guy. He was probably unfulfilled in his life in many ways.”

Way Two Remember Guy Watches Color Dad Summer Winter My Dad Boxes Opening Suits Links Rainbow Closets Jewelry That Guy Lighters Cuffs Plaid Jewelry Boxes Colors Of The Rainbow

Author:Jon Hamm

“We are not inferring design to account for a black box, but to account for an open box.”

Black Design Accounts Boxes Black Boxes

Author:Michael Behe

“I came out the box and for seven years I had a huge career. And then it's done, it's dumped. But I ain't gone, and I refuse to be gone.”

Years Done Careers Gone Huge Seven Boxes Refuse Seven Years Dumped

Author:Taylor Dane

“I don't believe consciousness is generated in the brain any more than television programs are made inside my TV. The box is too small.”

Life Inspirational Believe Made Brain Consciousness Television Inspirational Life Tvs Program Don't Believe Boxes

Author:Terence McKenna

“I get so lonely sometimes, I could put a box on my head and mail myself to a stranger.”

Sometimes Lonely Boxes Stranger Mail So Lonely

Author:Mary Karr

“I hate online bullying. Those little comment boxes can brim with the most vicious, acidic, and pointless remarks.”

Littles Hate I Hate Boxes Online Bullying Comment Vicious Remarks Pointless

Author:Alexa Chung

“This is one of my favorites. People think of creativity as this sort of unbridled thing, but engineers thrive on constraints. They love to think their way out of that little box: 'We know you said it was impossible, but we're going to do this, this, and that to get us there.'”

People Thinking Knows Way Littles Said Creativity Impossible Boxes Thrive Engineers Constraints

Author:Marissa Mayer

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