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“I do have an obligation, however, a debt that cannot be settled by my lyrical decisions. My life will be judged by my obedience, not my ability to confine my lyrics to this box or that.”

Ability Decision Boxes Debt Obligation Obedience Judged Lyrical

Author:Jon Foreman

“If everyone has to think outside the box, maybe it is the box that needs fixing.”

Ifs Thinking Needs Boxes Fixing Outside The Box Think Outside The Box

Author:Malcolm Gladwell

“To me, reading through old letters and journals is like treasure hunting. Somewhere in those faded, handwritten lines there is a story that has been packed away in a dusty old box for years.”

Years Has Beens Stories Reading Lines Letters Boxes Treasure Hunting Journal Faded Old Letters

Author:Sara Sheridan

“I've always had a keen sense of history. My father was an antiques dealer and he used to bring home boxes full of treasures, and each item always had a tale attached.”

Home Used Father Boxes Treasure Tales Items Dealer Antiques

Author:Sara Sheridan

“If they have to put the word 'natural' on a box to convince you, it probably isn't.”

Ifs Natural Boxes Convince

Author:Michele Simon

“There is an unseen sweetness in the stomach’s emptiness. We are lutes. When the sound box is filled, no music can come forth. When the brain and the belly burn from fasting, every moment a new song rises out of the fire. The mists clear, and a new vitality makes you spring up the steps before you . . .”

Moments Song Sound Brain Steps Clear Fire Spring Filled Boxes Emptiness Stomach Unseen Sweetness Belly Vitality Mist Fasting New Songs

Author:Rumi

“Eagleton has spent his life inside two mental boxes, Catholicism and Marxism, of both of which he is a severe internal critic—that is, he frequently kicks and scratches at the inside of the boxes, but does not leave them. Neither are ideologies that loosen their grip easily, and people who need the security of adherence to a big dominating ideology, however much they kick and scratch but without daring to leave go, hold on to it every bit as tightly as it holds onto them. The result is of course strangulation, but alas not mutual strangulation: the ideology always wins.”

People Needs Doe Two Bigs Courses Winning Bits Results Security Critics Boxes Ideology Kicks Internals Mutual Catholicism Daring Severe Alas Scratches Marxism Dominating Adherence

Author:A.C. Grayling

“The fastest, cleanest, most joyful way to break out of your own box is by dancing. I'm not talking about doing the stand-and-sway. I'm talking about dancing so deep, so hard, so full of the beat that you are nothing but the dance and the beat and the sweat and the heat.”

Way Hard Talking Break Beats Dancing Boxes Heat Sweat Joyful Not Talking Break Out

Book:Connections: The Threads of Intuitive Wisdom

Source: Connections: The Threads of Intuitive Wisdom

“The beauty of our democracy lies in the American value of equality: if you vote, you have a seat at the table. If you speak, you have a chance to persuade others. A billionaire and a minimum wage earner have the same power at the ballot box.”

Ifs Lying Values Speak Chance Democracy Vote Tables Boxes Seats Minimum Billionaire Ballots Minimum Wage American Values

Author:Christine Pelosi

“Rarely are opportunities presented to you in a perfect way. In a nice little box with a yellow bow on top. 'Here, open it, it's perfect. You'll love it.' Opportunities -- the good ones -- are messy, confusing and hard to recognize. They're risky. They challenge you.”

Way Littles Hard Opportunity Challenges Perfect Nice Risk Perfection Boxes Yellow Bows Recognizing Confusing Messy

Author:Susan Wojcicki

“School is at its best when it gives students the expectation that they will not only dream big, but dream dreams that they can work on every day until they accomplish them-not because they were chosen by a black-box process, but because they worked hard enough to reach them.”

Giving Hard Enough Dream Bigs School Process Black Students Expectations Boxes Accomplish Chosen Black Boxes

Author:Seth Godin

“Everything seems really simple on paper until you take a camera out of the box.”

Seems Simple Paper Cameras Boxes

Author:David Fincher

“If Kyle Korver blocks your shot there should be a penalty box you should go to!”

Ifs Should Games Sports Player Shots Boxes Block Penalties Funny Basketball Funny Sports Basketball Leadership

Author:Jeff Van Gundy

“I don't think baseball could survive without all the statistical appurtenances involved in calculating pitching, hitting and fielding percentages. Some people could do without the games as long as they got the box scores.”

People Thinking Long Games Involved Baseball Boxes Score Statistics Hitting Percentages Pitching Calculating

Author:John M. Culkin

“Maybe there are times when mystery is more important than knowledge. I realized that the white page is a magic box. Ultimately, the mistery box is all of us. Ubiquitous technologies. What comes next ? Mystery as catalyst for imagination.”

Important Next Imagination White Technology Magic Mystery Design Pages Boxes I Realized Graphic Catalyst Graphic Design

Author:J. J. Abrams

“We'll run a lot of multiple sets - pro set, twin set, the box set, ... We'll run a lot of option plays and pass the ball more than in the past.”

Play Running Past Balls Boxes Twins Multiple

Author:John Welch

“Javier Pastore wouldn't get a beach ball off me if we were locked in a phone box. He's turd. Anyone who thinks he isn't is clueless.”

Ifs Thinking Football Balls Phones Boxes Beach League Locked Clueless Premier League Turds

Author:Joey Barton

“You never count your chickens before they hatch. I used to keep parakeets and I never counted every egg thinking I would get all eight birds. You just hoped they came out of the nest box looking all right. I'm like a swan at the moment. I look fine on top of the water but under the water my little legs are going mad.”

Thinking Looks Littles Moments Used Water Football Fine Bird Mad Boxes Legs Eight League Eggs Chickens Nests Swans Premier League Parakeets

Author:Ian Holloway

“My co-founder and great friend Glynnis MacNicol is only a chat box away and gives me the support (and tough love!) needed to remember who I am and what I'm worth. You can't be your own cheerleader all of the time. Be there to support your friends and let them support you.”

Giving Remember Powerful Support Needed Tough Give Me Boxes Who I Am Founders Powerful Women Great Friend Support You Cheerleader Tough Love

Author:Rachel Sklar

“We're so quick to go to make things black and white, and to put things in their box. But everything is this mixture - and that's what this world is - is this blend of different things.”

World Different Black White This World Boxes Different Things Black And White Mixtures

Author:Matisyahu

“I have nothing but praise for the boy. He is easily the best player in the world. His contribution as a goal threat is unbelievable. His stats are incredible. Strikes at goal, attempts on goal, raids into the penalty box, headers. It is all there. Absolutely astounding.”

World Goal Boys Player Praise Threat Incredibles Boxes Strikes Contribution Penalties Unbelievable Best Players Cristiano Ronaldo

Author:Alex Ferguson

“Juan Hernandez was an actor out of New York, but what made Juan so great and what made Omar so great was that they both already knew how to box, so we didn't have to take them into a gym and teach them how to throw a left jab.”

Made Actors Left Teach New York Boxes Gym Juan Omar

Author:Charles S. Dutton

“The wren-box problem is becoming more acute each year, for wrens now demand better housing conditions and labor-saving devices.”

Years Problem Conditions Becoming Demand Bird Labor Boxes Saving Devices Housing Becoming More Wrens

Book:How to Tell Your Friends from the Apes

Source: How to Tell Your Friends from the Apes

“I don't want to be 'box-office girl,' but I don't want to be 'that indie girl' either.”

Want Girl Office Boxes Box Office

Author:Kirsten Dunst

“Don't shut yourself up in a band box because you are a woman, but understand what is going on, and educate yourself to take part in the world's work, for it all affects you and yours.”

World Art Women Work Education Band Boxes Educate

Book:Louisa May Alcott Premium Edition - 16 Novels in One Volume: Little Women Trilogy & Other Novels (Illustrated): Moods, The Mysterious Key and What It Opened, An Old Fashioned Girl, Work, Eight Cousins, Rose in Bloom, Under the Lilacs, Jack and Jill, Behind a Mask, The Abbot's Ghost, A Modern Mephistopheles…

Source: Louisa May Alcott Premium Edition - 16 Novels in One Volume: Little Women Trilogy & Other Novels (Illustrated): Moods, The Mysterious Key and What It Opened, An Old Fashioned Girl, Work, Eight Cousins, Rose in Bloom, Under the Lilacs, Jack and Jill, Behind a Mask, The Abbot's Ghost, A Modern Mephistopheles…

“The performances that I love are ones like Gena Rowlands in 'A Woman Under the Influence,' where women are allowed to be messy and imperfect. It's that kind of woman that has always inspired me to seek roles that are a little out of the box. I just haven't always had the opportunity to do them.”

Kind Littles Opportunity Roles Influence Havens Performances Inspired Boxes Imperfect Messy

Author:Kirsten Dunst

“All safe deposit boxes in banks or financial institutions have been sealed... and may only be opened in the presence of an agent of the I.R.S.”

May Has Beens Economic Safe Depression Institutions Financial Boxes Agents Great Depression Deposits Financial Institutions

Author:Franklin D. Roosevelt

“We have four boxes with which to defend our freedom: the soap box, the ballot box, the jury box, and the cartridge box.”

Political Politics Liberty Four Boxes Soap Jury Ballots

Author:Larry McDonald

“Two big punchers, you've got to keep your chin down, keep your defense up, don't be careless or open, box sensibly, control the centre of the ring and when he lets his punches go, believe me he's gonna know all about it.”

Knows Believe Two Bigs Motivation Boxes Defense Rings Fighter Believe In Me Centre Careless Chins

Author:Joe Calzaghe

“I'm not gonna box Ruiz...I don't box, I knock holes through people. I'm gonna cut Ruiz up. I'm gonna butcher him. He ain't gonna last five rounds. Either he winds up on the canvas or in the hospital. It's his choice.”

People Lasts Motivation Choices Five Cutting Wind Rounds Boxes Holes Fighter Hospitals Canvas Butchers

Author:James Toney

“My son has been known to throw a book at the television set when he called for me to come play and I was obviously busy in the box. But I'm told that children of television performers grow up thinking that all mommies or daddies work on TV and that it's no big deal.”

Thinking Children Has Beens Book Play Bigs Grows Deals Known Growing Up Television Son Tvs Busy Boxes My Son Performers Daddy Big Deal

Author:Jane Pauley

“But say some, would you expose woman to the contact of rough, rude, drinking, swearing, fighting men at the ballot box? What a humiliating confession lies in this plea for keeping woman in the background!”

Men Lying Fighting Drinking Boxes Backgrounds Contact Rough Confession Rude Ballots Humiliating Swearing

Book:Mistress of herself: speeches and letters of Ernestine L. Rose, early women's rights leader

Source: Mistress of herself: speeches and letters of Ernestine L. Rose, early women's rights leader

“I saw the Count lying within the box upon the earth, some of which the rude falling from the cart had scattered over him. He was deathly pale, just like a waxen image, and the red eyes glared with the horrible vindictive look which I knew so well.”

Wells Looks Eye Earth Lying Fall Literature Saws Red Boxes Horrible Pale Rude Carts Vindictive Red Eye Count Dracula

Book:Dracula

Source: Dracula

“Some cities, like wrapped boxes under Christmas trees, conceal unexpected gifts, secret delights. Some cities will always remain wrapped boxes, containers of riddles never to be solved, nor even to be seen by vacationing visitors, or, for that matter, the most inquisitive, persistent travelers.”

Matter Secret Cities Tree Boxes Delight Unexpected Traveler Persistent Visitors Riddle Containers Christmas Tree Inquisitive Unexpected Gifts

Book:Music For Chameleons

Source: Music For Chameleons

“I love the smell of juice boxes in the morning.”

Morning Boxes Smell Juice Good Morning Inspirational Military

Author:Robert Duvall

“If he wants to box we'll box. If he wants to brawl we'll brawl.”

Ifs Want Motivation Boxes Fighter

Author:Nonito Donaire

“I remember adolescence, the years of having the impulse control of a mousetrap, of being as private as a safe-deposit box.”

Years Remember Safe Boxes Impulse Adolescence Deposits Impulse Control

Author:Anna Quindlen

“The world is the house of the strong. I shall not know until the end what I have lost or won in this place, in this vast gambling den where I have spent more than sixty years, dice box in hand, shaking the dice.”

Knows World Years Ends Hands House Lost Strong Boxes Gambling Sixty Shaking Gamble Dice Dens

Book:Selected Writings

Source: Selected Writings

“"You two would make a cute couple," she says as she passes by with a full dough tray in her arms. I don't know why she says it. We aren't doing anything but folding boxes with the other drivers and telling dirty jokes.But we would.We would make a cute couple.”

Knows Two Arms Couple Jokes Boxes Dirty Cute Drivers Dough Folding Trays Dirty Jokes

Author:A.S. King

“It is ludicrous to read the microwave direction on the boxes of food you buy, as each one will have a disclaimer: THIS WILL VARY WITH YOUR MICROWAVE. Loosely translated, this means, You're on your own, Bernice.”

Mean Food Boxes Vary Microwaves Disclaimers

Author:Erma Bombeck

“I imported the first Mac into England in 1984; you know, the beige box. I imported what I think were the first four that came into England. I never opened the instruction manual. That was the best thing about it.”

Thinking Knows Firsts Four England Boxes Best Things Instruction Manuals Macs

Author:James Dyson

“I don't want to use the word reorganization. Reorganization to me is shuffling boxes, moving boxes around. Transformation means that you're really fundamentally changing the way the organization thinks, the way it responds, the way it leads. It's a lot more than just playing with boxes.”

Thinking Way Want Mean Use Moving Change Organization Transformation Boxes Shuffling Reorganization

Author:Lou Gerstner

“Tired? I don't think so. I'm in such good shape that I could box even 25 rounds.”

Thinking Motivation Shapes Tired Rounds Boxes Fighter

Author:Vitali Klitschko

“The quickest way to unlock your talent is to take the flute out of the box.”

Way Learning Talent Boxes Flutes

Author:James Galway

“But the community knew Blade, and everybody but us was shocked at the box office, and subsequently the DVD. That was the beginning of the DVD revolution, and Blade was just like wildfire.”

Community Revolution Office Boxes Aviation Shocked Blades Dvds Box Office Wildfires

Author:Avi Arad

“I live my life outside of the box because when I die they're going to put me into one!”

Dies Boxes Living My Life I Live My Life

Author:Tyler Perry

“I really do live for the future, because when I'm eating a box of candy, I can't wait to taste the last piece.”

I Can Lasts Waiting Pieces Taste Eating Boxes Candy Live Futures

Book:The Philosophy of Andy Warhol: From A to B and Back Again

Source: The Philosophy of Andy Warhol: From A to B and Back Again

“There's more evil in the charts than an Al-Qaeda suggestion box.”

Humor Funny Evil Boxes Als Suggestions Al Qaeda Suggestion Boxes

Author:Bill Bailey

“Choose Life over the other stuff. Get out of your head. Live. Dress up. Eat. Touch people. Help out. Give up. Love people. Give your best away. There’s more. What’s the problem? Relax. You’re going to die. Throw a party. Eat off my plate. Sing to me. Meet me in the bedroom. Get a massage. Give one. Let your amazement out into the room. Pry open the box you hide your joy in. Be a poem.”

“You don't have to fight against being placed in a box any more than the number two has to fight against being the number three. I mean, two is not going to be the number three, ever.”

Mean Two Fighting Three Numbers Boxes Number Three

Author:Michael Nesmith