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“I really just love to read, period, whether it be books or magazines or the back of the cereal box. It's the one thing I can always count on to calm me down, take me away and inspire me, all at once.”

I Can Book One Thing Inspire Periods Calm Boxes Magazines Take Me Cereal Love To Read Take Me Away

Author:Sarah Dessen

“Give a cold shoulder to cold callers. Never invest in anything based on a phone call from someone you don't know or whose office is a post office box.”

Knows Giving Cold Office Phones Boxes Shoulders Posts Phone Calls Post Office Cold Shoulder

Author:Nancy Dunnan

“Then, finally, the third year, begging the parents, I got the Superman Halloween costume. Cardboard box, self-made top, mask included. Remember the rubber band on the back of that mask? That was a quality item there, wasn't it? That was good for about 10 seconds before it snapped out of that cheap little staple they put it in there with.”

Years Littles Made Self Remember Parent Quality Band Thirds Boxes Mask Seconds Halloween Costumes Items Begging Rubber Self Made Staples Rubber Bands Cardboard Boxes Halloween Costume

Author:Jerry Seinfeld

“Some men are like a church-organ -- you can play on them for a lifetime and always find new harmonies; others are like a music-box -- they have four or five thin jingles.”

Men Play Church Five Four Harmony Lifetime Boxes Organs Jingles

Author:Austin O'Malley

“History is a living horse laughing at a wooden horse. History is a wind blowing where it listeth. History is no sure thing to bet on. History is a box of tricks with a lost key. History is a labyrinth of doors with sliding panels, a book of ciphers with the code in a cave of the Saragossa sea. History says, if it pleases, Excuse me, I beg your pardon, it will never happen again if I can help it.”

Ifs I Can Book Helping Happens Lost Laughing Doors Sea Wind Keys Please Horse Boxes Excuse Tricks Code Caves Pardon Labyrinth Excuse Me Sure Thing Ciphers Wind Blowing

Author:Carl Sandburg

“I could juggle anything in my day. Balls, cigar boxes, knives...But there was one thing I could never juggle. My income tax.”

One Thing Taxes Balls Boxes Income Knives Income Tax Cigar

Author:W. C. Fields

“Normally, things are viewed in these little segmented boxes. There's classical, and then there's jazz; romantic, and then there's baroque. I find that very dissatisfying. I was trying to find the thread that connects one type of music - one type of musician - to another, and to follow that thread in some kind of natural, evolutionary way.”

Way Trying Kind Littles Natural Type Musician Jazz Boxes Thread Baroque

Author:Jerry Lee Lewis

“Our age is one in which usefulness is thought to be the chief merit of nature; in which the attainment of power, the utilization of its resources is taken to be the chief purpose of man in God's creation. Man has indeed become primarily a tool-making animal, and the world is now a gigantic tool box for the satisfaction of his needs.”

Source: God in Search of Man: A Philosophy of Judaism

“I never thought of myself as any kind of a film star, as many films as I've made - and I've made some really fun movies with good people. I've always been paired with someone because I'm not really box office, in that carrying-a-picture sense. I've always been busy, but not in the spotlight.”

People Kind Made Film Fun Stars Office Busy Boxes Good People Spotlight Box Office Film Stars Fun Movie

Author:Lily Tomlin

“For me, box step-ups and power clean [exercises] is by far the best.”

Steps Exercise Clean Boxes

Author:Greg Rutherford

“People just try to put you in a box and I don't see myself in any particular box. I'm making my own box. There's no way I would be able to make the music I'm making without dancing.”

People Way Trying Would Be Able My Own Particular Dancing Boxes

Author:Jillian Hervey

“With Hollywood you're yesterday's news if you get a flop at the box office. So you might as well be braced to have something else to do that's interesting. Have something lined up to keep your stories fulfilled, and your ideas, because if you're just cranking out movies three times a year.”

Ifs Years Wells Ideas Stories Might Three Interesting Office News Hollywood Boxes Yesterday Fulfilled Three Times Box Office

Author:David Gordon Green

“[My father did] advertising. That's why I got into this business. I think because we're really boxes of soap - actors and singers. You're artists, but in the public eye it's a matter of advertising.”

Thinking Matter Eye Artist Actors Father Boxes Singers Advertising Soap Public Eye

Author:Rex Smith

“Even after I had just done Twilight, which made $400 million at the worldwide box office, I could not get financing for three or four projects that I really loved and I thought people would love because they didn't fit some studio or investor's model of thinking, "This will definitely make money." It's a business and a film does potentially cost millions of dollars, and they have to think that they're going to get their money back somehow.”

People Thinking Doe Made Done Film Three Love Is Millions Four Fit Cost Office Projects Models Dollars Boxes Studios Making Money Investors Twilight Financing Box Office

Author:Catherine Hardwicke

“Before me, my grandfathers, my uncles and my father were all boxers because Native Americans had to box in boarding schools. But in my time, when I grew up in Lawton Oklahoma, we didn't have boxing. I was a wrestler.”

School Father Grew Grew Up Boxes My Time Boxing Native Grandfather Native American Uncles My Grandfather Boxers Oklahoma Wrestler

Author:George Tahdooahnippah

“To me punk rock is thinking outside of the box, outside of the program, outside the establishment.”

Thinking Rocks Program Boxes Establishment Punk Punk Rock

Author:Madonna Ciccone

“There is price you pay when you want freedom of speech. You must be willing to accept the good the bad and the ugly when trying something out of the box.”

Want Trying Pay Accepting Willing Speech Boxes Ugly Freedom Of Speech Trying Something Good The Bad And The Ugly

Author:Sunny Leone

“The fashion I've acquired over the years is so sacred to me - from costumes to couture, high fashion to punk wear I've collected from my secret international hot spots. I keep everything in an enormous archive in Hollywood. The clothes are on mannequins, also on hangers and in boxes with a photo of each piece, and there's a Web site where I can go to look through everything. It's too big - I could never sort through it myself! But these garments tell the stories of my life.”

“I don't just want to do something that is purely stuck in a genre box. I would like to have the kind of autonomy...”

Want Kind Boxes Stuck Genre Autonomy

Author:George Nolfi

“The whole notion of politics is they always present you with this or this or this. I’ll get a newspaper to read between the lines. Why do you have to adhere to prescribed formulas that they have and people argue over them and they’re all in a box. And you watch Fox claw CNN, and CNN claw Fox. Sometimes I catch a piece of the news and it seems insanity to me. I quietly support candidates. I’m not out there banging a drum for candidates. But I have supported a candidate and it’s a whole other world.”

“Many actors will try something different once, but if it isn't a box office success they'll never do it again. In my opinion, there's no point in going on with this job if you do the same thing over and over again.”

Ifs Trying Different Jobs Actors Opinion Office Boxes No Point Box Office Box Office Success

Author:Jack Nicholson

“TV is a different animal. I belong on that little screen. The big silver screen, not so much, 'cause I've seen my face up close when it's 25-feet tall. I'm okay as long as you keep me in that little box.”

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Author:Steve Harvey

“That whole idea of threats to national security is a very interesting one. The phrase is very useful for the government to try to encompass the citizenry in the same box as the government is in. To say, "We're all in this together. It threatens all of us."”

Trying Ideas Whole Government Together Interesting Security Threat Boxes Phrases National Security Very Interesting Citizenry

Author:Howard Zinn

“This is the 21st century, we are a highly evolved race, our capabilities are so great compared to what we are doing. We have been lulled into addiction and everything is built around it and you have to break out of it and think outside of the box.”

Thinking Has Beens Race Break Century Built Addiction Boxes Capability 21st Century Break Out

Author:Neil Young

“Love is great, love is fine. Out the box, out of line. The affliction of the feeling leaves me wanting more.”

Feelings Lines Love Is Fine Boxes Affliction Leaving Me Great Love Wanting More

Author:Rihanna

“I travel with a boom box. When I get on a plane, I stuff the power cord for the boom box into the battery compartment. From an outsider's point of view, it looks like I've got it all wrong.”

Looks Humor Funny Stuff Views Boxes Point Of View Planes Outsiders Batteries Cords

Author:Mitch Hedberg

“I was on a bus once, it was in the middle of the night, and I had a box of crackers and a can of Easy Cheese. It was dark, and it was a surprise how much cheese I had applied on each cracker. That's why they should have a glow-in-the-dark version of Easy Cheese. It's not like the product has any integrity to begin with. If you buy a room-temperature cheese that you squeeze out of a can, you probably won't get mad because it glows in the dark too.”

Ifs Should Humor Funny Night Easy Dark Rooms Middle Products Integrity Should Have Mad Surprise Boxes Versions Bus Cheese Temperature Middle Of The Night Crackers Glow In The Dark

Author:Mitch Hedberg

“I had a box of Ritz crackers, and on the back of the box, they had all these suggestions for what to put on top of the Ritz. Try it with cheese. Try it with peanut butter. Come on, man, they're crackers, that's why I got them. I like crackers! I didn't buy them because they're little edible plates!”

Men Trying Littles Humor Funny Boxes Plates Cheese Suggestions Peanuts Peanut Butter Crackers Ritz

Author:Mitch Hedberg

“I don't want to have my face on the cover of a Wheaties box. I wanna have my face on the cover of a Rice Krispies box. "Snap, Krackle, Mitch and Pop"!”

Want Humor Funny Faces Boxes Pops Rice Snaps Rice Krispies

Author:Mitch Hedberg

“If the entire week is a battlefield, reading the Bible is sort of like that parachute with the box of reserves that come in the middle of the war: food and water and the toothbrush and toilet paper.”

Ifs War Reading Water Week Middle Paper Boxes Reserves Toilets Battlefields Parachutes Toilet Paper Toothbrushes Reading The Bible

Author:Lauryn Hill

“My eclectic taste allows me to do something unique and not box myself in.”

Taste Unique Boxes Eclectic

Author:Hoodie Allen

“I wish my daughters would box. I'm so worried about the guys coming up to them. I would love them to be able to smack a guy right off a bar stool.”

Able Guy Wish Daughter Boxes Bars Worried My Daughter Smack Stools

Author:Sylvester Stallone

“I sometimes forget to have breakfast in the morning, but when I actually buy a box of cereal, I will probably eat it not only for breakfast but also as a snack later on.”

Sometimes Forget Morning Boxes Breakfast Snacks Cereal

Author:Ryan Gosling

“F-A-I-L-I-N-G [is] Finding An Important Lesson, Inviting Needed Growth. So you don't actually fail, you find a better way to do whatever you're doing, and that's your ability, the truth of your core from past life experiences to where you are now in this life. It gives you the ability to be in your truth, without anything holding you down in a box that will never open.”

Way Giving Important Past Growth Ability Failing Needed Lessons Findings Boxes Core This Life Where You Are Life Experience Better Ways Inviting Past Life Important Lessons

Author:Gary Busey

“I hate normal studios, because you have to say "hi" to the person at the front desk. And then you go into the studio, and there's a second engineer in there that you don't know, and then you're stuck in a glass box with someone talking to you through a walkie-talkie.”

Knows Persons Hate Talking Fronts Normal I Hate Glasses Boxes Studios Stuck Now And Then Engineers Desks Talkies Front Desk Walkie Talkies

Author:Marilyn Manson

“If you open that Pandora's Box you never know what Trojan 'orses will jump out.”

Ifs Knows Humor Funny Boxes Pandora Trojans Pandora's Box

Author:Ernest Bevin

“And the other was this: the doctor did want to take off my leg because he thought it was necessary. But you must remember boys in those days were raised for two things: work, and then they made their play; and if you couldn't play baseball and box and play football, why, your life was ended. That was in our boyish minds.”

Ifs Want Mind Made Two Play Remember Sports Boys Football Doctors Baseball Raised Boxes Legs Two Things Boyish

Author:Dwight D. Eisenhower

“We wait until Pandora's box is opened before we say, "Wow, maybe we should understand what's in that box." This is the story of humans on every problem.”

Should Humans Stories Problem Waiting Boxes Wow Pandora Pandora's Box

Author:Peter Singer

“Aggression, it's the next thing to war, except you don't get killed. Aggression is what you have every day with your wife. Aggression is what you have every day at the office. Box is a legalized form of aggression, where the ending is well-defined, the combat is well-delivered, and you got 10 rounds of two equally-sized fighters fighting aggressively to hurt each other.”

Wells Two War Form Fighting Next Hurt Wife Office Rounds Boxes Defined Fighter Combat Aggression

Author:Ferdie Pacheco

“Are we so desperate for entertainment that we will fall for a Trickless magician?? Saw a woman in half. Pull a rabbit out of a hat. Do something! What tricks does this guy have? "I'm in a box...and I ain't gonna eat.". "I'm in a box... and I ain't gonna eat!!" That ain't no trick! That's called living in the projects!”

Doe Humor Funny Guy Fall Half Saws Projects Boxes Entertainment Tricks Desperate Hats This Guy Magician Rabbits

Author:Chris Rock

“You learn very very quickly that it is mostly about swearing, actually. That's all you're doing, swearing, in a box with wheels.”

Humor Funny Boxes Wheels Swearing

Author:Dylan Moran

“I recently bought the box set of 'Doctor Who' and watched it back to back, Unfortunately I wasn't the one facing the TV!”

Humor Funny Tvs Doctors Boxes Doctor Who

Author:Milton Jones

“You have to change those diapers every day. When those directions on the side of the Pampers box say, 'holds 6-12 pounds' they're not kidding!”

Humor Funny Sides Boxes Pounds Diapers

Author:Jeff Foxworthy

“You cannot simply discard God like a box that has been emptied.”

Has Beens Boxes

Author:Martin Walser

“Believe in yourself, don't let people put you in a box and stay positive.”

People Believe Boxes Believe In Yourself Believe In You Stay Positive

Author:Maejor

“I could be standing in the supermarket, and there is a person standing down the aisle, who is reading the back of a cornflakes box but everything about them is going "It's me! I'm the one you want! I am the necessary subject. This is it!"”

Want Persons Reading Subjects Standing Boxes Supermarkets Aisle Standing Down

Author:Bill Henson

“I see the concepts spatially in my mind. I see the boxes and corrals and grids into which administrative systems require people, things and information to be fit in order to be legible, made to live, or in order to facilitate death and abandonment.”

People Mind Made Order Information Fit Concepts Boxes Abandonment Facilitate Administrative Grids

Author:Dean Spade

“One of the concepts I was having trouble illustrating was the concept that administrative systems create narrow categories of gender and force people into them in order to get their basic needs met - what I call "administrative violence." I had images of forms with gender boxes and ID cards with gender markers, but I also wanted an image that would capture how basic services like shelters are gender segregated.”

People Needs Wanted Form Order Force Violence Trouble Mets Concepts Boxes Gender Cards Categories Capture Shelter Administrative Markers Basic Needs Illustrating

Author:Dean Spade

“I love to smoke. I love to eat red meat. I'll only eat red meat that comes from cows who smoke, ok!? Special cows they grow in Virginia with voice boxes in their necks. "Moo"”

Funny Grows Voice Comedy Special Red Boxes Smoke Meat Necks Cows Virginia Red Meat

Author:Denis Leary

“When I was a child, I had a ViewMaster, those red box glasses with little discs, so that you can see 3D images. They were my first steps in cinema. I was eight years old, I would cut and change the order of the images and that's how I created films that subsequently I recorded and projected and showed my friends. So I already took my first steps in 3D when I was eight years old.”

Years Firsts Children Littles Film Order Steps Cutting My Friends Red Glasses Boxes Eight Cinema First Steps Discs

Author:Jean-Pierre Jeunet

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