“People want to put you in the box, and you just have to fight past their preconceived notions.” PeopleWantPastFightingNotionBoxesMmaPreconceived Notions Author:Gina Carano
“Worry was my mother's mechanic, her mechanism for engaging with the machinery of living. Worry was an anchor for her, a hook, something to clutch on to in the world. Worry was a box to live inside of, worry a mechanism for evading the present, for re-creating the past, for dealing with the future.” WorldPastMotherWorryCreatingBoxesMechanismEngagingHookMechanicMachineryAnchorsClutch Author:Charles Yu
“I viewed the station as a place, a terrain where I could put a new architecture in place. The station was, of course, an historic monument, but it does not deserve all the respect given it when it is said it is perfect, original and coherent expression of a past that we must revere. Orsay is basically a box.” DoeSaidPastCoursesGivenPerfectExpressionDeserveOriginalsBoxesArchitectureStationsHistoricMonumentTerrain Author:Gae Aulenti
“And I often dream of chemistry at night, dreams that conflate the past and the present, the grid of the periodic table transformed to the grid of Manhattan. Sometimes, too, I dream of the indecipherable language of tin (a confused memory, perhaps, of its plaintive "cry"). But my favorite dream is of going to the opera (I am Hafnium), sharing a box at the Met with the other heavy transition metals my old and valued friends Tantalum, Rhenium, Osmium, Iridium, Platinum, Gold, and Tungsten.” SometimesDreamPastNightLanguageMemoriesCryMetsGoldTablesMy FavoriteBoxesHeavyConfusedChemistryTransitionMetalsOperaTransformedManhattanTinGridsPlatinumPeriodic TableValued Friends Author:Oliver Sacks
“Just in the past few years - since I've been making movies, which isn't a very long time - you now have a culture that is fascinated and informed about the box office in a way that sometimes filmmakers weren't even.” WayYearsLongSometimesPastCultureOfficeLong TimeBoxesFilmmakerFascinatedBox Office Author:Neil LaBute