Top 125 Cardboard Quotes & Sayings

The most common way to identify a soldier is by the disc around his neck. But these were made of compressed cardboard and so they've all but disappeared.

You know you're lazy when you run out of toilet paper and use the cardboard roll to wipe with.

Say, it's only a paper moon, / Sailing over a cardboard sea.

Say, it's only a paper moon, Sailing over a cardboard sea, But it wouldn't be make believe, If you believed in me.

There was never a time when I wasn't making guitars out of cardboard or dressing up like the Misfits.

I used to cut guitars out of a piece of cardboard to copy the Strat look. I used a backwards tennis racket for a while and graduated to the cardboard cutout.

If you could still see yourself living in a cardboard box with somebody with no money then that is love you know, it's what's important.

I might be living in a cardboard box under a freeway overpass, homeless, but I won't be silenced.

You can do more with a castle in a story than with the best cardboard castle that ever stood on a nursery table.

My father bought me a little cardboard accordion, and when I was three I got this little machine.

The problem with most digital comics is that you're simply taking print material and adapting it. It's like reading through a cardboard tube.

Photographs deceive time, freezing it on a piece of cardboard where the soul is silent.

My first acting experience was a non-speaking role as a robot. My costume was a cardboard box covered in tinfoil, but I was so shy I refused to go on stage.

People tend to look at dancers like we are these little jewels, little cardboard cut outs, and yet we have blood and guts and go through Hell.

I am a born-again atheist, so there isn't going to be a funeral. I will be buried in a linen wrap in a cardboard coffin in my forest with an oak tree planted on my head.

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.

I'm very crafty! One time I made a television set out of a cardboard box - Everybody thought it was a lark! This was the beginning of a love affair with the arts.

Cardboard is another material that's ubiquitous and everybody hates, yet when I made furniture with it everybody loved it.

And thus Charles found himself wandering around a hotel, trailing federal agents as he held a cardboard coffee cup holder in each hand, instead of out killing misbehaving werewolves.

To live without the creative potential of our own destructiveness is to be a cardboard angel.

I could find David Beckham naked in a cardboard box on my doorstep and I would drop him off at the pound.

At times we would have these whole cities that would take up rooms and stretch out all over the house. But they were also very abstract, like 'this piece of cardboard is a pool' and so forth.

where the dead walked and the living were made of cardboard.

I think that one of the visions that is closest to reality is the cardboard city in the subway station in Tokyo, which is based very closely on a series of documentary photographs of people living like that and of the contents of the boxes. Those are quite haunting because Tokyo homeless people reiterate the whole nature of living in Tokyo in these cardboard boxes, they're only slightly smaller than Tokyo apartments, and they have almost as many consumer goods. It's a nightmare of boxes within boxes.

My first playpen was a cardboard box.

I love a cardboard coffin. Both Mummy and Daddy went off in cardboard coffins, painted - Daddy's was rifle green. Beautifully made.

We're gonna do a Bowling for Dollars-type thing, but it'll be Breakdancing on Cardboard for Yen for the ozone layer, so it'll be called Breaking in Space.

It's what's on the record not what labels on it. You know, that's like getting a box of cornflakes and eating the cardboard.

A homeless veteran should not have to stand at a freeway exit with a cardboard sign. That's not okay.

There's going to be all different price points, and you get what you pay for. There's certainly low things made of cardboard that you don't put on your head, you just hold up little viewers that give you this glimmer of what VR could be.

Cardboard cutouts of cheerleaders operated by arthritic monkeys would move more fluidly.

Honestly, I would eat cardboard rather than go back to eating animals.

Women should look like women. A piece of cardboard has no sexuality.

I regard this novel as a work without redeeming social value, unless it can be recycled as a cardboard box.

I usually start by doing one or more color studies of the subject on a piece of canvas taped to cardboard.

As movers and the moved both know, books are heavy freight, the weight of refrigerators and sofas broken up into cardboard boxes. They make us think twice about changing addresses.

I feel as though the cardboard box of my own reality has been flattened and blown open. Now I can see the edge of the world.

My study is a converted garage which is largely lined with bookshelves and cardboard boxes filled with manuscripts of my film scripts, plays and books.

Most of my films have a lot of character development and exploration, whereas in most horror movies the characters are just cardboard.

When I was about 7 years old, I built a leprechaun trap out of a cardboard box, a biscuit tin and some toilet paper tubes.

Cryptography [without system integrity] is like investing in an armored car to carry money between a customer living in a cardboard box and a person doing business on a park bench.

I like to play non-cardboard characters. I try and bring out the many complex layers in the personality of the characters I play.

I could party in a cardboard box with people who are funny and don't care. For me, it's really about who I surround myself with, so I just try to always be with hilarious people.

I'm really familiar with what Cardboard's doing; it's not a novel concept. Cardboard is in many ways a direct ripoff of FOV2GO, a project I helped work on when I was at ICT, and it was fairly well known in the academic VR community.

To say that Agatha Christie’s characters are cardboard cut-outs is an insult to cardboard cut-outs.

I made lasagna for dinner," Tamsyn called out. "That work for you?" He continued to look at her, as if he'd drink her up with his eyes. "Anything is fine." "Maybe I shouldn't waste my lasagna on you, then." Tamsyn grabbed a container from the cooling unit. "How about some cardboard instead?" Brenna found herself amused in spite of the blood that continued to scent the air and the taut expectation that stretched between her and Judd. Lips twitching, she waited for his response. "Cardboard has no nutritional value." Utterly toneless. "Lasagna would be a better choice.

Trying to explain or define grace is like catching the wind in a cardboard box or describing the color green.

I don't live for stuff and things, and if I had to live in a cardboard box, I would put curtains on it.

Thanks to my mother, not a single cardboard box has found its way back into society. We receive gifts in boxes from stores that went out of business twenty years ago.

For many impoverished people, living under a tarp or in a cardboard box is a way of life.

The opportunity to create a small world between two pieces of cardboard, where time exists yet stands still, where people talk and I tell them what to say, is exciting and rewarding.

I don't want to give this impression that I grew up in Liverpool in a cardboard box in abject poverty, but that didn't mean there weren't anxieties in my childhood about money.

I don't have a desire to make films that have cardboard cut-out or Hollywood stand-in replicas of humans. I need the real deal.

My handwriting was so good I won a prize, a cardboard cut-out of a farmyard; my mother threw it away when we moved.

Roblox already works well on a phone, when we do ship on Gear and Cardboard gamers on those platforms will be able to join and play along as well.

I carry a knife with me so I can cut images out of cardboard boxes. I'm always cutting cardboard. Especially every Thursday, which is recycling day.

What isn't for everybody shouldn't be for anybody: the world's opera houses are the reasons we have cardboard cities.

On the good days, my mother would haul out the ukulele and we'd sit around the kitchen table - it was a cardboard table with a linoleum top - and sing.

Drew pretty much eats all gluten free. I go for flavor over cardboard.

I live in Vegas, and I see people by the side of the road with cardboard signs who seem like they might have tried that spending their way out of debt thing.