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Last updated on April 20, 2025.
I've spent my entire career on horseback or on a motorcycle. It boxes you in, the way people perceive you.
Stuffing people into boxes is for those who have issues about their own box.
Now I got a time machine at home. It only goes foreword at regular speed. It's essentially a cardboard box and on the outside I wrote time machine in sharpie.
My lip curls in a snide reflex whenever I hear that a new novel is written from the point of view of a child or a monster, a lunatic or an animal. I immediately expect a nasty coyness of tone, cheesy artifice, the world through cardboard 3-D lenses.
Broken wings fit more easily in standard-size boxes.
You really can't stereotype people or put them in boxes, it's unfair.
I pulled out the manuscript [from the envelope] and a great big stiff cardboard finger sprung up. This is someone that was so certain they would be rejected, they would be getting their revenge in advance. I was lucky - it could have been a pipe bomb.
I kept writing not because I felt I was so good, but because I felt they were so bad, including Shakespeare, all those. The stilted formalism, like chewing cardboard.
We need, in effect, to make the phantom 'lock-boxes' around the trust fund real.
Shadow boxes become poetic theaters or settings wherein are metamorphosed the element of a childhood pastime.
At one time my name was on 50 or 60 different items, from dolls to pencil boxes.
It's Annie and me they're all sitting around here like cardboard people judging; It's Annie and me. And what we did that they think is wrong, when you pare it all down, was fall in love.
People in south Manchester overwhelming want to be able to recycle more than they currently can - especially cardboard and plastics - and want more frequent and accessible collections, particularly for those living in flats.
The notion of being on a cop show was appealing, just because it's one of those tick boxes in a career.
There are no letters in the mailbox
And there are no grapes upon the vine
And there are no chocolates in your boxes anymore
And there are no diamonds in the mine
Apple stores are intended not just to move boxes, but to enrich lives.
I wish I could Buy Time - just write a cheque, and a few days later a brown cardboard box would arrive at the door containing three months (along with an extra bonus sunny weekend for being a good customer).
(P)eople’s good intentions can wind up putting us in boxes as confining as coffins.
We get caught in our boxes-but when we pray outside of them, ask God, the impossible CAN be done.
TV is very mass, especially now that boxes are shifting to small towns.
Hotels are temporary people storage, no matter how big the boxes are. Remember that.
Certain events make people come out of their little boxes and become part of the whole.
Poetry is a shuffling of boxes of illusions buckled with a strap of facts.
Like most creative people I don't fit well into boxes.
The idea of dates, boxes, categories are very scary for me.
People love to put human beings or actors in boxes.
Two boxes of Step Forward Paper saves one tree - that's a real stat.
It's not opinion polls that determine the outcome of elections, it's votes in ballot boxes.
Little boxes made of ticky-tacky, and they all look just the same.
Those sweetly smiling angels with pensive looks, innocent faces, and cash-boxes for hearts.
On my 30th birthday, all the presents I got were boxes of food. That's what I needed.
A well-designed home has to be very comfortable. I can't stand the aesthetes, the minimal thing. I can't live that way. My home has to be filled with stuff - mostly paintings, sculpture, my fish lamps, cardboard furniture, lots of books.
So sweep away the sand an' dry the ocean, an' just pack the moon an' stars up in a cardboard box. And stop the clouds from chimin', block the sun from shinin',an' paint the sky a deeper shade of blue, 'cause my world's over without you.
Using encryption on the Internet is the equivalent of arranging an armored car to deliver credit card information from someone living in a cardboard box to someone living on a park bench.
Like everyone, I am formed by my background, and mine was - well, we didn't have a lot of money. I didn't live in a cardboard box, but I did live in a place where, at the end of the week, the money was gone.
In a library we are surrounded by many hundreds of dear friends, but they are imprisoned by an enchanter in these paper and leathern boxes.
Audiences like me in soft, romantic roles, and 'Premam' ticks all the boxes.
For me, people are like the black boxes found in the debris of airplane crashes.
Genres aren't closed boxes. Stuff flows back and forth across the borders all the time.
I jumped from a height of 45 feet and though I landed on the boxes. I broke my leg.
My husband always makes me go through what I'm not wearing and donate it, so the driveway is full of boxes.
I have boxes of gospel LPs and 78s. The Davis Sisters, the Soul Stirrers, the Pilgrim Travellers. I love all that.
Owners own teams so that they might move them to another municipality with better luxury boxes.
The industry confines us in boxes, but we have to prove that we are women of substance.
My brother had boxes of comic books. He was really the collector.
In elections, you can't tell the outcome until you open the ballot boxes.
In bad weather, I spent hours drawing action figures on paper, coloring them, backing them on cardboard, then cutting them out and creating whole stories around their lives.
Humans are complex, and I think in entertainment in general, it's very easy to put people in boxes.
Certainly some guy eating cardboard in Cincinnati has lost any ordinary impetus to review your novel decently if he's just read you just got six figures out of Warner Bros - which incidentally was not true.
Life is two locked boxes, each containing the other's key.
If black boxes survive air crashes - why don't they make the whole plane out of that stuff?
I'm sick of people putting boxes around everyone, telling you where and how you have to fit in.
The negative way [of describing God] is a cardboard prop of Christianity to conceal its unknowable God. When this prop collapses, theistic agnosticism emerges, complete with its package of contradictions and non-sensical utterances.
I love when people walk into my house and start grinning: "This is too much - this is so you!" Why give people brown cardboard when you can give them embroidered, crystal-flecked organza?
To make large, site-specific work as an artist is usually quite tortuous; there are so many boxes you have to tick.
Inauguration Day is like two ships passing in the night: the new staff moving in while the other walks out, taking one final look at the White House lawn as they leave with their cardboard box of possessions.
The Zodiac letters from 1978 on were driven to Sacramento in a cardboard box, and these letters have never been refrigerated, which, for letters going back - what? - 30 years almost is a must for DNA.
Women are like wine: I can only afford the really cheap ones that have the big, ugly boxes that leak.
The trouble with taxonomic boxes is... that that they tend to be empty, however beautiful they are on the outside.
TV programmes are so bad these days, even idiots are getting rid of their idiot boxes.
