Top 1200 Tool Boxes Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

We live and work in boxes. People don't even notice that.

We all have perceptions or boxes that we put each other in.

I do have a trophy room. It's in my attic in boxes.

I have three boxes on my desk: In, Out, and Too Hard.

I hate the way chorus boxes sound

Music is such an incredible tool for kids in general. They learn discipline; they learn how to express themselves. You learn math. You learn language. It's the ideal teaching tool, and that's why it's mind-boggling when any school superintendent decides that music is something we can kind of do without.

I'm moving to Mars next week, so if you have any boxes...

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.

The automatic Kalashnikov is a tool, an implement designed for ordinary men, without much training or undue complications, to kill other men, and to be used in the conditions in which wars are often fought. But it's only a tool, and while its ready availability in many unstable lands can be seen as kindling violence, this is not simply because of the weapon's qualities themselves. It is because of the quantities of the weapons that have been made.

You really can't stereotype people or put them in boxes, it's unfair.

The military belongs in its barracks, not our ballot boxes.

Using an artful tool does not make one a dry technician. It seems to me that people that are anxious about our technical advancement, confuse means and ends. Naturally a person that only works for material gain will not harvest something that is worth living for. But the machine is not an end in itself. The airplane is not an end. It is a tool. Just like the plough.

Poetry is a shuffling of boxes of illusions buckled with a strap of facts.

Stuffing people into boxes is for those who have issues about their own box.

It's not opinion polls that determine the outcome of elections, it's votes in ballot boxes.

I like boxes because of the secrets they hide.

The industry confines us in boxes, but we have to prove that we are women of substance.

The idea of dates, boxes, categories are very scary for me.

I've spent my entire career on horseback or on a motorcycle. It boxes you in, the way people perceive you.

Here's how the people live here, in big house-shaped boxes to keep off 'rain' and 'snow,' holes cut in the sides so they can see out. They move around in smaller boxes, painted different colours, with wheels on the corners. They need this box-culture because each person thinks of herself and himself as locked in a box called a 'body,' arms and legs, fingers to move pencils and tools, languages because they've forgotten how to communicate, eyes because they've forgotten how to see. Odd little planet. Wish you were here. Home soon.

A lot of the time in Ireland we put people into boxes and that's it.

Hotels are temporary people storage, no matter how big the boxes are. Remember that.

Music is very important. It's important as a tool for learning, it can be a tool for healing, it can be no telling what, as long as we remain free to be able to create the music, to be able to experiment and to really research, and to really get time to develop the music.

If you are dealing with life from a low-level sensibility, the Internet can be a tool for manifesting that. But if you're dealing with life from the highest sensibility, it can also be your tool for manifesting that. The simple reason is that it doesn't cost money.

Adversity is not simply a tool. It is God's most effective tool for the advancement of our spiritual lives. The circumstances and events that we see as setbacks are oftentimes the very things that launch us into periods of intense spiritual growth. Once we begin to understand this, and accept it as a spiritual fact of life, adversity becomes easier to bear.

In this age of communications that span both distance and time, the only tool we have that approximates a 'whisper' is encryption. When I cannot whisper in my wife's ear or the ears of my business partners, and have to communicate electronically, then encryption is our tool to keep our secrets secret.

The Great Gatsby' ticked so many boxes for me.

It's not like I have boxes of scripts arriving at my door.

[Science] is not perfect. It can be misused. It is only a tool. But it is by far the best tool we have, self-correcting, ongoing, applicable to everything. It has two rules. First: there are no sacred truths; all assumptions must be critically examined; arguments from authority are worthless. Second: whatever is inconsistent with the facts must be discarded or revised. ... The obvious is sometimes false; the unexpected is sometimes true.

I'm sick of people putting boxes around everyone, telling you where and how you have to fit in.

I hate the way chorus boxes sound.

There are no Kleenex boxes on these loops, just so you know.

My brother had boxes of comic books. He was really the collector.

Technology must remain a tool. It's a great tool, but technology is the pen to write the book. It's not the book. If you have a great pen, maybe you'll write faster or it will look better, but at the end, you have something to say, or you don't.

I love the smell of juice boxes in the morning.

The word mantra comes from two Sanskrit words man, ("to think") and tra ("tool'). So the literal translation is "a tool of thought." And that's how mantras are used in Buddhist and Hindu practices, as tools that clear your mind of distractions. Because when you focus on repeating that mantra over and over again, soon the noise will die down and all you will hear is your inner voice.

I'm fired up about TV converter boxes.

I've never been very good at fitting into boxes.

Life is two locked boxes, each containing the other's key.

People love to put human beings or actors in boxes.

Apple stores are intended not just to move boxes, but to enrich lives.

For me, people are like the black boxes found in the debris of airplane crashes.

We are all youthful barbarians, and only our new toys bring us excitement. That has been the sole purpose of our flights. This one flies higher, that one faster. But now we will make ourselves at home. We will forget the machine, the tool. It is no longer complex; it does what it is supposed to do, unnoticed. And through this tool we will find again the old nature, the nature of the gardener, the navigator, the poet.

The only difference between comedy and drama is that, in comedy, I'm going to utilize the tool of creating laughter to deflect discomfort and, in drama, I won't use a tool, but we're going to actually deal with the discomfort and see what comes out of it.

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.

[Internet] technology, like anything else that mankind creates is a tool and that tool can be used for good or for evil, like a light saber. Technology is supposed to bring people together, streamline things and make life easier and in a lot of ways it does that. However, technology can also disconnect you from other people and break down the social network, the real social network of family and friends and interpersonal communication, and isolate people, make them feel alone, make them feel small. So it's a tool that needs to be used correctly.

Some of the most wonderful people are the ones who don't fit into boxes.

Like most creative people I don't fit well into boxes.

TV is very mass, especially now that boxes are shifting to small towns.

Media literacy is not just important, it's absolutely critical. It's going to make the difference between whether kids are a tool of the mass media or whether the mass media is a tool for kids to use.

The trouble with taxonomic boxes is... that that they tend to be empty, however beautiful they are on the outside.

In elections, you can't tell the outcome until you open the ballot boxes.

'The Great Gatsby' ticked so many boxes for me.

Being a musician since I was a teen, Guitar Center is the staple. You need anything to create, it's there. You need a Guitar Center. You gotta give it homage. It's a tool shed, and without the tool shed, it's hard to create.

Little boxes made of ticky-tacky, and they all look just the same.

One of the many quotes on love..."Love can come only with time and sentience. We learn it as we learn language--and some never learn it well. Love is like a tool, though it is not a tool; something strange and wonderful to use, difficult to master, and mysterious in its provenance.

My house is filled with boxes of books.

On my 30th birthday, all the presents I got were boxes of food. That's what I needed.

My boxes are life's experiences aesthetically expressed.

Broken wings fit more easily in standard-size boxes.