Quotes with boxes

  • When I was young, there weren't any teenage girls I could relate to in film. They were all put in boxes: the virginal good girl, the really sarcastic asexual one. I wanted to do something that represented how I felt then.
  • The only really good place to buy lumber is at a store where the lumber has already been cut and attached together in the form of furniture, finished, and put inside boxes.
  • In every one of those little stucco boxes there's some poor bastard who's never free except when he's fast asleep and dreaming that he's got the boss down the bottom of a well and is bunging lumps of coal at him.

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  • George Orwell In every one of those little stucco boxes there's some poor bastard who's never free except when he's fast asleep and dreaming that he's got the boss down the bottom of a well and is bunging lumps of coal at him.
    George Orwell
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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  • Alan Parsons Any effects created before 1975 were done with either tape or echo chambers or some kind of acoustic treatment. No magic black boxes!
    Alan Parsons
    English audio engineer, songwriter, musician (1948 - )
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  • Susan Sarandon I believe in using words, not fists... I believe in my outrage knowing people are living in boxes on the street. I believe in honesty. I believe in a good time. I believe in good food. I believe in sex.
    Susan Sarandon
    American actress and activist (1946 - )
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  • Edmond de Goncourt I feel sure that coups d'état would go much better if there were seats, boxes, and stalls so that one could see what was happening and not miss anything.
    Edmond de Goncourt
    French writer and critic (1822 - 1896)
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  • Bruce Scheneier People don't understand computers. Computers are magical boxes that do things. People believe what computers tell them.
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  • Bill Klem That guy in a twenty-five cent bleacher seat is as much entitled to know a call as the guy in the boxes. He can see my arm signal even if he can't hear my voice.
    Bill Klem
    American professional baseball umpire (1874 - 1951)
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  • Dave Barry The only really good place to buy lumber is at a store where the lumber has already been cut and attached together in the form of furniture, finished, and put inside boxes.
    Dave Barry
    American humorist, writer
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  • Alan Greenspan We need, in effect, to make the phantom 'lock-boxes' around the trust fund real.
    Alan Greenspan
    American economist (1926 - )
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  • Brit Marling We put limitations on the way that we think about things, on ourselves, think about all the boxes we live in, male or female, you're this age, that age, this is your job, this is not your job, everything is about getting boxed in.
    Brit Marling
    American actress and screenwriter (1982 - )
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  • Richard Milhous Nixon When I retire I'm going to spend my evenings by the fireplace going through those boxes. There are things in there that ought to be burned.
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  • Bel Powley When I was young, there weren't any teenage girls I could relate to in film. They were all put in boxes: the virginal good girl, the really sarcastic asexual one. I wanted to do something that represented how I felt then.
    Bel Powley
    English actress (1992 - )
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