Quotes with snuff-box

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  • Bill Watterson A box of new crayons! Now they're all pointy, lined up in order, bright and perfect. Soon they'll be a bunch of ground down, rounded, indistinguishable stumps, missing their wrappers and smudged with other colors. Sometimes life seems unbearably tragic.
    Bill Watterson
    American cartoonist (1958 - )
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  • Adlai Stevenson II The idea that you can merchandise candidates for high office like breakfast cereal - that you can gather votes like box tops - is, I think, the ultimate indignity to the democratic process.
    Adlai Stevenson II
    American politician and governor (1900 - 1965)
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  • Ezra Pound 'Tis not need we know our every thought or see the work shop where each mask is wrought wherefrom we view the world of box and pit, careless of wear, just so the mask shall fit and serve our jape's turn for a night or two.
    Ezra Pound
    American poet (1885 - 1972)
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  • Miguel de Cervantes 'Tis the maddest trick a man can ever play in his whole life, to let his breath sneak out of his body without any more ado, and without so much as a rap o'er the pate, or a kick of the guts; to go out like the snuff of a farthing candle, and die merely of the mulligrubs, or the sullens.
    Miguel de Cervantes
    Spanish writer and poet (1547 - 1616)
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  • Bobby Hull Always keep your composure. You can't score from the penalty box; and to win, you have to score.
    Bobby Hull
    Canadian ice hockey player (1939 - )
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  • Billy Joe Saunders But as an amateur, the highest level you can box at is the Olympics. I did that at 18 and felt it was time to move on to other challenges as a professional.
    Billy Joe Saunders
    English professional boxer (1989 - )
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  • Bob Balaban But obviously as television began, it so undercut movies that he was trying to think of a way to combine seeing these special things, and the fact that people were just captivated by the magic box.
    Bob Balaban
    American actor, author and producer (1945 - )
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  • Avi Arad But the community knew Blade, and everybody but us was shocked at the box office, and subsequently the DVD. That was the beginning of the DVD revolution, and Blade was just like wildfire.
    Avi Arad
    Israeli-American businessman (1948 - )
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  • W. M. Thackeray Come children, let us shut up the box and the puppets, for our play is played out.
    W. M. Thackeray
    Indian-born, British novelist (1811 - 1863)
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  • Barbara L. Diamond Does the father figure in your cat's life ever clean the litter box? My husband claims that men lack the scooping gene.
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  • Bob Brown Exxon, Coca-Cola, BHP Billiton and News Corporation have much more say in organising the global agenda than the planet's 5 billion mature-age voters without a ballot box.
    Bob Brown
    Australian politician, medical doctor and environmentalist (1944 - )
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  • Bob Seger For a long time, I thought when you do a box set, you're giving up; you're saying, 'OK, I don't have anything left.' But now I've listened to some of the old stuff I haven't heard in 20 to 40 years with fresh ears. It's like, 'Oh yeah, I can see where people might want to to hear some of this stuff that didn't make it onto the records.'
    Bob Seger
    American singer, songwriter and musician (1945 - )
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  • Billy Porter For years I tried to put myself in a box, and it frustrated me, so I had to let go and let the universe take its course.
    Billy Porter
    American actor and singer (1969 - )
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  • Abraham Cahan God, for example, appealed to me as a beardless man wearing a quilted silk cap; holiness was something burning, forbidding, something connected with fire while a day had the form of an oblong box.
    Abraham Cahan
    Belarusian-born Jewish American socialist newspaper editor, novelist, and politician
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  • Box Brown Honestly, I try to think about when I first got into wrestling, and I remember Wrestle Mania VI being the first time that I watched Wrestle Mania as it happened.
    Box Brown
    American cartoonist
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  • Joan Didion I closed the box and put it in a closet. There is no real way to deal with everything we lose.
    Faceboek (2011)
    Joan Didion
    American Essayist (1934 - 2021)
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  • Alan Alda I found I wasn't asking good enough questions because I assumed I knew something. I would box them into a corner with a badly formed question, and they didn't know how to get out of it. Now, I let them take me through it step by step, and I listen.
    Alan Alda
    American actor, director, screenwriter, and author. (1936 - )
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  • Adrian Grenier I think winter wear is communal. You get some gloves and a scarf from a lost-and-found box, wash them, wear them for a while until you lose them. Then somebody else does the same thing.
    Adrian Grenier
    American actor, producer, director and musician (1976 - )
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  • Anna Quindlen I would even go to Washington, which is saying something for me, just to glimpse Jane Q. Public, being sworn in as the first female president of the United States, while her husband holds the Bible and wears a silly pill box hat and matching coat.
    Anna Quindlen
    American author and journalist (1952 - )
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  • Lord George Byron I would rather have a nod from an American, than a snuff-box from an emperor.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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