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Some of the most wonderful people are the ones who don't fit into boxes. -- Tori Amos
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. -- Erma Bombeck
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. -- Bertrand Russell
Life is like a box of crayons. Most people are the 8-color boxes, but what you're really looking for are the 64-color boxes with the sharpeners on the back. I fancy myself to be a 64-color box, though I've got a few missing. -- John Mayer
Life is like a box of cookies. -- Haruki Murakami
Life is like a box of chocolates. -- Winston Groom
Why don't they make the whole plane out of that black box stuff. -- Steven Wright
Venice is like eating an entire box of chocolate liqueurs in one go. -- Truman Capote
A box without hinges, key, or lid, yet golden treasure inside is hid. -- J. R. R. Tolkien
When the strong box contains no more both friends and flatterers shun the door. -- Plutarch
I'm goin past factories. Boxes of metal with people inside. Souls bein ripped apart." -- Ian Ayris
Life is like a box of chocolates, You never know what you're gonna get. -- Winston Groom
There's no better feeling in the world than a warm pizza box on your lap. -- Kevin James
Boxes of toilet paper make the best birthday presents. They really show I give a shit. -- Jarod Kintz
To a child, often the box a toy came in is more appealing than the toy itself. -- Allen Klein
We are not inferring design to account for a black box, but to account for an open box. -- Michael Behe
If black boxes survive air crashes - why don't they make the whole plane out of that stuff? -- George Carlin
Make a Goal Box, a chart of positive daily contact with a family when you are working with them. -- Richard G. Scott
I really don't consider myself to be a conventional Hollywood star. I've never really been marketed by the big studios to do mass market box office films. -- Laura Dern
You can always tell an old soldier by the inside of his holsters and cartridge boxes. The young ones carry pistols and cartridges; the old ones, grub. -- George Bernard Shaw
Every actor wants to break out of the box that they put you in and that's where I'm heading, out of the box as fast as I can. -- Rick Springfield
At the time that they were shown, the Brillo Boxes were underappreciated. It's only now, with the patina of history, that we can really see these masterpieces in a clear light. -- Mike Bidlo
I mean people just have a way of - y'know they'll review your record in two sentences and put you in this little stupid box that you don't want to be in -- Elliott Smith
The creative act lasts but a brief moment, a lightning instant of give-and-take, just long enough for you to level the camera and to trap the fleeting prey in your little box. -- Henri Cartier-Bresson
We could learn a lot from crayons; some are sharp, some are pretty, some are dull, while others bright, some have weird names, but they all have learned to live together in the same box. -- Robert Fulghum
Your attitude is like a box of crayons that color your world. Constantly color your picture gray, and your picture will always be bleak. Try adding some bright colors to the picture by including humor, and your picture begins to lighten up. -- Allen Klein
I have spoken honestly about being born into a home where there was discord and chaos. I saw my mom have a rough time with my dad being very controlling, which is why I push back whenever I feel like someone is trying to box me in. It makes me run for the hills. -- Christina Aguilera
When people put their ballots in the boxes, they are, by that act, inoculated against the feeling that the government is not theirs. They then accept, in some measure, that its errors are their errors, its aberrations their aberrations, that any revolt will be against them. It's a remarkably shrewd and rather conservative arrangement when one thinks of it. -- John Kenneth Galbraith
I love the smell of juice boxes in the morning. -- Robert Duvall
Like most creative people I don't fit well into boxes. -- Laurell K. Hamilton
You really can't stereotype people or put them in boxes, it's unfair. -- Kesha
People don't understand computers. Computers are magical boxes that do things. People believe what computers tell them. -- Bruce Schneier
My interests and obsessions have always been so wide-ranging that I keep popping my head out of different boxes as much as possible. -- Tim Curry
Clean, tasty, real foods do not come processed in boxes or bags; they come from the earth, the sea, the field, or the farm. -- Suzanne Somers
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. -- Richard M. Nixon
I would love to play an unexpected character. Really raw and simple and not a cliche - something rugged. People like to put actors in boxes. -- Eva Green
I thought boxes were the best toy. When my parents got a new car, I ran to my mother and said, 'Did it come in a box?' -- Colin Angle
People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order so they'll have good voice boxes in case there's ever anything really meaningful to say. -- Kurt Vonnegut
I've always loved words. I ate up all the books I could get my hands on, and when I couldn't get books, I read candy wrappers and labels on cereal and toothpaste boxes. -- Judy Holliday
Everyone now knows how to find the meaning of life within himself. But mankind wasn't always so lucky. Less than a century ago, men and women did not have easy access to the puzzle boxes within them. -- Kurt Vonnegut
I think it's wonderful that people in pickup trucks are buying two flats of dog food and a copy of 'Bastard.' I want my view of the world to be right up there next to gallon boxes of Tide. -- Dorothy Allison
The records are black boxes for me. Like, if you want to know who I am, my views, my perspective, things I love, things I hate, my convictions, my anthems. I've never let people's opinions affect the way I write. -- Katy Perry
But the most precious research to me came from the paperwork filed on behalf of my grandparents and great-grandfather. The ship's manifest showed that they could read and write. I am still emotional when I look at those boxes checked yes. -- Adriana Trigiani
There used to be a tradition of the loveable rogue who would steal from the honour boxes in churches and buy a round of drinks with the money he snagged. And everyone would find him tremendously good company. But not any more. -- Douglas Coupland
I remember walking into drugstores when I was younger and seeing all the hair color boxes on the shelves and just being so in awe. Having the control to dye your hair and change your look is such a part of self-expression. -- Olivia Wilde
I remember opening my dad's closet and there were, like, 40 suits, every color of the rainbow, plaid and winter and summer. He had two jewelry boxes full of watches and lighters and cuff links. And just... he was that guy. He was probably unfulfilled in his life in many ways. -- Jon Hamm
My grandmother was probably the first person who I thought was beautiful. She was incredibly stylish, she had big hair, big cars. I was probably 3 years old, but she was like a cartoon character. She'd swoop into our lives with presents and boxes, and she always smelled great and looked great. -- Tom Ford
I have never written a book about my life, despite being offered purses of gold. I made 'Boxes' because I wanted to make a sincere depiction of a daughter who has lost her father, or the jealousy one can feel towards a daughter who has become more beautiful than you and whose stepfather starts to take her shopping. -- Jane Birkin
It's different, it's weird to say, 'She's a white rapper or she can't do this because she's this color - this color does this thing. These are the boxes we have, this is what it is, don't try to change it.' And it's crazy to me because I'm just not from that world, so I can't really rock with it all the way. -- Iggy Azalea
I know that the last thing a book wants is to just sit around unread, serving as an element of interior decorating. So when I have people over, all they have to do is glance at my books, and I implore them to take a few home with them. If I am really ambitious, I pack books into boxes and donate them to prisons. -- Barbara Ehrenreich
I hate the way chorus boxes sound -- Pat Metheny
My boxes are life's experiences aesthetically expressed. -- Joseph Cornell
Broken wings fit more easily in standard-size boxes. -- Mikhail Turovsky
'The Great Gatsby' ticked so many boxes for me. -- Joel Edgerton
The Great Gatsby' ticked so many boxes for me. -- Joel Edgerton
She'd packed up her mother's life in boxes for storage -- Rachel Gibson
I get out, I get out of all your boxes. -- Lauryn Hill
Life is two locked boxes, each containing the other's key. -- Piet Pieterszoon Hein
I do have a trophy room-it's in my attic, in boxes. -- Troy Polamalu
We live and work in boxes. People don't even notice that. -- Frank Gehry
The idea of dates, boxes, categories are very scary for me. -- Usher
My brother had boxes of comic books. He was really the collector. -- Michael Shanks
Little boxes made of ticky-tacky, and they all look just the same. -- Pete Seeger
I have three boxes on my desk: In, Out, and Too Hard. -- Warren Buffett
There are no Kleenex boxes on these loops, just so you know. -- Mick Fleetwood
I'm moving to Mars next week, so if you have any boxes... -- Steven Wright
I have everything in boxes. Thousands of those tapes. I've saved everything. -- Patti Hansen
Labels put people in boxes, and those boxes are shaped like coffins. -- Chirlane McCray
Those sweetly smiling angels with pensive looks, innocent faces, and cash-boxes for hearts. -- Honore de Balzac
Enough small empty boxes thrown into a big empty box fill it full. -- Carl Sandburg
In elections, you can't tell the outcome until you open the ballot boxes. -- Katsuya Okada
Apple stores are intended not just to move boxes, but to enrich lives. -- Steve Jobs
We need, in effect, to make the phantom 'lock-boxes' around the trust fund real. -- Alan Greenspan
Two boxes of Step Forward Paper saves one tree - that's a real stat. -- Woody Harrelson
Poetry is a shuffling of boxes of illusions buckled with a strap of facts. -- Carl Sandburg
Hotels are temporary people storage, no matter how big the boxes are. Remember that. -- Naomi Watts
Stuffing people into boxes is for those who have issues about their own box. -- Kelley Armstrong
My dad goes through war novels like I go through boxes of Cinnamon Toast Crunch. -- Mike Birbiglia
(P)eople's good intentions can wind up putting us in boxes as confining as coffins. -- Gayle Forman
Genres aren't closed boxes. Stuff flows back and forth across the borders all the time. -- Margaret Atwood
Now I don't put things in the boxes anymore. I'm just focusing on right now. -- Robin Roberts
Harte sent one of her revived men after him, and Pat sent him back in boxes. -- Rachel Caine
TV programmes are so bad these days, even idiots are getting rid of their idiot boxes. -- Steve Fowler
My paternal grandfather was a failed novelist. He stacked boxes of rejected manuscripts in a closet. -- Laird Barron
Shadow boxes become poetic theaters or settings wherein are metamorphosed the element of a childhood pastime. -- Joseph Cornell
On my 30th birthday, all the presents I got were boxes of food. That's what I needed. -- Kay Lenz
A man's rights rest in three boxes: the ballot box, the jury box, and the cartridge box. -- Frederick Douglass
I'm really happiest living life 22 pages at a time and putting things in little boxes on pages. -- Brian K. Vaughan
Kids don't like being put into boxes, and your kid can act in different ways in different situations. -- Rosalind Wiseman
I hate online bullying. Those little comment boxes can brim with the most vicious, acidic, and pointless remarks. -- Alexa Chung
I like tinkering with the tribe beat boxes and love using Reason as a beefed up beat box. -- Pat Mastelotto
Hollywood likes to put actors in boxes, and it likes to put Asian actors in really small boxes. -- Sandra Oh
If everyone in America started mailing empty boxes, we could boost productivity, profitability, and employment. Think like a politician. -- Jarod Kintz
Valentine's Day is different for old people. At this age I receive chocolates in boxes shaped like artificial hearts. -- Joan Rivers
The insurance industry communicates through codes and check-off boxes. If there's no check-off box for you, you don't exist. -- Jack Anderson
We get caught in our boxes-but when we pray outside of them, ask God, the impossible CAN be done. -- Loren Cunningham
I've never liked categories; I've never liked boxes; I've always tried to be unconventional as much as I possibly could. -- Gary Dourdan
Life is a storeroom filled with boxes, some empty, some misplaced forever. We're what remains, what we've grabbed hold of. -- Margaret Mazzantini
Little boxes on the hillside, Little boxes made of ticky-tacky, Little boxes on the hillside, Little boxes all the same. -- Malvina Reynolds
The trouble with taxonomic boxes is... that that they tend to be empty, however beautiful they are on the outside. -- Kenneth E. Boulding
I've spent my entire career on horseback or on a motorcycle. It boxes you in, the way people perceive you. -- Sam Elliott
The war imbued my tin soldiers with quite a new interest. It was impossible to have boxes enough of them. -- Georg Brandes
Women are like wine: I can only afford the really cheap ones that have the big, ugly boxes that leak. -- Brad Wilkerson
We unwittingly judge products by their boxes, books by their covers, and even corporation's annual reports by their nice glossy finish. -- Leonard Mlodinow
I'm pretty much all for poetry in public places - poetry on buses, poetry on subways, on billboards, on cereal boxes. -- Billy Collins
In a library we are surrounded by many hundreds of dear friends imprisoned by an enchanter in paper and leathern boxes. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The notion of being on a cop show was appealing, just because it's one of those tick boxes in a career. -- Dallas Roberts
The biggest container ship can carry fifteen thousand boxes. It can hold 746 million bananas, one for every European, on one ship. -- Rose George
Or maybe, he thought, returning to the boxes, it was part of being Catholic--you were made to feel guilty about everything -- Elizabeth Strout
Fund consultants like to require style boxes such as "long-short," "macro," "international equities." At Berkshire our only style box is "smart." -- Warren Buffett
God is always bigger than the boxes we build for God, so we should not waste too much time protecting the boxes. -- Richard Rohr
My father hauled boxes so I could get an education and earn enough money to pay someone to make me lift weights. -- Dana Gould
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
I read trash. Empty cereal boxes, empty shampoo bottles, the bottoms of empty Kleenex boxes, and occasionally even a mystical self-help book. -- Jarod Kintz
Writing a new film about cereal killers. Not serial killers, cereal killers. The main character can eat two, three boxes at a time. -- Dov Davidoff
We are several people fitted inside each other. Chinese boxes. Our bodies are the outside box. Or the inside one if you like. -- Doris Lessing
I'd love to be able to fit in a box. Like one of those people who fit into small boxes. I'd love it. -- Robert Pattinson
I could juggle anything in my day. Balls, cigar boxes, knives...But there was one thing I could never juggle. My income tax. -- W. C. Fields
I would, if checking boxes in a questionnaire, say I would oppose abortion except when the life of the mother is in danger. -- Michael Baumgartner
I have boxes full of stuff. Most actors do have a trunk full of stuff, paintings or scripts. It never comes to anything. -- Christopher Walken

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