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
We have four boxes with which to defend our freedom: the soap box, the ballot box, the jury box, and the cartridge box. — Larry McDonald
The volume of paper expands to fill the available briefcases. — Jerry Brown
Pigeon-holes are only comfortable for pigeons. — Jessye Norman
Packaging can be theater, it can create a story — Steve Jobs
To a bibliophile, there is but one thing better than a box of new books, and that is a box of old ones. — Will Thomas
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
A man's rights rest in three boxes: the ballot box, the jury box, and the cartridge box. — Frederick Douglass
The quality of the box matters little. Success depends upon the man who sits in it. — Manfred von Richthofen
It's rough to go through life with your contents looking as if they settled during shipping. — Milton Berle
I challenge you, to go to any school and open 50 lunchboxes, and I guarantee you there will be one or two cans of Red Bull, there'll be cold McDonald's and jam sandwiches with several cakes. — Jamie Oliver
All those paper people living in their paper houses, burning the future to stay warm. — John Green
Clay is used to make vases, but it is the emptiness they contain that makes them useful. — Lao Tzu
Cardboard Quotes
People tend to look at dancers like we are these little jewels, little cardboard cut outs, and yet we have blood and guts and go through Hell. — Susan Jaffe
I do not share the general view that market forces are the basis for political liberty. Every time I see a homeless person living in a cardboard box in London, I see that person as a victim of market forces. Everytime I see a pensioner who cannot manage, I know that he is a victim of market forces — Tony Benn
To live without the creative potential of our own destructiveness is to be a cardboard angel. — Sheldon B. Kopp
At the end of the game the kind and the pawn go back in the same box.
I regard this novel as a work without redeeming social value, unless it can be recycled as a cardboard box. — Ellen Goodman
Women should look like women. A piece of cardboard has no sexuality. — Alexander McQueen
I had a briefcase at one point, but it was a kind of 1980s New Wave briefcase. It was made of some kind of cardboard and it had metal hinges. It was kind of faux industrial looking, and I used to carry my books in it rather than a backpack. I didn't want to have normal student accoutrements. — Jeffrey Eugenides
There's no better feeling in the world than a warm pizza box on your lap.
The opportunity to create a small world between two pieces of cardboard, where time exists yet stands still, where people talk and I tell them what to say, is exciting and rewarding. — Chris Van Allsburg
Once upon a time there were three little foxes
Who didn't wear stockings, and they didn't wear sockses,
But they all had handkerchiefs to blow their noses,
And they kept their handkerchiefs in cardboard boxes. — A. A. Milne
I don't live for stuff and things, and if I had to live in a cardboard box, I would put curtains on it. — Carmen Dell'Orefice
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. — Gene Spafford
God is in the slums, in the cardboard boxes where the poor play house. God is in the silence of a mother who has infected her child with a virus that will end both their lives. God is in the cries heard under the rubble of war. God is in the debris of wasted opportunity and lives, and God is with us if we are with them. — Bono
Cryptography [without system integrity] is like investing in an armored car to carry money between a customer living in a cardboard box and a person doing business on a park bench. — Gene Spafford
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. — Kenny Rogers
I feel as though the cardboard box of my own reality has been flattened and blown open. Now I can see the edge of the world. — Tom Hiddleston
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. — Demetri Martin
My study is a converted garage which is largely lined with bookshelves and cardboard boxes filled with manuscripts of my film scripts, plays and books. — William Nicholson
Then, finally, the third year, begging the parents, I got the Superman Halloween costume. Cardboard box, self-made top, mask included. Remember the rubber band on the back of that mask? That was a quality item there, wasn't it? That was good for about 10 seconds before it snapped out of that cheap little staple they put it in there with. — Jerry Seinfeld
My first acting experience was a non-speaking role as a robot. My costume was a cardboard box covered in tinfoil, but I was so shy I refused to go on stage. — Jessica Raine
I don't come from a rich family - it's not like we lived in a cardboard box, but we didn't have a ton of money. — Jessica Lynch
My first tape piece was made with that Sears Roebuck recorder. I modified sound using cardboard tubes with a microphone in the end to filter the sound. I had a wooden apple box with a Piezo [contact] mic and little objects that I could amplify on the box. I used the bathtub for reverberation. — Pauline Oliveros
I carry a knife with me so I can cut images out of cardboard boxes. I'm always cutting cardboard. Especially every Thursday, which is recycling day. — Micah Lexier
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). — Neil Gaiman
I do not want to heap coals of fire on anyone's head, but I would like to advise those who keep the living thought of the dead hidden away in cardboard boxes, to pass on as quickly as possibly such explosive material, whose only legitimate heir is the whole world, that is to say, my neighbor. — Pierre Schaeffer
My first playpen was a cardboard box. — Michael Lee-Chin
It's what's on the record not what labels on it. You know, that's like getting a box of cornflakes and eating the cardboard. — Elvis Costello
Secure web servers are the equivalent of heavy armoured cars. The problem is, they are being used to transfer rolls of coins and cheques written in crayon by people on park benches to merchants doing business in cardboard boxes from beneath highway bridges. Further, the roads are subject to random detours, anyone with a screwdriver can control the traffic lights, and there are no police. — Gene Spafford
Trying to explain or define grace is like catching the wind in a cardboard box or describing the color green. — Cathleen Falsani
I could find David Beckham naked in a cardboard box on my doorstep and I would drop him off at the pound. — Olivia Wilde
(Talking about his first computer) Like all kids we not only fooled around with our toys, we changed them. If you've ever watched a child with a cardboard carton and a box of crayons create a spaceship with cool control panels, or listened to their improvised rules, such as "Red cars can jump all others," then you know that this impulse to make a toy do more is at the heart of innovative childhood play. It is also the essence of creativity. — Bill Gates
Nudge threw her arms around my neck. 'I love you Max! I love all of us too!' Yeah, me too,' Said the Gasman. 'I don't care if we have our house, or a cliff ledge, or a cardboard box. Home is wherever we all are, together. — James Patterson
I'm very crafty! One time I made a television set out of a cardboard box - Everybody thought it was a lark! This was the beginning of a love affair with the arts. — Emma Watson
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