Desktop computers – boxes inside boxes – began appearing in those cubicles in the mid-eighties, electrical cords curling on the floor like so many ropes.
I think, in our modern cities, there are a lot of boxes; there are a lot of straight lines. They often deal with efficiency, the function, the structure.
You really can’t stereotype people or put them in boxes, it’s unfair.
I started getting back into buying old analog gear while we were recording. Lots of old drum machines and synths. It wasn’t a conscious thing. I didn’t consider myself a collector, but boxes of vintage gear would turn up virtually every day.
Even in my hometown of Linkoping where I grew up… the church we had was very lavish – very boasty. So it ticked most of the boxes of big, imposing Christianity. And I love being there if I’m in town… because it’s just this haunting place.
A lot of the time in Ireland we put people into boxes and that’s it.
I like boxes because of the secrets they hide.
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.
We have very pretty Dutch gardens, so called, in America, but their chief claim to being Dutch is that they are set with bulbs, and have Delft or other earthen pots or boxes for formal plants or shrubs.
TV is very mass, especially now that boxes are shifting to small towns.
Sports has always been a pass-through. You pay for something, and then you pass it through to television, you pass it through to advertisers, or you pass it through to season-ticket holders, luxury boxes and then the fans. Then it all adds up, and you take in more than you pass out.
Every person who is offered a knighthood has the opportunity to say yes or no. You get a letter from the Prime Minister saying you’ve been recommended for a knighthood and there are two little boxes, one says yes, one says no.
When I really discovered who God was and had a firm relationship with him my junior year of college, I journaled constantly. All day long. I had boxes of journals. They were really just love letters to God, just thanking him and praying out loud and telling him my desires.
My kids would come in from school and sit on the floor in front of the TV and line up duck call boxes and put the stickers on the duck call and then put them in the boxes.
Selling cookies helped me to realize that you needed to have a certain way to communicate with people. You also needed business skills. You knew you needed to sell a certain amount of boxes, so that gave me some business sense.
After college, I became a geologist, mapping what lay beneath the earth’s surface. I thought I had my life pretty figured out and all my boxes checked. But then, I was laid off – along with thousands of other geologists. I lost not only my job, but also my profession.
At one time my name was on 50 or 60 different items, from dolls to pencil boxes.
In the World War nothing was more dreadful to witness than a chain of men starting with a battalion commander and ending with an army commander sitting in telephone boxes, improvised or actual, talking, talking, talking, in place of leading, leading, leading.
Of all liars the most arrogant are biographers: those who would have us believe, having surveyed a few boxes full of letters, diaries, bank statements and photographs, that they can play at the recording angel and tell the whole truth about another human life.
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.
Owners own teams so that they might move them to another municipality with better luxury boxes.
When I first started experimenting with harmonics, I’d sometimes hook up two distortion boxes just to get my strings ‘frying,’ which helped bring out the harmonics.
Audiences like me in soft, romantic roles, and ‘Premam’ ticks all the boxes.
I just hope that in some ways, ‘Minari’ can pave the way for other filmmakers, other actors, other projects that maybe don’t fit within traditional boxes – if it helps those films get made in the future, I’d be so thrilled.
My husband always makes me go through what I’m not wearing and donate it, so the driveway is full of boxes.
As movers and the moved both know, books are heavy freight, the weight of refrigerators and sofas broken up into cardboard boxes. They make us think twice about changing addresses.
Basically, what we’ve done is, every year we take half the money and allow people who’ve helped us in the industry to give it away. One year, the ladies who put the pretzel bags in the boxes got to give it away.
I jumped from a height of 45 feet and though I landed on the boxes. I broke my leg.
I save everything. I have these carefully organized file boxes. Somewhere in there is a section of the ‘New York Times’ where I wrote ‘The Border Guard’ in the margin.
I don’t know why we have to put things in boxes of superlatives. That isolates them. Life is fluid, and the minute you start trying to put a line around something, it will deceive you and go away.
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.
It’s not like I have boxes of scripts arriving at my door.
Others are keen to see if natives other than us live better than we do, without heat in pipes, ice in boxes, sunshine in bulbs, music on disks, or images gliding over a pale screen.
Even when I was young, I would build things with Lego or make ‘robots’ out of cereal boxes – long before I learned metalwork. The desire to build was always there.
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?’
People will sometimes put each other in boxes and have biases toward one another because of what they look like or where they come from or who they are. But ultimately, it’s up to us to decide who we are.
Humans are complex, and I think in entertainment in general, it’s very easy to put people in boxes.
