Box Quotes

I've never had a career of that kind of box office power. I've always learned the hard way.

Venice is like eating an entire box of chocolate liqueurs in one go.

Everything TSA does is reactionary - first they ban the box cutters, then of course you have to take your shoes off, then you have to take the liquids out, now we have to be patted down in our private areas because of the diaper bomber.

Pay attention, don't let life go by you. Fall in love with the back of your cereal box.

Often with television, particularly with lifestyle entertainment, they really try and box you in.

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.

I think talking about one's love life is always... It's a Pandora's box, best kept in journals.

On close inspection, this device turned out to be a funereal juke box - the result of mixing Lloyd's of London with the principle of the chewing gum dispenser.

There's a good deal in common between the mind's eye and the TV screen, and though the TV set has all too often been the boobtube, it could be, it can be, the box of dreams.

When the strong box contains no more both friends and flatterers shun the door.

The insurance industry communicates through codes and check-off boxes. If there's no check-off box for you, you don't exist.

I knew I wasn't a baseball writer. I was scared to death. I really was afraid to talk to players, and I didn't want to go into the press box because I thought I was faking it.

Know the function of a fuse box and the appearance of a tripped circuit breaker.

Some men's memory is like a box where a man should mingle his jewels with his old shoes.

What we call barbecuing in this country is actually direct grilling. In many countries, it also means cooking in an enclosed box with a heat source, ideally wood, all year round.

Films must all have the same structure. All of this to guarantee box office bonanza, which of course it never does, but that's another discussion entirely.

You want to play in every game, and you especially don't want to be in the penalty box for five minutes and give the other team a chance to get a power play, and you don't want to hurt anyone on the other team.

If I start outsourcing all my navigation to a little talking box in my car, I'm sort of screwed. I'm going to lose my car in the parking lot every single time.

When we first broke into that forbidden box in the other dimension, we knew we had discovered something as surprising and powerful as the New World when Columbus came stumbling onto it.

It seems only reasonable that the people have a right to know virtually everything about the personality they are buying each time they put their money through the box office.

But say some, would you expose woman to the contact of rough, rude, drinking, swearing, fighting men at the ballot box? What a humiliating confession lies in this plea for keeping woman in the background!

In a democracy, supposedly we hold power by what we do at the ballot box, so therefore the more we know about political power the better our choices should be and the better, in theory, our democracy should be.

Of course, Hollywood is still making some excellent pictures which reflect the great artistry that made Hollywood famous throughout the world, but these films are exceptions, judging from box office returns and press reviews.

All of the devices work out of the box without any subscription fee.

I used to do the beat box. A friend of mine, he was the rapper and after, we'd be doing a block party or something or a house party, and he's gettin' all the attention and I'd end up with a handful of spit, you know, from doing the beats.

I'm in my usual state up here in the commentary box: high tension, heart beating like a trip hammer, whatever that is.

I love to eat everything and you pretty much can - a little piece of something fattening is not going to kill you. It's when you eat the whole box that it's going to kill you.

You know, IBM was almost knocked out of the box by other types of computer software and manufacturing.

To be black and an intellectual in America is to live in a box. On the box is a label, not of my own choosing.

My mother would put me on a wooden box at the stove and tell me to call her if certain things would happen. Like if the steam turns blue, that is danger!