Welcome to our collection of thought-provoking quotes on the topic of boxes. Boxes, in their simplicity, carry profound symbolism and significance in various aspects of life. Whether physical containers for possessions, metaphors for confinement, or symbols of organization and order, boxes encapsulate a multitude of meanings that resonate with our experiences and perceptions.
Throughout history and across cultures, the concept of boxes has been explored in literature, art, philosophy, and everyday discourse. From contemplating the boundaries they impose to pondering the possibilities they offer for containment and structure, boxes inspire reflection on themes of confinement, liberation, conformity, and creativity. As we delve into the diverse perspectives and insights shared by thinkers, writers, and individuals, we invite you to explore the rich tapestry of ideas surrounding this seemingly mundane yet profoundly symbolic object.
Below, you’ll find a curated selection of quotes that delve into the various dimensions of the box metaphor. Whether you seek inspiration for personal reflection, creative projects, or simply appreciate the beauty of language, these quotes offer glimpses into the depth and versatility of thought encapsulated within the confines of a box. Feel free to copy them, pair them with imagery, or experiment with different presentations to enhance their impact and resonance.
In October, 1865, occurred what was, in my eyes, the greatest event in the history of the observatory. The new transit circle arrived from Berlin in its boxes. Simon Newcomb
We have a lot of historical and religious baggage in our culture. It’s ancient; we are clannish as a species. We like things to fit into boxes, and it’s unfortunate because humans are unique and should be celebrated and embraced as such. Sherri Saum
Now I don’t put things in the boxes anymore. I’m just focusing on right now. Robin Roberts
Desktop computers – boxes inside boxes – began appearing in those cubicles in the mid-eighties, electrical cords curling on the floor like so many ropes. Jill Lepore
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. Ella Maillart
Most times we would make more money in the tip boxes – they called it – than we were getting paid. Little Milton
That guy in a twenty-five cent bleacher seat is as much entitled to know a call as the guy in the boxes. He can see my arm signal even if he can’t hear my voice. Bill Klem
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. Grant Imahara
Aereo is the first potentially transformative technology that has the chance to give people access to broadcast television delivered over the Internet to any device, large or small, they desire. No wires, no new boxes or remotes, portable everywhere there’s an Internet connection in the world – truly a revolutionary product. Barry Diller
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. Maria Bartiromo
I’m very stodgy. I’m always looking at old photos of California and Los Angeles, knowing that what I’m looking at is now full of houses. There used to be vacant lots in Los Angeles, now all taken up by three-storey boxes – it’s all getting infilled. Edward Ruscha
People find comfort in boxes, is really what I’ve learned, and people found comfort in the bubbles they were filling out for standardized tests. And I don’t understand it, because they made me uncomfortable. Rachel Zegler
Hollywood likes to put actors in boxes, and it likes to put Asian actors in really small boxes. Sandra Oh
I tend to think of Pluto and its moons as presents sitting under a Christmas tree. They’re wrapped, and from Earth all we can do is look at the boxes to see whether they’re light or heavy, to see if something maybe jiggles a bit inside. We’re seeing intriguing things, but we really don’t know what’s in there. Alan Stern
The world is filled with archaic objects – mailboxes which look like alarm boxes, banks which look like places to break out of rather than places to enter. Raymond Loewy
Let anti-slavery charity boxes stand uppermost among those for missionary, tract and educational purposes. On this subject, Christians have been asleep; let them shake off their slumbers and arm for the holy contest. William Lloyd Garrison
I’ve never been like Angelina Jolie, who at one time was spewing out this prototype Bad Girl stuff for people to consume. I’ve never boxed myself in that way. People can create boxes for me by all means, but it doesn’t mean I’m going to step inside them. Juliette Lewis
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 think that if you grind your spices and keep them in small batches, you can use them in endless ways. The key thing is to have a spice mill or a coffee grinder, and to keep your spices cold and in tightly lidded boxes. Marcus Samuelsson
My brother had boxes of comic books. He was really the collector. Michael Shanks
If I’m getting on an airplane or anywhere, really, I have a lunch box and stuff. It’s a running joke with my friends and family – everyone gives me lunch boxes for Christmas. Nikki Reed
There are no Kleenex boxes on these loops, just so you know. Mick Fleetwood
I like tinkering with the tribe beat boxes and love using Reason as a beefed up beat box. Pat Mastelotto
People simply don’t have room, physical room, to keep, for instance, 2-inch tape in the sort of quantities that are required to hold a full archive. It’s not just a matter of having three or four boxes, it’s 40, 90 boxes of 2-inch tape, and very few people have the resources that sort of stuff properly. Nick Mason
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
Im at the point now where if someone thinks of me that way or boxes me in to be being just the child of, I just think that theyre being narrow-minded and not looking at the fact that Im very different from them and dont work with them. Miles Robbins
Like so many aspiring writers who still have boxes of things they’ve written in their parents’ houses, I filled notebooks with half-finished poems and stories and first paragraphs of novels that never got written. Ally Carter
I worked in Dad’s stores, moving boxes – I remember quite well one stockroom that was upstairs – sweeping floors, laying tile. I also had paper routes. S. Robson Walton
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
Currently, many job seekers must check a box on their applications indicating whether they have a criminal history. These boxes are often used as proxies for job fitness, and job-seekers with criminal histories frequently find themselves screened out of contention. As a matter of basic fairness and also economic sense, it’s time to ban the box. Bob Casey, Jr.
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
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. Alan Arkin
My dinner spot is usually in front of the TV. I’ll grill a steak and whip up a salad and watch ‘Hoarders’. I love it because a) I’m kind of voyeuristic, and b) every time I see an episode, I go to the one room where all my unpacked boxes wound up, and I throw out a box of stuff. Nathan Fillion
It’s not like I have boxes of scripts arriving at my door. Kristen Wiig
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
Cable boxes are, almost without exception, awful. They’re under-powered computers running very badly designed software. Their channel guides are slow, poorly laid out, and usually riddled with ads. Alex Pareene
I love the smell of juice boxes in the morning. Robert Duvall
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. J. F. C. Fuller
Normally, things are viewed in these little segmented boxes. There’s classical, and then there’s jazz; romantic, and then there’s baroque. I find that very dissatisfying. I was trying to find the thread that connects one type of music – one type of musician – to another, and to follow that thread in some kind of natural, evolutionary way. Jerry Lee Lewis
I have a hard time figuring out what kind of box to put me in, too, because I don’t know exactly what’s going on around me or why. But I need to stay outside of boxes because then I can look at what’s inside of them without being part of them. Jordan Peterson
When you’re a short actor you stand on apple boxes, you walk on a ramp. When you’re a short star everybody else walks in a ditch. Michael J. Fox
I love cereals. We must have 10 to 15 boxes. But if I’m being honest, I have Fruit Loops and Lucky Charms hidden behind the healthier ones. Aerin Lauder
I grew up in Toronto and as long as I can remember, as long as there was cable, even those old cable boxes that were wired to the TV, there have been Bollywood movies on Toronto TV. Mike Myers
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
Successful people have a bigger fear of failure than people who’ve never done anything because if you haven’t been successful, then you don’t know how it feels to lose it all. You don’t have that fear. So why do you think people get stuck in those boxes? It’s that fear of going back down. Jay-Z
Gadgets – our houses are filled with them: ones we need, ones we think we need, and others that were a good idea at the time, but have never made it out of their boxes. Sheherazade Goldsmith
My car was like a hoarder’s, stacked with boxes and coat hangers and things. Jacob Elordi
Kids don’t like being put into boxes, and your kid can act in different ways in different situations. Rosalind Wiseman
Never feel like you have to tick all of the boxes on everything to be able to feel like you can do a job. I have heard it said many times before, and it is so true. Jacinda Ardern
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 worked countless jobs from waiting tables to packing boxes in a paper factory – a testament that I hustled on and never gave up til I reached my dreams. Pia Wurtzbach
I love my job, and I love books. I read anything, including cereal boxes. I care deeply about what people think of my books, and I memorize my reviews. I love to hear from my readers. Lisa Scottoline
There’s just not a lot of guys around playing like that these days; a lot of steel players are plugging into stomp boxes, trying to sound like Jeff Beck on a steel guitar. John Fogerty
I’ve spent my entire career on horseback or on a motorcycle. It boxes you in, the way people perceive you. I read a lot of scripts. Most of ’em go to other actors. Sam Elliott
Even for the people in the business who are real music lovers it’s really about putting things in the right boxes, and my style doesn’t fit into a box. Teddy Thompson
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
When people talk about diversity and inclusion, sometimes there’s a bit of an eye-rolling mentality or ticking boxes. But I feel like that’s kind of necessary at times, because the playing fields are not level in the first place. Ncuti Gatwa
Labels put people in boxes, and those boxes are shaped like coffins. Chirlane McCray
I’ve never been very good at fitting into boxes. Neneh Cherry
It’s normal when there’s a new show on the air to say this is the new ‘Game of Thrones’ or this is the new ‘Vikings,’ because we need to put things in boxes. Alexander Dreymon
Those are the frustrations in this industry – the boxes and the labels, where they say, ‘You are this one thing and this is the only thing that makes you unique or viable. So just be trans. And here’s a stamp on your forehead and all your characters will be wearing a fake mustache and saying, ‘Dad, I want to wear pantyhose.’ Patti Harrison
Reorganization to me is shuffling boxes, moving boxes around. Transformation means that you’re really fundamentally changing the way the organization thinks, the way it responds, the way it leads. It’s a lot more than just playing with boxes. Louis V. Gerstner, Jr.
‘The Great Gatsby’ ticked so many boxes for me. Joel Edgerton
I long ago ran out of bookshelf space and so, like a museum with its art, simply rotate my books from the boxes to the shelves and back again. Michael Dirda
Oh, I will always be honest with my music. 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
Back when I was jamming with Axl and the guys they had boxes of cassettes with song ideas. How do you know which ones you like now when you have that many ideas. Zakk Wylde
Some of the most wonderful people are the ones who don’t fit into boxes. Tori Amos
I got a call from the Oprah Winfrey Show. Oprah had chosen Spanx as one of her favorite products in 2000. I had boxes of product in my apartment and I had two weeks notice that she was going to say she loved it on TV and I had no shipping department. Sara Blakely
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
I like boxes because of the secrets they hide. Kate Williams
Technology has changed, and we need to figure out how to improve the archaic way of what makes a hit, or how to determine how many viewers are watching beyond some people with Nielsen boxes in a small percentage of homes in random areas. Jim Rash
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’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
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
People don’t understand computers. Computers are magical boxes that do things. People believe what computers tell them. Bruce Schneier
It’s not opinion polls that determine the outcome of elections, it’s votes in ballot boxes. Nicola Sturgeon
Genres aren’t closed boxes. Stuff flows back and forth across the borders all the time. Margaret Atwood
Police boxes, tweed blazers and bow ties feel quite English, but I think that is one of his virtues, one of the strengths of ‘Doctor Who.’ Matt Smith
Living and working for four decades in a Bologna apartment and studio he shared with his unwed sisters, Morandi painted little but bottles, boxes, jars, and vases. Yet like that of Chardin and the underappreciated William Nicholson, Morandi’s work seems to slow down time and show you things you’ve never seen before. Jerry Saltz
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
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. Derek Jacobi
I saw Joseph Cornell’s lyrical work for the first time at the Museum of Modern Art in the late seventies and have internalized many of his boxes. Siri Hustvedt
I got quite into Spam once, in Korea. On their Thanksgiving, they give boxes of it to their friends. I fry it in batter with herbs wrapped around. John Torode
You really can’t stereotype people or put them in boxes, it’s unfair. Kesha
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
What you have in most education software is that they’re catering to the decision-maker who makes the budget allocations, and that decision-maker has a lot of check boxes. Does it do this? Check. Does it do that? Check. They could care less about the end user experience. Sal Khan
The war imbued my tin soldiers with quite a new interest. It was impossible to have boxes enough of them. Georg Brandes
On my 30th birthday, all the presents I got were boxes of food. That’s what I needed. Kay Lenz
I hate the way chorus boxes sound. Pat Metheny
Like most creative people I don’t fit well into boxes. Laurell K. Hamilton
You can see these boxes which are covered with metal foils for thermal reasons, and they are also, most of the time, thermally controlled inside to keep reasonable temperature inside each of these containers. Claude Nicollier
I was 28, and my mom was living with me. I had to decide. You have to claim it; you can’t ask permission. After a gig in Singapore, she went home, I went to New York on my own, I packed her stuff in boxes and sent it home. I don’t think she liked me for a while for doing that. It was something I needed to do to carve out my own space. Lea Salonga
There are comics who treat women fairly appallingly. But I can be great friends with them because I don’t tend to do that ticking of boxes: it can make life too simplistic. Jo Brand
Biology has progressed tremendously due to the model that Darwin put forth. But the black boxes Darwin accepted are now being opened, and our view of the world is again being shaken. Michael Behe
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. John Madden
I think in society we tend to put ourselves in boxes and corners and restrict ourselves, and we constantly feel the need to not say this or not wear this. Aubrey O’Day
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. A. N. Wilson
Some fan literally broke into my house. He literally came in and said, ‘I’m a huge fan. I brought you food.’ He brought me three boxes of noodles. Rich Brian
If there was ever any truth to the trickle-down theory, the only evidence of it I’ve ever seen was in that period of 1960 to 1965. All of sudden they were handing out major label recording contracts like they were coming in Cracker Jack boxes. Dave Van Ronk
Yes, Leander locked me out. I’d gone with my child for a birthday party. Leander and his mother were running out of the building as I was entering. They even put my clothes in boxes and threw them out. Rhea Pillai
