„Life is the inside of a box, and we can't open it.“
— Siddharth Katragadda Indian writer 1972
page 47
Dark Rooms (2002)
„Every man and woman is a mystery, built like those Chinese puzzles which consist of one box inside another, so that ten or twelve boxes have to be opened before the final solution is found.“
— Robertson Davies, buch The Diary of Samuel Marchbanks
The Diary of Samuel Marchbanks (1947)
Kontext: But I wonder if people do not attach too much importance to the first-name habit? Every man and woman is a mystery, built like those Chinese puzzles which consist of one box inside another, so that ten or twelve boxes have to be opened before the final solution is found. Not more than two or three people have ever penetrated beyond my outside box, and there are not many people whom I have explored further; if anyone imagines that being on first-name terms with somebody magically strips away all the boxes and reveals the inner treasure he still has a great deal to learn about human nature. There are people, of course, who consist only of one box, and that a cardboard carton, containing nothing at all.
Robertson Davies
kanadischer Schriftsteller, Kritiker, Journalist und Profes… 1913 - 1995Ähnliche Zitate
„A man's rights rest in three boxes. The ballot box, jury box and the cartridge box. Let no man be kept from the ballot box because of his color. Let no woman be kept from the ballot box because of her sex.“
— Frederick Douglass American social reformer, orator, writer and statesman 1818 - 1895
Speech http://books.google.ca/books?id=zFclDyk2LTEC&pg=PA57#v=onepage&q&f=false (15 November 1867).
1860s
„Before you can think out of the box, you have to start with a box“
— Twyla Tharp American choreographer 1941
Quelle: The Creative Habit: Learn It and Use It for Life
„Eliminate all restrictions that confine learners to sitting still in boxes inside of boxes.“
— Neil Postman American writer and academic 1931 - 2003
Teaching as a Subversive Activity (1969)
Kontext: If every college teacher taught his courses in the manner we have suggested, there would be no needs for a methods course. Every course would be a course in methods of learning and, therefore, in methods of teaching. For example, a "literature" course would be a course in the process of learning how to read. A history course would be a course in the process of learning how to do history. And so on. But this is the most farfetched possibility of all since college teachers, generally speaking, are more fixated on the Trivia game, than any group of teachers in the educational hierarchy. Thus we are left with the hope that, if methods courses could be redesigned to be model learning environments, the educational revolution might begin. In other words, it will begin as soon as there are enough young teachers who sufficiently despise the crippling environments they are employed to supervise to want to subvert them. The revolution will begin to be visible when such teachers take the following steps (many students who have been through the course we have described do not regard these as "impractical"): 1. Eliminate all conventional "tests" and "testing." 2. Eliminate all "courses." 3. Eliminate all "requirements." 4. Eliminate all full time administrators and administrations. 5. Eliminate all restrictions that confine learners to sitting still in boxes inside of boxes.... the conditions we want to eliminate... happen to be the sources of the most common obstacles to learning. We have largely trapped ourselves in our schools into expending almost all of our energies and resources in the direction of preserving patterns and procedures that make no sense even in their own terms. They simply do not produce the results that are claimed as their justification in the first place — quite the contrary. If it is practical to persist in subsidizing at an ever-increasing social cost a system which condemns our youth to ten or 12 or 16 years of servitude in a totalitarian environment ostensibly for the purpose of training them to be fully functioning, self-renewing citizens of democracy, then we are vulnerable to whatever criticisms that can be leveled.
„Stuffing people into boxes is for those who have issues about their own box.“
— Kelley Armstrong Canadian writer 1968
Quelle: Spell Bound
„After all, what is every man? A horde of ghosts – like a Chinese nest of boxes – oaks that were acorns that were oaks. Death lies behind us, not in front – in our ancestors, back and back until…“
— Walter de la Mare English poet and fiction writer 1873 - 1956
Quelle: The Return
„I tried the gloves on, and it just felt so natural. From that moment I became so embedded in boxing. I found a friend in boxing.“
— Sugar Ray Leonard American boxer 1956
Sugar Ray Leonard on his first taste of boxinghttp://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4158/is_20061006/ai_n16774982/pg_2
„Here is the hammer, that build the scaffold, and built the box…“
— Nick Cave Australian musician 1957
Song lyrics, From Her to Eternity (1984), A Box for Black Paul
„So many people are shut up tight inside themselves like boxes, yet they would open up, unfolding quite wonderfully, if only you were interested in them."
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— Sylvia Plath American poet, novelist and short story writer 1932 - 1963
Quelle: Johnny Panic and the Bible of Dreams: Short Stories, Prose and Diary Excerpts
„We have, among innumerable other works, the Summa theologica, surely one of the most amazing and stupendous products of the human mind. …never before or since has the wide world been so neatly boxed and compassed, so completely and confidently understood, every detail of it fitted, with such subtle and loving precision, into a consistent and convincing whole.“
— Carl L. Becker American historian 1873 - 1945
The Heavenly City of the Eighteenth-century Philosophers (1932)
„Users do not care about what is inside the box, as long as the box does what they need done.“
— Jef Raskin, buch The Humane Interface
The Humane Interface (2001)
„When I opened a box, I found inside something made of metal, somewhat like our clocks, full of an endless number of little springs and tiny machines. It was indeed a book, but it was a miraculous one that had no pages or printed letters. It was a book to be read not with eyes but with ears.“
— Cyrano de Bergerac French novelist, dramatist, scientist and duelist 1619 - 1655
The Other World (1657)
Kontext: When I opened a box, I found inside something made of metal, somewhat like our clocks, full of an endless number of little springs and tiny machines. It was indeed a book, but it was a miraculous one that had no pages or printed letters. It was a book to be read not with eyes but with ears. When anyone wants to read, he winds up the machine with a large number of keys of all kinds. Then he turns the indicator to the chapter he wants to listen to. As though from the mouth of a person or a musical instrument come all the distinct and different sounds that the upper-class Moon-beings use in their language.
When I thought about this marvelous way of making books, I was no longer surprised that the young people of that country know more at the age of sixteen or eighteen than the greybeards of our world. They can read as soon as they can talk and are never at a loss for reading material. In their rooms, on walks, in town, during voyages, on foot or on horseback, they can have thirty books in their pockets or hanging on the pommels of their saddles. They need only wind a spring to hear one or more chapters or a whole book, if they wish. Thus you always have with you all the great men, both living and dead, who speak to you in their own voices.
„What’s inside the box?
Doubt is there.
What’s another name for doubt?
Death is another name for doubt. Death is what inflects the immortal certainty of the universe’s process with uncertainty.“
— Adam Roberts, buch Jack Glass: The Story of a Murderer
Part 1, “In the Box” (p. 90).
Jack Glass (2012)
„It was like living half your life in a tiny, stuffy, warm gray box, and being moderately happy in there because you knew no better…and then discovering a little hole in one corner of the box, a tiny opening which you could get a finger into, and tease and pull at, so that eventually you created a tear, which led to a greater tear, which led to the box falling apart around you…so that you stepped out of the tiny box’s confines into startlingly cool, clear fresh air and found yourself on top of a mountain, surrounded by deep valleys, sighing forests, soaring peaks, glittering lakes, sparkling snowfields and a stunning, breathtakingly blue sky. And that, of course, wasn’t even the start of the real story, that was more like the breath that is drawn in before the first syllable of the first word of the first paragraph of the first chapter of the first book of the first volume of the story.“
— Iain Banks, Culture series
Quelle: Culture series, Excession (1996), Chapter 4 “Dependency Principle” section III (p. 120).
„It was like having a box of chocolates shut in the bedroom drawer. Until the box was empty it occupied the mind too much.“
— Graham Greene, buch Das Herz aller Dinge
Quelle: The Heart of the Matter
„So she had a box. Lots of people have boxes. They keep things in them. It's a growing trend, I hear.“
— Cassandra Clare, The Mortal Instruments
Jace to Clary, pg. 449
The Mortal Instruments, City of Bones (2007)
„I can entertain the proposition that life is a metaphor for boxing — for one of those bouts that go on and on, round following round, jabs, missed punches, clinches, nothing determined, again the bell and again and you and your opponent so evenly matched it’s impossible not to see that your opponent is you… Life is like boxing in many unsettling respects. But boxing is only like boxing.“
— Joyce Carol Oates American author 1938
On Boxing (1987)
„Hazel!” he yelled. “That box! Open it!”
She hesitated, then saw the box he meant. Te label read WARNING. DO NOT OPEN.
“Open it!” Leo yelled again.“
— Rick Riordan, Das Zeichen der Athene
Quelle: The Mark of Athena
„Those who have the immense dishonesty to fight with a ballot box in one hand and a rifle in the other have no place in democratic politics.“
— Neil Kinnock British politician 1942
On the Provisional IRA; speech in the House of Commons (23 October 1986), reported in Hansard, 6th series, vol. 102, col. 1287.
„They are born, put in a box; they go home to live in a box; they study by ticking boxes; they go to what is called “work” in a box, where they sit in their cubicle box; they drive to the grocery store in a box to buy food in a box; they talk about thinking “outside the box”; and when they die they are put in a box.“
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb, buch The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms
Quelle: The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms (2010), p. 31