#ox

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

#berlin #boxes #circle #event #eyes

If I don't get the service or if I don't the ball in the box, where I want it, I start drifting into midfield. I go and look for the ball. I try to be important for the team in other areas. ↗

— Ruud van Nistelrooy

#ball #box #drifting #get #go

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

#burned #evenings #fireplace #going #i

I've been looking at the iPod- the Apple iPod. One of the interesting things about the iPod, one of the things that people love most about it is not the technology; it's the box it comes in. ↗

— Donald Norman

#apple #been #box #comes #i

Today it's not culture; it's box office. ↗

— Alex North

#box office #culture #office #today

Shep: "You have to overlook his demons. It's the only way he'll know." Abby: "Know what?" Shep: "If you'll climb over the wall. ↗

— Jamie McGuire

#travis-maddox #beauty

Surely the job of fiction is to actually tell the truth. It's a paradox that's at the heart of any kind of storytelling. ↗

— Jeremy Northam

#any #fiction #heart #job #kind

All people are paradoxical. No one is easily reducible, so I like characters who have contradictory impulses or shades of ambiguity. It's fun, and it's fun because it's hard. ↗

— Edward Norton

#because #characters #contradictory #easily #fun

I lost my edge for boxing, I didn't put as much into it as I did before. I didn't run as far. I didn't train as hard. I didn't eat correctly. I started drinking a little bit every now and then. ↗

— Ken Norton

#bit #boxing #correctly #did #drinking

Whoever gets up and comes to grips with Love like a boxer is a fool. ↗

— Sophocles

#comes #fool #gets #grips #like