One day, my father said there was nothing outside infinity. He said the universe was like a cardboard box with God sitting outside surrounded by light, but I wanted to know if maybe God was sitting inside another cardboard box with the light on, and how could anyone be sure how many cardboard boxes there are.
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Related My first playpen was a cardboard box. MICHAEL LEE-CHIN She was playing with a cardboard box with some little wooden figures, HO CHI MINH In the beginning there was nothing. God said, 'Let there be light!' And there was light. There was s... ELLEN DEGENERES In the beginning there was nothing. God said, ‘Let there be light!’ And there was light. There w... ELLEN DEGENERES In the beginning there was nothing. God said, 'Let there be light!' And there was light. The... ELLEN DEGENERES In the beginning there was nothing and God said 'Let there be light', and there was still nothing bu... DAVE THOMAS In the beginning, there was nothing. And God said, "Let there be Light." And there was still nothing... DAVE WEINSTEIN I had a dream about you last night... you sat in a cardboard box and said you were a tree. NICOLE MCKAY Some funeral homes try to guilt families into buying more expensive urns by stamping 'temporary cont... JOSHUA SLOCUM My first acting experience was a non-speaking role as a robot. My costume was a cardboard box covere... JESSICA RAINE In the beginning there was nothing and God said 'Let there be light', and there was still no... DAVE THOMAS And God said: Let there be light: and there was light. BIBLE I'm very crafty! One time I made a television set out of a cardboard box - Everybody thought it ... EMMA WATSON And God said, 'Let there be light' and there was light, but the Electricity Board said He would have... SPIKE MILLIGAN And God said, 'Let there be light' and there was light, but the Electricity Board said He wo... SPIKE MILLIGAN Saw him where?" "While I was sitting outside with one of my half aunts." This seemed to sa... MAGGIE STIEFVATER For many impoverished people, living under a tarp or in a cardboard box is a way of life. MIKE GALLAGHER Images of broken light dance behind my eyelids. How could this giant lamp compare to the sun? E... BETH REVIS My father bought me a little cardboard accordion, and when I was three I got this little machine. TOOTS THIELEMANS A beggar had been sitting by the side of the road for over thirty years. One day a stranger walked b... ECKHART TOLLE I don't live for stuff and things, and if I had to live in a cardboard box, I would put curtains... CARMEN DELL'OREFICE So Tumpty tried hiding upside down, behind a pot plant, under a large cardboard box, with his eyes t... POLLY DUNBAR What do you mean? In Old Castle? I still live with my parents in case you haven’t noticed, Jack. T... JONATHAN DUNNE Like everyone, I am formed by my background, and mine was - well, we didn't have a lot of money.... CHERIE BLAIR I could party in a cardboard box with people who are funny and don't care. For me, it's real... KESHA One thing a computer can do that most humans can't is be sealed up in a cardboard box and sit in a w... JACK HANDY Thanks to my mother, not a single cardboard box has found its way back into society. We receive gift... ERMA BOMBECK I regard this novel as a work without redeeming social value, unless it can be recycled as a cardboa... ELLEN GOODMAN I regard this novel as a work without redeeming social value, unless it can be recycled as a cardboa... ELLEN GOODMAN I often wish I'd got on better with your father,' he said. But he never liked anyone who--our f... VIRGINIA WOOLF I'm really familiar with what Cardboard's doing; it's not a novel concept. Cardboard is ... PALMER LUCKEY I love a cardboard coffin. Both Mummy and Daddy went off in cardboard coffins, painted - Daddy's... JOANNA LUMLEY Inside me there was everything I had believed was outside. There was, in particular, the sun, light,... JACQUES LUSSEYRAN He'd make her work so hard that a job as a cardboard-box presser at the margerine factory would seem... JUSSI ADLER-OLSEN There was never a time when I wasn't making guitars out of cardboard or dressing up like the Mis... ANDY BIERSACK How does a cosmos without a bearded, bathrobed God in the sky pull off all the things that a bearded... HOWARD BLOOM I'm so old old that when God said let there be light I was like "Well that's better" KRIS HUEN Kenny's family is so poor that yesterday, they had to put their cardboard box up for a second mortga... ERIC CARTMAN I feel as though the cardboard box of my own reality has been flattened and blown open. Now I can se... TOM HIDDLESTON Inauguration Day is like two ships passing in the night: the new staff moving in while the other wal... DANA PERINO My study is a converted garage which is largely lined with bookshelves and cardboard boxes filled wi... WILLIAM NICHOLSON My breakdancing crew used to go to the mall and squat a piece of cardboard there; we had our jam box... VANILLA ICE Thinking outside of the box is unnecessary when there are no boxes in your imagination. MATSHONA DHLIWAYO The ordinary think inside of the box, the extraordinary think outside of the box, but genius thinks ... MATSHONA DHLIWAYO Said the man to the sun, "How I wish you could shine your light on every day of my life!" Said ... MARIE LU Some were sleeping under a piece of cardboard, and there would be small families living under a brid... LIZ KINCHEN Street people use cardboard all the time, and bum alleys are just shanties or lean-tos, though. They... WENDELIN VAN DRAANEN Whatever it was her father wanted, Emma did not know how to provide it. She felt confused by what he... CAROL LEE I was going down and I wasn't sure if I had Gina with me. So I was just kind of trying to get a shot... CARA HENDRY I don't want to give this impression that I grew up in Liverpool in a cardboard box in abject po... CHERIE BLAIR God is in the slums, in the cardboard boxes where the poor play house. God is in the silence of a mo... BONO I don't come from a rich family - it's not like we lived in a cardboard box, but we didn'... JESSICA LYNCH In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth . . . Then he said, "Let there be light." Whi... RICKY GERVAIS We used a refrigerator box to create a cardboard loom for this project. It is probably the largest s... LAUREN ELLIOT I don't think inside the box and I don't think outside the box... I don't even know where the box is... ANONYMOUS The problem with these types of witnesses is they can collapse like wet cardboard boxes. Inmate test... GERALD TREECE I don't think inside the box, I don't think outside the box, I don't even know where the box is! SCOTT DOUGLAS CHASE There was no way I could let Mark Martin get outside of me on that restart. My truck was so loose wh... TODD BODINE Tangling with the Goliath Corporation generally left you in one of two places: inside a wooden box w... JASPER FFORDE Ponder what would be if there was nothing. Imagine an existence with no life, no light, no universe ... ANGEL FLORES After five seconds there was a click, and the entire Universe was there in the box with him. DOUGLAS ADAMS My father was brought up in an orphanage in the Catskills. He was a factory worker. And because his ... HARVEY FIERSTEIN I've been clinically diagnosed with sociopathy,' I said. 'Do you know what that means?' 'It mea... DAN WELLS By God and upon my conscience", said the devil, "I never observed it, for my mind is occupied with s... MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA It was a fair decision, the penalty, even though it was debatable whether it was inside or outside t... BOBBY CHARLTON On the back of comic books in the 1970s, there was something called the American Seed Company. They ... ANTHONY SCARAMUCCI I've always loved dogs and have had one since I was three. We bought her from a kid selling pupp... BOB PETERSON The air conditioning was off. The flight controllers were sitting there wiping sweat. If they were d... ALAN STERN On the good days, my mother would haul out the ukulele and we'd sit around the kitchen table - i... CAROL BURNETT We love Popsicle in our house. Nick could probably down a whole box in one sitting; he's obsesse... VANESSA LACHEY Think outside the box but inside the Book RANDY HULSHIZER When God said "Let there be light" Chuck Norris said "Say Please." CHUCK NORRIS The reason that he got a sitting with Washington was that his father was Charles Wilson Peale, a ver... FRED VOSS Referencing 2 Corinthians 4:6, Robert Hewitt compares jars of clay in the first century to the same ... JONI EARECKSON TADA Okay,” he said. “I gotta go to sleep. It’s almost one.”
“Okay,” I said.
“Okay,�... JOHN GREEN Someone once asked him, 'How many poets do you know there?' ... He said, 'Thank God, none.' ANNE WRIGHT It was like a war inside me; I couldn’t even recognize all the sides. There was one that said, ‘... NANCY GARDEN I can remember, we walked by one little shop and the owner was just sitting there on the steps with ... CHRIS EYRE Think outside of the box. Work outside of the box. Dream outside of the box. Succeed outside of the ... MATSHONA DHLIWAYO Mold is everywhere. There are 1,800 types of toxic mold ... Mold gets triggered by water and it need... JOSEPH TOMASELLI God created sages because He wanted to leave the light on in the universe. MATSHONA DHLIWAYO We were driving to school one morning when he was 8 years old and I said, 'Luke, what do you want to... JENNIFER SCOTT I..." He struggled to answer. "When everything was quiet, I went up to the corridor and the curtain ... MARKUS ZUSAK I became aware that there was no barrier between what was inside and what was outside. My body was i... LIEZI You are like jack still in the box while I am out side the polygon. ANDONI GARCIA I taught at the FBI for four decades - how to think outside of the box and deal with social engineer... FRANK ABAGNALE As movers and the moved both know, books are heavy freight, the weight of refrigerators and sofas br... JOHN UPDIKE Think outside the box? Indeed. But to add balance to that, one should not in the process forget what... CRISS JAMI I only know one person who was able to write a program in ink and have it run the first time. That w... GRACE MURRAY HOPPER ...he said, with sort of a little derisive smile, "How can you walk down the street with all this st... NELSON ALGREN To think inside the box is to lack imagination, but to think outside the box is to have imagination. DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) She smiled at him. “How did you know just what I’d want to see?” “How could I not?” h... CASSANDRA CLARE Instead of sitting in his office, he wanted to walk, so we would walk outside the court. There would... DAVID HOFFMAN I made that declaration and I didn't question it. It was clear to me what I wanted to be. My dad sai... CESAR MILLAN After a day?s work, we would see villagers sitting outside their front doors, wishing us ?good eveni... BLANCA PORTILLO I am a born-again atheist, so there isn't going to be a funeral. I will be buried in a linen wra... FELIX DENNIS But I was sure of one thing. If God were a father, with children, that cleanliness I had been feelin... FRANCES FARMER I'll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there's evidence o... TERRY PRATCHETT It's what we've been working for. We said we want to be NFC South champions. I don't know how many p... ALEX SMITH Thinking outside of the box keeps you from suffocating inside of one. MATSHONA DHLIWAYO
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King of the cold, white scalps,
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Shall others continue, but never complete.
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