Box Of Chocolates Quotes:

Life is just a Box of Chocolates.

- James Lipton

topic: Chocolate, Box Of Chocolates, Life Is

It's like Forrest Gump said, 'Life is like a box of chocolates.' Your career is like a box of chocolates - you never know what you're going to get. But everything you get is going to teach you something along the way and make you the person you are today. That's the exciting part - it's an adventure in itself.

- Nick Carter

source: "Backstreet boys". Seventeen Interview, www.seventeen.com. November 4, 2007.

topic: Work, Adventure, Careers, Motivational Work, Forrest Gump

Let me say this: bein a idiot is no box of chocolates.

- Winston Groom

source: Winston Groom (2002). “Forrest Gump”, p.1, Simon and Schuster

topic: Chocolate, Contentment, Idiot, Box Of Chocolates

All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn't hurt.

- Charles M. Schulz

topic: Love, Witty, Hurt, Humor Love, Humorous Love

My momma always said, "Life was like a box of chocolates. You never know what you're gonna get."

- Winston Groom

source: "Fictional character: Forrest Gump". "Forrest Gump", www.imdb.com. 1994.

topic: Life, Motivational, Movie, Favorite Book, 80s And 90s

It's always been eclectic; you never know what you're going to get.

- Andre Agassi

source: "Andre Agassi, 20 Years Later". Interview with Frank Sun, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 26, 2015.

topic: Central Park, Live Your Life, Chocolate, Live Life To Its Fullest, Eclectic

You know, they've got these chocolate assortments, and you like some but you don't like others? And you eat all the ones you like, and the only ones left are the ones you don't like as much? I always think about that when something painful comes up. Now I just have to polish these off, and everything'll be OK. Life is a box of chocolates. I suppose you could call it a philosophy.

- Haruki Murakami

source: Haruki Murakami (2011). “Norwegian Wood”, p.331, Random House

topic: Philosophy, Thinking, Chocolate, Box Of Chocolates

Life is like a box of chocolates.

- Winston Groom

topic: Cute, Chocolate, Life Is Like, Box Of Chocolates

You never know what you're going to get as a receiver.

- Darren Flutie

topic: Live Life To Its Fullest, Forrest Gump, Shuffle, Box Of Chocolates

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

topic: Chocolate, Mind, Too Much, Box Of Chocolates

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

- Truman Capote

topic: Travel, Food, Venice, Sweets And Desserts, Eating Chocolate

My favorite thing in the world is a box of fine European chocolates which is, for sure, better than sex.

- Alicia Silverstone

topic: Sex, Chocolate, World, Sweets And Desserts, Box Of Chocolates

Life was like a box of chocolates. You never know what you're gonna get.

- Tom Hanks

source: "Fictional character: Forrest Gump". "Forrest Gump", www.imdb.com. 1994.

topic: Movie, Book, Numbers, Guinness, Box Of Chocolates

Life is not like a box of chocolates unless there's a few turds in the box.

- Bill Maher

topic: Chocolate, Life Is, Turds, Box Of Chocolates

I hyperventilate opening a box of chocolates. I'm the most nervous guy in the world.

- Uncle Kracker

topic: Guy, Chocolate, World, Box Of Chocolates

There were some days that deserved to be drowned at birth and everyone sent back to bed with a hot brandy, a box of chocolates and a warm, energetic companion. Today was without question one of those days.

- Diana Pharaoh Francis

source: Diana Pharaoh Francis (2014). “Trace of Magic”, p.265, Bell Bridge Books

topic: Chocolate, Bed, Hot, One Of Those Days, Brandy

Everybody knows that the boat is leaking. Everybody knows the captain lied. Everybody got this broken feeling, like their father or their dog just died. Everybody talking to their pockets. Everybody wants a box of chocolates and a long-stem rose. Everybody knows.

- Leonard Cohen

source: "Leonard Cohen On Poetry, Music And Why He Left The Zen Monastery". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. October 21, 2016.

topic: Dog, Father, Talking, Box Of Chocolates

New Rule: This Valentine’s Day Americans must remember that politicians are like a box of chocolates. We bite into them to find out what's on the inside only to discover that Democrats are too often soft and gooey and Republicans are mostly nuts.

- Bill Maher

topic: Valentine, Nuts, America, Box Of Chocolates

Life is like a box of chocolates, you fill your body with toxins, And amoxicillin and penicillin to cure your illness. But in realness? These medical companies will get you monthly Prescribing me pills that make me ill, just to comfort me.

- Termanology

topic: Rap, Hip Hop, Chocolate, Penicillin, Realness

Teen problem novels? I can go through them like a box of chocolates. And there are fantasy books out now that need a lot more editing. Fantasy got to be so popular that people began to think 'We don't need to be as diligent with the razor blade,' but they do.

- Tamora Pierce

topic: Book, Thinking, Editing, Fantasy Books, Box Of Chocolates

He held the book up to his nose. It smelled like Old Spice talcum powder. Books that smelled that way were usually fun to read. He threw the book onto his bed and went to his suitcase. After rummaging about for awhile, he came up with a long, narrow box of chocolate-covered mints. He loved to eat candy while he read, and lots of his favorite books at home had brown smudges on the corners of the pages.

- John Bellairs

source: John Bellairs (2002). “House with a Clock in Its Walls / Ghost in the Mirror Flip Book”, Puffin

topic: Fun, Book, Home, Favorite Book, Old Spice

I ran through the manuscript in the space of a day, much as one might pick compulsively at a box of chocolates. It was simply too provocative to put down. Has the potential of being highly influential inside the field and among an informed public.

- Baruch Halpern

topic: Space, Chocolate, Might, Box Of Chocolates

Coraline opened the box of chocolates. The dog looked at them longingly. "Would you like one?" she asked the little dog. "Yes, please," whispered the dog. "Only not toffee ones. They make me drool." "I thought chocolates weren't very good for dogs," she said, remembering something Miss Forcible had once told her. "Maybe where you come from," whispered the little dog. "Here, it's all we eat.

- Neil Gaiman

topic: Dog, Missing, Chocolate, Toffee, Coraline

Life is like a box of chocolates, I'm a nerd and I read books

- Dick Van Dyke

source: "Forrest Gump". www.imdb.com. 1994.

topic: Book, Chocolate, Nerd, Box Of Chocolates

Unpleasant questions are being raised about Mother's Day. Is this day necessary? . . . Isn't it bad public policy? . . . No politician with half his senses, which a majority of politicians have, is likely to vote for its abolition, however. As a class, mothers are tender and loving, but as a voting bloc they would not hesitate for an instant to pull the seat out from under any Congressman who suggests that Mother is not entitled to a box of chocolates each year in the middle of May.

- Russell Baker

topic: Mother, Years, Class, Public Policy, Box Of Chocolates

What if people really did that - sent their love through the mail to get rid of it? What would it be that they sent? A box of chocolates with centers like the yolks of turkey eggs. A mud doll with hollow eye sockets. A heap of roses slightly more fragrant than rotten. A package wrapped in bloody newspaper that nobody would want to open.

- Alice Munro

source: Alice Munro (1999). “The love of a good woman: stories”, Penguin, 1999

topic: Eye, Turkeys, Eggs, Box Of Chocolates

I hyperventilate opening a box of chocolates. I'm the most nervous guy in the world, a frightened little man on red alert from when I wake until I go to sleep. I was born with fear.

- Ozzy Osbourne

topic: Sleep, Men, Guy, Red Alert, Box Of Chocolates

When I feel that I'm going to write a detective story, I buy a five pound box of chocolates and a ream of paper. When the candy is all gone and the paper all used up, I know that the book is long enough.

- Carolyn Wells

topic: Book, Writing, Long, Detective Stories, Box Of Chocolates