Matchboxes Quotes:

Better to be a first-class matchbox than a second-class match.

- Haruki Murakami

source: Haruki Murakami (2011). “Norwegian Wood”, p.198, Random House

topic: Class, Firsts, Matchboxes, First Class

Philosophy is like a normal personal organizer, but it's smaller than a matchbox.

- Oscar Wilde

topic: Philosophy, Normal, Matchboxes

I wish I had a nickel for every song that I've left in the bathroom, written down on a matchbox, or just totally forgotten about

- Tommy Shaw

topic: Song, Wish, Bathroom, Matchboxes, Nickels

My capacity for happiness," he added, "you could fit into a matchbox without taking out the matches first

- Douglas Adams

source: Douglas Adams (2012). “The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: The Trilogy of Five”, p.355, Pan Macmillan

topic: Firsts, Fit, Capacity, Matchboxes, Marvin

If you gave [Jerry] Falwell an enema he could be buried in a matchbox.

- Christopher Hitchens

topic: Atheist, Religion, Buried, Matchboxes, Greatest Atheist

Bouillabaisse is only good because cooked by the French, who, if they cared to try, could produce an excellent and nutritious substitute out of cigar stumps and empty matchboxes.

- Norman Douglas

source: 1911 Siren Land,'Rain on the Hills'.

topic: Food, Trying, Culture, Stumps, Matchboxes

A mere collector of supposed facts is as useful as a collector of matchboxes.

- Lucien Febvre

topic: History, Facts, Collectors, Matchboxes

I was taught that candles are like house cats - domesticated versions of something wild and dangerous. There's no way to know how much of that killer instinct lurks in the darkness. I used to think the house-burning paranoia was the result of some upper-middle-class fear regarding the potential destruction of a half-million-dollar Westchester house the size of a matchbox. But then I realized the fear stemmed from something far less complex: we're not used to fire. Candles are a staple of the Judaic existence and, like many suburban residents before us, we're pretty bad Jews.

- Sloane Crosley

topic: Cat, Thinking, Class, Matchboxes, Killer Instinct

As a kid, I loved my Matchbox cars, my Big Wheels, and the race cars on TV. When I laid eyes on my first go-kart when I was just five, it gave my desire for making things with wheels go fast a focus. This combined with the fact that I've been incredibly competitive since a young age made for the proper mix of passion and aggression to become a race car driver.

- Andy Lally

source: Interview with Barbi Twins, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

topic: Passion, Kids, Eye, Matchboxes, Race Car Driver

When I was in seventh grade, I totally had a crush on a guy who was older than me, and he listened to alternative music. So he was into Days of the New and stuff like that, and more poppy stuff, too, like Matchbox Twenty.

- Carrie Underwood

topic: Crush, Guy, Twenties, Matchboxes, Seventh Grade

If Neptune were analogized with a Chevy Impala in mass, then how big is pluto compared to that? Pluto would be a matchbox car sitting on the curb.

- Neil deGrasse Tyson

source: "Dr. Neil deGrasse Tyson on killing Pluto: 'All I did was drive the getaway car'" by Thomas Houston, www.theverge.com. March 26, 2012.

topic: Car, Would Be, Neptune, Matchboxes, Pluto

The original necessity for the ceaseless presence of the woman to maintain that altar fire - and it was an altar fire in very truth at one period - has passed with the means of prompt ignition; the matchbox has freed the housewife from that incessant service, but the feeling that women should stay at home is with us yet.

- Charlotte Perkins Gilman

topic: Home, Mean, Fire, Matchboxes