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  • 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.

    Passion   Kids   Eye  
    Interview with Barbi Twins, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.
  • 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.

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

    Home   Mean   Fire  
    Charlotte Perkins Gilman (2015). “The Humanness of Women: Theory and Practice of Feminism (Essays and Sketches): Studies and thoughts by the famous American writer, feminist, social reformer and deeply respected sociologist who holds an important place in feminist fiction, known for The Yellow Wallpaper story”, p.167, e-artnow
  • 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.

    Cat   Thinking   Fire  
    Sloane Crosley (2008). “I Was Told There'd Be Cake”, p.15, Penguin
  • If you gave [Jerry] Falwell an enema he could be buried in a matchbox.

  • 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

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

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

    Crush   Guy   Twenties  
  • A mere collector of supposed facts is as useful as a collector of matchboxes.

  • 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.

    Food   Trying   Culture  
    1911 Siren Land,'Rain on the Hills'.
  • Philosophy is like a normal personal organizer, but it's smaller than a matchbox.

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

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