Evan Rachel Wood

I have a very large shoebox overflowing with lyrics I've been writing and collecting since my teen years and into my late 20s, with lyrics from all walks of my life. Darkness, being in love, being heartbroken, finding yourself... and lyrics that I've been sitting on for, like, seven years, that I haven't done anything with.

American Actress

Ben McKenzie

I had one year of struggle. My parents were always there, but I didn't want to rely on them. Now it's moving pretty fast. I'm not rich, but obviously this is fantastic. All I know to do with money is put it in a shoebox anyway.

Anna Kendrick

When you have no money in New York, you're living in a shoebox, and it's freezing. When you have no money in L.A., you're living in a slightly larger shoebox, and you can go outside and feel okay about your life for a minute.

Holly Lisle

I earned my writing stripes with a large man's shoebox overflowing with rejection slips... more than 100 before I got my first, 'Yes, we want this,' accompanied by a check.

American Writer

Rem Koolhaas

The great problem of the concert hall is that the shoebox is the ideal shape for acoustics but that no architect worth their names wants to build a shoebox.

Dutch Architect

Brian Selznick

Once I'm given an idea for a story I have a million ideas on how it should be illustrated, but I don't have a big shoebox full of unfinished ideas.

American Artist

Jack Johnson

Our dreams are made of real things, like a shoebox full of photographs.

American Athlete

Used to describe the actual object for storing footwear.

Literal Use

Can represent a space for preserving memories or keepsakes.

Metaphorical Use

Though mainly for shoes, collocations expand to items like 'charity shoebox' or 'storage shoebox'.

Non-literal Collocations

Describes a very small living space, not a literal box for shoes.

Figurative Speech

Used in casual conversation to express cramped living conditions.

Informal Speech

Can suggest negative feelings about the quality or size of accommodation.

Emotive Language

 I think it applies to more than just icons and your desktop -- but browsing photographs. I think you can really enrich the way we browse our photographs and bring it to that kind of shoebox of, you know, photos with your family on the kitchen table kind of thing.

Anand Agarawala: BumpTop...

 makes an amazing discovery they saw pallets on the floor of the warehouse which contained boxes about the size of his shoebox and found out that there were gold bars in these boxes it's an incredible stroke of good luck the gold has been packed for shipment to a

Shoebox

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