Quotes About Boundaries

I guess there isn't a rule book for what might be unacceptable to do to another human being.

That seems to be crossing some kind of line," I say. :So anything goes?" They both stare at me- Beetee with doubt, Gale with hostility. "I guess there isn't a rule book for what might be unacceptable to do to another human being.

Did you tell your best friend his crush was a cannibal? Never a rule book when you needed one.

There's no question of privacy. When it comes to my body, we have no secrets, these three people and me.

Sometimes you can't say no to someone.

Are you sure this is okay?" he asks. "I mean, did your dad really invite the handsome stranger who's dating his daughter to sleep on the couch?" "I like how you added in the 'handsome.

The last thing family and friends want is for you to spend money on them that you don't have or that you can't really spare.

No longer were there "doctors" of anthropology and physics and literature to offend the real doctors and confuse the public; they had put a stop to that, as they had put a stop to so many things that were unseemly and inappropriate.

When you do a meet and greet, every single girl wants something special from you - an extra little hug or something. And that takes something out of you, almost - like, emotionally, you know.

Sometimes I think that there's a fine line between impressionistic and messy.

Sometimes it's flattering when people copy you, but sometimes it gets to a breaking point.

Sometimes there's just no room for apologies.

I guess I find the boundaries between poetry and prose to be somewhat permeable.

Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.

A line has to be drawn somewhere between what is essential and what is peripheral.

'Gatekeeper' was sort of my first attempt to put a little bit of a frame and boundaries around songwriting, and try to figure out a way to approach it that had a sort of end result in mind. I haven't written many like that.

I draw the line at letting people into my songwriting cave. To me, that's where the alchemy happens and where the mystery is.

What I do is I really enjoy and appreciate the challenge of songwriting and singing and performing and just being really, really grateful at all times. Also, I have no fear or problems with saying no and setting boundaries, you know, with the label, with my management.

It's important to me to not stay too confined to any specific sonic space. There is something really magical about straight folk music - it's not that I don't like it, it's just that I like so much music, I hear so many different things, and I want to try more. I don't want to be confined.

To me there's no creativity without boundaries. If you're gonna write a sonnet, it's 14 lines, so it's solving the problem within the container.

As soon as I go out into the world, I belong, in a way, to everyone else. It's legal to follow me. It's legal to stalk me at the beach. And I can't call the police or ask them to leave.

I never take my work home with me, because when there is a baby in the bath at home, and you rush back for bath-time, as soon as you get through the door, you know that work is work and home is home.

I've always been really cautious about guys who have a Winnie Cooper fantasy, and I'm so glad about that. I mean, I can count on one hand the guys I've been with. It was really challenging, but I never gave it up too soon, if you know what I mean.

I would say to someone, 'Make your own stuff sooner.' Also, it's OK to say no to something if it doesn't feel right.