Quotes About Boundary

You can never go wrong cuttin' fence,' repeated Smith, warming to his task. (Pling!) "Always cut fence. That's the law west of the 100th meridian. East of that don't matter none. Back there it's all lost anyhow. But west, we cut fence,' (Plang!)

I am-really am-an extremist, one who lives and loves by choice far out on the very verge of things, on the edge of the abyss, where this world falls off into the depths of another.

Hitherto shalt thou come, but no further: and here shall thy proud waves be stayed.

Somewhere the Sky touches the Earth, and the name of that place is the End.

Between whatever has happened already and whatever is to come hovers an invisible borderland, the known on one side and the unknown on the other.

It seems to Werner that the space between whatever has happened already and whatever is to come hovers an invisible borderland, the known on one side and the unknown on the other. He thinks of the girl who may or may not be in the city behind him.

This would eliminate the salient and create a border roughly in a straight line between the North Sea and the Black Sea.

the Rhine was to be the permanent boundary between Romanized Gaul and the barbarians of central Europe.

You should always trust a man...just as far as you must.

Charles le Mesurier was quite a formidable opponent and he wouldn't have hesitated to bring the full force of the law against us if we'd crossed the line.

Becoming the character you are playing might work for some, but for me, it doesn't. I always maintain a gap between myself and my character because if I will go so deep into it, it will get difficult for me to come back. You should work towards understanding the psyche of your character and then play it.

No very sharp line can be drawn between social psychology and individual psychology.

I step into a character in my public life. People who don't make that distinction are dooooomed.

I write plays and movies, I live and work at the borderline between word and image just as any cartoonist or illustrator does. I'm not a pure writer. I use words as the score for kinetic imagistic representations.

People craved orientation. It was a very basic primal need. So we could create a boundary that served lots of functional purposes and especially create boundaries that people would camp along.

What's fun about comedy is you're pushing things a little further than you would in a drama; you're pushing reality a little bit more.

I've always liked outrageous comedy and pushing the envelope.

I'm not getting penalised for pushing, I'm penalised for going over the limit of what's legal and what's within the rules.

I like to fly close to the edge. I like to play with fire.

Change happens at the frontier.

You gonna stand in my backyard and ignore me to my face?

Toute littérature est assaut contre la frontière.

In practice, the ocean is the world's wildest place because of both its fearsome natural danger and how easy it is out there to slip from the boundaries of law and civilization that seem so firm ashore.

How much closer can I get to the common ear, the mainstream, and how much it can still be from this other world, this other place? That's the line I keep trying to tread but have my wings extend more on both sides.