Quotes About Boundary

The horizon is more than a convention of landscape painting, less than truth.

What kind of truth is it which has these mountains as its boundary and is a lie beyond them?

The Glory of God is lost if the boundary is crossed

Because Trickster is looking to stir things up, to scramble the conventions, to undo history and received notions of what is art and what is not, to sing for his supper, to find and lose himself in the act of entertaining. Trickster haunts the boundary lines, the margins, the secret shelves between the sections in the bookstore. And that is where, if it wants to renew itself in the way that the novel has done so often in its long history, the short story must, inevitably, go.

can't put the gun in

It's strictly out of bounds.

I love playing with the conventions of fantasy, and breaking rules, and crossing lines.

I was particularly taken with an article about a pub called the White Post on Rimpton Hill on the Dorset–Somerset border. The county boundary runs right through the middle of the bar. In former times when Dorset and Somerset had different licensing laws, people had to move from one side of the room to the other at 10 pm in order to continue drinking legally until 10.30. I don't know why but this made me feel a pang of nostalgia for the way things used to be.

The process became known as sea-floor spreading. When the crust reached the end of its journey at the boundary with continents, it plunged back into the Earth in a process known as subduction.

a Croatian seismologist named Andrija Mohorovi?i? was studying graphs from an earthquake in Zagreb when he noticed a similar odd deflection, but at a shallower level. He had discovered the boundary between the crust and the layer immediately below, the mantle; this zone has been known ever since as the Mohorovi?i? discontinuity, or Moho for short.

I might not be the first person in history to touch both ends of the Bryson Line, but I was certainly the first to do it and know he had done it. So

This is not what it is like to be you, I realized as a few of your magnificent clouds flew over the rooftop. It is just me thinking about being you. And before I headed back down the hill, I walked in a circle around your house, making an invisible line which you would have to cross before dark.

Truth on this side of the Pyrenees, error on the other.

You put your hand on Corinne's back like this again, and I'm breaking your fingers.

I'm getting close to ubiquity, and going crazy is just one step away

Nada de perros aquí! ¡Ya tengo bastante con ustedes!

There's an 800 kilometer border between Iran and Afghanistan.

It's a tough line, Japanese and western games. We wanted to blur that line.

Should a fence 'post a note' or 'hang a sign' to warn possible trespassers?

At what point does the normal suddenly become the abnormal? he

Wallander felt on the verge of misconduct.

Il n'y a pas de barrière substantielle entre l'inorganique et le vivant, ni entre le vivant non humain et l'humain.

If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours. He will put some things behind, will pass an invisible boundary; new, universal, and more liberal laws will begin to establish themselves around and within him; or the old laws be expanded, and interpreted in his favor in a more liberal sense, and he will live with the license of a higher order of beings.

Every poet has trembled on the verge of science.