Quotes About Boundary

It is necessary to distinguish the chalk circle from the stone wall.

The line between life and death is a couple of inches at most. The width of a door that connects two rooms.

Then he pointed to the top of the fire, where the snapping yellow flames dissolved into an invisible shimmery heat that made the desert beyond seem to waver, like a mirage. Dad told us that zone was known in physics as the boundary between turbulence and order. "It's a place where no rules apply, or at least they haven't figured 'em out yet," he said. "You-all got a little too close to it today.

they dam up the future. As long as you stay between these walls, whatever happens must happen to the right or the left of the stove...Thus these objects serve at least to fix the limits of probability.

I have reached a limit in my work.

My work explores the frontier between rationalism and superstition and the wavering boundary between the two.

The problem is we disagree about the origin. Is this occupied land or not?

Cinema is a matter of what's in the frame and what's out.

You're...standing...in...my...KUMQUATS!

It's very fluid, this space between philosophy and literature, and that's something that resonates for me.

If man can't piss in his own front yard, then he's living too close to town!

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.

Somewhere in every life there is a line. One side to the other and you are gone. Not disappeared, but undone.

sweeper with his handcart was a feature of every border town I visited

A river is an appropriate frontier. Water is neutral and in its impartial winding makes the national boundary look like an act of God.—OPE

just ten steps from one country to the other, a door in the wall

an ugly steel fence you might associate with a prison perimeter, twenty-five feet high, like nothing I had seen in any other country.

I have tried to get close to the frontier between architecture and sculpture and to understand architecture as an art.

In my vocabulary there are two bad words: art and good taste.

The cinema is a place of intrinsic indiscernibility between art and non-art.

I don't make a division between an art film and commercial art.

Every man has seen the wall that limits his mind.

Learning how to weigh evidence and fairly re-establish a boundary can be as much an art as a science.

That kind of thing is stopped at the gate, just like plastic gift baskets and irony.