Crossings Quotes - Page 13

• If a playwright tried to see eye to eye with everybody, he would get the worst case of strabismus since Hannibal lost an eye trying to count his nineteen elephants during a snowstorm while crossing the Alps.

  James Thurber

  Eye, Elephants, Theatre

  James Thurber (1990). “Collecting Himself: James Thurber on Writing and Writers, Humor and Himself”

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• Yesterday I saw a chicken crossing the road. I asked it why. It told me it was none of my business.

  Steven Wright

  Funny, Business, Humor

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• A critic is a gong at a railroad crossing clanging loudly and vainly as the train goes by.

  Christopher Morley

  Religion, Railroads, Gongs

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• For me, it's church and state, not church in state, and I really feel there are some churches in central Ohio crossing that line.

  Eric Williams

  Ohio, Church, Lines

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• Laughter would appear to be a physical reflex, although even if it is, this still leaves unanswered the question of why the human response to humor is a convulsive spasm of the respiratory mechanism rather than a crossing of the eyes or a waving of the arms.

  Steve Allen

  Laughter, Eye, Arms

  Steve Allen, Jane Wollman (1992). “How to be funny: discovering the comic you”

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• It's very difficult to know when you're crossing the boundary. I hate the word boundary because I never think about it when taking a picture. Very often it doesn't mean anything because it depends on who's looking at the picture more than the content of the picture itself.

  Carine Roitfeld

  Hate, Mean, Thinking

  Interview with Karl Lagerfeld, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 18, 2011.

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• The best practice is to follow the advice posted on every railroad crossing: Stop. Look. Listen.

  Sam Keen

  Best Practices, Advice, Railroads

  Source: www.spiritualityandpractice.com

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• Passion, though a bad regulator, is a powerful spring. Any absorbing passion has the effect to deliver from the little coils and cares of every day: 'tis the heat which sets our human atoms spinning, overcomes the friction of crossing thresholds, and first addresses in society, and gives us a good start and speed, easy to continue, when once it is begun.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Powerful, Spring, Passion

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations”, p.419

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• If a man is crossing the river and an empty boat collides with his skiff, even though he is a bad tempered man he will not become very angry. But if he sees a man in the other boat he will scream and shout and curse at the man to steer clear. If you can empty your own boat crossing the river of the world, no one will oppose you, no one will seek to harm you. Thus is the perfect man - his boat is empty.

  Zhuangzi

  Men, Rivers, Perfect

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• The biggest problem in countries that don't have a tradition in animation or a film industry, is that precisely, that it's not an industrial activity as it is in Hollywood where there are clear production procedures. Because of this we all become snipers making our films any way we can and crossing our fingers to get distribution so people can see them.

  Raul Garcia

  Country, People, Hollywood

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• Lawyers-they get together all day and say to each other, "What can we postpone next?" The only thing they don't postpone, of course, is their bill, which arrives regularly. You've heard about the man who got the bill from his lawyer which said, "For crossing the street to speak to you and discovering it was not you, twelve dollars."

  George S. Kaufman

  Men, Together, Bills

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• Crossing the Finish Line is a must-read for anyone concerned with the disturbing fact that Americans can no longer count on each generation being better educated than the last. Focusing on public institutions that educate more than three-fourths of U.S. students, Bowen, Chingos, and McPherson provide compelling arguments that institutions and policymakers must find new ways to overcome deeply entrenched patterns if our country is to regain its position as the most educated.

  Molly Corbett Broad

  Country, Overcoming, Three

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• Courage is crossing a starting line.

  Amby Burfoot

  Lines, Starting

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• Because after you've crossed some lines, you just keep crossing them. And there's no escaping from constant escape. Distracting ourselves. Avoiding confrontation. Getting past the moment. Jacking off. Television. Denial.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Past, Escaping, Denial

  Chuck Palahniuk (2001). “Choke: A Novel”, Anchor Books

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• When you find out a man's ruling passion, beware of crossing him in it.

  William Hazlitt

  Passion, Men, Ruling

  William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.1482, Delphi Classics

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• As the refugee crisis unfolds across Europe, another is looming in our backyard. The number of children crossing the southwest border unaccompanied has quietly surged more than a year after President [Barack] Obama referred to the problem as a quote "urgent humanitarian situation."

  Joy-Ann Reid

  Children, Years, Europe

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• Going over to Lesvos in Greece and meeting some of these poor refugees who have just made the treacherous sea crossing opened my eyes in a way I can't even being to describe. It's put a fire in my belly to really try to do something, the little I can do.

  Douglas Booth

  Eye, Fire, Sea

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I had been a fan of the show [Flash] for many years, had auditioned several times, and knew it was coming towards the end of its run. I was just crossing my fingers and hoping that something worked out. It was such a dream come true.

  Danielle Panabaker

  Running, Dream, Years

  Source: www.marieclaire.com

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• The Internet has been an invaluable acquisition. I wonder how we would do without it. Information can be sent from one country to the other within the space of minutes, crossing channels, crossing oceans, crossing continents. But still, we can't compete with the might and power and wealth of those who dominate, control, and own the means of the production of information today.

  Tariq Ali

  Country, Ocean, Mean

  Interview with David Barsamian, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. January 31, 2002.

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• Absent the rapid mobilization of climate advocates at every level - and the pooling of all their energy, creativity, and resources into a coordinated, no-holds-barred campaign - we will soon be crossing the threshold into climate hell.

  Ross Gelbspan

  Creativity, Energy, Climate

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• I think what the Church should ideally do, and does appear to do in the context of straight relationships, is to support people in crossing from the easier pleasure of momentary carnal satisfaction, into the more difficult pleasure of love and family and relationship.

  Andrew Solomon

  Thinking, People, Support

  Source: andrewsolomon.com

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• I do not allow myself to suppose that either the convention or the League, have concluded to decide that I am either the greatest or the best man in America, but rather they have concluded it is not best to swap horses while crossing the river, and have further concluded that I am not so poor a horse that they might not make a botch of it in trying to swap.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Change, Horse, Men

  Abraham Lincoln (1907). “Letters and addresses of Abraham Lincoln”

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• I do believe deeply that all human beings, male and female, are sexual beings, most likely bisexual beings channeled this way and that by cultures terrified of boundary crossings without passports stamped gay or straight.

  Robin Morgan

  Believe, Gay, Bisexual

  Robin Morgan (2014). “The Anatomy of Freedom: Feminism in Four Dimensions”, p.129, Open Road Media

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• New York was the only city I knew in the world where you could be desperately lonely at nine in the morning, crossing the street for a bagel at Gristede's, and find that seven hours later you were drinking Irish coffee at P.J. Clarke's with all the friends you had inherited along the way.

  Shirley MacLaine

  Lonely, Morning, New York

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• Letters crossing in the post, unfamiliar tunes heard three times in one day, the way that blows of fate descend upon the same bowed shoulders, and the beams of good fortune glow perpetually upon the blessed. Fairy tales, as I said, are lived out daily. There is far more going on in the world than we ever imagine.

  Fay Weldon

  Life, Blessed, Fate

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