Crossings Quotes - Page 9

• In a lot of ways, I was kind of crossing lines of what I thought I was comfortable doing. I had to do all this naked stuff.

  Robert Pattinson

  Careers, Acting, Naked

  "'Twilight' Star Robert Pattinson Talks About Nude Scenes In 'Little Ashes'" by Jocelyn Vena, www.mtv.com. March 16, 2009.

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• I'm really afraid of getting hit by cars, like terrified of it. I`m terrified of crossing streets. I'm also very accident-prone...I think people aim for me.

  Robert Pattinson

  Life, Thinking, People

  "Exclusive Twilight Interview: Rob, Kellan, and Jackson". Seventeen Interview, www.seventeen.com. June 9, 2009.

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• Among the environmental trends undermining our future are shrinking forests, expanding deserts, falling water tables, collapsing fisheries, disappearing species, and rising temperatures. The temperature increases bring crop-withering heat waves, more-destructive storms, more-intense droughts, more forest fires, and, of course, ice melting. We are crossing natural thresholds that we cannot see and violating deadlines that we do not recognize.

  Lester R. Brown

  Fall, Ice, Fire

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• Then it was intoxicating. The smooth takeoff, and the free feeling of having the world drop away. Soon after leaving the ground, they were crossing patches of stratus that lay in the valleys as heavy and white as glaciers. North for the first time. It was still an adventure, as exciting as love, as frightening.

  James Salter

  Adventure, White, Feelings

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• Equal partnerships are not made in heaven-they are made on earth, one choice at a time, one conversation at a time, one threshold crossing at a time.

  Bruce C. Hafen

  Funny Marriage, Choices, Heaven

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• Advice to children crossing the street: damn the lights. Watch the cars. The lights ain't never killed nobody.

  Moms Mabley

  Children, Light, Car

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• As I hurtled through space, one thought kept crossing my mind - every part of this rocket was supplied by the lowest bidder.

  John Glenn

  Inspirational, Funny, Humorous

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• It's unacceptable that consumers are punished on their telephone bill simply for crossing a border.

  Viviane Reding

  Borders, Bills, Telephones

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• As a gender variant visual artist I access 'technologies of gender' in order to amplify rather than erase the hermaphroditic traces of my body. I name myself. A gender abolitionist. A part time gender terrorist. An intentional mutation and intersex by design, (as opposed to diagnosis), in order to distinguish my journey from the thousands of intersex individuals who have had their 'ambiguous' bodies mutilated and disfigured in a misguided attempt at 'normalization'. I believe in crossing the line as many times as it takes to build a bridge we can all walk across.

  Del LaGrace Volcano

  Believe, Technology, Journey

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• Style is how you see the world and how the world sees you. It isn't today and it isn't tomorrow; it isn't a dress or a car or a shoe or a comment-it's the cut of your sail as you cross this crazy, uncharted sea. Far ahead, legions of boats have already made the crossing-some grander, some more sleek-and still newer boats are always coming up behind you. Style is the manner in which you navigate your one remarkable voyage.

  Carol Edgarian

  Crazy, Cutting, Sea

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• The crossing of space ... may do much to turn men's minds outwards and away from their present tribal squabbles. In this sense, the rocket, far from being one of the destroyers of civilisation, may provide the safety-value that is needed to preserve it.

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Men, Space, Safety

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• Observing sea, sky and stars, I sought to indicate their plastic function through a multiplicity of crossing verticals and horizontals. Impressed by the vastness of Nature, I was trying to express its expansion, rest and unity.

  Piet Mondrian

  Stars, Sea, Sky

  Piet Mondrian (2008). “Plastic art and pure plastic art, 1937, and other essays, 1941-1943”, Alan Wofsy Fine Arts

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• The Obama administration has issued numerous orders essentially suspending deportations, prompting a major spike in illegal crossings.

  Aaron Klein

  Order, Deportation, Administration

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• I get so much inspiration from my travels, but I also started an exercise where I write down so many words every week. Then I begin crossing them off. We create a grid of words and also images, but words for me are more ample because you can interpret them your own way.

  Francisco Costa

  Inspiration, Writing, Exercise

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• After the conquest of the South Pole by Amundsen who, by a narrow margin of days only, was in advance of the British Expedition under Scott, there remained but one great main object of Antarctic journeying - the crossing of the South Polar continent from sea to sea

  Ernest Shackleton

  Sea, British, Expeditions

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• By ending catch-and-release on the border, we will end the cycle of human smuggling and violence. Illegal border crossings will go down. We will stop it. It won't be happening very much anymore. Believe me.

  Donald Trump

  Believe, Borders, Violence

  Donald Trump's Acceptance Speech at the Republican Convention, time.com. July 22, 2016.

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• We have crossed the boundary that lies between Republic and Empire. If you ask when, the answer is that you cannot make a single stroke between day and night: the precise moment does not matter. There was no painted sign to say: 'You are now entering Imperium.' Yet it was a very old road and the voice of history was saying: 'Whether you know it or not, the act of crossing may be irreversible.' And now, not far ahead, is a sign that reads: 'No U-turns.'

  Garet Garrett

  Lying, Night, Voice

  Garet Garrett (1961). “Rise of Empire”

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• Comedy has been crossing the country with remarkable speed way before the Internet, social media, even cable TV.

  Chris Bliss

  Country, Media, Way

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• Faith is the inspiration of nobleness, it is the strength of integrity; it is the life of love, and is everlasting growth for it; it is courage of soul, and bridges over for our crossing the gulf between worldliness and heavenly-mindedness; and it is the sense of the unseen, without which we could not feel God nor hope for heaven.

  William Mountford

  Faith, Integrity, Inspiration

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 220), 1895.

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• It's incredible how many emotions you feel when crossing the finish line and seeing that you are No. 1.

  Marcel Hirscher

  Lines, Emotion, Incredibles

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• Like a snail crossing a sidewalk, the Clinton Administration leaves a lengthening trail of slime, this time on America's national honor.

  George Will

  America, Honor, Administration

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• Keynes was chief economic adviser to the British government and largely responsible for keeping the British economy afloat at a time when more than half of our gross national product, and all of our foreign exchange, was being spent on the war. I was lucky to be present at one of his rare appearances in Cambridge, when he gave a lecture with the title "Newton, the Man." Four years later he died of heart failure, precipitated by overwork and the hardships of crossing the Atlantic repeatedly in slow propeller-driven airplanes under wartime conditions.

  Freeman Dyson

  War, Heart, Airplane

  "The Scientist As Rebel". Book by Freeman Dyson, 2006.

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• Try to remember this: what you project Is what you will perceive; what you perceive With any passion, be it love or terror, May take on whims and powers of its own. Therefore a numb and grudging circumspection Will serve you best - unless you overdo it, Watching your step too narrowly, refusing To specify a world, shrinking your purview To a tight vision of your inching shoes, Which may, as soon as you come to think, be crossing An unseen gorge upon a rotten trestle.

  Richard Wilbur

  Passion, Thinking, Shoes

  Richard Wilbur (2006). “Collected Poems 1943-2004”, p.235, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• It's lovely that the Hollywood stars are crossing over to Broadway.... There used to be such a dividing line in the country between Hollywood and the theatre and that's just melting away. It's just wonderful right now!

  Julie Andrews

  Country, Stars, Melting Away

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• When love congeals It soon reveals The faint aroma of performing seals, The double-crossing of a pair of heels. I wish I were in love again!

  Lorenz Hart

  Wish, Aroma, Pairs

  "I Wish I Were in Love Again" (song) (1937)

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