Fence Quotes - Page 11

• I loved Catwoman's sense of humor. I love how sly she is. I love how she, to use a cat metaphor, walks the fence and you don't know which side she's going to come down on. She's totally independent. And let's face it, she's badass.

  Anne Hathaway

  Badass, Independent, Cat

  "Anne Hathaway Talks Fighting in Heels, Adapting to Nolan’s Universe, Filming in IMAX and More on the Set of THE DARK KNIGHT RISES". Interview on the Set, collider.com. May 27, 2012.

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• Processions that lack high stilts have nothing that catches the eye.
  What if my great-granddad had a pair that were twenty foot high,
  And mine were but fifteen foot, no modern stalks upon higher,
  Some rogue of the world stole them to patch up a fence or a fire.

  William Butler Yeats

  Eye, Fire, Feet

  William Butler Yeats (1962). “Poems of William Butler Yeats”, p.193, Hayes Barton Press

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• The greatest successes grow out of great failures. In numerous instances the result is better that comes after a series of abortive experiences than it would have been if it had come at once; for all these successive failures induce a skill which is so much additional power working into the final achievement.... The hand that evokes such perfect music from the instrument has often failed in its touch, and bungled among the keys.... Every disappointed effort fences in and indicates the only possible path of success, and makes it easier to find.

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin

  Keys, Hands, Skills

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• Love means setting aside walls, fences, and unlocking doors and saying 'Yes.' One can be in paradise by simply saying 'yes' to this moment.

  Pat Rodegast

  Wall, Attitude, Mean

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• When you're taking a fence on a horse, you don't think much; your body does all the thinking, and you're over or you're not over. It's much the same when you are doing a tricky thing with a pen. There are times when I'm writing very, very fast.

  Patrick O'Brian

  Horse, Writing, Thinking

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• There were a lot of fences and walls existing in my life, literally and figuratively, and that was really not indicative of the kind of person that I'd always been. So, when I moved back to Seattle, the first thing I said was, "I will never live in fear again."

  Ben Gibbard

  Wall, Firsts, Kind

  "Q&A: Death Cab for Cutie Unpack Chris Walla’s Departure and New Album ‘Kintsugi’". Interview with Kyle McGovern, www.spin.com. April 3, 2015.

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• I’d like to have a nice home set up, with a couple of dogs, and a fence, white picket fence.

  Martin Starr

  Dog, Couple, Nice

  "Martin Starr’s Star Turn". Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 21, 2012.

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• You have to understand for my whole life I have been romanticized by this other side of the fence. This whole darker, egotistically, sort of mean world. I fully embraced that world and three or four years ago I completely walked away from that world, literally.

  Shane Bunting

  Mean, Years, Sides

  Source: 411mania.com

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• I jumped horses over big dangerous fences in competition. And got very, very good at it, at quite a high level. And I realized long since that, yeah, it's the same thing that appeals to me about it. You can't think about anything else, in either case; jumping horses in competition, show jumping, or flying an airplane, for whatever purpose.

  James Lipton

  Horse, Airplane, Thinking

  Interview with Austin Allen, bigthink.com. February 9, 2010.

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• I'll miss it until the day I die, and I'm convinced to this day that I can get on a horse and jump a course of fences satisfactorily. It doesn't leave you.

  James Lipton

  Horse, Missing, Courses

  Interview with Austin Allen, bigthink.com. February 9, 2010.

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• I set very bold goals. It's how I've always been. I'm definitely somebody who swings for the fences, and I expect very high performance.

  Ivanka Trump

  Swings, Goal, Performances

  "Ivanka Trump describes her life as the daughter of a potential US president, running the Trump empire, and building her own brand". Interview With Rachel Gillett, uk.businessinsider.com. March 17, 2016.

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• I did interviews with most of the TechCrunch50 experts backstage and there was a common gripe about the companies launching there: Not enough passion, not enough swinging for the fences, not enough trying to change the world... One big exception was CitySourced - a company that excited Kevin Rose precisely because it was trying to build something that doesn't really exist today and would make a huge difference in people's lives. It was the most excited I saw an expert about anything over the two-day event.

  Sarah Lacy

  Passion, Swinging For The Fences, Two

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• Hateful, blasphemous, prejudiced, vulgar, rude, or ignorant remarks are the music of a free society, and the relentless patter of idiots is how we know we're in one. When all the words in our public conversation are fair, good, and true, it's time to make a run for the fence.

  Daniel Gilbert

  Running, Rude, Ignorant

  "What Is Your Dangerous Idea?". Book by John Brockman (p. 43), 2007.

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• You don't need to be an expert in order to achieve satisfactory investment returns. But if you aren't, you must recognize your limitations and follow a course certain to work reasonably well. Keep things simple and don't swing for the fences.

  Warren Buffett

  Simple, Swings, Order

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• One can't build little white picket fences to keep nightmares out.

  Anne Sexton

  White, Littles, Nightmare

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• No map to help us find the tranquil flat lands, clearings calm, fields without mean fences. Rolling down the other side of life our compass is the sureness of ourselves. Time may make us rugged, ragged round the edges, but know and understand that love is still the safest place to land.

  Rod McKuen

  Mean, Love Is, Land

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• I've always loved the drama and the creating of a role and performance and all that comes with that, but I then also kind of like to have just the white picket fence life if that makes sense.

  Nicole Kidman

  Drama, White, Creating

  FaceBook post by Nicole Kidman from Feb 01, 2017

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• [On swinging for the fences] Ultimately, you have the potential to build a significant business with the potential to have a positive impact on millions of people's lives.

  Steve Case

  Life Changing, Impact, Swinging For The Fences

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• I've put live performance in a lot of spaces. Part of what I want to do is take over the takeover. Another way that someone put it is, you climb over the fence and you cut a hole in it, and let everyone else in. That's kind of what this is. The museum is a repository of great works, but there is certain work that no one ever calls great. This is an insistence on directing their attention to other stuff that's great, that never gets to be in a museum.

  Vijay Iyer

  Cutting, Attention, Kind

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Romance isn't about proving to someone you love them with flowers and greeting cards and chocolate. Or even a lock on a fence. It's a daily reminder. It's saying, I choose you. Today and every day.

  Kristen Proby

  Love, Flower, Romance

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• It is a thought as sweet as heaven to know that in the minds of each of us the may by the fence still blooms in an eternal springtime; that the snowdrop has in our hearts a triple birth, and blooms in three separate minds, faultlessly... So that if all the flowers and grasses and hollows and hills of the old house were razed and mutilated - as they are now, I suppose - we keep them intact in three minds, each depending on the other to supply it with the delicate minutiae of remembrance.

  Eve Langley

  Sweet, Art, Women

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• America needs fewer men obsessed with erecting fences of hate, suspicion and name calling.

  William Arthur Ward

  Hate, Men, Names

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• The walls that fence our fields, as well as modern Rome, and not less the Parthenon itself, are all built of ruins.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Wall, Rome, Fields

  Henry David Thoreau (2016). “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers”, p.179, Xist Publishing

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• If the fence is strong enough I'll sit on it.

  Cyril Smith

  Strong, Enough, Ifs

  1974 In the Observer,15 Sep.

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• So it seems that because of every syndrome and disorder we've invented in the past twenty years, the Los Angeles Times reported that 63% of American families are now considered dysfunctional. My God! That means we're the majority. We're normal! It's the people who have the mommy, the daddy, the brother, the sister, the little white picket fence - those people are the freaks, man!

  Christopher Titus

  Brother, Mean, Past

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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