Fine Lines Quotes - Page 6

• In the sense that Watchmen references movies, comic books, pop culture in general. It knows it's a movie. I really do like movies that ride that fine line, the razor's edge between parody and supporting the fake movie part of the movie.

  Zack Snyder

  Book, Fake, Culture

  Source: therumpus.net

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• The solution to staying on the right side of the fine line between using and abusing grace is repentance. The road to repentance is godly sorrow (2 Corinthians 7:10). Godly sorrow is developed when we focus on the true nature of sin as an offense against God rather than something that makes us feel guilty.

  Jerry Bridges

  Godly, Focus, Grace

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• There's a fine line between a stream of consciousness and a babbling brook to nowhere.

  Dan Harmon

  Lines, Consciousness, Brooks

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• What a fine line there is between artistry and insanity. There's no formula for it, and I think a lot of people when they're around you - even those closest to you - when you're in that whirl of creativity and you're grabbing those things out of the air, there's no rational process.

  Ronnie Dunn

  Creativity, Thinking, Air

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• The intricate engraving, fine lines, beading and milgrain accents echo an era defined by elaborate embellishments.

  Vera Wang

  Echoes, Lines, Eras

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• There is a fine line in the Third World between half a dozen customs officials waiting for you to offer them a bribe and half a dozen customs officials waiting for you to offer them a bribe
  so they can throw you in jail.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Jail, Waiting, Half

  P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “All the Trouble in the World: The Lighter Side of Overpopulation, Famine, Ecological Disaster, Ethnic Hatred, Plague, and Poverty”, p.44, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• With a living person you're always burdened with this idea of fair representation, treading this fine line between honoring the person, and yet you really look at the word "honor," it implies that you then have to address struggle and hardship and failure, and all these things that it means to be human, that you show the fullness of their life. If the person's living, they are able to interject.

  Brian Lindstrom

  Struggle, Mean, Ideas

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Being comedic is a skill, because there is a fine line where the context is important. And being dramatic is just being honest and real in that moment.

  Bob Odenkirk

  Real, Skills, Important

  Source: www.salon.com

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• there is a fine line between sarcasm and hostility, you seemed to have crossed it. What's up?

  Cassandra Clare

  Sarcasm, Lines, Fine

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• Well, I'd certainly hate to interrupt your pleasant night stroll with my sudden death." He blinked. "There is a fine line between sarcasm and outright hostility, and you seem to have crossed it. What's up?

  Cassandra Clare

  Hate, Sarcasm, Night

  Cassandra Clare (2008). “City of Bones”, p.216, Simon and Schuster

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• I wear some of my stuff, but usually the less in-your-face designs. I get a little self conscious, there is a fine line between pride and ego.

  Shepard Fairey

  Pride, Self, Design

  Source: www.complex.com

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• I know I walk a fine line between being a respected actor and being what they call a sex symbol.

  Eva Mendes

  Sex, Actors, Lines

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

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• It's a fine line to find that balance: to show people enough to give them the promise of something unique, and something they want to see, but at the same time make sure that when they show up for the movie, they're surprised by what they eventually get.

  Joseph Kosinski

  Unique, People, Giving

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

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• There's a very fine line between being artistic and being a dickhead - it's like love and hate.

  Peter Hook

  Hate, Like Love, Lines

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• There is this fine line between presenting to You all of my weakness and thinking that it can't be done. In Your strength, I find my own.

  Joni Eareckson Tada

  Thinking, Weakness, Done

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• For artists, there's a very fine line between delusion and belief.

  Brian Koppelman

  Artist, Lines, Belief

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• There's a fine line in being too specific so you can't be too flexible, and being too vague in being specific and people not thinking it's meaningful.

  Jim Nussle

  Meaningful, Thinking, People

  The Arena Interview with Seung Min Kim, www.politico.com.

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• There is a fine line between assertiveness and being relaxed.

  Justin Guarini

  Lines, Fine, Assertive

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• A good actor is like a racehorse or a Ferrari. If a cylinder is missing on a Chevy, it's doesn't matter that much. But if something's not working right on a Ferrari, it makes a big difference. It's the three percent that makes the difference between good and great. It's a fine line. If you're not there, it's very painful.

  Christopher Walken

  Differences, Missing, Ferrari

  Source: www.donshewey.com

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• There's a fine line between masturbating while you look out a window, and masturbating while you're looking in a window. I'll give you a hint: one of 'em is super illegal.

  Dave Attell

  Funny, Humor, Giving

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• It's a fine line of doing what's good for your life and what your parents want you to do, but also following your dreams. With my parents, when I was younger, I always had to do two things. If I was acting, I always had to do a sport or something on the arts side of things, along with that. That way, if one fell apart, I always had something else to fall back on.

  Kaley Cuoco

  Sports, Dream, Art

  Source: collider.com

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• There's a fine line between participation and mockery.

  Scott Adams

  Criticism, Lines, Cynicism

  Scott Adams (2007). “Stick to Drawing Comics, Monkey Brain!: Cartoonist Explains Cloning, Blouse Monsters, Voting Machines, Romance, Monkey G ods, How to Avoid Being Mistaken for a Rodent, and More”, p.440, Penguin

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• There's a fine line between marketing and grand theft.

  Scott Adams

  Funny Work, Marketing, Lines

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• There's a very fine line between anxiety and excitement. If you don't let anxiety stop you, you can nudge it over the line.

  Robert Anthony

  Anxiety, Lines, Enthusiasm

  Robert Anthony (2004). “Beyond Positive Thinking: A No-Nonsense Formula for Getting the Results You Want”, p.149, Morgan James Publishing

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• There's a fine line between being colorful and being an asshole, and I hope I'm still just colorful.

  Ted Turner

  Lines, Fine, Stills

  Ted Turner, Janet Lowe (1999). “Ted Turner speaks: insight from the world's greatest maverick”, Wiley

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