Fence Quotes - Page 11

• See the cat at love, rolling with its sweetheart, up and over, with shriek and moan. But if a person comes by, they break away, sit separate upon a fence washing their faces - and might never have met at all.

  Stevie Smith

  Cat, Rolling, Might

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• It [Border fence] hasn't worked. What has worked is more border patrols... What has worked is some technology.

  Bill Richardson

  Borders, Border Patrol

  "Meet the Press" with Tim Russert, www.nbcnews.com. May 27, 2007.

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• It's plain that a fence is of no consequence, If the ambulance works in the valley.

  Joseph Malins

  Valleys, Ambulance, Ifs

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• Anyway, I'm doing my rave and this spittle comes out of my mouth and it winds its way very delicately through the wire fence that separates us and lands clear and bright on Denzel's lip. And we're at the beginning of the scene and I've got to do the rest of the scene, and the camera isn't on him, it's on me - and I'm fully aware that I've just spat on Denzel Washington!

  Russell Crowe

  Wind, Land, Wire

  "American Gangster - Russell Crowe interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• Still putting out the O'Reilly fires of me being a traitor and using Casey's name dishonorably, my in-laws sent out a press statement disagreeing with me in strong terms; which is totally okay with me, because they barely knew Casey. We have always been on separate sides of the fence politically and I have not spoken to them since the election when they supported the man who is responsible for Casey's death. The thing that matters to me is that our family - Casey's dad and my other 3 kids are on the same side of the fence that I am.

  Cindy Sheehan

  Strong, Dad, Kids

  "Camp Casey: Day 6" by Cindy Sheehan, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 12, 2005.

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• And I've found that since you can't electrify yourself like a fence, the next best thing is to have murderer's eyes.

  Laini Taylor

  Eye, Next, Found

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• I think the play offers (white Americans) a different way to look at black Americans For instance, in 'Fences' they see a garbageman, a person they don't really look at, although they see a garbageman every day. By looking at Troy's life, white people find out that the content of this black garbageman's life is affected by the same things- love, honor, beauty, betrayal, duty. Recognizing that these things are as much part of his life as theirs can affect how they think about and deal with black people in their lives.

  August Wilson

  Betrayal, Thinking, Play

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• For some odd reason, I had an early and extreme multidisciplinary cast of mind. I couldn't stand reaching for a small idea in my own discipline when there was a big idea right over the fence in somebody else's discipline. So I just grabbed in all directions for the big ideas that would really work.

  Charlie Munger

  Ideas, Discipline, Mind

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• If my wheel comes off and I hit the fence real hard, I get to whack every damn one of you with a hammer.

  Dale Earnhardt, Jr.

  Real, Hammers, Wheels

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• It means eating your words, this thing of refusing to be a fence-sitter, but I'd rather eat my words than get calluses from sitting.
  No one who has not experienced the condescension of a buyer toward an ordinary salesgirl can have any conception of its withering effect.

  Mary Barnett Gilson

  Mean, Ordinary, Sitting

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• Tis better using France than trusting France;
  Let us be back'd with God, and with the seas,
  Which He hath given for fence impregnable,
  And with their helps only defend ourselves;
  In them, and in ourselves, our safety lies.

  William Shakespeare

  Lying, Sea, Safety

  William Shakespeare (1830). “The Dramatic Works of William Shakspeare: Accurately Printed from the Text of the Corrected Copy Left by the Late George Steevens ...”, p.73

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• 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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• 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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• In 2006, the Secure Fence Act was signed into law, requiring the Department of Homeland Security to build upward of 700 miles of double layered fencing along the U. S-Mexico border. While the Obama administration is quick to state that the targets have been met, only a small fraction - in fact, less than 40 miles - of the newly implemented infrastructure is double-layered.

  Duncan Hunter

  Law, Immigration, Borders

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• Sometimes one sees people butter their slices of bread with long, slow, admiring strokes in the same way in which Tom Sawyer's friends whitewashed the fence. Never butter an entire slice of bread at one time.

  Mary Elizabeth Clark

  Long, People, Way

  Mary Elizabeth Clark, Margery Closey Quigley (1939). “Etiquette Every Child Should Know”

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• A number of people who have supported me on the border fence in the U.S. have observed the fences in Israel and their effectiveness.

  Duncan Hunter

  Israel, Effectiveness, Numbers

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• Last week, when I went early into my garden, a rose-breasted grosbeak was sitting on the fence. Oh, he was beautiful as a flower. I hardly dared to breathe, I did not stir, and we gazed at each other fully five minutes before he concluded to move.

  Celia Thaxter

  Beautiful, Flower, Moving

  Celia Thaxter (1896). “Letters of Celia Thaxter”

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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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• Some medical beast had revived tar-water in those days as a fine medicine, and Mrs. Joe always kept a supply of it in the cupboard; having a belief in its virtues correspondent to its nastiness. At the best of times, so much of this elixir was administered to me as a choice restorative, that I was conscious of going about, smelling like a new fence.

  Charles Dickens

  Funny, Humorous, Medicine

  Charles Dickens (1861). “Great Expectations”, p.18

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• Ansel [Adams] always jumped over the fence to photograph, walked past the garbage. He always looked to get an immaculate view, and I spent my life stepping back to include the garbage in my photographic view.

  Rondal Partridge

  Past, Views, Garbage

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• You have to bring to the photograph a prejudice about something, and I'm prejudiced against farmers who tie dead animals on fences. Therefore, I can make a meaningful photograph.

  Rondal Partridge

  Meaningful, Animal, Ties

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• When you're trying to please both sides of the fence at the same time you really can't do that.

  Rakim

  Trying, Sides, Please

  Source: halftimeonline.net

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• One can be a faithful disciple of Jesus Christ without denying the flickers of the sacred in followers of Yahweh, or Kali, or Krishna. A globalization of evangelism 'in connection' with others, and a globally 'in-formed' gospel, is capable of talking across the fence with Hindu, Buddhist, Sikh, Muslim - people from other so called 'new' religious traditions ('new' only to us) - without assumption of superiority and power

  Leonard Sweet

  Religious, Sweet, Jesus

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