On The Fence Quotes

he was figuratively following along beside her as she walked the fence, ready to catch her if she should fall.

In a complex and troubling world, who wouldn't want to simplify? Everybody does. Everybody wants to simplify and put up a picket fence.

The idea that I have to be on the same side of the fence as Dan Quayle is cruelly depressing to me, but the truth is, I believe in family values.

I never sit on a fence. I am either on one side or another.

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.

Opportunity never sneaks up on those who straddle the fence of indecision.

She was gone, and all that was left was the space where you'd grown around her, like a tree that grows around a fence.

I owe my success to expansion pitching, a short right field fence, and my hollow bats.

I could never understand how we could put 120,000 Japanese behind a fence in World War II. I remember being bewildered about that.

A collection of huts surrounded by a barbed wire fence, and in the huts lived 500 of the original inhabitants of our area. And so it went with many country towns around Australia.

I remembered the 500 people that lived on a reserve outside my little town, behind a big fence.

Fences and walls can be effective and even soothing, at least for those who build them.

Now seen...now gone, The butterfly flits in and out Through fence-hung flowers; But a life lived so close to them I envy...though it's here and gone.

I was trying my best to just stop that ball from going over the fence, I'd sacrifice my body if I have to. I've done that my whole career.

[Movie "Fences"] is more than holds up today. We have had a tremendous response at the screenings.

We just had to stay out-of-the-way [in Fences]. [August Wilson] already wrote a masterpiece. And you really don't know how it's going to work until you get it in front of an audience.

The fence and the boundary line are the symbols of the spirit of justice. They set the limits upon each man's interest to prevent one from taking advantage of the other.

The art of cursing people seems to have lost its tang since the old days when a good malediction took four deep breaths to deliverand sent the outfielders scurrying toward the fence to field.

Words slip into a language the way white-green vines slide between slats in a fence.

I really wanted to show [in "fences"] a marriage that is working. Not perfect, but working.

There are three types of men in the world. One type learns from books. One type learns from observations. And one type just has to urinate on the electric fence himself.

I can't give you the white picket fence, and if I did, you'd set it on fire.

When you create a fence, you keep people out, but you also limit your mobility.

You try to - you want to fly on both sides of the political fence because that's where the - where the comedy is.

Everything in Russia is made of cement - phone booths, fence posts and light bulbs.

Age is a limit we impose upon ourselves. You know, each time you Westerners celebrate your birthday you build another fence around your minds.

Hopping the fence or wading the Rio Grande River isn't part of America's immigration process.

You must have been going very fast." "I was, until I hit the fence.

In New Orleans, where I'm from, the average household income, with two working parents, two kids, a dog and a little fence is $16,000 a year, so $15,000 for a movie sounds pretty good.

Ride at any fence hard enough, and the chances are you'll get over. The harder you ride the heavier the fall, if you get a fall; but the greater the chance of your getting over.

You can turn away the Mexicans, the African-Americans, the teenagers and other suspect groups, but there's no fence high enough to keep out the repo man.

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

Sometimes you have to go outside your boundaries. You have to jump over that fence, but I always felt very comfortable (in my jobs) because I worked with some good people.

President Obama has appointed a new head of the Secret Service. The new Secret Service director was so excited that he jumped over the White House fence for joy.

The top 15 contenders for the Republican nomination own at least 40 guns among them. If we elect a Republican president no one is hopping over the White House fence ever again.

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

At the White House, they caught another fence jumper earlier today. It was Obama trying to get out.

Today was opening day for the new Congress in Washington. And Vice President Joe Biden swore in the new batch of White House fence jumpers.

You'll see some great performances [in Fences]. And I'm not just saying that because I directed it either! You'll see!

[Fences] is just a great play to bring to the screen.

When you're 40, you can't ride the fence anymore. You gotta make definite decisions about your life.

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.

I'm a tomboy at the end of the day, so anything that causes me to have to run around, fight people, roll in the dirt, hop a fence - I'm all for it. So I really would love to do an action film.

If the grass on the other side of the fence is greener, try watering your side.

Really, each era has its own false nostalgia. We all put a picket fence up around something. For my generation it was the '50s, and for other generations it will be something else.

Rousseau defined civilizations as when people build fences.

What is this word that broke through the fence of your teeth, Atreides?

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.

Winning depends on where you put your priorities. It's usually best to put them over the fence.

To give you an idea how bad the American economy is, Mexico is now calling for a fence along the border. Stay on your side!