Quotes about Fine Line

Independent films in this country are in the same position. Miramax and Fine Line are not independent - they're with Disney! Come on. Or they're with Warner Brothers. They're all with somebody. Votes: 3

Life is that perfect fine line between ironies. Votes: 2

There is a fine line between serendipity and stalking. Votes: 2

There is a fine line between assertiveness and being relaxed. Votes: 2

There's a fine line between character building and soul destroying. Votes: 2

There's a fine line between the Method actor and the schizophrenic. Votes: 2

There's a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line. Votes: 2

There is a fine line between censorship and good taste and moral responsibility. Votes: 2

There is a very fine line between loving life and being greedy for it. Votes: 2

There's a fine line between fishing and just standing on the shore like an idiot. Votes: 2

There's a fine line between angry and grumpy. Angry isn't nice, but grumpy is funny. Votes: 2

There's a fine line between a stream of consciousness and a babbling brook to nowhere. Votes: 2

There's a fine line between stubbornness and the positive side of that, which is dogged determination. Votes: 2

There's a fine line between physical and thug ball, and the Knicks have crossed the line on occasion. Votes: 2

Being self-critical is good; being self-hating is destructive. There's a very fine line there somewhere, and I walk it carefully. Votes: 2

What strikes me is that there's a very fine line between success and failure. Just one ingredient can make the difference. Votes: 2

There's a fine line between saying, 'You can't tell me what I can and can't do,' and taking on board people's opinions. Votes: 2

But there's a difference between having artistic interests and being psychotic. That's more than a fine line of differentiation, and I do see that a bit too much. Votes: 2

Stubbornness and ignorance and determination are a very fine line from each other. I'm a very stubborn person, but not so stubborn that I can't learn new things and meet new people, but I have a one-track mind. Votes: 2

Where I've arrived now is the product of mixing the very straight with the very exploratory; there's a fine line between the two, although it tends to be getting straighter and straighter because my songwriting is getting better. Votes: 2

I've always been fascinated by the difference between the jokes you can tell your friends but you can't tell to an audience. There's a fine line you have to tread because you don't know who is out there in the auditorium. A lot of people are too easily offended. Votes: 2

In the courtroom, it's where a lawyer really becomes an actor. There's a very fine line between delivering a monologue in a play and delivering a monologue to a jury. I've always felt that way - I've been in a lot of courtrooms. The best lawyers are really theatrical. Votes: 2

I put myself in the place of the listener when editing my writing. The last thing that I want to do is be preached at and told who to be or what to think when listening to an artist. However, I do want to be inspired. There's a fine line. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

Most people in the Western world grow up with the received wisdom that Mozart was a genius. But few people necessarily know why. More than anyone else, he captured this something which is the human condition, the fine line that we all constantly dance between joy and pain, between absolute happiness and absolute heartbreak. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

The fine line between roaring with laughter and crying because it's a disaster is a very, very fine line. You see a chap slip on a banana skin in the street and you roar with laughter when he falls slap on his backside. If in doing so you suddenly see he's broken a leg, you very quickly stop laughing and it's not a joke anymore. Votes: 2

There's a fine line between giving the sense of freedom and being too free. Votes: 1

There's a fine line between forgiveness and denial. Votes: 0

There's a fine line between participation and mockery. Votes: 0

There's a fine line between information and propaganda. Votes: 0

There's a fine line between audacity and idiocy. Votes: 0

Its a fine line between love and stalking. Votes: 0

There is a fine line between perseverance and madness. Votes: 0

There's a fine line between cultural criticism and bitterness. Votes: 0

There is a fine line between insanity and genius. Votes: 0

There is a fine line between passion and gas. Votes: 0

There's a fine line between marketing and grand theft. Votes: 0

There's such a fine line between defeat and losing. Votes: 0

It's such a fine line between stupid and clever. Votes: 0

There is a fine line between stubborn and stupid. Votes: 0

There is a very fine line between love and nausea. Votes: 0

There is a very fine line between listening and stalking. Votes: 0

It's a fine line between Saturday night and Sunday morning. Votes: 0

There's a fine line between being private and being ashamed. Votes: 0

For artists, there's a very fine line between delusion and belief. Votes: 0

There is a very fine line between hobby and mental illness. Votes: 0

Sometimes I think that there's a fine line between impressionistic and messy. Votes: 0

There is sometimes only a very fine line between deliberation and procrastination. Votes: 0

Writers ... I think ... live on that fine line between insanity and genius ... Votes: 0

Think about scary movies: There's a fine line between horror and humor. Votes: 0

There`s a fine line between balanced journalism and trial by television. Votes: 0

There's a fine line between a superpower and a chronic medical condition. Votes: 0

There's a fine line between genius and insanity, as we all know. Votes: 0

There's a fine line between being a sicko and an adventurous spirit. Votes: 0

The line you tow is a sign that all will be fine! Votes: 0

There is a fine line between optimism and delusion. I cross it often. Votes: 0

The line between angry young woman and grumpy old lady is very fine. Votes: 0

In this world, there is a fine line between enlightenment and brain damage. Votes: 0

In politics, there's a fine line between too much conviction and too little. Votes: 0

There's a very fine line between one person's reality and another person's fantasy. Votes: 0

Theres a fine line between playing a dim-witted character and playing a cartoon. Votes: 0

It seems a fine line between being a matador and being a rodeo clown Votes: 0

There was a fine line between irritation and having icicles hurled at your face." Votes: 0

Surprise is not humor. I think that there can be a fine line there. Votes: 0

The fine line between genius and madness is a punch line. Duck, you idiot! Votes: 0

There's a fine line between being sweet and innocent and being a tough broad. Votes: 0

A chasm reminds us that there is a fine line between bravery and idiocy. Votes: 0

The spider's touch, how exquisitely fine! Feels at each thread, and lives along the line. Votes: 0

With thrillers, there's such a fine line between what's good and what's cheesy and corny. Votes: 0

For me, there's a fine line between being a cheeseball and being a good performer. Votes: 0

There's a fine line between pleasure and pain. Love me like a ball and chain. Votes: 0

There's a fine line between fishing and just standing on the shore like an idiot Votes: 0

There's a very fine line between giving someone the Heimlich maneuver and dry-humping a stranger. Votes: 0

The emergence of Casual Fridays has created a fine line of fashion ion dos and donts. Votes: 0

There's a fine line between fiction and non-fiction and I think I snorted it somewhere in 1979 Votes: 0

...there is a fine line between wishing to produce child-like astonishment and treating people like infants. Votes: 0

Don't hoo, hoo, hoo me. There's a fine line between hoo, hoo, hoo and hiel, hiel, hiel. Votes: 0

Just when everything seems to go along just fine, Life comes by and throws you its line. Votes: 0

there is a fine line between sarcasm and hostility, you seemed to have crossed it. What's up? Votes: 0

Theres a fine line between physical and thug ball, and the Knicks have crossed the line on occasion. Votes: 0

There's a fine line between career criminals and career professionals because most of us fall somewhere in between. Votes: 0

There's a fine line between being colorful and being an asshole, and I hope I'm still just colorful. Votes: 0

There's a very fine line between being artistic and being a dickhead - it's like love and hate. Votes: 0

There's a fine line between playing with fear and then taking bad plays and playing with no fear. Votes: 0

There's a fine line between support and stalking and let's all stay on the right side of that. Votes: 0

There is a fine line between a sleepover and just drinking way too much at someone else's house. Votes: 0

The line is very delicate and fine between being what one might call sane or insane, well or unwell. Votes: 0

I know I walk a fine line between being a respected actor and being what they call a sex symbol. Votes: 0

The very fine line between loneliness and solitude, reflection; being alone, always appealed to me when I was a kid. Votes: 0

There is a fine line between free speech and hate speech. Free speech encourages debate whereas hate speech incites violence. Votes: 0

The fine line that you do when you do political comedy is, as long as you have that laugh, you're fine. Votes: 0

What strikes me is that theres a very fine line between success and failure. Just one ingredient can make the difference. Votes: 0

We go there with confidence, but we know there is a very fine line between success and failure in this game. Votes: 0

Love is great, love is fine. Out the box, out of line. The affliction of the feeling leaves me wanting more. Votes: 0

There's a fine line between love and hate.Love frees a soul and in the same breath can sometimes suffocate it. Votes: 0

A fine line separates the weary recluse from the fearful hermit. Finer still is the line between hermit and bitter misanthrope. Votes: 0

I've always maintained that there is a very fine line between a daring, sexy older woman and mutton dressed as lamb. Votes: 0

There is a fine line between seeing something that's lost as missing, and seeing it as something that might be found. Votes: 0

At home I have a Tibetan terrier. I'm still not sure if he's a genius or very thick. It's a fine line. Votes: 0

There's definitely a fine line between tasteful and tasteless, and as a stylist, it's a line you want to ride very carefully. Votes: 0

There's a very fine line between pleasure and pain. They are two sides of the same coin, one not existing without the other. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

The hard part is that this is a very fine line. There's right on one side of it, and crazy on the other. Votes: 0

There's a very fine line between a groove and a rut; a fine line between eccentrics and people who are just plain nuts. Votes: 0

There's a very fine line between a groove and a rut a fine line between eccentrics and people who are just plain nuts. Votes: 0

Theres a very fine line between not listening and not caring. I like to think I walk that line everyday of my life. Votes: 0

My wife has a line of fine Indian foods, that's kind of a very successful business. It's an interesting way to see life. Votes: 0

I think it's OK to talk about your military service, but there's a fine line between, you know, too much and just about right. Votes: 0

I always reference 'Mad Max' when I think about what I want to wear. But it's a fine line between that and 'Edward Scissorhands'. Votes: 0

It's a fine line between writing something with genuine emotional impact and turning into little idiots feeling sorry for ourselves and playing stadium rock. Votes: 0

Arrogance is a killer, and wearing ambition on one's sleeve can have the same effect. There is a fine line between arrogance and self-confidence. Votes: 0

Sometimes you can play against type, or you can just repeat what they've already done. It can be an obstacle; it's a very fine line. Votes: 0

I am a fan of overdoing something, but not running it into the ground. They are complete opposites with only a fine line separating them. Votes: 0

But I was waiting for some magical moment, that would prove to me, forever would be fine. Meanwhile, my first love was standing first in line. Votes: 0

Redheaded Peckerwood, which unerringly walks the fine line between fiction and nonfiction, is a disturbingly beautiful narrative about unfathomable violence and its place on the land Votes: 0

Hence no force, however great, can stretch a cord, however fine, into a horizontal line which is accurately straight: there will always be a bending downwards. Votes: 0

It's always a fine line. If you overdo (aggression) it's 'ugly Australians', but if you have a smile on your face it's Australia being too nice. Votes: 0

The difference between ambition and discontent is quite a fine line and sometimes it is hard to tell which is which and which you are feeling! Votes: 0

I am very interested in that fine line between fiction and reality and between comedy and tragedy - and pushing the line as much as possible. Votes: 0

Line is so versatile - you can do a fine, tight, closely observed description or simply put a line around an idea - like a cartoonist. Votes: 0

There is no line between fine art and illustration; there is no high or low art; there is only art, and it comes in many forms. Votes: 0

For I had loved Seid even in his darkest hours, even as he cursed me and we rode upon a fine line between ardor and abhorrence Votes: 0

Without trying to get too self-indulgent, there's a fine line between making something that's soundtracky and cinematic, or making it sound like a bad 70s prog-rock record. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Don't get me wrong, I like to cuddle. But there is such a fine line between cuddling and holding someone down so that they can't get away. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

There's a fine line between what would characterize you as a troglodyte and what would characterize you as a brilliant, avant-garde, forward-thinking genius. There's some middle ground. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

That's the beauty of this great sport (track), though-it's such a fine line between success or not, which makes the sweet moments that much more worth savoring. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

As you get older, you realize it's work. It's that fine line between love and companionship. But passionate love? I'd love to know how to make that last. Votes: 0

I'm losing touch with reality and I'm almost out of blow. It's such a fine line, I hate to see it go. Cocaine, runnin' all 'round my brain. Votes: 0

The relationship between the public and the artist is complex and difficult to explain. There is a fine line between using this critical energy creatively and pandering to it. Votes: 0

What shall I say? I must tread a fine line between glaciosity and friendlinosity. With just a hint of 'you don't know what you are missing, my fine-feathered friend. Votes: 0

Humour is a fine line to walk in poetry, as in fiction. I just think it's harder to write. It's harder to keep the respect of the reader too." Votes: 0

Wasn't that the way it always was? You didn't know, you couldn't tell, you just let it happen... Perhaps they didn't know themselves. Sometimes the line was very fine. Votes: 0

I don't think you can hate anything that you know intimately. There is no fine line separating love from hate because there's a deep chasm separating love from hate. Votes: 0

There's a fine line between heartbreak and love. It's a compliment when someone tells me my music put them in a place when where they were almost in tears. Votes: 0

There are so many cliches associated with mental health - such as the 'fine line between lunacy and genius' - which are, on the whole, a load of rubbish. Votes: 0

In writing non-fiction about people who are living, you are always walking a fine line, carrying a burden to be fair that, in my opinion, should always be there. Votes: 0

That's what everyone forgets these days: there's a fine line between sanity and insanity. Lots of people are on the edge. We can't be in perfect balance all the time. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

The line between confidence and arrogance is very fine, Josh," Flamel said quietly. "And the line between arrogance and stupidity even finer. Sophie," he added, without looking at her. Votes: 0

I'm an extremist, I have to deal with my own extreme personality, and I walk the fine line of wanting to die and wanting to be the ruler of it all. Votes: 0

For me, there's a fine line between telling a story that's fictional with lots of details and then removing yourself too much from it, so it's bloodless, a little too fictional. Votes: 0

When do you know you're insane? And when do you known you're sane? I think I treat a fine line between the two. It's a battle to function, but somehow I manage. Votes: 0

It does, Tennyson, because there's a fine line between confidence and arrogance. There's a fine line between being assertive and being a bully. And you're on the wrong side of both lines. Votes: 0

There's been so many different types of musicals, and it's a funny genre because there's a fine line between clever and stupid. It really takes a genius to know how to do it. Votes: 0

I have this certain vision of the way I want my comics to look; this sort of photographic realism, but with a certain abstraction that comics can give. It's kind of a fine line. Votes: 0

It's a fine line we walk on 'Warehouse 13.' We really earn our dramatic moments, but our tongues are always firmly in our cheeks. If we take ourselves too seriously, we get into trouble. Votes: 0

We work very, very hard to find that fine line where location is meaningful enough to be interesting to an advertiser but not so intrusive that it interrupts the creative flow of the show. Votes: 0

I am somebody who... - I'm not saying I'm perfect, but I need that freedom, that ability to make mistakes out there. Because there's a fine line between making a mistake or being brilliant. Votes: 0

For me, language and how I use it are very important. I held back on doing a poetry book, walking the fine line between trying to be helpful and just putting more junk out there. Votes: 0

It's sort of a fine line where you're dying to express it and then hoping no one really gets it that closely. But I'm pretty much over that. I'd really just like to be understood. Votes: 0

I feel like I walk a very fine line between wanting someone to be open and vulnerable and honest with me and the listeners, but not wanting anyone to ever feel like I'm exploiting them. Votes: 0

There's a fine line between thinking about somebody and thinking about not thinking about somebody, but I have the patience and the self-control to walk that line for hours - days, if I have to. Votes: 0

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? Votes: 0

Just, as I have traveled around from school to school, whether it's project-based learning or an outward bound curriculum, it's very hard to tell the difference between charters and public anymore. There's no fine line. Votes: 0