Best 79 quotes in «fence quotes» category

If fences don't work, why is there one around the White House.

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

If nowhere else, in the relation between Church and State, "good fences make good neighbors.

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

If the stable gate is closed, climb the fence.

If a person can build a fence around himself, he is bound to do it.

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.

I find a fence a very uncomfortable place to squat my bottom.

In 2009, Scott Rudin sent me August's [Wilson] original screenplay [Fences] and asked me what I wanted to do with it. He wanted to know if I wanted to act in it, direct it or produce it. I said, "Well, let me read it first.

I just swung for the fence. That's my whole philosophy in life.

I loved running. I can catch everything in the outfield. I could throw people out from the fence.

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

I'm not white-picket-fence perfect.

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.

It was possible that I'd thrown one too many Molotov cocktails over God's fence.

I went to a performing arts high school, we learned Shakespeare, I did 'Fences.' When you train, you can do anything.

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

Moral prejudices are the stopgaps of virtue; and, as is the case with other stopgaps, it is often more difficult to get either out or in through them than through any other part of the fence.

It was hard, that confrontation scene [in "Fences"], that was a hard one. I felt like it was relentless, I never felt like I could just drop the ball when the coverage was on him or anything else.

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

Looking at the ball going over the fence isn't going to help.

Most folks are like a barb-wire fence. They have their good points.

People have become inappropriate. People have pushed too far. People have climbed one too many fences. I'm just tired of it.

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.

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

Safety is a fence, and fences are for sheep.

The dog barking at you from behind his master's fence acts for a motive indistinguishable from that of his master when the fence was built.

Ridicule has historically proven itself a rickety fence for great ideas.

Suicide bombers caused us more than 50 percent of our casualties. The fence works. There is a decline in the number of those terrorist attacks against Israelis.

The grass is not always greener on the other side of the fence. The grass is greenest where it is watered.

[Rose from "Fences"] couldn't just jump out there. Not just because of economic reasons but because how she was looked at in society at the time. There were a lot of factors that made you stay I guess.

The accretion of dangerous power does not come in a day. It does come, however slowly, from the generative force of unchecked disregard of the restrictions that fence in even the most disinterested assertion of authority.

The fence around a cemetery is foolish, for those inside can't come out and those outside don't want to get in.

The problem is, if El Chapo builds a tunnel under the fence, we need to deal with that too.

There was a fence and there was this other van- So I go, 'Fence or van? Cause I'm crashing into one of them,' and I said 'Fence,' so I hit the fence and bounced into the van

There's capital controls and there's people control. So every time you think of a fence keeping all those bad people out, think about those fences maybe being used against us, keeping us in.

The security fence is reversible. Human lives are irreversible.

The once inviolate frame within which programs or commercials were displayed on television - always separately - has been violated to a pulp. Program content is seen increasingly as a mere backdrop on which ads are posted like billboards on a fence.

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.

Until the Donkey tried to clear The Fence, he thought himself a Deer.

We are captives, even if our wheat grows over the fences/ and swallows rise from our broken chains./ We are captives of what we love, what we desire, and what we are.

Too many of the organizations I have observed resemble a farm in Kansas. They have lots of fences and silos as well as a storm cellar.

We're on the other side of the fence now, Lena,' she says, tiredly, as she passes. "Don't you get it? You can't tell me what to feel.

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.

We spend our life building higher fences and stronger locks, when the gravest dangers are already inside

We are redefining terms and rewriting laws and removing fences everywhere you turn, and we seem to think we can do that with impunity.

You have a 12-foot fence. You know what'll happen? Thirteen foot ladders.

What breadth, what beauty and power of human nature and development there must be in a woman to get over all the palisades, all the fences, within which she is held captive!

Security is a double-edged sword: While a fence sure protects the fenced; it also imprisons the protected.

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