Top 100 A Fine Line Quotes
#1. There's a fine mascara line between genius and insanity
Josh Stern
#2. 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
#3. 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.
Neal Shusterman
#4. There's a fine line between helping others and being a people pleaser, and mistaking one for the other can be hugely detrimental. When we put others' needs before our own, we deplete our energy, which can lead to depression, physical illness, and overwhelm.
Gabrielle Bernstein
#5. I think that there's a fine line between comedy and drama.
Michael Mosley
#6. There's a fine line between being a sicko and an adventurous spirit.
Doug Stanhope
#7. There is a fine line between social networking and wasting your fucking life.
Andy Borowitz
#8. Surprise is not humor. I think that there can be a fine line there.
Keegan-Michael Key
#9. In my business, one learns there is a fine line between insanity and genius. We would be wise to give this man a little respect.
Dan Brown
#10. There's definitely a fine line between tasteful and tasteless, and as a stylist, it's a line you want to ride very carefully.
Brad Goreski
#11. There's a very fine line between underacting and not acting at all. And not acting is what a lot of actors are guilty of. It amazes me how some of these little numbers with dreamy looks and a dead pan are getting away wit it. I'd hate to see them on stage with a dog act.
Joan Blondell
#12. There was a fine line between holding steady and dipping into despair.
Amanda Lindhout
#13. 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.
Crispin Glover
#14. 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.
Alison Rosen
#15. There is a fine line between stubborn and stupid.
Pete Dexter
#16. And in the vine of the divine,
There is a fine line;
Between tragedy and comedy,
That a man cannot define.
Stephan Attia
#17. I think sometimes less is more. I don't think it helps to overdo exercising - I think you need to do it to keep your body healthy and fit, but there is a fine line between, you know, healthy and obsession. You have to build your foundation first. Your brain has to sort of connect to your body.
Martha Hunt
#18. In every siutation , there is a FINE LINE between what is right and what is not so right.THAT is the MOMENT when one has to stop and look which way to go!! These MAGICAL MOMENTS determine the DIRECTION of our lives !
Abha Maryada Banerjee
#19. There was a fine line between madness and intelligence.
Kameron Hurley
#20. There's a fine line between comedy and the darkest place ever.
Meg Myers
#21. It's a fine line. If you withhold too much, you come across as wooden - as I've often been described in some movies. Fair enough. I believe that the best performances are the ones that an audience has to search for.
Sam Worthington
#22. There is a very fine line between loving life and being greedy for it.
Maya Angelou
#23. There is a very fine line between listening and stalking.
Jay Baer
#24. We believed that there's no such thing as good art or bad art. Art is art. If it's bad, it's something else. It was a much, much harder line in the '50s and '60s than it is now, because the idea of art education didn't exist - they didn't have a fine arts program when I was a kid.
Billy Al Bengston
#25. There is a very fine line between hobby and mental illness.
Dave Barry
#26. 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.
Michael Eisner
#27. There's a fine line between love and hate, so fine that you don't know you've lost balance until it's too late.
Tamsyn Bester
#28. The fine line between genius and madness is a punch line. Duck, you idiot!
Brian Spellman
#29. 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.
Siobhan Fahey
#30. It is true that there is a fine line between entrepreneurship and insanity. Crazy people see and feel things that others don't. But you have to believe that everything is possible. If you believe it, those around you will believe it too.
Anita Roddick
#31. 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.
William Whewell
#32. I'm not cocky. I'm confident. It's a fine line, but there's a difference."
"Oh? And what's the difference?"
"It's simple. Confidence comes from knowing your skill and your worth while cocky attempts to cover the lack of both.
D.G. Whiskey
#33. Ometimes she felt like she was walking a fine line, precarious line between the two of them. Like there wasn't enough of her to be who she needed to be for them both.
Rainbow Rowell
#34. I really hate you sometimes."
"There's a fine line between love and hate."
I glared at him. "Dream on.
Michelle Rowen
#35. 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
#36. I think there's a very fine line between the type of performing that some actors do, and being in a state in your mind where you actually believe what's going on. If we weren't actors, what would we do with that ability? Would we not be slightly insane? Mentally ill? I don't know.
Samantha Morton
#37. There's a fine line between minimalism and not trying very hard.
Tom Pappalardo
#38. In this world, there is a fine line between enlightenment and brain damage.
Neal Shusterman
#39. 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.
Joanne Kelly
#40. You walk a fine line between beautifully macabre and uncharacteristically psychotic.
Solange Nicole
#41. 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.
Nick Willis
#42. There's a fine line between a superpower and a chronic medical condition.
Austin Grossman
#43. 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
#44. 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.
Thom Yorke
#45. There's a fine line between the Method actor and the schizophrenic.
Nicolas Cage
#47. There is a fine line I have to walk throughout the writing process in a novel. It is this line between drama and melodrama, and it is this line between evoking genuine emotional power and being manipulative.
Nicholas Sparks
#48. It's about knowing that in certain moments you have to offer yourself up as a minor sacrifice to help them accomplish what they need to accomplish. Letting them abuse you, on the other hand, would be a terrible disservice. I know it seems like a fine line, but it's a real one, and it can be done.
Patrick Lencioni
#49. 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.
Kaley Cuoco
#50. There was a fine line of making love and fucking but this was love-fucking. This was cruel but sweet. Angry but happy. It was a thousand words in one timeless action - righting the wrongs of our past and hopefully repairing a future we both didn't think we'd ever find.
Pepper Winters
#51. 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.
Jo Brand
#52. For me, there's a fine line between being a cheeseball and being a good performer.
Norah Jones
#53. I fear the line between myself and madness is as fine these days as a cobweb, and I have seen what it means when a soul crosses over into that dim and wretched place.
Geraldine Brooks
#54. There's a fine line between living in the moment and being downright stupid.
Kamini Patel
#55. I found this quote for writers on Twitter:
There is a fine line between confidence and delusional thought; cross it.
Don't know who wrote it but thought it was interesting.
Robin Glasser
#56. We put our life on the line to fight for them, put on a show and these guys take our money so whatever happens to Bob Arum, Don King or anyone else is fine with me.
Larry Holmes
#57. My mum is in a mental hospital. There's a fine line between genius and insanity. Winston Churchill, Mozart, John Lennon. These people all had a touch of crazy that fuelled their brilliance. They were not locked up for it like my mum. Pft. Then again, Winston Churchill never tried to kill my dad.
Christopher Titus
#58. 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.
Aimee Mann
#59. There's a fine line between gossip and history, when one is talking about kings.
Michelle Cooper
#60. 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.
J. Robbins
#61. There's a fine line between appropriate and inappropriate, but it better be a strong, clear line.' As a teacher, I took that advice to heart. As a writer, I asked, "'But what happens if the line isn't strong or clear?
Joseph Kenyon
#62. There is a fine line between a sleepover and just drinking way too much at someone else's house.
Demetri Martin
#63. 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.
Daniel Clowes
#64. There's a fine line between giving the sense of freedom and being too free.
Joe Satriani
#65. 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.
Bob Dole
#66. 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.
Poppy Adams
#67. The hard part is that this is a very fine line. There's right on one side of it, and crazy on the other.
Sam Altman
#68. He wanted to talk about her-he was full of her-but he was telling a fine line here.He and Terry were men of the world and men of the world didn't moon over their woman.
T.C. Boyle
#69. 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.
George Murray
#70. It's a fine line between Saturday night and Sunday morning.
Jimmy Buffett
#71. There is a fine line between free speech and hate speech. Free speech encourages debate whereas hate speech incites violence.
Newton Lee
#72. 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.
Joe Nichols
#73. There is a fine line between compassion and a victim mentality. Compassion though is a healing force and comes from a place of kindness towards yourself. Playing the victim is a toxic waste of time that not only repels other people, but also robs the victim of ever knowing true happiness.
Bronnie Ware
#74. When you think about it, there is really a fine line between being a proctologist and just being a perverted ass-freak. And according to the judge who sentenced me, that line is called a 'medical degree'.
Brad Wilkerson
#76. 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
#77. There's a fine line between forgetting an event, and suppressing the memory of it.
Jonathan Coe
#78. 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
#79. Some have accused me of a strange design
Against the creed and morals of this land,
And trace it in this poem every line:
I don't pretend that I quite understand
My meaning when I would be very fine;
But the fact is that I have nothing planned ...
George Gordon Byron
#80. Damn it, I have to stop this bleeding. Oh, Will I would truly love to kick your ass for this. If you die, I swear, I'm going to kill you again." A Fine Line the Ancients (Part I).
J.C. Brennan
#81. I went to the doctor, I went to the mountains
I looked to the children, I drank from the fountain
There's more than one answer to these questions pointing me in a crooked line
And the less I seek my source for some definitive
The closer I am to fine.
Emily Saliers
#83. How did we go from tea to death so quickly?" wondered Quesnel. "Sometimes," said Prim darkly, "there is a very fine line between the two." "There's
Gail Carriger
#84. There is a fine line between seeing something that's lost as missing, and seeing it as something that might be found.
Jodi Picoult
#85. There is a fine line between sarcasm and hostility, you seemed to have crossed it. What's up?
Cassandra Clare
#86. There's a very fine line between giving someone the Heimlich maneuver and dry-humping a stranger.
Demetri Martin
#87. It is a fine line, in all of us, between civilization and savagery. To any who think they would never cross it, I can only say, if you have never known what it is to be utterly betrayed and abandoned, you cannot know how close it is.
Jacqueline Carey
#88. There's a reason they call it a private life, I'd often say to interviewers. But there's a fine line between being private and being ashamed. The
Portia De Rossi
#89. There's a fine line between eccentrics and geniuses. If you're a little ahead of your time, you're an eccentric, and if you're too late, you're a failure, but if you hit it right on the head, you're a genius.
Thomas Watson Jr.
#90. We must categorize and simplify in order to comprehend. But the reduction of complexity entails a great danger, since the line between enlightening epitome and vulgarized distortion is so fine.
Stephen Jay Gould
#91. 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
#92. Think about scary movies: There's a fine line between horror and humor.
Roy Blount Jr.
#93. There is a fine line between perseverance and madness.
Lynda Obst
#94. A lot of people say there's a fine line between genius and insanity. I don't think there's a fine line, I actually think there's a yawning gulf. You see some poor bugger scuffling up the road with balloons tied to his ears, he's not going home to invent a rocket, is he?
Bill Bailey
#95. There is a fine line between serendipity and stalking.
David Coleman
#96. 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.
Woody Harrelson
#97. 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.
Melissa Etheridge
#98. 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.
Hugh Bonneville
#99. There is a fine line between freedom and slavery.
Darynda Jones
#100. Being an innkeeper meant walking a fine line between courtesy and tyranny.
Ilona Andrews
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