Fine Line Between Quotes

#1. There's a fine mascara line between genius and insanity

Josh Stern

#2. The debris of her married life was enough to sever the tie between reality and dreams, the fine line between desire and temptation. Where did she draw the line? When did she admit defeat and surrender?

Callie Hunter

#3. There is a fine line between social networking and wasting your fucking life.

Andy Borowitz

#4. 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

#5. The line between angry young woman and grumpy old lady is very fine.

Judy Horacek

#6. 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

#7. There was a fine line between holding steady and dipping into despair.

Amanda Lindhout

#8. 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

#9. And in the vine of the divine,
There is a fine line;
Between tragedy and comedy,
That a man cannot define.

Stephan Attia

#10. 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

#11. There is a very fine line between loving life and being greedy for it.

Maya Angelou

#12. Its that tricky thing called hope and that contagious thing called faith, that draws this very fine line between winning and losing.

Deepak Vidyarthi

#13. There is a very fine line between hobby and mental illness.

Dave Barry

#14. 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

#15. The fine line between genius and madness is a punch line. Duck, you idiot!

Brian Spellman

#16. 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

#17. 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

#18. 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

#19. 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

#20. There's a fine line between minimalism and not trying very hard.

Tom Pappalardo

#21. There's a fine line between the Method actor and the schizophrenic.

Nicolas Cage

#22. 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

#23. 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.

Tracey Ullman

#24. There's a fine line between living in the moment and being downright stupid.

Kamini Patel

#25. 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

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

Demetri Martin

#27. There's a fine line between giving the sense of freedom and being too free.

Joe Satriani

#28. 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

#29. 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

#30. There's a fine line between forgetting an event, and suppressing the memory of it.

Jonathan Coe

#31. 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

#32. 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

#33. There is a fine line between sarcasm and hostility, you seemed to have crossed it. What's up?

Cassandra Clare

#34. 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

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

Roy Blount Jr.

#36. 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

#37. 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

#38. 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

#39. There is a fine line between freedom and slavery.

Darynda Jones

#40. Being an innkeeper meant walking a fine line between courtesy and tyranny.

Ilona Andrews

#41. There's a fine line between audacity and idiocy.

Jim Butcher

#42. 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.

Jason Reece

#43. There's a fine line between fiction and non-fiction and I think I snorted it somewhere in 1979

Kinky Friedman

#44. 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.

Tiffeny Milbrett

#45. 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.

Sakyong Mipham

#46. There is a fine line between fishing and just standing on the shore like an idiot.

Steven Wright

#47. When on the brink of complete discouragement, success is discerning that ... the line between failure and success is so fine that often a single extra effort is all that is needed to bring victory out of defeat.

Elbert Hubbard

#48. Terror was the key, of course, for there's a fine line between paralyzing dread and galvanizing fright.

James Herbert

#49. There's a fine line between forgiveness and denial.

Janet Rebhan

#50. 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.

Andy Partridge

#51. There's a fine line between broody and potential sociopath. Right now you're walking the line.

Cora Carmack

#52. The challenge of writing books for teenagers is walking the fine line between truth and what the publishers, parents, and the more conservative librarians want to hear.

Annette Curtis Klause

#53. There was a fine line between fear that would excite and fear that would paralyze the senses.

Cherise Sinclair

#54. For artists, there's a very fine line between delusion and belief.

Brian Koppelman

#55. We often speak of domestic terrorism and hate crimes in the same breath, and there is a fine line between the two, and certainly overlap in some cases.

James Comey

#56. There's a fine line between information and propaganda.

Jenny Holzer

#57. Cat's are unpredictable. It is a fine line between the cure, inquisitive and innocent creature resting on our lap and the hissing, spitting and deranged banshee it might become at any moment. This is why we're trying always to win their love.

George Takei

#58. 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.

Michael Scott

#59. There's a very fine line between winning and losing. Every team in the NFL has talent,but attitude is the biggest thing that counts - that, and playing together as a team. If you can capture that feeling, then you'll have success.

Ray Bentley

#60. Aronson was getting at the fine line between seeking the truth and seeking a verdict in your client's favor. They weren't always the same thing.

Michael Connelly

#61. There's a fine line between being brave and just not giving a shit anymore.

Sara Furlong Burr

#62. 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

Luc Sante

#63. There's a fine line between marketing and grand theft.

Scott Adams

#64. There is a fine line between overbearing accountability and an allowance for mistakes.

Miles Anthony Smith

#65. There's a fine line between character building and soul destroying.

Colin Hay

#66. Life is that perfect fine line between ironies.

Serj Tankian

#67. Someone once said there is a fine line between love and hate, and that you cannot hate someone without having cared first. Think about it, Elise. That would mean the opposite of love is indifference, or the absence of caring.

Sandy Raven

#68. Theres a fine line between playing a dim-witted character and playing a cartoon.

Steven Pasquale

#69. 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.

Jill McCorkle

#70. There's a fine line between being private and being ashamed.

Portia De Rossi

#71. There is a fine line between success and failure; both words translate into opportunities and challenges. Opportunities to be taken advantage of and challenges to be taken head on.

Dwaun S. Cox

#72. Finding the fine line between satisfying a daytime TV audience and an afternoon radio audience. That involved editing down my delivery to under an hour. I've been blessed to have great producers and a great staff to achieve that. I have a small team but they're very efficient.

Wendy Williams

#73. Roy remembered the time he and his father had a talk about fighting. 'It's important to stand up for what's right,' Mr. Eberhardt had said, 'but sometimes there's a fine line between courage and stupidity.

Carl Hiaasen

#74. There is a fine line between paranoia and sensibly caring for our already overburdened bodies.

Shirley Corder

#75. Of course, when poking the Winter prince,
one had to proceed with caution. There was a fine line
between irritation and having icicles hurled at your
face.

Julie Kagawa

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

Joan Collins

#77. There is a fine line between wishing to produce child-like astonishment and treating people like infants.

Derren Brown

#78. There's a fine line between the course of fate and the curse of fate. But if fate is slightly nudged, then it's called destiny.

Dan Nimak

#79. I think there's a fine line between being so obtuse that you lose the reader completely, which is the intention for some writers, though it isn't mine. I work hard at grounding the world as much as possible in the world we do recognize.

Laurie Foos

#80. There is sometimes only a very fine line between deliberation and procrastination.

Paul Allen Walker

#81. Fear - It's a fine line between that and pushing yourself. You definitely reach new heights when you push. But fear is good. Fear keeps us alive. If we didn't have it, we'd be doing crazy things and getting in sticky situations.

Stephanie Gilmore

#82. There is a fine line between truth and magick.

Hollow Ryan

#83. There is a fine line between censorship and good taste and moral responsibility.

Steven Spielberg

#84. There's a fine line between a stream of consciousness and a babbling brook to nowhere.

Dan Harmon

#85. There is a fine line between optimism and delusion. I cross it often.

Hal Elrod

#86. There's a fine line between being sweet and innocent and being a tough broad.

Phyllis George

#87. There's a fine line between physical and thug ball, and the Knicks have crossed the line on occasion.

Marv Albert

#88. Somewhere between sanity and madness lays a fine line, for some it is a tightrope walked daily, a fight for balance to be won or lost. That fight is lost one of two ways. Some simply lose their balance and fall, others are pushed.

Zoe Heller

#89. There is a fine line between insanity and genius.

Dan Brown

#90. 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!

Rachel Field

#91. 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

Jennifer Silverwood

#92. There's a fine line between participation and mockery.

Scott Adams

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

Joss Whedon

#94. 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.

Dave Attell

#95. 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. (p. 12)

James Gurney

#96. There's an extremely fine line between "boldly transgressive" and spiritually barren,

Mark Steyn

#97. There's a fine line between career criminals and career professionals because most of us fall somewhere in between.

Samantha Leahy

#98. With thrillers, there's such a fine line between what's good and what's cheesy and corny.

Olivia D'Abo

#99. There's a fine line between criminality and genius.
-Dan Cahill

Jude Watson

#100. There's a fine line between being colorful and being an asshole, and I hope I'm still just colorful.

Ted Turner