Outside The Lines Quotes

#1. Life is more interesting when you colour outside the lines

Sonya Watson

#2. Draw outside the lines! Make the sky purple instead of blue! That's what it looks like to dreamers!

Viola Shipman

#3. Form is burden. Sometimes being part of the system enslaves the mind and greatly limits the imagination by enslaving it to form. Form is a burden to the mind that sees no limits. Form is a prison for the soul who sees possibilities outside the lines and wishes to test them.

Suzy Kassem

#4. A need for precision and perfection has always been an enemy of art, which is about coloring outside the lines. It is also an enemy of the reality that following Jesus is a journey, not an arrival.

Steve Stockman

#5. I have done quite a few things that I'm not proud of. But now I can equate it to artistry without an outlet. At school, I couldn't help but colour outside the lines. My passion just caused my reactions to be that much more volatile.

CeeLo Green

#6. Sometimes coloring outside the lines can cost you. Only you can figure out if it's worth it.

Diane Chamberlain

#7. It's more fun to color outside the lines.

Cynthia Lewis

#8. I have a certain temperament, a disposition that I think lends itself to not playing outside the lines that much. But I do test the boundaries, certainly, and break one or two of my own. Some people are mystified by it, but not me.

David Sanborn

#9. Writers who go outside the lines when they draw pictures of the world are seldom rewarded for their efforts.

Jennifer Stone

#10. The script is the coloring book that you're given, and your job is to figure out how to color it in. And also when and where to color outside the lines.

James Spader

#11. He seemed to be blazing outside the lines of his own body, as if he were drawn in crayon by an excited five-year-old;

B.J. Novak

#12. No one said you can't go outside the lines.

Candy Chang

#13. Most people are afraid of what will happen when they go outside the lines.

K. Melissa Kennedy

#14. Live life to the fullest. You have to color outside the lines once in a while if you want to make your life a masterpiece. Laugh some every day. Keep growing, keep dreaming, keep following your heart. The important thing is not to stop questioning.

Albert Einstein

#15. And you're still ready to follow every rule, obey every moral code, and only color inside the lines." "How well would the picture turn out if you colored outside the lines? There's a reason for the lines.

Hayley J. Harper

#16. I don't work well outside the lines; my report card once read, 'doesn't play well with others.'

Jon Bon Jovi

#17. Virtually all top achievers know that to really get ahead, you've got to be willing to color outside the lines. Here's why

James Arthur Ray

#18. You have to color outside the lines once in a while if you want to make your life a masterpiece.

Albert Einstein

#19. Do what makes you happy; don't be afraid to color outside the lines.

Peggy Toney Horton

#20. Maybe it's the rogue in me, the part of me that loves to color outside the lines, but the truth is, I don't have much respect for genre barriers.

George R R Martin

#21. And I start to feel once more that the lines that have boxed in my life - between past and present, outside and in - are dissolving. That I may yet myself be delivered.

Garth Risk Hallberg

#22. Lord Vetinari in a meeting: what people said was what they wanted him to hear. He paid a lot of attention to the spaces outside the words, though. That's where the things were that they hoped he didn't know and didn't want him to find out.

Terry Pratchett

#23. Have a deputy and develop a successor. Don't be consumed by the job or you'll risk losing your balance. Keep your mooring lines to the outside world - family, friends, neighbors, people out of government, and people who may not agree with you.

Donald Rumsfeld

#24. I wear my lines like a soldier wears his medals. They've been earned. They've been fought for - so there's no reason to be ashamed of them. In your 50s, you just care less about that sort of thing. I think it's to do with what's inside you. You can't obsess about the outside.

Cherie Lunghi

#25. Everything has already begun before, the first line of the first page of every novel refers to something that has already happened outside the book.

Italo Calvino

#26. It is okay to be yourself, it is okay to color outside the line if that is who you are

Brad Cohen

#27. I don't know. I love the idea of democracy, the hope, yes, I love that. I couldn't live without that. But the country? You mean the thing on the map, lines, everything inside the lines is good and nothing outside them matters? How can an adult love such a childish idea?

Ursula K. Le Guin

#28. The old women gossiped as they always had done, squatting on the floor outside the urinoir, carrying Fate in the lines of their faces as others on the palm.

Graham Greene

#29. I never really lived outside of the city growing up, but I'm always looking in between the lines of the city, and I magnetize over to the green spots.

Feist

#30. Even in the lives of fishes, sensation is seldom a matter of one thing or another. Senses overlap. The lines between them often tend to be blurred, and the best that we can manage, by way of description from the outside, is to say that the senses of fishes appear to dominate one at a time.

Lyall Watson

#31. Tennis players need to be very focused and very intense, and I can show tennis players are not just hitting the little yellow ball and moving in between the white lines. I'm always trying to show my personality outside of the court.

Tomas Berdych

#32. Society has pretty much taught us that it's inside the lines, or outside. But there's so much more in between.

Amber L. Johnson

#33. In the name of 'mutual assistance,' the Soviet Union would occupy Latvia until 1991, and it continues to occupy Latvia: in the obedient, epic lines at the post office, in the fug of coal smoke outside cities, in the notorious apartment buildings made of bricks of radioactive compressed ash.

Amity Gaige

#34. Jesus always colored outside of the lines here, extending grace and healing to those well beyond His people group. He often healed people first; they believed second.

Jen Hatmaker

#35. You can either be on the stage, just a performer, just going through the lines ... or you can be outside it, and know how the script works, where the scenery hangs, and where the trapdoors are.

Terry Pratchett

#36. The line between outside and inside is fuzzier in fantasy. Maybe that's something people are looking for.

Lev Grossman

#37. There is no well defined boundary line between honesty and dishonesty. The frontiers of one blend with the outside limits of the other, and he who attempts to tread this dangerous ground may be sometimes in the one domain and sometimes in the other.

O. Henry