Quotes of: Between Keyword

In the space between chaos and shape there was another chance.

The World and Other Places: Stories

It is necessary to distinguish between history and fantasy wherever possible. And then use them against each other.

Was

There’s a thin line between saving someone and helping them destroy themselves

The Waiting Sky

This thing between them, this bond—it wasn’t just passion, and it wasn’t wicked. It was love, and it was divine.

When He Was Wicked

A clock is a pie, and my piece is between 1 and 12. It’s always time to love—especially if it’s filled with cinnamon apples.

Xazaqazax

Living composers writing for big band are very few and far between. There are not a lot of them, and I have a talent for doing it. I am zeroing in on what I do best.

Carla Bley

Perhaps the best definition of progress would be the continuing efforts of men and women to narrow the gap between the convenience of the powers that be and the unwritten charter.

Nadine Gordimer

For me, the battle is finding the balance between wanting to spend time with my boys and then having enough perspective to still be the disciplinarian and, like, not be in the best friend business.

Rob Lowe

Sometimes, I think the best kind of poem is one in which there is an acute balance between what is humorous and that which is very serious. That balance is very hard to strike. But it can be done.

N. Scott Momaday

In a way, editing is not unlike the movies. The best books, just like the best movies, are a collaboration. They're only as good as the compromise made between the artists involved.

Viggo Mortensen

Between the pages of a book is a divine place to be.

In the Dark Shadow of Evil: The Countess de Couvegne Letters

Meaning is produced not only by the relationship between the signifier and the signified but also, crucially, by the position of the signifiers in relation to other signifiers.

Jacques Lacan

The difference between a moral man and a man of honor is that the latter regrets a discreditable act, even when it has worked and he has not been caught.

H. L. Mencken

My films start with images, a few images and a few feelings, and I try to edit them together to see the correspondence between these images and these feelings.

Leos Carax

According to Islamic principles, when a man is accused of heresy, he is given the choice between repentance and punishment.

Naguib Mahfouz

So I've never found there was any particular separation between the two cultures at all, musically speaking.

Neville Marriner

There is a real magic in enthusiasm. It spells the difference between mediocrity and accomplishment.

Norman Vincent Peale

I'm sure I'm a schizophrenic. The problem is I can't tell the difference between which one's which, which one is the real me.

Nick Rhodes

Ever since Eve gave Adam the apple, there has been a misunderstanding between the sexes about gifts.

Nan Robertson

Marital sex is a divine sympony between two people , and God is leading the orchestra .

Osunsakin Adewale

There is a very real relationship, both quantitatively and qualitatively, between what you contribute and what you get out of this world.

Oscar Hammerstein II