Shonda Rhimes (Shonda Lynn Rhimes) Quotes

Boundaries don't keep other people out, they fence you in.

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• I love Rihanna. I think her style just pushes a lot of boundaries. My tomboy side takes inspiration from her.

  

  Hailey Bieber
  • Love
  • Style
  • Inspiration

• I like to take pictures of lots of things: people-such as my nephews, my dogs, and just interesting objects that I see. For instance, I might take a picture of flowers by the side of the road, an old sign or a fence.

  

  Lacey Chabert
  • People
  • Interesting
  • Road

• My dreams were always small and puny. All I ever needed was a little house with a little picket fence by the sea. Little did I know that I would live in Malacanang Palace for 20 years and visit all the major palaces of mankind. And then also meet ordinary citizens and the leaders of superpowers.

  

  Imelda Marcos
  • Live
  • House
  • Small

• Steven Adler and I played football in the street when we were 12. I remember rehearsing in my bedroom with my first band, and some kid climbed over the fence of my backyard and peeked his head in the window to see who was rocking. It was Slash.

  

  Flea Red Hot Chili Peppers
  • Remember
  • Band
  • Football

• A politician is an animal which can sit on a fence and yet keep both ears to the ground.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Animal
  • Ears
  • Fence

• I may have had a prejudice against agnosticism as a body of thought: sort of a fence-sitting theory, where you can't make up your mind one way or another.

  

  S. T. Joshi
  • Up
  • Mind
  • May

• And this is one of the major questions of our lives: how we keep boundaries, what permission we have to cross boundaries, and how we do so.

  

  A. B. Yehoshua
  • Questions
  • Keep
  • Boundaries

• Silence is a fence around wisdom.

  

  Maimonides
  • Wisdom
  • Silence
  • Fence

• 'High (drive/fly ball) into (left/center/etc.) field, and deep. Back goes (fielder's name), a-way back, it's gone!' (Or '… to the warning track, to the fence/wall, gone!')

  

  Vin Scully
  • High
  • Deep
  • Wall

• Oh, give me land, lots of land under starry skies above. Don't fence me in. Let me ride through the wide open country that I love Don't fence me in Let me be by myself in the evenin' breeze And listen to the murmur of the cottonwood trees Send me off forever but I ask you please Don't fence me in

  

  Cole Porter
  • Country
  • Forever
  • Fence

• It would seem staggeringly arrogant to think we were the only ones in the universe, but at the same time, I don't know if contact has been made yet or not because you think something like that would be hard to cover up. I'm still on the fence. I keep an open mind about all of these things.

  

  Dean Haglund
  • Up
  • Time
  • Mind

• Honesty is never seen sitting astride the fence.

  

  Lemuel K. Washburn
  • Honesty
  • Fence

• If you strive for the moon, maybe you'll get over the fence.

  

  James Woods
  • Moon
  • Fence

• I grew up with the white picket fence. My dad went to work nine to five, and he had a station wagon.

  

  Matt Dillon
  • Up
  • Work
  • Dad

• The tradition is a fence around the law; tithes are a fence around riches; vows are a fence around abstinence; a fence around wisdom is silence.

  

  Akiva ben Joseph
  • Law
  • Wisdom
  • Silence

• He has sat on the fence so long that the iron has entered his soul.

  

  David Lloyd George
  • Long
  • Soul
  • Fence

• Viewers don't want you to walk the fence - they do want a point of view - and that's what we bring.

  

  Ed Schultz
  • Fence

• You can't stop demographics. And show me a fence that ever worked. It didn't work at Hadrian's Wall. The Great Wall of China didn't work. The Berlin Wall.

  

  James Turrell
  • Work
  • Great
  • Stop

• It's just as easy for me to be building a fence somewhere and scraping by on unemployment in between doing a guest star spot. I've been there.

  

  Jeffrey Dean Morgan
  • Star
  • Fence

• To give students the best possible chance to succeed, education must prepare them to handle issues that transcend national boundaries.

  

  Jose Angel Gurria
  • Education
  • Chance
  • Boundaries

• Attachment to a baby is a long-term process, not a single, magical moment. The opportunity for bonding at birth may be compared to falling in love - staying in love takes longer and demands more work.

  

  T. Berry Brazelton
  • Work
  • Long
  • May

• The scientist who yields anything to theology, however slight, is yielding to ignorance and false pretenses, and as certainly as if he granted that a horse-hair put into a bottle of water will turn into a snake.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Water
  • Hair
  • Ignorance

• I love a lot of the '70s singers: Pam Grier from the 'Foxy Brown' movie, Diana Ross, Tina Turner. They've always been able to embrace their hair, and they've never been afraid to take risks and go all out and make it thick and fun and a statement at the same time.

  

  Jillian Hervey
  • Time
  • Movie
  • Fun

• Boundaries don't keep other people out, they fence you in.

  

  Shonda Rhimes
  • Boundaries
  • Fence