Borderline Quotes

• The biographies of the great men see their excesses as signs of their greatness. But Jean Rhys, in her biography, is read as borderline; Anaïs Nin is borderline; Djuna is borderline; etc. etc. Borderline personality disorder being an overwhelmingly gendered diagnosis. I write in Heroines: “The charges of borderline personality disorder are the same charges against girls writing literature, I realize - too emotional, too impulsive, no boundaries."

  

  Kate Zambreno
  • Great
  • Writing
  • Emotional

• I write plays and movies, I live and work at the borderline between word and image just as any cartoonist or illustrator does. I’m not a pure writer. I use words as the score for kinetic imagistic representations.

  

  Tony Kushner
  • Work
  • Writing
  • Live

• I'm manic-depressive, technically bi-polar II with many borderline features.

  

  Kate Braverman
  • Many
  • Features
  • Borderline

• We can't defend the country by looking at the borderline as the first line of defense rather than as the last line of defense. We have to secure the flow of goods and people by engaging with foreign entities. We assure our security by securing the flows as early as we can before they arrive and as far away from our borders as we can.

  

  Alan Bersin
  • People
  • Country
  • Security

• Those times when I play on stage in front of lots of people, it's such an unusual and borderline unhealthy process, even though I love it and I really do it with humility. I don't have serfs getting me grapes after, or things like that.

  

  Gavin Rossdale Bush
  • People
  • Play
  • Process

• I think what I do is borderline art. Most people who do borderline art have to have other jobs, so I'm very grateful.

  

  Stewart Lee
  • Art
  • Jobs
  • Borderline

• I make an embarrassing amount of money for a borderline Marxist, just by selling 100,000 records. I don't sell millions of records, and I don't need to.

  

  Steve Earle
  • Records
  • Selling
  • Embarrassing

• Michael, don’t,” Eve said. “He won’t hurt us.” Andeveryone rolled their eyes at that. Even Jason, which was borderline hilarious.

  

  Rachel Caine
  • Eyes
  • Hurt
  • Hilarious

• Generally, the feeling was the conditions were borderline unsafe to race.

  

  J. M. Roberts
  • Feeling
  • Conditions
  • Unsafe

• The average is the borderline that keeps mere men in their place. Those who step over the line are heroes by the very act. Go.

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
  • Men
  • Hero
  • Average