Color Inside The Lines Quotes & Sayings

Hayden embodied everything I wasn't but wanted to be. I spent my entire life trying to color inside the lines, only to wind up restrained by them. — Helena Hunting

[You write out of the] desire to seem clever, to be talked about, to be remembered after death, etc., etc., etc. It is humbug to pretend this is not a motive and a strong one. — George Orwell

Words can be as irrevocable as an action. They can cut as deeply as a surgeon's scalpel. — Gina Barreca

To keep on trying in spite of disappointment and failure is the only way to keep young and brave. Failures become victories if they make us wise-hearted. — Helen Keller

I will fall on my face sometimes
And I can't color inside the lines
'Cause I'm perfectly incomplete
I'm still working on my masterpiece
And I, I wanna hang with the greats
Got a way to go, but it's worth the wait
No, you haven't seen the best of me
I'm still working on my masterpiece — Jessie J.

Their life will be made of the same stuff as this spring afternoon. — Andrei Makine

Because just the day before, I had apparently told The Artist of our Generation to color inside the effing lines. — Amber L. Johnson

Tell me the truth. When you were a kid, did you always color inside the lines?"
"Coloring in the lines is the whole point. That's why they have lines," I said.
"That's where you're wrong. The lines are there just to hold you in. Like a prison. Think what you might have created if there hadn't been any lines. — Eileen Cook

Jocelyn's stomach lodged another complaint with the management regarding the length of time since breakfast. — Heidi Schulz

Yeah. I guess I'm a color-inside-the-lines girl. Worse, really - I'd rather shade inside the lines with a nice, light 4H pencil. Something dark like a 5B or 6B? That's me going nuts. He laughed, stretching out his long legs — Jenn Bennett

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

Dear Jacob,
I win.
Sincerely, Edward — Stephenie Meyer

No one is born successful, success requires preparation — Sunday Adelaja

The end of the occupation. The right of return of the Palestinian people. These are critical dividing lines in human rights. We have to be here. No American would put up with an Israeli-style occupation of their hometown for 53 days let alone 54 years. U.S. tax dollars are funding violence against people of color inside the U.S. borders and outside the U.S. borders. — Van Jones

Chicago is a sort of journalistic Yellowstone Park, offering haven to a last herd of fantastic bravos. — Ben Hecht

Art for me is the science of freedom. — Joseph Beuys

A wise nation preserves its records, gathers
up its monuments, decorates the tombes of its illustrious dead, repairs its
greatest structures and fosters national pride and love of country, by perpetual
references to the sacrifices and glories of the past. — Joseph Howe

Sometimes I think teachers like Ms. Harmer view creativity as something dirty and slightly embarrassing, and would prefer to turn kids into people who color inside the lines.

Generally speaking, I don't care much for lines. — Jenny Lundquist

No need as children to color inside the lines No need to keep the sand within the boxes Nothing — Matt Czuchry

What were you supposed to do, talking to a hologram of a dead man, when a younger version of that man was still alive? Should you offer condolences?
Jordan decided that really wasn't necessary. — Margaret Peterson Haddix

One day, you will surely come across the Touring Trifecta: Uphill, headwind, in the rain. — Peter Rice

One must either stop reading the Bible altogether, or else leave off spending one's whole time in just doing easy pleasant things one likes to do. — Elizabeth Payson Prentiss

I used to think there were two kinds of Crayola artists: Ones who color inside the lines and ones who don't stay within the rigid boundaries set by thick black perimeters that make up a cuddly koala. But it seems that inside and outside the lines is just the main basis for comparison. You also have those who color lightly inside and fill each space according to the chosen and appropriate shade. Then you have those who scribble and slap any color anywhere. And sometimes these people have purple turkeys and shit that drives me absofreakinglutely crazy because, seriously — Amber L. Johnson

I think many people simply feel like they don't recognize their country anymore. — John Cornyn

In fact the bare adjective "bad" hardly scratches the surface of the man's awesome incapacity. — John Biggins