Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.
When we close our options at some point of time, we learn to be happy with what we have. However, when we keep our options open, we are rarely happy with what we have as we find the grass greener on the other side of the fence.
The wide world is all about you: you can fence yourselves in, but you cannot forever fence it out.
A politician is an animal which can sit on a fence and yet keep both ears to the ground.
When you're 40, you can't ride the fence anymore. You gotta make definite decisions about your life.
The concept of cultural appropriation is nothing less than an intellectual fence: Keep out.
Elvis walked over and signed a few autographs over the fence. They were screaming. I had never seen this.
A collection of huts surrounded by a barbed wire fence, and in the huts lived 500 of the original inhabitants of our area. And so it went with many country towns around Australia.
Everything in Russia is made of cement - phone booths, fence posts and light bulbs.
We can build the fence. We can triple the border patrol. We can end sanctuary cities by cutting off funding to them. We can end welfare for those here illegally.
My earliest memories are being pinned to a fence with a switchblade.
We do not build new Jewish communities in Samaria, Judea and Gaza. The United States has never accepted our building of communities or of the fence. Yet, I've managed to develop relations between Israel and the United States even though President Bush never supported settlements.
Historically, Hollywood comedy has arrived in skinny envelopes. From fence post Buster Keaton to herky-jerky Jerry Lewis to wiry nerve-bundle Woody Allen to hung-loose Richard Pryor to whippy contortionist Jim Carrey, its comics and clowns have tended to be sliced thin and bendable.
In a complex and troubling world, who wouldn't want to simplify? Everybody does. Everybody wants to simplify and put up a picket fence.
