Fear is the highest fence.

- Dudley Nichols

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.

- James Wolcott

The wide world is all about you: you can fence yourselves in, but you cannot forever fence it out.

- J. R. R. Tolkien

Everything in Russia is made of cement - phone booths, fence posts and light bulbs.

- Ian Frazier

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

- H. L. Mencken

Even though the museums guarding their precious property fence everything off, in my own studio, I made them so you and I could walk in and around, and among these sculptures.

- George Segal

In a complex and troubling world, who wouldn't want to simplify? Everybody does. Everybody wants to simplify and put up a picket fence.

- Gary Ross

The topic of slavery is like an electric fence. Touch it and people will react.

- Edward Ball

I think in the U.S., the border fence is no longer an immigration issue primarily; it's a security issue.

- Duncan Hunter

A number of people who have supported me on the border fence in the U.S. have observed the fences in Israel and their effectiveness.

- Duncan Hunter

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.

- Ariel Sharon

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

- David Lloyd George

The neighborhood I grew up in had this fence that surrounds the watershed. And if you go on the other side of that fence, there's nothing until the North Pole and down to Siberia. It's the absolute cutoff point between man and nature.

- Douglas Coupland

Human beings are human beings. They say what they want, don't they? They used to say it across the fence while they were hanging wash. Now they just say it on the Internet.

- Dennis Miller

You try to - you want to fly on both sides of the political fence because that's where the - where the comedy is.

- Denis Leary

I know that, as a bisexual, sometimes people who are gay or lesbian look down upon the bisexual community as well and assume that people who are bisexual just don't know what they want or are just playing both sides of the fence, and that's not the case, either.

- Crystal Bowersox

As long as the Palestinians send terrorists onto school buses and to nightclubs to blow up people, Israel has no choice but to build the fence.

- Chuck Schumer

Love your neighbor as yourself; but don't take down the fence.

- Carl Sandburg

When you're given a newspaper column, you're not being paid to sit on a fence and scratch your chin and say 'On the one hand this' and 'On the other hand that.' You're getting paid for your opinion.

- Carl Hiaasen

Hopefully, I can play both sides of the fence. That's probably what winning the Oscar gives me, the chance to do something with a studio and do other things that I really want to do.

- Benicio Del Toro