A Quote by Peabo Bryson

The line between greatness and obscurity is very, very small.

Peabo Bryson

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Between Greatness Line Obscurity Small Very

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Peabo Bryson
American - Musician
Born: April 13, 1951

I find it very difficult to draw a line between what's sex and what isn't. It can be very, very sexy to drive a car, and completely unsexy to flirt with someone at a bar.

Bjork

I am very interested in that fine line between fiction and reality and between comedy and tragedy - and pushing the line as much as possible.

Jill McCorkle

The fine line between roaring with laughter and crying because it's a disaster is a very, very fine line. You see a chap slip on a banana skin in the street and you roar with laughter when he falls slap on his backside. If in doing so you suddenly see he's broken a leg, you very quickly stop laughing and it's not a joke anymore.

Roald Dahl

The great arises out of small things that are honored and cared for. Everybody's life really consists of small things. Greatness is a mental abstraction and a favorite fantasy of the ego. The paradox is that the foundation for greatness is the honoring of small things of the present moment instead of pursuing the idea of greatness.

Eckhart Tolle

There's a very fine line between a groove and a rut; a fine line between eccentrics and people who are just plain nuts.

Christine Lavin

There's a very fine line between a groove and a rut a fine line between eccentrics and people who are just plain nuts.

Christine Lavin

I have gone from local obscurity to national obscurity to international obscurity. Once I learn how to monetize obscurity, I will be rich.

Ernie J Zelinski

The line between confidence and arrogance is very fine, Josh,” Flamel said quietly. “And the line between arrogance and stupidity even finer. Sophie,” he added, without looking at her.

Michael Scott

I don't like to see anyone suffer, and there's a very, very fine line between being healthy and working and totally down and out.

Katherine Dunn

You know, there's such a very thin dividing line between inspiration and obsession that sometimes it's very hard to decide which side we're really on.

Barnes Wallis

Theres a very fine line between not listening and not caring. I like to think I walk that line everyday of my life.

Burnie Burns

There's definitely a fine line between tasteful and tasteless, and as a stylist, it's a line you want to ride very carefully.

Brad Goreski

I believe in the possible. I believe, small though we are, insignificant though we may be, we can reach a full understanding of the universe. You were right when you said you felt small, looking up at all that up there. We are very, very small, but we are profoundly capable of very, very big things.

Stephen Hawking

To play down mothering as small is to crack the very foundation on which greatness stands.

Oprah Winfrey

Universe will be a very small place once we solve our speed problem! When that day comes, no man will talk about the greatness of the universe! All greatness comes from our smallness and from our slowness!