Top 1200 Pushing The Envelope Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

Anyone who’s ever put a stamp on an envelope or a note on their refrigerator knows what it’s like to make a collage. There’s no esoteric technique.

I always not only want push the envelope in my career but I also have an itch for going against the grain.

You can't raise the standard of women's morals by raising their pay envelope. It lies deeper than that.

The body always expresses the spirit whose envelope it is. And for him who can see, the nude offers the richest meaning.

When it comes to putting together a new show, we always push the envelope, and that's part of Motley Crue's legacy.

Savio Vega kept pushing me, pushing me, as he was teaching me, too, how to be a heel and things. And how to... 'Let's just try this tonight: just, we'll lock up, you'll go behind me, rub up and down my chest.'

People have always wondered if I'm trying to push the envelope when it comes to my cinema - they keep questioning the visual graphics and the controversial content.

I'll always push the envelope. To me, the ultimate sin in life is to be boring. I don't play it safe.

On Broadway, only the fire doors separate you from the sidewalk and you're lucky if the sound of a police car doesn't rip the envelope twice a night.

I'm a performer. I push the envelope, I work in a very uncontrolled manner onstage. I do a lot of free association, it's spontaneous, I go into character.

We are trying to push the envelope with a lot of characters in 'Brothers.' We are going out of the way and being honest to our roles.

My wife is a real Puritan. She thinks licking the stamp on the envelope of a Valentine is foreplay.

It's always great when you get a chance to give someone an opportunity to step outside his envelope and show people that he can do it.

When you're a director, and you look at Scorsese's work, he's always challenging us to push the envelope and break the rules. Someone like that is necessary and a godsend.

There is a kind way of assisting our fellow-creatures which is enough to break their hearts while it saves their outer envelope.

Because my dad died when I was young, and I have a severely disabled sister, I couldn't really push the envelope at home.

Don't always be so reasonable and practical and sensible that you refuse to seize glorious opportunities when they show up and push the envelope as to what's possible for you.

The social object of skilled investment should be to defeat the dark forces of time and ignorance which envelope our future.

While they're building a solid foundation that will support whatever is coming down the road, Todd and I are itching to see further, to push the envelope.

I think we're really good about pushing each other in practice and we have high tempo and I feel like we have some of the best players in the world so just competing against one another and getting in there and pushing each other around and getting ready for that physical style of game coming up, we have to play hard and pretend it's a game.

Things have really changed here in Hollywood. Used to be people in this town couldn't wait to get an envelope full of white powder.

Classic glam is beautiful and will never go out of style, but I like to try to push the envelope and create something new and inspiring.

If you can accept defeat and open your pay envelope without feeling guilty, you're stealing.

The cable makers are the ones who are willing to take risks and do something original and push the envelope some.

Many of my colleagues and I do films, which push the envelope and try to bring some change.

Every single thing I`ve done, from the Affordable Care Act to pushing to raise the minimum wage, to making sure that young people are able to go to college and get good job training, to what we`re pushing now in terms of sick paid leave,everything I do has been focused on how do we make sure the middle class is getting a fair deal.

We're able to push the envelope with what we're doing, both on a technical and artistic level, which is the most that any filmmaker can ask for.

I've always had a tendency to push the envelope as far as it can go without hurting someone's feelings.

For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.

I am a natural optimist but there were times when (it seemed like) I was doing nothing but adding up on the back of envelope what I had to pay this month.

Even if we are 50 or 60 years old, if we can do it we will continue to create content that pushes the envelope.

I like to stretch myself and push the envelope, so anything that's new or different or not of my daily routine, I am so for.

I'm sorry, but there is absolutely no reason why bacon envelope glue should exist, let alone be so popular that it's sold out.

Pushing for excellence is a fight. You have to fight to hire the right employees, fight to get the supplies you need, to move line items around. Being a great manager means pushing to get those few extra inches every day. It's almost like a football game - the team that wins sometimes wins by just inches.

In any art form, in Hollywood or in music, there is a handful of people who really, you know, move the envelope.

I love develop as an artist, to push my envelope, to grow, to make mistakes, to learn from them and to try and be the very best that I can be while I'm on this earth.

We as mayors have the opportunity to push the envelope and get people thinking, even when it is not politically popular. Cities hold the key.

I never pushed the envelope of wanting people to know me, or be on the covers of magazines. I just want to enjoy what I'm doing.

The best way to do comedy is to not filter yourself, and then you could always fix it later. You want to be able to push the envelope.

Go to parties. You can't even start to know what you may find on the envelope of serendipity. If you suffer from agoraphobia, send colleagues.

When we try to push the envelope, there are certain sectors of society that say this is a Zionist plot to sort of destabilize our country, or this is an American agenda.

By far, the content of Canadian films. You're able to push the envelope in ways you can't in the U.S., I find. But also, because of the budgets and everything, it's all condensed, quick, and short.

We're starting to push the envelope in terms of the expectations, and you can also have your own style, personality and sense of humor, because now we're allowed to.

I always think you should push your envelope every chance you get.

Edie Sedgwick had a cool style; she pushed the envelope for the time.

Payday at my house is like the Academy Awards. My wife says: May I have the envelope please.

What's great about 'The Daily Show' is I can use satire and push the envelope. I couldn't do that anywhere else. Even if I was a journalist.

The idea that I could push the envelope using dedication and research and endless curiosity has propelled me in my life's work.

I was appalled that the San Francisco ethic didn't mushroom and envelope the whole world into this loving community of acid freaks. I was very naive.

After about five hours of pushing, my midwife and my birthing assistant said, 'You know, we have a few suggestions.' And I was like, 'Really? After five hours of pushing you have a few suggestions? You couldn't have told me five minutes in?'

It often feels like a tremendous amount of work is required to get an idea moving forward, like pushing a train uphill. But at a certain point, the thing takes on its own momentum, and takes unexpected turns. So it's that feeling of holding on, rather than pushing it, that is the most exciting thing. It's that need to occasionally bounce off the walls, letting anything happen for any reason, and having nothing to guide you that is the joy.

One of the key pleasures of receiving a letter is the act of holding and entering the envelope - a sort of cross between Christmas and sex.

I made myself into an envelope into which I could thrust my work deep, lick the flap, seal it from everybody.

I've never been about trying to promote a brand of Squarepusher. I've never been keen on that idea that these are the character traits that I've got to stick with and amplify and keep pushing forward and pushing on the public. I'm really happy to throw it all away and start each record with a blank slate but I concede you've got a point, there are things I can't get rid of, no matter how hard I try.

For those of us learning the way to financial serenity and solvency, the envelope system teaches prudence, patience, and perseverance. You can only spend what you have.

I'm completely different from Pietersen. He would turn up to the opening of an envelope

The part of the envelope that tells a person where to place the stamp when they can't quite figure it out for themselves.

Do we really want to continue to push out the envelope of survival only to see other things crop up that we may not like?

For most men, life is a search for the proper Manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.

I used to watch 'Last Comic Standing' with my mom before she passed. So when I got that red envelope, I was extremely emotional.