When you leave Beane's office, you walk away with two things: the belief that coloring outside the basepaths is a good thing, and dog hair on your pants.

You think you can take on the world and you want to color outside the lines and get a tattoo or mouth off to someone way bigger than you.

In a time of bold divisions between good girls and bad, Ms. Page colored outside the lines.

Imagination will unwind when we color outside the lines.

These are the athletes who color outside the lines.

"I color outside the lines when I'm bored."

"This was not someone who was coloring outside the line," she said.

This reinforced my original take on Ms. Mayfield as a dedicated professional, a team player, a lady who never colored outside the lines.

Vexation colored the faces outside the blue duraglass.

"Maybe they started inside, probably did, but I figure they started coloring outside the lines at some point."