Best Cusp Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“I recently lost 50 pounds. I'm hovering on the cusp of a size eight, which seems unbelievable.”

Seems Lost Size Eight Pounds Unbelievable Hovering Cusp

“Milk which is just about to turn is akin to that moment spent on the cusp of failure in a dulled and fettered relationship.”

Moments Turns That Moment Milk Cusp

Author:Matt Roper

“We in our present generation stand on the cusp of a new and glorious dawn when mastery of these energies lies fully within our grasp as secret yields to inquiry, which yields to experimentation, which leads to verification and duplication, which, in the final course, leads to knowledge.”

Lying Courses Energy Secret Generations Finals Dawn Glorious Yield Mastery Inquiry Experimentation Verification Cusp Duplication

Author:Stephen R. Lawhead

“What I'm suggesting to you is that this could be a renaissance. We may be on the cusp of a future which could provide a tremendous leap forward for humanity.”

May Humanity Economy Leap Renaissance Suggesting Cusp

Author:Jeremy Rifkin

“One of the most poignant pieces of recent science fiction for me was the portrayal of the adults in the Pixar film WALL-E. I feel like we're on the cusp of becoming fat babies in floating chairs being fed everything in shake form, and I feel like I am as prone to laziness as anybody.”

Feels Film Form Fiction Pieces Wall Baby Becoming Adults Science Fiction Fats Shakes Chairs Feds Laziness Floating Poignant Portrayal Pixar Cusp

Author:Nick Offerman

“We're on the cusp, on the brink, of enormous change in this country.”

Country Enormous Cusp

Author:Jennifer Granholm

“I am on the cusp of change and the curve is shifting fast.”

Change Curves Shifting Cusp

Book:A Burst of Light: and Other Essays

Source: A Burst of Light: and Other Essays

“A novelist is on the cusp between someone who knows everything and someone who knows nothing.”

Knows Novelists Cusp

Book:13 Ways of Looking at the Novel

Source: 13 Ways of Looking at the Novel

“My manager lives on my block; four of the apartments in my apartment complex of seven are people I know. It's a really close-knit community, and almost everyone on these few blocks are artists or graphic designers, because we live right on the cusp of a warehouse district.”

People Knows Artist Community Four Complexes Seven Block Managers Designer Apartment Graphic Warehouse Graphic Designer Cusp

Author:Grimes

“We may be living at that moment, on the cusp, when we go from being a species that feels a kind of loneliness in the cosmos to actually one sometime in the not too distant future being able to confirm the existence of other intelligent life.”

Feels Kind May Moments Able Existence Loneliness Intelligent Species Cosmos That Moment Intelligent Life Cusp

Author:Ann Druyan

“I wanted the Andy of Toy Story 3 to be right on the cusp, straddling childhood and adulthood ... I wanted to find this sweet spot where he had gotten tall and had clearly grown up but still retained many boyish qualities, including a boyish charm.”

Stills Stories Wanted Quality Childhood Sweet Including Spots Charm Tall Toys Adulthood Boyish Cusp Toy Story 3

Author:Lee Unkrich

“Our culture is at a critical cusp - a time that requires that we define what it means to be a citizen in a democracy. Within our nation we need to foster a greater sense of collective responsibility.”

Needs Mean Culture Nations Responsibility Democracy Greater Internet Citizens Critical Collectives Free Speech Cusp Collective Responsibility

Author:Robert Neelly Bellah

“If you're just addressing your own emotions and challenging yourself to find some sort of harmonious sense of being in life and questioning authority and questioning what's given and questioning what's expected of you, you're already on the cusp of finding something in yourself, and maybe waking something in somebody else.”

Ifs Given Challenges Emotion Authority Findings Expected Waking Questioning Harmonious Challenge Yourself Cusp

Author:Saul Williams

“he challenge is finding the modern conduit for the audience, having fun and really looking at the duality of this particular character, that is both devil and angel, and on the cusp of losing control of the pagan background, to this newfangled religion called Christianity. There's a great backdrop there, and just a whole dark side with the magic.”

“I always want to be on the cusp of being in the best shape that I can be. What I'm discovering is that the older you get, the more work you have to do to stay there.”

Want I Can Shapes Discovering Cusp

Author:Michelle Obama

“I always want to be on the cusp of being in the best shape that I can be.”

Want I Can Shapes Cusp

Author:Michelle Obama

“We are on the cusp of the emergence of a company of hidden men and women who with all faith and patience have been enduring great struggles and dealings, being processed by the Lord and filling up what is lacking in the afflictions of Christ. These are not those who seek a reputation for themselves, their passion is His glory and giving Him the church He has longed for. May God grant us all the heart of apostolic fathering and mothering that can release His power in the earth. Zion is once again in travail to bring forth her children.”

“I think that I was just on the cusp of the generation that was beginning to really challenge some of the assumptions about the role of women and the role of men on campus.”

Thinking Men Challenges Roles Generations Assumption Campus Cusp

Author:Claire McCaskill

“We were fortunate at that time we were working with Virgin, and with Flood, probably more well-known as Brian Eno's engineer now and U2's producer, etc. Even though we weren't working in a strictly popular music area, which was great, we were lucky enough to work with people who were on the cusp of those sort of things.”

People Wells Enough Known Lucky Areas Producers Fortunate Etc Engineers Flood Virgins Well Known Brian Popular Music Cusp

Author:Stephen Mallinder

“We seem to be always on cusps. Women come out of the burkah, the niqab, purdah, the closet, then go back in again. Of course, what we need do is to value the happy freedom of all beings.”

Needs Seems Values Courses Closets Cusp Niqab Purdah

Author:Maxine Hong Kingston

“It's about a girl who is on the cusp of becoming someone.. A girl who may not know what she wants right now, and she may not know who she is right now, but who deserves the chance to find out.”

Knows Want May Girl Chance Becoming Right Now Deserve Cusp Becoming Someone

Book:My Sister's Keeper

Source: My Sister's Keeper

“...and Jack, who felt like he was on the cusp of being able to read minds and thought it would be all right if Luce wrote him down for that. ("I sense that you're okay with that, am I right?" He made a gun out of his fingers and clicked his tongue.)”

Ifs Mind Made Would Be Able Felt Gun Okay Fingers Tongue Cusp Mind And Thoughts

Book:The Fallen Sequence: An Omnibus Edition

Source: The Fallen Sequence: An Omnibus Edition

“His coworker was velvety-skinned, a sexy boy-on-the-cusp-of man.”

Men Boys Sexy Coworker Cusp

Book:The Fever Series 5-Book Bundle: Darkfever, Bloodfever, Faefever, Dreamfever, Shadowfever

Source: The Fever Series 5-Book Bundle: Darkfever, Bloodfever, Faefever, Dreamfever, Shadowfever

“This is the solstice, the still point of the sun, its cusp and midnight, the year's threshold and unlocking, where the past lets go of and becomes the future; the place of caught breath.”

Years Stills Past Sun Letting Go Breaths Caught Midnight Threshold Unlocking Solstice Cusp

Book:Morning in the Burned House

Source: Morning in the Burned House

“She told me her father taught her to live life way beyond the cusp of it, way out in the outer reaches where most people never had the guts to go, where you got hurt. Where there was unimaginable beauty and pain ... They were always reminding themselves to stop measuring life in coffee spoons, mornings and afternoons, to keep swimming way, way down to the bottom of the ocean to find where the mermaids sang, each to each. Where there was danger and beauty and light. Only the now.”

People Way Light Pain Father Hurt Morning Danger Taught Ocean Bottom Coffee Live Life Guts Swimming Afternoon Reminding Spoons Measuring Unimaginable Mermaid Cusp Got Hurt

Author:Marisha Pessl

“History is replete with examples of empires mounting impressive military campaigns on the cusp of their impending economic collapse.”

War Politics Economic Military Example Campaigns Empires Anti War Antiwar Collapse Impressive Cusp Economic Collapse

Book:Sound and Fury: The Making of the Punditocracy

Source: Sound and Fury: The Making of the Punditocracy

“We live on the cusp of death Thinking it won't be us”

Thinking Rap Cusp

Author:Macklemore

“You can be on the cusp of something. Appreciate the cusp, not the something. Appreciate this moment now.”

Moments Appreciate Cusp

Author:Ernest Holmes

“The world is poised on the cusp of an economic and cultural shift as dramatic as that of the Industrial Revolution.”

World Economic Revolution Dramatic Industrial Revolution Cusp

Author:Steven Levy

“We're getting close to making our vision a reality. It's exciting to be on the cusp of opening our doors to the public. We're right on schedule.”

Reality Vision Doors Exciting Opening Schedules Cusp

Author:James K. Coyne, III

“Oscar Pistorius is on the cusp of a paradigm shift in which disability becomes ability, disadvantage becomes advantage. Yet we mustn't lose sight of what makes an athlete great. It's too easy to credit Pistorius' success to technology. Through birth or circumstance, some are given certain gifts, but it's what one does with those gifts, the hours devoted to training, the desire to be the best, that is at the true heart of a champion.”

“I suffer from the delusion that every product of my imagination is not only possible, but always on the cusp of becoming real.”

Real Suffering Imagination Products Becoming Entrepreneur Delusion My Imagination Cusp Becoming Real

Author:Sean Parker

“I'm greedy; I'd like to keep most of it for myself and a few others, a few of my friends . . . to keep that superlative high, just on the cusp of each day . . . so that I'd radiate sunshine.”

My Friends Each Day Sunshine Greedy Superlatives Cusp

Author:Edie Sedgwick

“I think drugs are like strawberries and peaches..There’s no way to tell anyone who hasn’t been through it, there’s no way to explain it to anyone who hasn’t tasted it . To keep that superlative high, just on the cusp of each day, so that I radiate sunshine”

Thinking Way Drug Each Day Sunshine Peaches Strawberries Superlatives Cusp

Author:Edie Sedgwick

“We are on the cusp of a marketing revolution. And it's being led by YOU.”

Book Revolution Marketing Cusp

Author:Mark Schaefer

“For most of human history, we could only watch, like bystanders, the beautiful dance of Nature. But today, we are on the cusp of an epoch-making transition, from being passive observers of Nature to being active choreographers of Nature. The Age of Discovery in science is coming to a close, opening up an Age of Mastery.”

Source: Visions: How Science Will Revolutionize the 21st Century

“We are on the cusp of this time where I can say, "I speak as a citizen of the world" without others saying, "God, what a nut."”

World I Can Speak Atheism Citizens Nuts Citizenship Cusp

Author:Lawrence Lessig

“I think it is no exaggeration to say we are on the cusp of the further perfection of extreme evil, an evil whose possibility spreads well beyond that which weapons of mass destruction bequeathed to the nation-states, on to a surprising and terrible empowerment of extreme individuals.”

“My older sister was at the cusp of new wave, and I had older brothers from my father's first marriage who were rock 'n' roll guys, so I was exposed to a lot of popular culture.”

Firsts Guy Culture Father Rocks Brother Wave Exposed Rock N Roll Popular Culture Older Brother Older Sister Cusp

Author:Paul Thomas Anderson

“The world is poised on the cusp of an economic and cultural shift as dramatic as that of the Industrial Revolution. (OK, it doesn't take a genius, or even a politician, to figure out that big changes are afoot when we have a medium that lets someone throw up a virtual storefront on the Web and instantly gain access to the global market.)”

World Bigs Economic Figures Revolution Genius Internet Politician Gains Access Mediums Dramatic Industrial Revolution Big Changes Cusp

Author:Steven Levy

“Postmodernism is, almost by definition, a transitional cusp of social, cultural, economic and ideological history when modernism's high-minded principles and preoccupations have ceased to function, but before they have been replaced with a totally new system of values. It represents a moment of suspension before the batteries are recharged for the new millennium, an acknowledgment that preceding the future is a strange and hybrid interregnum that might be called the last gasp of the past.”

“Interestingly, human irrationality is a hot topic in economics at the moment. Behavioural economics it's called, on the cusp of economics and psychology.”

Humans Moments Psychology Economics Hot Topics Irrationality Cusp Hot Topic

Author:Evan Davis