Best Edges Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Imagination reveals the possibilities beyond the edges of our reality.”

Reality Inspirational Quotes Imagination Possibility Edges

“I like to live extravagantly in my mind, she said, but in real life I keep to the edges because I bruise easily. —Fringe Dweller”

Mind Edges Real Life Bruises Extravagance Fringe Dweller

Book:Theories of Everything

Source: Theories of Everything

“When our thoughts are unsettled and our inner world is in a muddle, we may sharpen our wits and try to recognize the invisible edges of our fractured stance. If we seek to figure out, what our life story is all about, we may be able to put the missing pieces in place and identify what is driving us, what we are actually up to and why we are running like mad dogs, sometimes. (“On a doggy day”)”

“For millenia, scientists always try to measure the size of this vast universe. One way to know that is first to find the smallest single thing that constructs this universe. When they get it, the real measurement of universe can be understood for sure.”

Life Universe Edges Smallest Measurement Biggest

Book:My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut

Source: My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut

“It’s the edges of the maps that fascinate ...”

Edges Maps

Book:The Bone Clocks

Source: The Bone Clocks

“Complacency is a sword of two edges. One edge kills hard earned successes while the other end stops future glories. Complacency is a murderer and a barrier!”

Murder Food For Thought Edges Israelmore Ayivor Murderer Complacency End Kill Complacent One Sword Edge Barrier Successes Stops Complacence Future Glories Sword Of Two Edges

Book:The Great Hand Book of Quotes

Source: The Great Hand Book of Quotes

“The way to success is not a straight line segment. It's a dotted line with little packs of failure filling the potholes of broken edges inbetween.”

“I tis hopeless to try to convert some borders into seams. Expressways and their ramps are examples. Moreover, even in the case of large parks, campuses or waterfronts, the barrier effects can likely be overcome well only along portions of perimeters.”

Cities Edges 268

Book:The Death and Life of Great American Cities

Source: The Death and Life of Great American Cities

“The world had edges but you couldn’t see them going, only when you were trying to come back.”

World Edges

Book:Duplex

Source: Duplex

“Love isn't a perfect match, but an imperfect one. You are rocks in a tumbler. At first you bump, you scrape, you snag. But each time that happens, you smooth each other's edges, until you wear each other down. And if you are lucky, at the end of all that, you fit.”

Love Edges Soulmate Match

Author:Jodie Picoult

“So I don't care to be too definite about anything. I have a lot of edges called Perhaps and almost nothing you can call Certainty.”

Edges Certainty Definite Nothing Perhaps

Book:Blue Horses

Source: Blue Horses

“I love films where you go into the cinema and loosen the edges of yourself and you hopefully enter into the world of the film. You're watching something unfold before you. I prefer the idea of wonder or intense wonder over shock or something.”

World Ideas Film Wonder Edges Intense Hopefully Cinema Shock Love Films

Author:Julia Leigh

“Vivien Leigh was a phenomenal actress, a very complicated woman, living on the edge of mental problems, haunted by demons and angels. And though I've never thought of myself like Marilyn Monroe, I was inspired by the tremendous risk she took - of being vulnerable.”

Problem Risk Angel Inspired Edges Complicated Actresses Vulnerable Demon Living On Phenomenal Living On The Edge

Author:Rebecca De Mornay

“People on the edge of love go with their heart and not their head.”

People Heart Edges

Author:Sienna Miller

“If a voice is just too nice, without an edge, it kinda all flows by. You forget it. You don't listen to the lyrics.”

Ifs Voice Forget Nice Flow Edges Forget It Too Nice

Author:Stephen Malkmus

“I think about my mother every day. But usually the thoughts are fleeting - she crosses my mind like a spring cardinal that flies past the edge of your eye: startling, luminous, lovely... gone.”

Thinking Mind Eye Past Mother Gone Spring Crosses Edges Lovely Fleeting Luminous Cardinals

Author:Meghan O'Rourke

“I think we all have our own mission, duty, fate in life so for me somehow I think I am always walking on the edge of life and take risks.”

Thinking Fate Risk Duty Walking Edges Missions

Author:Bai Ling

“I want to improve TSA's counterterrorism focus through intelligence and cutting edge technology, support the TSA workforce, and strengthen the agency's relationships with stakeholders and the traveling public. All of these priorities are interconnected and are vital to TSA's mission - and I would say, all of our collective mission.”

Want Technology Support Focus Cutting Edges Missions Priorities Agency Collectives Workforce Interconnected Cutting Edge Stakeholder Counter Terrorism Tsa

Author:John S. Pistole

“We have seven pillars of development. India has a cutting edge information technology industry. We are setting up a technology park. We would like to see technology penetration iin education. Besides, we would like to see cooperation in industries like fashion, filmmaking, ship-building, education, health and energy.”

“It seems that the small movies are a little more risky and cutting-edge. You've got your big commerce and you've got your small films that you're more passionate about.”

Littles Bigs Seems Film Cutting Passionate Edges Commerce Cutting Edge

Author:Robert Patrick

“I've always written. At the age of six or seven, I would get sheets of A4 paper and fold them in half, cut the edges to make a little eight-page booklet, break it up into squares and put in little stick men with little speech bubbles, and I'd have a spy story, a space story and a football story.”

Men Littles Stories Age Space Half Break Cutting Written Football Speech Paper Six Pages Sticks Seven Edges Eight Squares Bubbles Sheets Spy Folds

Author:Ian Rankin

“In our culture I think most people think of grief as sadness, and that's certainly part of it, a large part of it, but there's also this thorniness, these edges that come out.”

People Thinking Culture Grief Sadness Edges

Author:Anthony Rapp

“Oh I love gadgets and I pride myself on keeping at the cutting edge of technology.”

Technology Cutting Pride Edges Gadgets Cutting Edge

Author:Alexander McCall Smith

“You stand on the edge of eternity, with a vista that is so incredible, so powerful, so perfect that it's overwhelming. You are so overwhelmed - you no longer exist.”

Perfect Powerful Awareness Buddhism Eternity Incredibles Edges Overwhelming Overwhelmed Vistas

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The chance of winning a Super Bowl in a city like New York, there's nothing like it. Once you win one, you get that bug to win another one, that edge.”

Winning Chance Cities New York Edges Bowls Bugs Super Bowl

Author:Mark Sanchez

“I'm completely taken and impressed by the planning authority of Singapore and its Urban Redevelopment Authority (URA). It's the most cutting-edge agency in the world. They have very effective guidelines for development, and they review design as it evolves.”

World Taken Cutting Design Development Authority Edges Planning Evolve Agency Reviews Impressed Urban Singapore Cutting Edge Guidelines

Author:Moshe Safdie

“My favorite film is Gene Tierney and Tyrone Power in The Razor's Edge.”

Film My Favorite Edges Genes Razors

Author:Terence Stamp

“And, you know, money is - the money edge is really dangerous to democracy. Because what you have right now - people have said to me that, look, you'll always be outspent, so how can you ever win?”

People Knows Looks Said Winning Democracy Dangerous Right Now Edges

Author:Richard Trumka

“There's a certain edge about cruelty. If you're honest about it, most people wince, but say it had to be said.”

People Ifs Said Certain Honest Edges Cruelty Wince

Author:Pete Waterman

“We have a long-standing tradition in this country to follow the advice of Senator Vandenberg, which is that politics ends at the water's edge.”

Long Ends Country Water Advice Standing Tradition Edges Senators

Author:Mitt Romney

“It is not the easy or convenient life for which I search, but life lived to the edge of all that I may be.”

May Easy Adventure Edges Convenient Heartfelt

Book:Live Boldly: Cultivate the Qualities That Can Change Your Life

Source: Live Boldly: Cultivate the Qualities That Can Change Your Life

“I offer gentle understanding to myself. I position myself in love, not fear. I look behind me with forgiveness. I look forward with festive anticipation. I embrace this holy moment and assert, "Now. This moment is the moment to love, the moment to serve, the moment to seize the legacy instead of the small. Now. Now I will live large, love boldly, reach to the edges of my unfurled heart and fully enrolled hope."”

Looks Heart Moments Stars Understanding Behinds Position Holy Offers Embrace Edges Legacy Gentle Anticipation Live In The Moment Festive

Author:Mary Anne Radmacher

“Pied Piper' came to me all at once; I wanted to do a fairy-tale movie with some edge, but not 'dark,' per se.”

Wanted Dark Edges Tales Fairy Fairy Tale Pipers Pied Piper

Author:Max Landis

“I admire artists who are ageing and still retaining their edge.”

Stills Artist Edges Admire Ageing Retaining

Author:Paul McGann

“I see the people in the tabloids, the ones that get bad press, who have kind of gone off the edge, and I try to study them so that I don't do that. It seems like they lost focus at some point - that's the one thing they all have in common.”

People Trying Kind Seems Lost Common Gone Study Focus One Thing Presses Edges Tabloids Bad Press

Author:Cory Monteith

“If you are going to make a change, don't go halfway. Make it with conviction and stick with your new idea. Ignore the scoffers. Remember, it is a law of nature that if something is different you're going to be taunted, jeered, and told the world is flat. Let the doubters fall off the edge.”

Ifs World Ideas Different Remember Law Fall Sticks Edges Conviction Flats New Ideas Laws Of Nature Halfway Making Changes Doubters World Is Flat Scoffers

Author:Gary McCord

“A great empire, like a great cake, is most easily diminished at the edges.”

Political Politics Liberty Edges Empires Sarcastic Cake Founding Fathers Democracy Polymaths Great Empires

Book:The Life and Essays of Dr. Benjamin Franklin: Carefully Collected from His Own Papers, Containing All His Miscellaneous Pieces

Source: The Life and Essays of Dr. Benjamin Franklin: Carefully Collected from His Own Papers, Containing All His Miscellaneous Pieces

“I am convinced that a good building must be capable of absorbing the traces of human life and taking on a specific richness... I think of the patina of age on materials, of innumerable small scratches on surfaces, of varnish that has grown dull and brittle, and of edges polished by use.”

Thinking Humans Use Age Building Materials Capable Edges Surface Convinced Human Life Dull Scratches Richness Polished Absorbing

Book:Peter Zumthor

Source: Peter Zumthor

“It's good to be on the edge, but I have never followed my mind. I have always followed my heart. And it has yielded the right results.”

Mind Heart Results My Heart Edges

Author:Deepika Padukone

“Together we all live every moment On the very brink; The razor’s edge Of ecstasy or disaster.”

Moments Together Edges Disaster Ecstasy Razors Live Every Moment

Author:Scott Hastie

“When you are thrown onto the stage at 17 in such an enormous way, it becomes living on the edge because every step you take, every word you speak, every action you do becomes headline news. And it became, for me, life or death.”

Way Action Speak Sports Steps Stage News Edges Enormous Thrown Headlines Living On Every Step Life Or Death Words You Speak Living On The Edge Every Step You Take

Author:Boris Becker

“My style is simple, kinda girly, but with a bit of an edge.”

Bits Simple Style Edges Girly

Author:Erin Heatherton

“Brian Eno developed systems to keep himself on edge and to keep himself in a position where he's generating ideas.”

Ideas Position Edges Brian

Author:Jon Brion

“Nothing in these abstract economic models actually works in the real world. It doesn't matter how many footnotes they put in, or how many ways they tinker around the edges. The whole enterprise is totally rotten at the core: it has no relation to reality.”

World Way Real Matter Whole Reality Economic Models Relation Edges Core Abstract Enterprise Real World Rotten Footnotes Economic Models

Author:Noam Chomsky

“But this is what I know about people getting ready to walk of the edge of their own lives: they want someone to know how they got there. Maybe they want to know that when they dissolve into earth and water, that last fragment will be saved, held in some corner of someone's mind; or maybe all they want is a chance to dump it pulsing and bloody into someone else's hands, so it won't weigh them down on the journey. They want to leave their stories behind. No one in all the world knows that better than I do.”

People Knows World Want Mind Stories Hands Earth Lasts Water Chance Walks Behinds Know How Journey Ready Edges Corners Saved Bloody Fragments Dump

Author:Tana French

“Beyond the terrace, a light breeze stirred the reeds at the edge of the pond. Looking out at this intimate vista, one could see the reeds and a stone lantern and the brightest of the evening's stars floating on the gloaming mirror of the pond. Then the breeze came again to crack the water's surface, and the picture was flooded.”

Light Stars Water Stones Mirrors Edges Surface Evening Intimate Cracks Floating Breeze Ponds Reeds Vistas Lanterns Terrace Gloaming

Book:The Commoner

Source: The Commoner

“The art of cartooning is vulgarity. The only reason for cartooning to exist is to be on the edge. If you only take apart what they allow you to take apart, you're Disney. Cartooning is a low-class, for-the-public art, just like graffiti art and rap music. Vulgar but believable, that's the line I kept walking.”

Ifs Art Reason Lines Class Walking Lows Edges Rap Vulgar Vulgarity Believable Graffiti Rap Music Graffiti Art Public Art

Author:Ralph Bakshi

“When we wake, it is because something, some event, some pinprick even, disturbs the edges of what we’ve taken as reality.”

Reality Taken Events Edges

Book:Annihilation: A Novel

Source: Annihilation: A Novel

“If you have competence, you know the edge. It wouldnt be a competence if you didnt know where the boundaries lie. Asking whether youve passed the boundary is a question that almost answers itself.”

Ifs Knows Lying Answers Asking Edges Boundaries Competence

Author:Charlie Munger

“John Carmack, who has become interested in focusing on things other than game development at id, has resigned from the studio. John’s work on id Tech 5 and the technology for the current development work at id is complete, and his departure will not affect any current projects. We are fortunate to have a brilliant group of programmers at id who worked with John and will carry on id’s tradition of making great games with cutting-edge technology. As colleagues of John for many years, we wish him well.”

Years Wells Games Wish Technology Cutting Groups Development Projects Tradition Edges Currents Studios Brilliant Fortunate Colleagues Programmers Departure Resigned Cutting Edge

Author:Tim Willits

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