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“One summer night, out on a flat headland, all but surrounded by the waters of the bay, the horizons were remote and distant rims on the edge of space.”

Night Water Space Summer Edges Flats Horizon August Rims Summer Nights New Horizons Moon And Stars Sun And Stars

Author:Rachel Carson

“Music... a kind of inarticulate, unfathomable speech, which leads to the edge of the Infinite.”

Kind Inspiration Speech Infinite Edges Contemplation Unfathomable Inarticulate

Book:Works

Source: Works

“To say that we are closer to victory today is to believe in the face of the evidence, the optimists who have been wrong in the past. To say that we are mired in stalemate seems the only realistic, yet unsatisfactory, conclusion. It is increasingly clear to this reporter that the only rational way out then will be to negotiate, not as victors, but as an honorable people who lived up to their pledge to defend democracy, and did the best they could.”

People Way Seems Democracy Clear Defeat Edges Rational Conclusion Yield Pessimism Realistic Reporters Honorable Pledge Unreasonable Stalemate

Author:Walter Cronkite

“The beauty and charm of the wilderness are his for the asking, for the edges of the wilderness lie close beside the beaten roads of the present travel.”

Lying Asking Edges Charm Wilderness Beaten

Book:The Green Roosevelt: Theodore Roosevelt in Appreciation of Wilderness, Wildlife, and Wild Places

Source: The Green Roosevelt: Theodore Roosevelt in Appreciation of Wilderness, Wildlife, and Wild Places

“Some of us awake in the night with strange phantasms of enchanted hills and gardens, of fountains that sing in the sun, of golden cliffs overhanging murmuring seas, of plains that stretch down to sleeping cities of bronze andstone, and of shadowy companies of heroes that ride caparisoned white horsesalong the edges of thick forests, and then we know that we have looked backthrough the ivory gates into that world of wonder that was ours, before we were wise and unhappy.”

Source: The Complete Weird Tales of H. P. Lovecraft: Necronomicon and Eldritch Tales

“Selfliss giving rounds the edges in spiritual practice. Many people can meditate very well but they're still very egotistical.”

People Giving Wells Stills Spiritual Practice Yoga Rounds Edges Karma Egotistical Spiritual Practice Karma Yoga

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Meditation without selfless giving is not enough. You may go into very high states of consciousness but the rough edges will still be there - there may be lots of selfish motives lurking within the self - that you don't see.”

“I did mostly alcohol. There were drugs, too - pills - and there was a danger that I would go over the edge. I could have. I thank God I didn't.”

Danger Drug Edges Alcohol Thank God Pills Over The Edge

Author:Johnny Depp

“You never think you're on the verge of disaster while you're looking over the edge yourself. It's your friends and family who are trying to get you to stop destroying yourself and after a while it kind of sank in and I just cleaned up my act.”

Thinking Trying Kind Drug Edges Alcohol Disaster Destroying Family And Friends Verge Over The Edge Destroying Yourself

Author:Johnny Depp

“Nervous and scared is a good thing, it's your friend. You feel more on the edge, you feel like you're about to fall down the river, it's a good thing for me. I like that feeling.”

Feels Feelings Fall Like You Rivers Good Things Edges Scared Nervous Mma Falling Down

Author:Georges St-Pierre

“With the tiger you're always on edge, and you always have to keep your distance. The monkey is far less threatening so you're more relaxed around the monkey, and I think that's actually hazardous.”

Thinking Distance Edges Monkeys Tigers Threatening Relaxed

Author:Ed Helms

“I like coming up with these spectacular extravaganzas that will, hopefully, totally blow people away. But I also like the intimacy of stopping it all and sitting at the edge of the stage and connecting with individual people in the audience.”

People Individual Audience Stage Sitting Edges Blow Hopefully Intimacy Stopping Connecting Spectacular

Author:Madonna Ciccone

“I spend a lot of time working and with my family, so I don't have much time around the edges to do much else. I don't really listen to a great deal of music. I love music, but since I spend a lot of time in the studio, we probably watch a movie rather than listen to albums. I get to hear stuff, but not on the grand scale.”

Stuff Deals Watches My Family Edges Albums Studios Scales Music Love I Love Music

Author:Kate Bush

“When the conception of internal form is governed by edge, color appears to remain on or above the surface. I think, on the contrary, of color as being seen in and throughout, not solely on, the surface.”

Thinking Form Color Edges Surface Contrary Internals Conception

Author:Jules Olitski

“There must be a union between the spirit in wood and the spirit in man. The grain of the wood must relate closely to its function. The abutment of the edge of one board to an adjoining board can mean the success or failure of a piece. () Gradually a form evolves, much as nature produces the tree in the first place. The object created can live forever. The tree lives on in its new form. The object cannot follow a transitory “style”, here for a moment, discarded the next. Its appeal must be universal. Cordial and receptive, it should invite a meeting with man”

“The edge of the world is always the next step when you're blind.”

World Next Steps Blind Edges Next Steps Edge Of The World

Book:Cockeyed

Source: Cockeyed

“If you look at the success of snowboarding in the Winter Games and how that's brought a more youthful edge to the Olympics in general, they don't have that with the Summer Games. They don't have anything that's drawing in a younger viewership. To be honest, I think they need skateboarding more than we need them. Skateboarding's popularity is solidified for the most part in a lot of countries.”

Ifs Thinking Needs Looks Country Games Honest Summer Winter Edges Drawing Being Honest Popularity Olympics Skateboarding Snowboarding

Author:Tony Hawk

“Were art to redeem man, it could do so only by saving him from the seriousness of life and restoring him to an unexpected boyishness. The symbol of art is seen again in the magic flute of the Great God Pan which makes the young goats frisk at the edge of the grove. All modern art begins to appear comprehensible and in a way great when it is interpreted as an attempt to instill youthfulness into an ancient world.”

Men World Way Art Young Magic Modern Art Is Ancient Edges Symbols Saving Unexpected Seriousness Goats Restoring Instill Modern Art Flutes Grove Youthfulness Ancient World

Author:Jose Ortega y Gasset

“To be a super-trader, you'll need an edge to overcome the laws of probability and the uncertainty of the marketplace. That edge comes from information flow, the ability to correct your habits in terms of the market's characteristics, and being able to take risks, cut losses, expand your information network, ferret out ideas, and take recommendations.”

Needs Ideas Able Law Term Loss Ability Cutting Risk Information Habit Flow Overcoming Edges Uncertainty Characteristics Probability Marketplace Traders Recommendations Ferrets Information Flow

Author:Ari Kiev

“In New York and LA, there is sort of that silent competition to be on the cutting edge of something.”

Cutting New York Competition Silent Edges Cutting Edge Group Therapy

Author:Sloane Crosley

“I have nothing against Canada. I think that Canadians might know the secret to all existence, but to us it just comes off as timid and kind and too nice, and it strikes us as lacking edge. Unless you are hijacking someone and going on a reality show with your eight kids and wearing a velour pink pantsuit, then you have no edge to us.”

Thinking Knows Kind Shows Reality Might Kids Secret Existence Nice Edges Eight Strikes Canada Lacking Reality Shows Too Nice Hijacking

Author:Sloane Crosley

“Being hated and hunted and blamed for your own suffering makes people kind of testy, nervous, and on edge, and often fundamentalist and extreme. Bombs get thrown only when people cannot honestly talk together.”

People Kind Together Suffering Edges Extremes Honestly Nervous Hated Bombs Thrown Fundamentalist Hunted Being Hated

Author:Roseanne Barr

“Compromise is like the middle of the road; always safer to walk on than the edges.”

Walks Middle Edges Compromise Middle Of The Road

Author:Dwight D. Eisenhower

“Texture is most evident where dark meets light on the turning edge and at the outer edge. Experience has taught us to assume that the areas in between have similar features.”

Light Dark Taught Areas Assuming Edges Features Evident Texture Taught Us

Author:Rex Brandt

“I'm not interested in edges. I'm interested in the mass and color, the black and white. The edges happen because the forms get as quiet as they can be. I want the masses to perform. When I work with forms and colors, I get the edge.”

Want Happens Form Black White Color Quiet Mass Edges Black And White Not Interested

Author:Ellsworth Kelly

“We are all of us walking a razor's edge between darkness and light.”

Light Darkness Walking Edges Light And Darkness Razors

Author:Ichabod

“This book's title, Rough Beauty , conveys Anderson's conviction that the hard scrabble lives of most of the residents of Vidor, Texas, are worthy of our attention, but it also conveys that he does not seek to beautify their lives by removing the crude edges.”

Doe Book Hard Attention Edges Conviction Worthy Titles Live By Rough Texas Crude Residents Scrabble

Author:Anne Wilkes Tucker

“The first of a thousand lies. Truth flowed to Micah Quill, was sucked in and disappeared, and emerged again looking ever so much like it used to, but changed subtly, at the edges, where none would notice, so that simple truth became a complicated fabric indeed, one that could wrap you up so tightly and close you off from the air until you suffocated in it.”

Firsts Used Lying Simple Air Changed Truth Is Thousand Edges Complicated Fabric Wraps Simple Truths Lies Truth Quills Micah

Book:Heartfire: The Tales of Alvin Maker

Source: Heartfire: The Tales of Alvin Maker

“Men saw the stars at the edge of the sea They thought great thoughts about liberty Poets wrote down words that did fit Writers wrote books Thinkers thought about it.”

Men Book Stars Liberty Saws Sea Poet Fit Edges Thinker

Author:Van Morrison

“You can now buy a pack of beer containing 99 cans. A 99-can pack of beer. Who says America has lost its competitive edge?”

America Lost Edges Beer Packs Containing

Author:David Letterman

“Standing at the edge of our city, a man could feel that we had made this place of streets and dwellings in the stillness of the desert, and that we had done a brave thing... Or a man could feel that we had made this city in the desert and that it was a fake thing and that our lives were empty lives, and that we were the contemporaries of the jack rabbits.”

Men Feels Made Done Cities Our Lives Streets Standing Empty Brave Edges Desert Fake Stillness Rabbits Dwelling Empty Life

Author:William Saroyan

“The sea of faith Was once, too, at the full, and round earth's shore Lay like the folds of a bright girdle furled. But now I only hear Its melancholy, long, withdrawing roar, Retreating, to the breath Of the night-wind, down the vast edges drear And naked shingles of the world.”

World Long Earth Night Faith Sea Wind Breaths Lays Rounds Edges Naked Melancholy Shore Folds Withdrawing Girdles Shingles Round Earth

Author:Matthew Arnold

“So God stepped over to the edge of the world And He spat out the seven seas; He batted His eyes, and the lightnings flashed; He clapped His hands, and the thunders rolled; And the waters above the earth came down, The cooling waters came down.”

World Hands Eye Earth Water Sea Seven Edges His Eyes Lightning Thunder Cooling Spats Edge Of The World

Book:Complete Poems

Source: Complete Poems

“Most of us stand poised at the edge of brilliance, haunted by the knowledge of our proximity, yet still demonstrably on the wrong side of the line, our dealings with reality undermined by a range of minor yet critical psychological flaws (a little too much optimism, an unprocessed rebelliousness, a fatal impatience or sentimentality). We are like an exquisite high-speed aircraft which for lack of a tiny part is left stranded beside the runway, rendered slower than a tractor or bicycle.”

“I worked in your orchards of peaches and prunes. I slept on the ground in the light of the moon. On the edge of the city you'll see us and then, we come with the dust and we go with the wind.”

Light Cities Wind Moon Edges Dust Peaches Orchard Prunes

Author:Woody Guthrie

“I've been on a quest for spiritual answers for a long time. The things I've learned about interconnectedness and non-duality and the feeling of tapping into your soul that goes beyond the edge of your skin is important to me. Once I learned that, I'm far less often trapped in my own little man problems. Me against the universe problems.”

“We've lost an edge that we used to have in scientific innovation applications to goods to be sold. In many ways, that is also changing in the electronic field. Almost all of the materials that we use now are of advanced technology, I have an iPad and also an iPod, both of which are made in China. Although we have designed them here with Apple, for instance, they are manufactured overseas.”

Way Made Use Used Lost Technology Fields Materials Innovation Edges China Instance Apples Goods Application Ipods Ipads Advanced Technology Made In China

Author:Jimmy Carter

“Space is the ultimate frontier. I think when people historically thought of the frontier, there was where you were living and then there was some edge beyond which no one had explored.”

People Thinking Space Ultimate Edges Frontiers

Author:Neil deGrasse Tyson

“I think the gender story will become less fraught with hard edges - and not that we'll have androgyny, but that men and women will move more fluidly into each other's domains.”

Thinking Men Hard Stories Moving Men And Women Edges Gender Domain Androgyny

Author:Elizabeth Lesser

“The edge of a painting is its frontier... where the artist negotiates his boundaries with the real world... where art begins and ends and where the eye enters and leaves the image. It determines, in an infinitely subtle number of ways, how you read a painting - which, unlike a book or a piece of music, has no pre-determined beginning or end.”

World Way Art Book Real Ends Eye Artist Numbers Pieces Painting Art Is Edges Determine Determined Boundaries Subtle Real World Frontiers

Author:Andrew Graham-Dixon

“The edge in modern painting is charged with neurosis; it meets a world that no longer confirms it but which is hostile or at best indifferent.”

World Modern Painting Edges Indifferent Hostile Modernism Neurosis

Author:Andrew Graham-Dixon

“At its edges, a painting makes its surrender to reality. The ways in which it can do so are endlessly revealing, as infinite as the potential forms of painting itself.”

Way Reality Form Can Do Painting Infinite Edges Surrender Revealing

Author:Andrew Graham-Dixon

“When I paint to please other people I tend to lose the free spirit creative edge.”

People Spirit Loses Creative Please Paint Edges Free Spirit

Author:Ted Martinez

“You are the cutting edge of a thirteen billion year old process of defining novelty. Your acts matter. Your thoughts matter. Your purpose? To add to the complexity. Your enemy? Disorder, entropy, stupidity, and tastelessness.”

Years Matter Purpose Process Enemy Cutting Add Edges Stupidity Billions Complexity Disorder Defining Novelty Thirteen Entropy Cutting Edge

Author:Terence McKenna

“Fitzgerald could sense that America was poised on the edge of a vast transformation, and wrote a novel bridging his moment and ours. The Great Gatsby made manifest precisely what Fitzgerald’s contemporaries couldn’t bear to see, and thus it is not only the Jazz Age novel par excellence, but also the harbinger of its decline and fall.”

Made Moments Age America Fall Novel Bears Transformation Jazz Excellence Edges Manifest Decline Harbinger Jazz Age

Book:Careless People: Murder, Mayhem and the Invention of The Great Gatsby

Source: Careless People: Murder, Mayhem and the Invention of The Great Gatsby

“Life balances itself on a precarious ledge, we can stay safe up high or propel off the edge.”

Balance Safe Edges Life Balance Precarious Ledges

Author:Tarryn Fisher

“Somehow, in many of those near-miss instances, I've managed to fight through and continue. But in all these situations, even when they're apparently going well, I feel I am living on the razor's edge between success and failure, adulation and humiliation - between justifying my existence and revealing my unworthiness to be alive.”

Feels Wells Fighting Existence Situation Alive Missing Edges Instance Humiliation Revealing Success And Failure Living On Razors Adulation Near Misses

Author:Scott Stossel

“This is the place to be. Baseball town. The intimacy of Fenway, the toughness of it. I like that. I'm used to it. I need it. If I went somewhere else, it might have been a bit of a letdown. I like the edge.”

Ifs Needs Has Beens Might Used Bits Baseball Towns Edges Intimacy Might Have Been Somewhere Else Toughness Letdowns

Author:David Cone

“Of all the works of man I like best Those which have been used. The copper pots with their dents and flattened edges The knives and forks whose wooden handles Have been worn away by many hands: such forms Seemed to me the noblest.”

Men Has Beens Hands Form Used Edges Handle Pot Knives Worn Forks Copper Many Hands

Book:Poems, 1913-1956

Source: Poems, 1913-1956

“It is with wits as with razors, which are never so apt to cut those they are employed on as when they have lost their edge.”

Lost Cutting Edges Wit Employed Razors

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Jonathan Swift (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Jonathan Swift (Illustrated)

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