Edges Quotes

The body of literature, with its limits and edges, exists outside some people and inside others. Only after the writer lets literature shape her can she perhaps shape literature.

We're standing on the edge of a new frontier.

It's fun to be at the edges, and tough to be squeezed in between.

I forced a smile. It was the one I'd been practicing all morning. It felt tight at the edges and brittle everywhere in between.

Writing and the hope of writing pulls me back from the edges of despair. I believe insanity and despair are at times one and the same.

People from small towns have to have their edges roughed up to get along in the world. But as a street reporter, you learn quickly.

These are the young women [in Stand by Me] that we grew up knowing and hopefully they feel a little rough around the edges, because it's true to life.

I love a man who has lived a full life and lived on the edge.

Curiosity is thought on its entering edge.

I am not who I was,' he whispered, gripping the edges of the column, 'but I know who I am.'... 'And I won't give up.

I like rough edges. That's what makes a person real.

I like situations that push a character to the edge.

YOU YOU YOU your eyes, thick as a high school scrapbook crackling and yellow, curling at the edges a book of myths in which i do not appear.

You never know where you stand - and I like that. I like to be on edge.

Open the book. (The gilt rubs off the edges of the pages and pollinates the fingertips.)

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.

Spring, / you are a pinking shears: you cut / fresh edges on the world.

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

There is a transformation, you see, when you just put four edges around it. That changes it. A new world is created.

I think I always have been someone who likes to push at the edges of things, looking for something different.

We had to create an album where there wasn't one. I never listen to that album [ Music From the Edge of Heaven] because it wasn't an album.

Be careful you don't cut yourself. The edges are sharp enough to shave with.' 'Girls don't shave', Arya said. 'Maybe they should. Have you ever seen the septa's legs?

For my money, if I'm playing anything then it has to have some sharp angles on it. It's got to have some edges that you can cut yourself on, otherwise it's boring.

The framework of men's wear is so narrow, that when you play at the edges you get labeled.

What can it be about low temperatures that sharpens the edges of objects?

Our story is over, yes, but our journey isn't, because we'll always live on the edge until the day we die.

It's utterly beautiful not to know my own edges.

The inside of the door is glossy white. A total re-paint. I touch it with my fingers, but it stays the same. It's so bright it makes the room waver at the edges. Every few years we disappear.

I like pressure. If I am not on the edge of failure, I'm not being sufficiently challenged.

Messi. 86 goals in calendar year and still 3 games to play! Best to ever play the game in my opinion just edges Maradona.

I'm still rough around the edges. I grew up with not a lot of money, and just played sports my whole life. So you develop the sports-mouth with all of your friends.

I think this whole Billy Bush thing just pushed women over the edge because it's so visceral.

My soul is a canvas stretched across four wooden corners and tacked with copper nails that sink into the edges of timber like teeth. My art is nothing less than my salvation.

I like to make definite choices and give my characters as many unique edges as possible.

Al was cruel, vindictive, angry, elegant, powerful. He gave me strength, he gave me wisdom, not only about magic, but about myself. He was a lot like Trent, only harsher around the edges.

Then there were things-- epic, terrible things-- that he didn't tell her but skirted around, like caressing the edges of a wound, hesitant, testing for pain.

Maybe what frightens us about the edge isn't our fear of morality, but the thoughts it leads us to have.

Learning the edges or limits or sources of friction in empathy was one of the big issues for me.

The secret of grace is that it can be all right at the center even when it is all wrong on the edges.

People think edges are bad, but they are really there to keep up from falling to pieces. They don't hold us back, they hold us in. They hold us together.

I'm the light skinned version of Mandingo, I've seen more Beatles and Jagged Edges than Ringo.

I grew into it. It grew into me. It and I blurred at the edges, became one amorphous, seeping, crawling thing.

People and things have edges, but where does a landscape stop?

The fallen autumn leaves were slick beneath Bod's feet, and the mists blurred the edges of the world. Nothing was as clean-cut as he had thought it, a few minutes before.

The young woman was crying, in the way that grownups cry, keeping it inside as much as they can, and hating it when it still pushes out at the edges, making them ugly and funny-looking on the way.

If you don't read for pleasure, you'll lose your edge as a writer.

Living at that pitch, on that edge, is something which many poets engage in to some extent.

Hollywood is a cottage industry involving a very small number of people, and around the edges are enormous numbers of people trying to get into it and work.

Poetry and painting continue to be companions: they cast their shadow and light, their silences and tones, at the edges of each other.

After the two drinks, she felt warm inside, and slightly indistinct at the edges.