On The Edge Quotes

I don't like playing standards. I like to do my own cutting edge work.

Now there is so much expertise and brainpower it's hard to be at the cutting edge of what's cool and not do something that's totally geeky.

Life is frustrating enough. Your hobby isn't supposed to put you over the edge.

Social networks are an incredible new tool which enables me to speak directly to large numbers of people. It is at the cutting edge of personal interaction around the world.

There is no reason why, with the huge potential for market out there in the world for fuel-efficient vehicles, we can't be the cutting edge for change.

Man, the cutting edge of terrestrial life, has no rational alternative but to expand the environmental and resource base beyond Earth.

I want to be cutting-edge.

The taste of people with large bank accounts tends not to be on the cutting edge.

If we want America to stay on the cutting edge, we need young Americans to master the tools and technology that will change the way we do just about everything.

There has been a seismic shift in the business world. The great classical business principles still hold true but they need to be fused with cutting edge internet technology.

Racism serves as the cutting edge of the most reactionary movements. An ideology that starts by declaring one human being inferior to another is the slope whose end is at Auschwitz.

I think when you're doing something cutting edge like 'The Matrix,' it might mean when everybody's saying 'no' that you're really on the right track.

Malcolm X represents the cutting edge of a kind of critique of globalization in the 21st century. In fact, Malcolm, if anything, was far ahead of the curve in so many ways.

At NIH, what tends to happen is that the proven researchers tend to get the money. New researchers, younger researchers, or people on the cutting edge don't get the money until they have gray beards.

The financial world is at the cutting edge of high technology.

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

Probably what pushed the Russians over the edge was SDI... They realized they couldn't beat us...

I'm always standing on the edge of something bad.

Standing in a two-hour line makes people worry that they're not living in a democratic nation. People stand in line for two houres and they go over the edge.

You must love your work and not always be looking over the edge of it wanting your play to begin.

...by bringing myself over the edge and back, I discovered a passion to live my days fully, a conviction that will sustain me like sweet water on the periodically barren plain of our short lives.

I was a hundred-percent sick, I felt as if I had no further use for my legs, they just hung over the edge of my bed like unimportant and rather ridiculous objects.

Emotional intelligence is what humans are good at and that's not a sideshow. That's the cutting edge of human intelligence.

Don't untie me," she said, "no matter what happens or how much I plead. I'll want to go straight over the edge and drown myself." "Are you trying to tempt me?" "Ha-ha.

The past cannot remember the past. The future can't generate the future. The cutting edge of the instant right here and now is always nothing less than the totality of everything there is.

People who are kind of at the cutting edge of life and survival, and being near the nitty-gritty, like my films, and I like that.

In order to find the edge, you must risk going over the edge.

I'm going to let my friends in the other parties fight over the turf at the cutting edge of the status quo.

Best trumpet: Mike Vax, an alumnus of the Kenton Band, who plays every style with a bright cutting edge, throwing in bop riffs here and there.

I think it’s the misperception of addiction and living life on the edge, as if it’s cool.

Let the jagged edge of sobriety be now dulled.

I've always wanted to be able to let myself go over the edge

Just stay close to us. If we get in trouble, we'll kill everything.

Georgie, stop trying to resurrect the shoes. They were never alive in the first place.

I don’t know what I’m doing, or where I’m going, but I do know that I want to do whatever it is and get there soon.

Failure happened. The trick was to accept the risk and try anyway.

Each of us carries a sleeping tiger inside, and we can’t predict when that cat will wake, stretch, and sharpen its claws.

One day, she’d find a way to live her life to the fullest. She was sure of it. She just had no idea how she would manage it.

There was no logic or any sense of purpose except that I knew I had to do something other than what I was doing, or I might not make it through this.

I’m starting to get used to this feeling of not caring about anything.

I’m not a follower. I never have been. But I’ll definitely become someone I’m not for a few hours if it’ll make me blend in rather than make me a blatant eye sore and draw attention.

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

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

Hollywood has gone from the capital of conspicuous consumption to the cutting edge of conspicuous conservation.

Can I work with corporations? Are there good corporations doing incredible cutting edge research and development? Absolutely they are. And we should be proud of them.

I was into punk, but I didn't go whole-hog. A lot of kids who grew up in small towns that were into punk music went the "safe" way - not doing drugs, being straight edge.

It's a good thing Kerry's dead, because that funeral would've sent him over the edge," Henry said.

I’m a high-tech low-life. A cutting edge, state-of-the-art bi-coastal multi-tasker and I can give you a gigabyte in a nanosecond!

Wage restraint was helping businesses out and now it's not. Have we tipped over the edge? Maybe not, but the trend in wages is moving higher.

For most people who have or who do identify as or with [song] Straight Edge, I feel like for most people, they're just trying to do the right thing.