Edge Quotes

There are a lot of actresses out there who are the girl next door. I relate more to characters who have an edge.

Every movie I make I find kind of excruciating. I get a lot back from it, but I feel like I'm kind of always working at the edge of my ability. I guess that's what I'm looking for when I go to work. I am trying to become the edge.

Comedy has to be done en clair. You can't blunt the edge of wit or the point of satire with obscurity. Try to imagine a famous witty saying that is not immediately clear.

'Sweet Genius'' viewers will be on the edge of their seats as we continue to push the limits with inspirations and ingredients, while showcasing the talents of some of the best pastry chefs around. As a result, the desserts that the chefs create are truly outrageous.

Putting women in military combat is the cutting edge of the feminist goal to force us into an androgynous society.

We all have an edge. We all are floating our psyche on top with a great ocean underneath.

I argue in this paper that we are on the edge of change comparable to the rise of human life on Earth.

Though familiarity may not breed contempt, it takes off the edge of admiration.

You need to feel that the game is important to you. Lose that feeling and you lose your edge. There's no faking that kind of emotion. You can't invent the feeling. It's got to be natural, real.

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

I thought this must be obvious to everyone else, as it seemed obvious to me; and that, if once it became apparent that we were on the edge, all the Great Powers would call a halt and recoil from the abyss.

Surely the President can agree with us, that theft from government is not good. I know it's bold. It's out on the edge. I know from a Chicago-Springfield background it's hard to fully grasp that honesty could be part of government.

I want to stand as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all the kinds of things you can't see from the center.

I'm talking about science on the leading edge, where it's not clear which way things are going be cause we don't know, and I'm dealing with areas which we don't know about.

He was living in an age much more dangerous, more painful, much more on the edge than our own particular age.

If you must speak ill of another, do not speak it, write it in the sand near the water's edge.

In our system, at about 11:30 on election night, they just push you off the edge of the cliff-and that's it. You might scream on the way down, but you're going to hit the bottom, and you're not going to be in elective office.

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

Regardless of how you feel inside, always try to look like a winner. Even if you are behind, a sustained look of control and confidence can give you a mental edge that results in victory.

You know, I never knew if I had any talent when I started in this business. My first job was being a page at The Tonight Show. I saw Jack Paar come out one night and sit on the edge of his desk and talk about what he'd done the night before. I thought, 'I can do that!' I used to do that on a street corner in the Bronx with all my buddies.

Life is lived on the edge.

A sharp tongue is the only edge tool that grows keener with constant use.

I keep falling off the edge of the stage because I can't see it. I can't see my wrinkles in the mirror either, though.

If we just sit and exist, and understand that, I think it will be helpful in a world that seems like a record that's going faster and faster, we're spinning off the edge of the universe.

You have to just dive over the edge. You haven't got time to mess about.

I'm all about entertaining and keeping a reader on the edge of their seat, so to me, the social issues have to be meaningful and give the book what's really 'at stake,' but ultimately it's not about them - it's always a personal story of everyday people thrust into life-threatening situations and having to perform heroic acts.

Authority without wisdom is like a heavy ax without an edge, fitter to bruise than polish.

I was certainly open for something being on the edge of a nervous breakdown, perplexed by my own sexuality. I was gay.

I always try to keep that feeling of being on the edge. I'm afraid of knowing too well and seeming mechanical.

They dined on mince, and slices of quince, Which they ate with a runcible spoon; And hand in hand, on the edge of the sand, They danced by the light of the moon.