Edges Quotes

No matter how much you think you love somebody, you'll step back when the pool of their blood edges up too close.

All my life I have lived and behaved very much like the sandpiper - just running down the edges of different countries and continents, 'looking for something'.

Don't necessarily avoid sharp edges. Occasionally they are necessary to leadership.

We were too rough at the edges to be a pop group.

There is absolutely no one, apart from yourself, who can prevent you, in the middle of the night, from sneaking down to tidy up the edges of that hunk of cheese at the back of the fridge.

When I tested for Billy Budd, I had that kind of confidence that comes with the certainty that you're not going to get something. I was very rough around the edges.

I love to play women who are strong and unapologizing and kind of rough around the edges and don't care what anybody thinks about that.

And then as I frequently do, some times I'll peek out from underneath the focusing cloth and just look around the edges of the frame that I'm not seeing, see if there's something that should be adjusted in terms of changing the camera position.

We're always attracted to the edges of what we are, out by the edges where it's a little raw and nervy.

Success can make you go one of two ways. It can make you a prima donna - or it can smooth the edges, take away the insecurities, let the nice things come out.

I think the best pictures are often on the edges of any situation, I don't find photographing the situation nearly as interesting as photographing the edges.

Pushing the envelope' sort of implies that you're inside the envelope with everyone else, and you're trying to find the edges on the outsides.

Those edges and turns teach control and discipline, just like finger exercises on the piano.

I love working with big flavors like chiles and smoke. Honey is perfect for softening the edges, mellowing them out a bit. I put it in everything - vinaigrettes, soups, stocks, salsas, so I'm always on the hunt for great honey.

Art is about the edges and the sharp corners and those places are not conducive to activism, which is about putting on a gloss.

If you look at a record under a microscope, the high frequencies are short jagged edges... and the low frequencies are long swinging ones are deep bass sounds. When it cut it at half speed, you're getting more of those on the record.

Like a lot of you, I grew up in a family on the ragged edges of the middle class. My daddy sold carpeting and ended up as a maintenance man. After he had a heart attack, my mom worked the phones at Sears so we could hang on to our house.

Nostalgia is a file that removes the rough edges from the good old days.

Truth uncompromisingly told will always have its ragged edges.

Let your life lightly dance on the edges of Time like dew on the tip of a leaf.

The worlds I paint leave a lot to engage the imagination by hinting at what lies beyond the four edges of the painting. I think getting beyond the four edges of an opportunity or challenge is one of the basic skills you need in business.

My attitude on skis is different now. I have learned to put less pressure on myself and on the edges of my skis when I'm racing, to be keep myself more under control.

The beauty of the world, which is so soon to perish, has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder.

Photography is about finding out what can happen in the frame. When you put four edges around some facts, you change those facts.

I think that taxes would be fair if we first get rid of the tax code. This is the ultimate solution, not to just say we're going to trim around the edges, not to say that we will try to simplify a little of this and a little of that. The problem is, replace the tax code, so we can establish tax fairness for everybody.

Some otherwise sane scientists have seriously proposed that we tuck this deadly garbage under the edges of drifting continents but how can they be sure the moving land masses will climb over the waste and not just push it forward?

I believe with all my heart that the Church of Jesus Christ should be a Church of blurred edges.

It's hard to get out of the barrel. It's slippery around the edges and people are happy to see you fall back in.

Analysis is like a lobotomy. Who wants to have all their edges shaved off?

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