Edges Quotes - Page 25

• My mother told me when I was a kid that each time we get to what feels like the edge of a cliff, we have two choices: to turn around and run, or to jump. I have learned over time to jump - and though it is scary, I know somewhere inside me that I will be caught.

  Maria Bello

  Mother, Running, Kids

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• So you are lean and mean and resourceful and you continue to walk on the edge of the precipice because over the years you have become fascinated by how close you can walk without losing your balance.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Mean, Years, Balance

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• I had this idea... I wanted the sound to sing and have that thickness but yet still have an edge so that it could articulate. So my dad and I designed the guitar... the one that was made from an old fireplace.

  Brian May

  Dad, Guitar, Ideas

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• And TV is not the easiest place to be dangerous or on the edge. Especially on a Saturday night.

  Fisher Stevens

  Night, Tvs, Dangerous

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I've always had to do things my way; I play guitar my way; I've taken myself to the edges of life my way; I've gotten clean my way; And I'm still here. Whether or not I deserve to be is another story.

  Slash

  Taken, Guitar, Play

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• I have to have an adjustment before I go into the ring. I do believe in chiropractic. I found that going to a chiropractor three times a week helps my performance. The majority of boxers go to get that edge.

  Evander Holyfield

  Believe, Majority, Three

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• I was diagnosed with an early, early stage of prostate cancer. I was almost a vegetarian then. I was heading that direction. What pushed me over the edge, was the doctor who did the diagnosis. He said in a discussion about prostate cancer that he had never seen a vegetarian with prostate cancer. And this is not a holistic doctor, this is a regular, mainstream doctor. And I was just blown away.

  Michael Dorn

  Cancer, Doctors, Diagnosis

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• I don't like standing near the edge of a platform when an express train is passing through. I like to stand right back and if possible get a pillar between me and the train. I don't like to stand by the side of a ship and look down into the water. A second's action would end everything. A few drops of desperation.

  Winston Churchill

  Depression, Water, Bipolar

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• The single greatest edge an investor can have is a long-term orientation.

  Seth Klarman

  Long, Investing, Term

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• Days go by when I do nothing but underline the damp edge of myself.

  Mary Szybist

  Damp

  Mary Szybist (2013). “Incarnadine: Poems”, p.23, Macmillan

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• I make no apologies for loving the finer things in life or the men I choose to date. I don't feel bad about the person I am. Now, I do have an edge, rawness and realness, and I can tell you I'm going to keep that.

  LisaRaye McCoy-Misick

  Apology, Men, Things In Life

  "First Lady LisaRaye McCoy-Misick: 'I'm Going to Get Through This'". Essence Interview, www.essence.com. December 16, 2009.

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• The game of life requires the edge that chiropractic care provides.

  Jerry Rice

  Chiropractic Care, Games, Care

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• I'd rather be in Las Vegas 104 degrees than New York 90 degrees, you know why? Legalized prostitution. In any weather that takes the edge off.

  Ray Romano

  New York, Vegas, Weather

  "Fictional character: Patient #3 to Dr. Katz". "Dr. Katz, Professional Therapist", 1995–2002.

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• Egyptian pyramids or obelisks – seemed to be the basis of the great memorials that have kept their significance and dignity across time. Neither an obelisk nor a rectangular box nor a dome seemed right on this site or for this purpose. But here, at the edge of the Mississippi River, a great arch did seem right.

  Eero Saarinen

  Rivers, Arches, Domes

  "Eero Saarinen on His Work: A Selection of Buildings Dating from 1947 to 1964 with Statements by the Architect".

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• Something will have gone out of us as a people if we ever let the remaining wilderness be destroyed We need wilderness preserved — as much of it as is still left, and as many kinds — because it was the challenge against which our character as a people was formed We simply need that wild country available to us, even if we never do more than drive to its edge and look in. For it can be a means of reassuring ourselves of our sanity as creatures, a part of the geography of hope.

  Wallace Stegner

  Country, Character, Mean

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• I had hopes for my rough edges. I wanted to use them as a can opener, to cut myself a hole in the world's surface and exit through it.

  Annie Dillard

  Cutting, Rough Edges, Exit

  Annie Dillard (2016). “An American Childhood”, p.228, Canongate Books

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• Fearlessness is a fool's boast, to my mind. The only men with no fear in them are dead, or the soon to be dead, maybe. Fear teaches you caution, and respect for your enemy, and to avoid sharp edges used in anger. All good things in their place, believe me. Fear can bring you out alive, and that's the very best anyone can hope for from any fight. Every man who's worth a damn feels fear. It's the use you make of it that counts.

  Joe Abercrombie

  Believe, Fighting, Men

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• Life, for people, begins to crumble on the edges; they don't realize it.

  Dorothea Lange

  People, Realizing

  Dorothea Lange, Paul Schuster Taylor, Howard M. Levin, Katherine Northrup (1980). “Dorothea Lange: Farm Security Administration photographs, 1935-1939 : from the Library of Congress”, Text-Fiche Pr

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• There is nothing that I so greatly admire as purposefulness. I have an enormous respect for people who know exactly what they are doing and where they are going. Such people are compact and integrated. They have clear edges. They give an impression of invulnerability and balance, and I wish I were one of them.

  Louise Dickinson Rich

  Giving, People, Wish

  Louise Dickinson Rich (1963). “The forest years: containing in one volume We took to the woods [and] My neck of the woods”

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• I think the names of colors are at the edge, between where language fails and where it's at its most powerful.

  A. S. Byatt

  Powerful, Thinking, Color

  FaceBook post by A.S. Byatt from Dec 16, 2011

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• Lake George is without comparison, the most beautiful water I ever saw; formed by a contour of mountains into a basin... finely interspersed with islands, its water limpid as crystal, and the mountain sides covered with rich groves... down to the water-edge: here and there precipices of rock to checker the scene and save it from monotony.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Beautiful, Lakes, Islands

  Bernard Mayo, Thomas Jefferson (1988). “Jefferson Himself: The Personal Narrative of a Many-Sided American”, p.176, University of Virginia Press

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• Big, undreamed-of things — the people on the edge see them first.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  People, Firsts, Bigs

  Kurt Vonnegut (2009). “Player Piano”, p.84, Dial Press

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• A photograph has edges the world does not.

  Stephen Shore

  Doe, World, Photograph

  Stephen Shore (2007). “The nature of photographs”, Phaidon Inc Ltd

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• The longer I live here, the better satisfied I am in having pitched my earthly camp-fire, gypsylike, on the edge of a town, keeping it on one side, and the green fields, lanes, and woods on the other. Each, in turn, is to me as a magnet to the needle. At times the needle of my nature points towards the country. On that side everything is poetry. I wander over field and forest, and through me runs a glad current of feeling that is like a clear brook across the meadows of May. At others the needle veers round, and I go to town--to the massed haunts of the highest animal and cannibal.

  James Lane Allen

  Country, Running, Animal

  James Lane Allen, William K. Bottorff (1967). “A Kentucky Cardinal, Aftermath, and Other Selected Works”, p.46, Rowman & Littlefield

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• The wind shows us how close to the edge we are.

  Joan Didion

  Stars, Clouds, Air

  Joan Didion (2013). “Slouching Towards Bethlehem”, p.157, Zola Books

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