Edges Quotes - Page 26

• If those arrangements [the fundamental arrangements of knowledge] were to disappear as they appeared... then one can certainly wager that man would be erased, like a face drawn in sand at the edge of the sea.

  Michel Foucault

  Men, Sea, Would Be

  The Order of Things: An Archaeology of the Human Sciences ch. 10 (1966)

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• 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.

  Walter F. Mondale

  Night, Office, Political

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• I wrote about Freud and the process of sublimation, which is when you learn to stop breast-feeding, or stop going to the toilet whenever you want to. It's about learning to repress a desire for instant gratification. And in a repressed society, artists fulfil a sense of harking back to instant gratification, or immediate expression, by doing things that function on the edge of society, or outside of what is conventionally accepted.

  Bat for Lashes

  Artist, Expression, Desire

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I think that the idea of straight edge, the song that I wrote, and the way people have related it it, there's some people who have abused it, they've allowed their fundamentalism to interfere with the real message, which in my mind, was that people should be allowed to live their lives the way they want to.

  Ian MacKaye

  Song, Real, Thinking

  Scene Point Blank Interview, www.scenepointblank.com. October 16, 2010.

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• We did not flinch but gave our lives to save Greece when her fate hung on a razor's edge.

  Simonides of Ceos

  Life, Fate, Razors

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• You must love your work, and not be always looking over the edge of it, wanting your play to begin. And the other is, you must not be ashamed of your work, and think it would be more honorable to you to be doing something else. You must have a pride in your own work and in learning to do it well.

  George Eliot

  Love You, Pride, Thinking

  George Eliot “Middlemarch, Volume III”, Lulu.com

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• It seems to me, thinking of it, that there must be some universal plan which set in motion the orbiting of the electrons about the nucleus and the slower, more majestic orbit of the galaxies about one another to the very edge of space

  Clifford D. Simak

  Thinking, Space, Orbit

  Clifford D. Simak (2015). “A Choice of Gods”, p.101, Open Road Media

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• No one wants to get up at 4 and run when it's pitch-dark, but it has to be done. The only reason i do it so early is because i believe the other guy isn't doing it and that gives me a little edge

  Mike Tyson

  Running, Believe, Dark

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• I know that, as night and shadows are good for flowers, and moonlight and dews are better than a continual sun, so is Christ's absence of special use, and that it hath some nourishing virtue in it, and giveth sap to humility, and putteth an edge on hunger, and funisheth a fairfield to faith to put forth itself, and to exercise its fingers in gripping it seeth not what.

  Samuel Rutherford

  Flower, Humility, Exercise

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p.277, 1895.

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• I focus on the elements of a movie that are meant to invisibly affect me as a viewer. The edges. As an author, Im aware of how the subconscious things can pluck at a readers emotions, and I love it when filmmakers do the same.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Focus, Elements, Emotion

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• In the end, maybe the correct language would be how the fact of putting four edges around a collection of information or facts transforms it. A photograph is not what was photographed, it's something else.

  Garry Winogrand

  Photography, Would Be, Four

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• The politician is trained in the art of inexactitude. His words tend to be blunt or rounded, because if they have a cutting edge they may later return to wound him.

  Edward R. Murrow

  Art, Cutting, Political

  Address at London Guildhall, October 19, 1959.

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• Who hasn't sharpened the edge of his soul? When, just as our eyes are opened, we see hate, and just after learning to walk, we are tripped, and just for wanting to love, we are hated, and for no more than touching, we are hurt, which of us hasn't started to arm himself, to make himself sharp, somehow, like a knife, to pay back the hurt?

  Pablo Neruda

  Hurt, Hate, Eye

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• I'm in the dark as to how close to an edge or transition to a new ocean and climate regime we might me. But I know which way we are walking. We are walking toward the cliff.

  Terry Joyce

  Ocean, Dark, Climate

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• Take heed, dear heart, of this large privilege; The hardest knife ill-used doth lose his edge.

  William Shakespeare

  Art, Knives, Privilege

  William Shakespeare (2009). “Sonnets and Other Poems”, p.289, Palgrave Macmillan

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• Life and death are balanced as it were on the edge of a razor

  Homer

  Life, Eulogy, Razors

  "Iliad". Poem by Homer, Book X. Translated by Samuel Butler, 1900.

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• Remember the high board at the swimming pool? After days of looking up at it you finally climbed the wet steps to the platform. From there, it was higher than ever. There were only two ways down: the steps to defeat of the dive to victory. You stood on the edge, shivering in the hot sun, deathly afraid. At last you leaned too far forward, it was too late for retreat, and you dived. The high board was conquered, and you spent the rest of the day diving. Climbing a thousand high boards, we demolish fear, and turn into human beings.

  Richard Bach

  Life, Adventure, Swimming

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• The power of mistakes enables us to reframe creative blocks and turn them around...The troublesome parts of our work, the parts that are most baffling and frustrating, are in fact the growing edges. We see these opportunities the instant we drop our preconceptions and our self-importance.

  Stephen Nachmanovitch

  Block, Mistake, Creativity

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• People cleave to their worldly possessions and selfish passions so blindly as to sacrifice their own lives for them. They are like a child who tries to eat a little, honey smeared on the edge of a knife. The amount is by no means sufficient to appease his appetite, but he runs the risk of wounding his tongue.

  Gautama Buddha

  Running, Children, Selfish

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• Elvis' disappearing body is like a flashing event horizon at the edge of the black hole that is America today.

  Arthur Kroker

  Redneck, America, Black

  Arthur Kroker, Marilouise Kroker, David Cook (1989). “Panic Encyclopedia: The Definitive Guide to the Postmodern Scene”

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• Principles are like sheaths. It doesn't have the sharp edge to cut something, but it can cover that sharp edge. So that no one gets hurt.

  Choi Woo-seok

  Hurt, Drama, Cutting

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• I want to know if you can live with failure, yours and mine, and still stand on the edge of the lake and shout to the silver of the full moon, “Yes!”

  Oriah Dreamer

  Stay Strong, Moon, Lakes

  "The Invitation". Book by Oriah Mountain Dreamer, May 1999.

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• One reason the United States finds itself at the edge of a foreign policy disaster is its underinformed citizenry, a key weakness in democracy.

  Stefan Halper

  Peace, War, Keys

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• I don't just look at the thing itself or at the reality itself; I look around the edges for those little askew moments-kind of like what makes up our lives-those slightly awkward, lovely moments.

  Keith Carter

  Photography, Reality, Awkward

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• This was football played at the speed of ice hockey and the ball was in play for only 53 minutes of the 90. The Premiership at its highest level is enthralling, edge-of-the-seat stuff, but sometimes it is too fast and frenetic for its own good.

  Daniel Taylor

  Soccer, Football, Hockey

  "Kenyon's talk is cheap but Chelsea's big ideas need more than money" by Daniel Taylor, www.theguardian.com. November 27, 2006.

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