Edges Quotes - Page 40

• And that, my friend, is how the world ends. On the edge of a precipice, with one foot over the edge, it stops, turns and goes back, leaving an empty earth of birds and insects, wind, rain and rusting weapons.

  Jack Finney

  Rain, Wind, Feet

  Jack Finney (2013). “About Time: 12 Short Stories”, p.54, Simon and Schuster

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• The secret island had looked mysterious enough on the night they had seen it before - but now, swimming in the hot June haze, it seemed more enchanting than ever. As they drew near to it, and saw the willow trees that bent over the water-edge and heard the sharp call of moorhens that scuttled off, the children gazed in delight. Nothing but trees and birds and little wild animals. Oh, what a secret island, all for their very own, to live on and play on.

  Enid Blyton

  Children, Swimming, Animal

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• Cursing themselves in ragged dreamsfire has singed the edges of,they know a slow dying the fields have come to terms with.Shimmering fans work against the heat& smell of gunpowder, making moneyfloat from hand to hand. The next momenta rocket pushes a white fistthrough night sky, & they scatter like birds& fall into the shape their liveshave become.

  Yusef Komunyakaa

  Fall, Night, White

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• I wonder how, among the Fremont, mothers and daughters shared their world. Did they walk side by side along the lake edge? What stories did they tell while weaving strips of bulrush into baskets? How did daughters bury their mothers and exercise their grief? What were the secret rituals of women? I feel certain they must have been tied to birds.

  Terry Tempest Williams

  Daughter, Mother, Grief

  Terry Tempest Williams (2015). “Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place”, p.184, Vintage

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• 'Ever seen a leaf - a leaf from a tree?' 'Yes.' I saw one recently - a yellow one, a little green, wilted at the edges. Blown by the wind. When I was a little boy, I used to shut my eyes in winter and imagine a green leaf, with veins on it, and the sun shining ...' 'What's this - an allegory?' "No; why? Not an allegory - a leaf, just a leaf. A leaf is good. Everything's good.'

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Eye, Winter, Boys

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• Close to the Edge by Yes. Such a fun tune to play on bass.

  Brian Acton

  Fun, Play, Tunes

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• All we are is eyes looking for the unbroken or the edges where the broken bits might fit each other.

  Ali Smith

  Eye, Broken, Might

  Ali Smith (2014). “How to be Both”, p.370, Penguin UK

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• There is more to military units than hardware. There is the character of the unit's personnel: their strengths, experience, and knowledge, their ability to get along and work together amid the horrors of the battlefield. There is an almost undefinable quality. That quality is the Marine Corps' secret weapon. Their edge. That quality is their ethos.

  Tom Clancy

  Military, Character, Marine

  Tom Clancy (1996). “Marine: A Guided Tour of a Marine Expeditionary Unit”, p.2, Penguin

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• The finest edge is made with the blunt whetstone.

  John Lyly

  Blunt, Finest, Made

  John Lyly (1868). “Euphues. The Anatomy of Wit. Editio princeps, 1579. Euphues and his England. Editio princeps, 1580. Collated with early subsequent editions ... Carefully edited by Edward Arber”, p.47

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• We stand today on the edge of a new frontier.

  John F. Kennedy

  Inspirational, Today, 1960s

  Speech accepting Democratic presidential nomination, Los Angeles, Cal., 15 July 1960.

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• Indisputably we live in a shaped reality, an artificialism. Most people who grasp this are thinking only at a consumer-level, of the "things" they like and need and feel impelled to acquire. But our societal and political arrangements are just as much manipulations of game-pieces and rules as is any Atari or Sega product. The subliminal psychology that drives people to become addicted to games, not to be able to see over the edges of their labyrinths, is transferable to any field whatsoever.

  Kenny Smith

  Philosophy, Reality, Thinking

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• In the "commentatio" (note presented to the Russian Academy) in which his theorem on polyhedra (on the number of faces, edges and vertices) was first published Euler gives no proof. In place of a proof, he offers an inductive argument: he verifies the relation in a variety of special cases. There is little doubt that he also discovered the theorem, as many of his other results, inductively.

  George Polya

  Numbers, Discovery, Giving

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• Corporate America is a 20th-century dinosaur, trembling on the edge of extinction, and the only way for you to have a genuinely secure future is for you to take control of that future.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  America, Dinosaurs, Extinction

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• Sampling is a new way of doing something that’s been with us for a long time […] The mix breaks free from the old associations. New contexts form from old. The script gets flipped. The languages evolve and learn to speak in new forms, new thoughts. The sound of thought becomes legible again at the edge of the new meanings.

  DJ Spooky

  Long, Association, Way

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• There's a tipping point that happens with soccer in which you just kinda get it. I was drawn to it because the best soccer teams play similarly to my favorite basketball teams - like the eighties Lakers or eighties Celtics - teams that emphasized teamwork over individualism and relied on passing as their biggest ongoing edge.

  Bill Simmons

  Basketball, Soccer, Teamwork

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

  Andy Summers

  Cutting, Standards, My Own

  Interview with Paul Cashmere, www.noise11.com. April 25, 2016.

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• EDGE WINS! EDGE WINS! EDGE WINS!

  Edge

  Winning, Wwe

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• In short, what the living wage is really about is not living standards, or even economics, but morality. Its advocates are basically opposed to the idea that wages are a market price-determined by supply and demand, the same as the price of apples or coal. And it is for that reason, rather than the practical details, that the broader political movement of which the demand for a living wage is the leading edge is ultimately doomed to failure: For the amorality of the market economy is part of its essence, and cannot be legislated away.

  Paul Krugman

  Essence, Ideas, Apples

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• Left to herself, nature is always more or less civilized, and delights in a certain refinement; but where the axe has encroached upon the edge of the forest, the dead and unsightly limbs of the pine, which she had concealed with green banks of verdure, are exposed to sight.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Nature, Sight, Forests

  Henry David Thoreau (2011). “The Natural History Essays”, p.39, Gibbs Smith

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• Fantasy gets a mixed reception - a lot of fantasy is formulaic but most of the award-winning fantasy on the contrary tends to be the stuff at the edges of the genre, rather than swimming in the middle.

  Graham Joyce

  Swimming, Winning, Awards

  "Graham Joyce wins fantasy award and makes sports book award longlist" by Alison Flood, www.theguardian.com. September 21, 2009.

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• The recipe for success . . . customers will get what they want, when they want it . . . you will see more revenue, greater brand loyalty, real relationships, and a competitive edge.

  Martin Zwilling

  Loyalty, Real, Recipes

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• When you grow up in one town and your life revolves around it, you are very aware of any darkness on the edge of town. That's because it's scary and it's inviting.

  Melissa Etheridge

  Growing Up, Scary, Darkness

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• Unknown customer, unstated need - that is bleeding edge of innovation!

  Subroto Bagchi

  Innovation, Needs, Bleeding

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• It's harder to play drums than guitar, physically. I'm always kind of on the edge. I guess that's how I play everything: on the edge of my ability.

  J Mascis

  Guitar, Play, Kind

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• Versatile Tangerine is striking enough to stand on its own and adds vitality to a printed pattern. Good natured and friendly, but with a tangy edge, this fun-loving color invites a smile.

  Leatrice Eiseman

  Fun, Color, Friendly

  "Fashion color report". PANTONE 15-1247 Tangerine, www.pantone.com. Spring 2015.

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