Fringe Quotes - Page 2

• Our family was on the lunatic fringe. My mother was always completely irrepressible. My father made crowd noises into a microphone.

  Annie Dillard

  Mother, Father, Crowds

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• 'Fringe' is a sci-fi show. But once you go beyond the genre, you're immersed in a profound reality.

  Anna Torv

  Reality, Profound, Sci Fi

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• It has to be acknowledged that in capitalist society, with its herds of hippies, originality has become a sort of fringe benefit, a mere convention, accepted obsolescence, the Beatnik model being turned in for the Hippie model, as though strangely obedient to capitalist laws of marketing.

  Mary McCarthy

  Hippie, Law, Marketing

  Mary McCarthy (1968). “Hanoi”, George Weidenfeld & Nicholson

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• Standing on the fringes of life... offers a unique perspective. But there comes a time to see what it looks like from the dance floor.

  Stephen Chbosky

  Unique, Perspective, Looks

  "The Perks of Being a Wallflower". Book by Stephen Chbosky, synopsis from the Inside Flap, www.amazon.co.uk. 2009.

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• Religion is the opium of the masses.

  Karl Marx

  Weed, Atheist, Fear

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• When I get a fringe, it's because I'm bored or need a change; I always regret it!

  Chloe Sevigny

  Regret, Bored, Needs

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• The luxury of being half-asleep, exploring the fringes of psychosis in safety.

  Ian Mcewan

  Psychosis, Luxury, Safety

  Ian McEwan (2010). “Saturday”, p.57, Random House

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• I stared into her eyes, wide under the thick fringe of lashes, and yearned for sleep. Not for oblivion, as I had before, not to escape boredom, but because I wanted to *dream*. Maybe, if I could be unconscious, if I could dream, I could live for a few hours in a world where she and I could be together. She dreamed of me. I wanted to dream of her.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Dream, Sleep, Eye

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• September is a sweep of dusky, purple asters, a sumac branch swinging a fringe of scarlet leaves, and the bittersweet scene of wild grapes when I walk down the lane to the mailbox. September is a golden month of mellow sunlight and still clear days. ... Small creatures in the grass, as if realizing their days are numbered, cram the night air with sound. Everywhere goldenrod is full out.

  Jean Hersey

  Night, Air, Purple

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• When you stand outside, you look around and find that the people you're with live on the fringes.

  Lori Lansens

  People, Looks, Standing Out

  Source: www.elle.com

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• The full area of ignorance is not mapped. We are at present only exploring the fringes.

  John Desmond Bernal

  Funny Inspirational, Learning, Ignorance

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• Eagle of flowers! I see thee stand, And on the sun's noon-glory gaze; With eye like his, thy lids expand, And fringe their disk with golden rays: Though fix'd on earth, in darkness rooted there, Light is thy element, thy dwelling air, Thy prospect heaven.

  James Montgomery

  Flower, Eye, Light

  James Montgomery, Robert Carruthers (1858). “The Poetical Works of James Montgomery: With a Memoir”, p.162

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• I was organizing a fringe meeting at the Conservative Party conference in October 1994 and I got a message that the Prime Minister would like a meeting. I went to the meeting. It was just me and John Major.What Major said to me was this: "If you were in my shoes, what would you do?". He wasn't asking me what a unionist should do, but what he should do. And I knew that I had to give him a sensible answer.

  David Trimble

  Party, Shoes, Giving

  Source: www.newsletter.co.uk

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• I take comfort in knowing that it was the shepherds to whom the angels appeared when they announced Christ's birth. Invariably throughout the course of history, God has appeared to people on the fringes. It's nice to find theological justification for your quirks.

  Rich Mullins

  Nice, Angel, Knowing

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• People who are against hate are not a fringe minority, not even a silent majority, but are a silenced majority, silenced by the corporate media.

  Amy Goodman

  Hate, Media, People

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• You used to have to make a choice. Is it a serialized television show, or is it a stand-alone or procedural? We were wildly influenced by The X-Files. Even when we created Fringe, it was the same thing. It's the gold standard of all gold standards, in genre television, and it was so wonderful because you felt so much for those characters.

  Alex Kurtzman

  Character, Choices, Gold

  Source: collider.com

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• little life lesson 23: before making a snide comment about someone else's outfit, check to see if you're wearing knee boots with fringe. if you answer yes, drop it. just do.

  Michele Jaffe

  Life Lesson, Boots, Answers

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• I actually feel pretty inspired and hopeful by the fact that protests are becoming the norm now. They're less part of fringe society and more a part of mainstream society. That's exciting. There is no fringe anymore. We should all be included.

  Nelly Furtado

  Mainstream Society, Hopeful, Facts

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• What has happened now in mass media and advertising is not only that they've adopted the style and the look of fringe culture; that has been happening for a long time. What they've now done is gone a step further: They've now taken the very idea that there is any dissent at all - it doesn't even matter what form it takes - and made it part of how they're going to sell something.

  Mark Hosler

  Taken, Media, Ideas

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I think the press, by and large, is what we call "liberal". But of course what we call "liberal" means well to the right. "Liberal" means the "guardians of the gates". So the New York Times is "liberal" by, what's called, the standards of political discourse, New York Times is liberal, CBS is liberal. I don't disagree. I think they're moderately critical at the fringes. They're not totally subordinate to power, but they are very strict in how far you can go. And in fact, their liberalism serves an extremely important function in supporting power.

  Noam Chomsky

  New York, Mean, Thinking

  Source: theanarchistlibrary.org

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• Is she become a rag doll? Are the wolves become children? It seems quite possible, there on the twilight fringes of dying. With some faint spark of herself, the little girl holds on to the idea. Even a rag doll has more life than does a dying child.

  Jane Lindskold

  Girl, Children, Twilight

  Jane Lindskold (2002). “Through Wolf's Eyes”, p.211, Macmillan

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• The book [ One Thousand Gifts] took just over a year to write, on the fringe hours, early and late, around home educating 6 kids and farming and blogging. And I wonder if the greatest challenges was to keep pressing into it when I had never been here before. I felt like Abraham - being called to something that he didn't know how to get to.

  Ann Voskamp

  Book, Writing, Kids

  Source: churchleaders.com

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• What many of the Senate Democrats are taking as the lesson of this election was that Hillary Clinton is too moderate and they need to go more Elizabeth Warren, more Bernie Sanders, more extreme and on the fringes.

  Ted Cruz

  Election, Clinton, Democrat

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• I wanted to kill her and make her eat her fringe. And her knickers.

  Louise Rennison

  Wanted, Knickers, Georgia Nicolson

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• When something like this [2003 invasion of Iraq] takes place, the international law professionals have a complicated task. There is a fringe that just tells the truth: Look, it's a violation of international law. But most have to construct complex arguments to justify it as defense counsel. That's basically their job, defense counsel for state power.

  Noam Chomsky

  Jobs, Law, Iraq

  Source: progressive.org

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