Over The Edge Quotes - Page 2

• I've always wanted to be able to let myself go over the edge

  Robin Wright

  Able, Wanted, Edges

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• You are my siren,” he said, running his hands along her thighs and down her calves, feeling the shape of her even as the silk of her gown kept them both from what they wanted. “My temptress . . . my sorceress . . . I cannot resist you, no matter how I try. You threaten to send me over the edge.

  Sarah MacLean

  Running, Hands, Feelings

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• I'm sorry, Mother. It's just that five days of flying with these characters has made me crawl right to the edge of sanity.' 'I fell over the edge.' Karen said. 'I jumped,' Walter added, 'And I can't seem to climb back up.

  Bryan Davis

  Mother, Sorry, Character

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• I saw his face change. His eyes widen. He lunged at me. I wouldn't let go. We stared into eachother's eyes and clawed at eachother's throats. As we rolled over the edge of the water tower and fell the whole way down, I was only thinking one thing ...Lena

  Kami Garcia

  Letting Go, Eye, Thinking

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• I think this whole Billy Bush thing just pushed women over the edge because it's so visceral.

  Kathleen Hanna

  Thinking, Visceral, Edges

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I said, "Well, why do you believe in the Klein Bottle?" He said, "Because I can imagine it." I said, "You don't have to imagine a Mobius strip. It's right there in front of you!" But [Buckminster Fuller] couldn't see how that could involve a cross cap, meaning something that couldn't be reduced to a two-dimensional surface. Which it does. It's because he was thinking that the matrix was the thing that a fly could walk over the edge of, like a torus.

  Paul Laffoley

  Believe, Thinking, Two

  Source: www.paranoiamagazine.com

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• I think we're going a bit too fast at the minute. The rate we're going is like we're going over the edge of the hill.

  Van Morrison

  Thinking, Hills, Minutes

  Interview with Ritchie Yorke, ritchieyorke.com. April 21.

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• There's not much to be said for sightseeing. You go somewhere that has a waterfall. You have a beer, watch the water go over the edge, and move on. Tours are all the same. In the end, the only thing that matters is the beer.

  Jack McDevitt

  Moving, Beer, Water

  Jack McDevitt (2013). “Odyssey (Academy - Book 5): Academy -”, p.172, Hachette UK

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• Gravity is so strong that space is bent round onto itself, making it rather like the surface of the earth. If one keeps traveling in a certain direction on the surface of the earth, one never comes up against an impassable barrier or falls over the edge, but eventually comes back to where one started.

  Stephen Hawking

  Strong, Fall, Space

  Stephen Hawking (2009). “A Brief History Of Time: From Big Bang To Black Holes”, p.46, Random House

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• It's the little questions from women about tappets that finally push men over the edge.

  Philip Roth

  Men, Questions And Answers, Littles

  1962 Letting Go, pt.1, ch.1.

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• I feel like I'm a compassionate guy, but I also feel if somebody's grip on life or sanity is so tenuous that a joke in an advice column that usually is nothing but jokes pushes them over the edge, then if not me, it would have been a leaf blowing past them that did it, or something else. You almost have to feel that way, doing this.

  Dan Savage

  Past, Guy, Advice

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. February 8, 2006.

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• A man traveling across a field encountered a tiger. He fled, the tiger after him. Coming to a precipice, he caught hold of the root of a wild vine and swung himself down over the edge. The tiger sniffed at him from above. Trembling, the man looked down to where, far below, another tiger was waiting to eat him. Only the vine sustained him. Two mice, one white and one black, little by little started to gnaw away the vine. The man saw a luscious strawberry near him. Grasping the vine with one hand, he plucked the strawberry with the other. How sweet it tasted!

  Gautama Buddha

  Sweet, Men, Two

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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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• You have a freckle here," he whispered, sweeping his tongue over a spot just under my jaw. "It drives me crazy every time you 're above me. I just want to do this..." The jentle draw of his mouth pushed me over the edge, and my knees tightened around his hips as i rocked against him.

  Tammara Webber

  Crazy, Mouths, Want

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• I was a hundred-percent sick, I felt as if I had no further use for my legs, they just hung over the edge of my bed like unimportant and rather ridiculous objects.

  Louis-Ferdinand Celine

  Sick, Bed, Use

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• On their sofas of spice and feathers, the concubines also slept fretfully. In those days the Earth was still flat, and people dreamed often of falling over edges.

  Tom Robbins

  Fall, People, Spices

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Jitterbug Perfume”, p.19, Bantam

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• All right, cupcakes. You are about to see the Grand Canyon. Try not to break it. The skywalk can hold the weight of seventy jumbo jets, to you featherweights should be safe out there. If possible, try to avoid pushing each other over the edge, as that would cause me extra paperwork.

  Rick Riordan

  Cupcakes, Trying, Pushing Each Other

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• Don't you understand?" snarled Rincewind. "We are going over the Edge, godsdammit!" "Can't we do anything about it?" "No!" "Then I can't see the sense in panicking," said Twoflower calmly.

  Terry Pratchett

  Said, Edges, I Can

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• What she really loved was to hang over the edge and watch the bow of the ship slice through the waves. She loved it especially when the waves were high and the ship rose and fell, or when it was snowing and the flakes stung her face.

  Kristin Cashore

  Inspirational, Funny, Ocean

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• Do they see the lethal insanity of a race to the brink of oblivion, and then over the edge? Apparently not. If they did, surely they wouldn't be racing to begin with. Or is it a simple failure of imagination? One doesn't like to think such a rudimentary failing could bring about the end, yet...

  Stephen King

  Simple, Thinking, Race

  Stephen King, Michael Whelan (2004). “The Dark Tower VII: The Dark Tower”, p.301, Simon and Schuster

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• If love could force my own thoughts over the edge of the world and out of time, then could I not see how even divine omnipotence might by the force of its own love be swayed down to the world? ...how it might, because it could know its own creatures only by compassion, put on mortal flesh, become a man, and walk among us, assume our nature and our fate, suffer our faults and our death?

  Wendell Berry

  Fate, Love Is, Men

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• Once released from life, having lost it in such violence, I couldn’t calculate my steps. I didn’t have time for contemplation. In violence it is the getting out that you concentrate on. When you begin to go over the edge, life receding from you as a boat recedes inevitably from the shore, you hold on to death tightly, like a rope that will transport you, and you swing out on it, hoping to land away from where you are.

  Alice Sebold

  Swings, Land, Rope

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• The disc, being flat, has no real horizon. Any adventurous sailor who got funny ideas from staring at eggs and oranges for too long and set out for the antipodes soon learned that the reason why distant ships sometimes looked as though they were disappearing over the edge of the world was that they were disappearing over the edge of the world.

  Terry Pratchett

  Real, Eggs, Ideas

  "The Light Fantastic". Book by ‎Terry Pratchett, 1986.

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• Nicholas Temelcoff is famous on the bridge, a daredevil. He is given all the difficult jobs and he takes them. He descends into the air with no fear. He is a solitary. He assembles ropes, brushes the tackle and pulley at his waist, and falls off the bridge like a diver over the edge of a boat.

  Michael Ondaatje

  Jobs, Fall, Air

  Michael Ondaatje (2017). “In the Skin of a Lion: Picador Classic”, p.28, Pan Macmillan

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• Don't untie me," she said, "no matter what happens or how much I plead. I'll want to go straight over the edge and drown myself." "Are you trying to tempt me?" "Ha-ha.

  Rick Riordan

  Trying, Annabeth, Want

  Rick Riordan (2007). “The Sea of Monsters”, Disney-Hyperion

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