Over The Edge Quotes - Page 4

• He is a free and secure citizen of the world because he is on a chain that is long enough to allow him access to all parts of the earth, and yet not so long that he could be swept over the edge of it.

  Franz Kafka

  Long, Citizens, World

  Franz Kafka (2015). “Aphorisms”, p.66, Schocken

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• Longevity is something I never gave a second thought to. I guess it's the shadow of growing up in post WWII, but I never believed I would live past 20. Here I am though... a senior citizen... my voice and heart are stronger than ever, but boredom is the greatest enemy so I have to be careful not to slip over the edge.

  Eric Burdon

  Senior, Growing Up, Heart

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• Times of my life, brief periods without music, have completely felt dangerously over the edge.

  Squarepusher

  Periods, Without Music, Time Of My Life

  "Plastic Man". Interview with Marc Weidenbaum, disquiet.com. October 14, 2001.

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• If possible, try to avoid pushing each other over the edge, as that would cause me extra paperwork.

  Rick Riordan

  Trying, Pushing Each Other, Causes

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• I did mostly alcohol. There were drugs, too - pills - and there was a danger that I would go over the edge. I could have. I thank God I didn't.

  Johnny Depp

  Alcohol, Drug, Thank God

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• I'm a suicide. I walked right spang over the edge of life and disappeared. Splash! Bubble-bubble! There goes nothing.

  Samuel Hopkins Adams

  Suicide, Edges, Bubbles

  Samuel Hopkins Adams (1917). “Our Square and the People in it”

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• Wage restraint was helping businesses out and now it's not. Have we tipped over the edge? Maybe not, but the trend in wages is moving higher.

  Greg Miller

  Moving, Helping, Restraint

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• Because I'm a performer I can justify and sometimes sell the things about me that offend and shock the conventional world. I need to live life in the fast lane. I need to do things to excess. I need to go over the edge. I have an obligation to experience the things most people can't experience. The taboos. The things you're not supposed to know or do. That's part of my job. That's why I do it. I would probably do it anyway.

  Elizabeth Ashley

  Jobs, Live Life, People

  Elizabeth Ashley, Ross Firestone (1979). “Actress: Postcards from the Road”, Fawcett Books

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• Each night the sun sank right in our eyes along the sea, making an undulating glittering pathway, a golden track charted on the surface of the ocean which our ship followed unswervingly until the sun dipped below the edge of the horizon, and the pathway ran ahead of us faster than we could steam and slipped over the edge of the skyline - as if the sun had been a golden ball and had wound up its thread of gold too quickly for us to follow.

  Lawrence Beesley

  Ocean, Eye, Night

  Lawrence Beesley (2012). “The Loss of the S.S. Titanic”, p.24, Tales End Press

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• And below the heimongmong, all along the ground, were weeds already spilling out over the edges, running wild in every direction.

  Amy Tan

  Running, Weed, Joy Luck Club

  Amy Tan (2006). “The Joy Luck Club”, p.196, Penguin

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