Edge Quotes

I like conventions. I like meeting and greeting. I'm perched on that edge where I'm getting more attention than I quite know what to do with, though.
Laurell K. Hamilton

Getting, Attention, Though

Thrillers are my favorite. I like stuff that keeps you on the edge of your seat or maybe makes you jump.
Corey Feldman

Makes, Stuff, Maybe

'The Voice' has lots of singers who fit the 'Idol' mold of young, innocent ingenues with psycho stage moms. But it also has long-suffering adult pros, with a whiff of thirtysomething despair in their voices. That adds an edge of realness.
Rob Sheffield

Young, Despair, Voice

As the middle begins to feel safe enough to accept some of the so-called radical thinking, ideas move to the middle and a new edge is created.
Jasmine Guy

Thinking, Enough, Accept

There's a part of me that's always charging ahead. I'm the curious kid, always going to the edge.
Yo-Yo Ma

Kid, Ahead, Curious

I had so much fun developing and launching my first fragrance with Avon, so for my second fragrance, I really wanted to add a little more edge. Outspoken Intense is a provocative blend of sexy confidence and daring femininity that captures the thrill and excitement of being centre stage.
Fergie

Fun, Sexy, Confidence

Probably what pushed the Russians over the edge was SDI. They realized they couldn't beat us.
Tom Clancy

Realized, Beat, Pushed

Authority without wisdom is like a heavy ax without an edge, fitter to bruise than polish.
Anne Bradstreet

Wisdom, Authority, Heavy

Well, the stuff that has become more commercial doesn't have any edge.
Iggy Pop

Become, Stuff, Commercial

I'm all about entertaining and keeping a reader on the edge of their seat, so to me, the social issues have to be meaningful and give the book what's really 'at stake,' but ultimately it's not about them - it's always a personal story of everyday people thrust into life-threatening situations and having to perform heroic acts.
Andrew Gross

Book, Give, Personal

You name it, we're out there with the latest and the best cutting edge.
Helen Gurley Brown

Best, Name, Latest

I like walking on the edge.
Levon Helm

People do not realise that many of my works are done in urban places. I was brought up on the edge of Leeds, five miles from the city centre-on one side were fields and on the other, the city.
Andy Goldsworthy

Done, Works, City

After you work out, you have your dog with you. There's no better companion. You've got to have a friend. I didn't like opponents who had dogs with them. Because you know they had a little edge. They have a friend.
George Foreman

Work, Friend, After

There are a lot of actresses out there who are the girl next door. I relate more to characters who have an edge.
Eliza Dushku

Girl, Door, Next

New Yorkers may think they're on some cutting edge, but that's not especially true. It is, however, the most exciting heterogeneous mess of a town I've ever seen.
Carter Burwell

True, May, Seen

We've never played at this place before. This place is big, and I'm kinda nervous, so we're going to make it feel small by pretending we're in a... bedroom. We'll hang off the edge of the bed, take off our shoes and get naked!
Dave Matthews

Small, Before, Big

He was living in an age much more dangerous, more painful, much more on the edge than our own particular age.
Derek Jacobi

Age, Living, Dangerous

Until the Eighties, Oslo was a rather boring town, but it's changed a lot, and is now much more cosmopolitan. If I go downtown, I visit the harbour to see the tall ships and the ferries, and to admire the modern architecture such as the Opera House or the new Astrup Fearnley Museum on the water's edge.
Jo Nesbo

Boring, Rather, Until

There is a percentage of people who want to be a little bit outside their comfort zone and I am one of them, someone who lives on the edge.
Alain Robert

Someone, Lives, Bit

I suppose I look for humor in most situations because it humanizes things; it makes a character much more three-dimensional if there's some kind of humor. Not necessarily laugh-out-loud type of stuff, just a sense that there is a humorous edge to things. I do like that.
Colm Meaney

Humor, Character, Sense

When I came in, the city was on the edge of bankruptcy. I'm proud of what I did. I built the foundation that mayors after me built upon - particularly Bloomberg. But the foundation was essential because if it hadn't occurred, we would have been another Detroit.
Ed Koch

After, Proud, Another

You should never feel comfortable. There is something wrong if you are. You should always feel under threat, on the edge of your seat and pushing yourself. Win one and you want to win more. It's never-ending.
Damon Hill

Yourself, Win, Wrong

Every movie I make I find kind of excruciating. I get a lot back from it, but I feel like I'm kind of always working at the edge of my ability. I guess that's what I'm looking for when I go to work. I am trying to become the edge.
Michelle Williams

Work, Trying, Find

I've always wanted to be able to let myself go over the edge.
Robin Wright Penn

The enormous lake stretched flat and smooth and white all the way to the edge of the gray sky. Wagon tracks went away across it, so far that you could not see where they went; they ended in nothing at all.
Laura Ingalls Wilder

Nothing, Away, Far

Health care costs blunt the competitive edge of American entrepreneurs, from the auto industry to internet start-ups.
Tom Allen

Health, Care, American

I grew up on the edge of a national park in Canada - timberwolves, creeks, snow drifts.
Dan Aykroyd

Snow, National, Canada

Most men have always wanted as much as they could get; and possession has always blunted the fine edge of their altruism.
Katherine Fullerton Gerould

Men, Wanted, Fine

I'm a happy camper because by doing this I have an opportunity to be on the cutting edge of research.
Geraldine Ferraro

Happy, Research, Cutting

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