A great empire, like a great cake, is most easily diminished at the edges.
Benjamin Franklin

All my life I have lived and behaved very much like the sandpiper - just running down the edges of different countries and continents, 'looking for something'.
Elizabeth Bishop

Analysis is like a lobotomy. Who wants to have all their edges shaved off?
David Byrne

And then as I frequently do, some times I'll peek out from underneath the focusing cloth and just look around the edges of the frame that I'm not seeing, see if there's something that should be adjusted in terms of changing the camera position.
John Sexton

Don't necessarily avoid sharp edges. Occasionally they are necessary to leadership.
Donald Rumsfeld

I believe with all my heart that the Church of Jesus Christ should be a Church of blurred edges.
George Carey

I think the best pictures are often on the edges of any situation, I don't find photographing the situation nearly as interesting as photographing the edges.
William Albert Allard

If you look at a record under a microscope, the high frequencies are short jagged edges... and the low frequencies are long swinging ones are deep bass sounds. When it cut it at half speed, you're getting more of those on the record.
Herb Alpert

Let your life lightly dance on the edges of Time like dew on the tip of a leaf.
Rabindranath Tagore

My attitude on skis is different now. I have learned to put less pressure on myself and on the edges of my skis when I'm racing, to be keep myself more under control.
Hermann Maier

No matter how much you think you love somebody, you'll step back when the pool of their blood edges up too close.
Chuck Palahniuk

Nostalgia is a file that removes the rough edges from the good old days.
Doug Larson

Photography is about finding out what can happen in the frame. When you put four edges around some facts, you change those facts.
Garry Winogrand

Some otherwise sane scientists have seriously proposed that we tuck this deadly garbage under the edges of drifting continents but how can they be sure the moving land masses will climb over the waste and not just push it forward?
David R. Brower

Success can make you go one of two ways. It can make you a prima donna - or it can smooth the edges, take away the insecurities, let the nice things come out.
Barbara Walters

The beauty of the world, which is so soon to perish, has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder.
Virginia Woolf

The worlds I paint leave a lot to engage the imagination by hinting at what lies beyond the four edges of the painting. I think getting beyond the four edges of an opportunity or challenge is one of the basic skills you need in business.
Thomas Kinkade

Those edges and turns teach control and discipline, just like finger exercises on the piano.
Barbara Ann Scott

Truth uncompromisingly told will always have its ragged edges.
Herman Melville

We were too rough at the edges to be a pop group.
Roger Daltrey