Edges Quotes

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

Great, Cake, Empire

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

Life, Time, Dance

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

Love, Matter, Blood

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

Success, Nice, Two

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

Beauty, Heart, Laughter

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

Leadership, Necessary, Avoid

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

Good, Old, Days

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

There are certain sounds that I've found work well in nearly any context. Their function is not so much musical as spatial: they define the edges of the territory of the music.
Brian Eno

Music, Work, Found

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

Off, Wants, Analysis

There is absolutely no one, apart from yourself, who can prevent you, in the middle of the night, from sneaking down to tidy up the edges of that hunk of cheese at the back of the fridge.
Boris Johnson

Yourself, Night, Down

Pushing the envelope' sort of implies that you're inside the envelope with everyone else, and you're trying to find the edges on the outsides.
Louis C. K.

Trying, Find, Else

I think that taxes would be fair if we first get rid of the tax code. This is the ultimate solution, not to just say we're going to trim around the edges, not to say that we will try to simplify a little of this and a little of that. The problem is, replace the tax code, so we can establish tax fairness for everybody.
Herman Cain

Try, Problem, Around

Writers sometimes give up what is most strange and wonderful about their writing - soften their roughest edges - to accommodate themselves toward a group response.
Mary Oliver

Writing, Give, Strange

It's hard to get out of the barrel. It's slippery around the edges and people are happy to see you fall back in.
Robert Downey, Jr.

Happy, Hard, Around

Like a lot of you, I grew up in a family on the ragged edges of the middle class. My daddy sold carpeting and ended up as a maintenance man. After he had a heart attack, my mom worked the phones at Sears so we could hang on to our house.
Elizabeth Warren

Family, Mom, Heart

I love working with big flavors like chiles and smoke. Honey is perfect for softening the edges, mellowing them out a bit. I put it in everything - vinaigrettes, soups, stocks, salsas, so I'm always on the hunt for great honey.
Bobby Flay

Love, Great, Everything

I am passionate about keeping the human dimension in things. You have to keep the rough edges and the inconsistencies, that's what makes it interesting. I've always striven to be as sloppy as possible.
Jarvis Cocker

Human, Keep, Makes

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

Forward, Moving, Sure

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

Group, Pop, Rough

I love to play women who are strong and unapologizing and kind of rough around the edges and don't care what anybody thinks about that.
Carrie-Anne Moss

Love, Women, Strong

We're always attracted to the edges of what we are, out by the edges where it's a little raw and nervy.
E. L. Doctorow

Art is about the edges and the sharp corners and those places are not conducive to activism, which is about putting on a gloss.
Scott Thompson

Art, Places, Sharp

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

Around, Times, Camera

I focus on the elements of a movie that are meant to invisibly affect me as a viewer. The edges. As an author, I'm aware of how the subconscious things can pluck at a reader's emotions, and I love it when filmmakers do the same.
Maggie Stiefvater

Love, Focus, Same

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

Attitude, Control, Different

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

Long, Deep, Short

When I tested for Billy Budd, I had that kind of confidence that comes with the certainty that you're not going to get something. I was very rough around the edges.
Terence Stamp

Confidence, Around, Rough

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

Heart, Jesus, Church

I love films where you go into the cinema and loosen the edges of yourself and you hopefully enter into the world of the film. You're watching something unfold before you. I prefer the idea of wonder or intense wonder over shock or something.
Julia Leigh

Love, Yourself, Before

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