Quotes About Edginess

He'd lived for so long on a constant edge of anxiety that he'd almost forgotten what real fear was.

Speech codes may well increase tension and edginess rather than relieve them. A student at the State University of New York at Binghamton complains that "If you look at someone funny, it's a bias incident."137

I like bad boys... not really bad, but men with an edge... they should be clean but have that streak.

There is a deep-seated tendency, it's almost a compulsion, to distract ourselves, even when we're not consciously feeling uncomfortable. Everybody feels a little bit of an itch all the time. There's a background hum of edginess, boredom, restlessness. As I've said, during my time in retreat where there were almost no distractions, even there I experienced this deep uneasiness. The

I like Alexander McQueen's work a lot: he's always pushing boundaries, and he's rough around the edges.

examine is an interesting word. It's not a matter of looking and seeing—"Now I've got it!"—but a process of examination and contemplation that leads into being able to relax with insecurity or edginess or restlessness. Much joy comes from that.

I think you can get a sort of intensity and an edginess offering nine stories in a book. Competing versions of things.

Writing a novel is one of those modern rites of passage, I think, that lead us from an innocent world of contentment, drunkenness, and good humor, to a state of chronic edginess and the perpetual scanning of bank statements.

We were on pins and needles.

With the police thriller genre, people come to it with an expectation. It allows you to get away with a bit of violence, edginess, darkness.

I'm not a violent person, but I've got a hard core streak and have a reputation about living dangerously.

When you're in this state of mind you are constantly 'on edge'.

What happened to fantasy for me is what also happened to rock and roll. It found a common denominator for making maximum money. As a result, it lost its tensions, its anger, its edginess and turned into one big cup of cocoa.

Illium seems far too pretty to be dangerous." Dmitri's male beauty, by contrast, was a darker, edgier thing. "No one ever expects him to take out a blade and slice off their balls," he said with lethal amusement in his tone as he drove them toward the George Washington Bridge. "He does it with such grace, too.