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Quotes About Fringe

When Dradin stopped running he found himself on the fringe of the religious quarter, next to an emaciated macadamia salesman who cracked jokes like nuts.
~ Jeff Vandermeer
I had a year off from the fringe, which was weird for my eyebrows because they hadn't seen the sun for 10 years.
~ Daisy Lowe
Having established that good ideas do indeed come in from the cold, start on the fringes and become mainstream, can we make any predictions about what the next move will be?
~ Nigel Farage
I've always been very curious about fringe cultures where people temporarily adopt a different social model or way of presenting themselves.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
Holocaust denial, once the preserve of fringe conspiracy theorists, has mutated into Holocaust obfuscation, equivocation, and specious comparison on a larger scale than ever.
~ Ephraim Mirvis
The fantasy world of Movement Conservatives is no longer fringe talk. The leading candidates for the Republican presidential nomination embrace it. They are playing to a chorus of true believers, and they are preaching what that choir wants to hear. They are following the same pattern Eric Hoffer identified as the path to authoritarianism.
~ Heather Cox Richardson
I've always worked on the fringe of the British press establishment, carving out this niche for myself.
~ Heather Brooke
What's a cult? It just means not enough people to make a minority.
~ Robert Altman
I live life in the margins of society, and the rules of normal society don't apply to those who live on the fringe.
~ Tamara de Lempicka
In the twenty-first century, rank-and-file Republicans attack their enemies as the puppets of the billionaire George Soros while rank-and-file Democrats attack their enemies as the puppets of the billionaires Charles and David Koch. We're told that only the fringe believes in the Enemy Above, yet tales of his machinations have become a routine part of partisan politics. The Devil's cleverest trick is to persuade you that hardly anyone believes he exists.
~ Jesse Walker
Movement Conservatism was a fringe force from the 1950s until the 1980s, when voters elected Movement Conservative Ronald Reagan to the White House. But even then, their control of the Republican Party was not a given.
~ Heather Cox Richardson
I've spent some time in Edinburgh before. I used to go up there to busk and actually went to the Fringe a few times as a teenager with my cello.
~ Grace Chatto
Because of how much movies cost, it's dangerous to be experimental on one film after the other. But we can experiment with television. We can do things that are fringe and bring ideas to the table that are offbeat and original.
~ Steven Spielberg
Unshackled by strict yet arbitrary, misguided norms, outcasts can be, look, act, and associate however they want. And in this ever conformist, cookie-cutter, magazine-celebrity-worshipping, creativity-stifling society, the innovation, courage, and differences of the cafeteria fringe are vital to America's culture and progress. Which is why we must celebrate them.
~ Alexandra Robbins
'Fringe' is a sci-fi show. But once you go beyond the genre, you're immersed in a profound reality.
~ Anna Torv
For me, growing up in Detroit, scarves meant cold weather. But I remember working in a store, and we had some silk scarves - like, wide scarves with fringe - and because I had seen the English rockers wearing skinny silk scarves, I took the scarves, cut and sewed them, and made them long - almost like a tie.
~ John Varvatos
The Edinburgh Fringe is a tough beast and you do whatever you can to get through it. But it's really the worst place to see comedians; everyone is so tense and nervous because it feels like Ofsted inspectors are out there.
~ Russell Howard
The stronger a culture, the less it fears the radical fringe. The more paranoid and precarious a culture, the less tolerance it offers.
~ Joel Salatin
Portland is where all the fringe groups went to escape. Where the outliers brought that DIY, punk rock attitude and made the city their own.
~ John Gourley
I like the eyeliner and fringe '60s look, like Anna Karina.
~ Jeanne Damas
The Fringe is by far my favorite time of year; I like everything about it. But there are people I know who are much more successful than me who don't enjoy it.
~ Alex Horne
Some of the ideas that come from the fringe of the far right are just so implausible that it is hard to take those ideas seriously.
~ John Conyers
I've been banned from cutting my own fringe.
~ Suki Waterhouse
When I do the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, I always go across to Loch Ness and stay there.
~ Rhys Darby