Quotes About Edge

Then the edge asserts itself. You are not a god. You are not that enlarged self. Indeed, you are not even a whole self, as you now see. Your new knowledge of possibilities is also a knowledge of what is lacking in the actual.

It is the edge separating my tongue from the taste for which it longs that teaches me what an edge is.

The experience of eros as lack alerts a person to the boundaries of himself, of other people, of things in general. It is the edge separating my tongue from the taste for which it longs that teaches me what an edge is.

Advertising is the edge of what people know how to do and of human experience and it explains the latest ways progress has changed us to ourselves.

This, I did not need telling, was Anthony Blanche, the "aesthete" par excellence, a byword of iniquity from Cherwell Edge to Somerville.

Draw your chair up close to the edge of the precipice and I'll tell you a story.

The immediate contingency overtook him, pulling him back from the edge of the theoretical abyss.

As an open fire in a dark room throws romance and pathos into the quiet faces at its edge, so she cast her lights and shadows around the rooms that held her

Triple Crown winner. This," Riley said, pulling a legal-looking brown envelope out of a kitchen desk drawer, "will explain it all. First, we're going to watch the race." Cole Tanner smacked both his hands, palms down on the kitchen table. "We're teetering on the edge of a black hole where we could all literally lose our shirts, and you want to watch a horse race on television. I-don't-think-so." "You always were a goddamn hothead, Cole.

My fans would love to see Brian Fellow come back. I love my fans. And they like my edge.

Anyone who is friends with a fighter or lives with a fighter, you know that a fighter cutting weight is on edge.

The Edge... there is no honest way to explain it because the only people who really know where it is are the ones who have gone over.

A piece of wall can be visually disintegrated from the whole into a separate triangle by plunging a diagonal of light from edge to edge on the wall; that is, side to floor, for instance.

Nowadays, the difference between athletes is really small, and if you can get an edge, why not take it.

Sometimes, when you live a life at such a wild edge, an extreme edge of experience, you can come back into the world - if you come back at all - with some essence from that experience that people find useful.

Every character I've ever played, I always try to take him right to the edge and not allow him to fall over, but directors have a tendency to pull me back a little bit.

The smartest people I know have that extra edge. The risk is always there that you'll look terribly undignified and slobbering, and inside I cringe about that, but I should be more aggressive.

I do think that something of the effect I have on people is to put everything on an edge where they're both infatuated with a kind of charmingness happening in the person or in the writing, and also flatly terrified by a revelation or acceptance of revelation that's almost happening, never quite totally happening.

Death is always at the edge of now.

The behavior of these three blurs the distinction at the edge between life and death.

Kids with anxiety issues were in psychic pain, and nobody knew that better than he did. Anybody could be pushed over the edge, given the right circumstances.

You can stand at the edge of the meadow and look across to Sweden!

and was on the edge of the walk

When I stand on the edge of a tall place I feel like I'm on the edge of time, peering into forever. The question 'What if...?' rises up in my mind, and it's exciting because I know that in the next instant, in less time than it takes to snap my fingers, I could fly into eternity.