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Quotes About Edge

Mary Fisher lives in a High Tower, on the edge of the sea: she writes a great deal about the nature of love. She tells lies.
~ Faye Weldon
We have said that the duende likes the edge of things, the wound, and that it is drawn to where forms fuse themselves in a longing greater than their visible expressions. — Federico García Lorca, from "Theory and Function of the Duende," trans. J. L. Gilli, 1933, Toward the Open Field: Poets on the Art of Poetry 1800-1950 , ed. Melissa Kwasny (Wesleyan University Press, 2004)
~ Federico Garcia Lorca
Her head burned and her thoughts danced at the edge of her mind like scraps of ash in the heat of a fire.
~ Fiona Shaw
To see an almost certain horrible death--you know how crowds all sit at the edge of their seats, /praying/ subconsciously for a spectacular accident--and then to be whisked away from it so suddenly--brought to the edge of tragedy, and then to have their better natures win out, showing them how much nicer they always /knew/ they were--that was the supreme thrill.
~ Harlan Ellison
the southern edge of town. Tim was a liver-colored bird dog, the pet of Maycomb. "What's he doing?" "I don't know, Scout. We better go home.
~ Harper Lee
Seabird tracks scattered about the surf's edge like pine needles after a brisk wind.
~ Haruki Murakami
The clouds looked like silent travelers headed for the edge of the earth.
~ Haruki Murakami
After being signed by WWE, Edge, Christian, Mark Henry, Giant Silva, Test and Ken Shamrock all trained at my house. I had a pool room with an indoor pool and a garden behind it. I took out the garden and put in a wrestling ring.
~ Bret Hart
I love Nakamura, but it's a transition for anybody who comes to WWE.
~ Edge
I always really enjoyed Edge's entrance theme. Also Stone Cold. WWE once asked me in an interview, if I had to change my entrance music, whose would I choose, and I said Edge. So they created a video of me using that song, and I was like, 'I'm in love.'
~ Paige
I think Edge has completely put himself on the map as a bona fide WWE superstar.
~ John Cena
With giant sites like Facebook and MySpace becoming as generic as Yahoo and AOL of old, more and more sites will be looking for an edge by drilling down deeply to serve a highly targeted audience.
~ Kara Swisher
Not having a trainer is basically just giving an edge to my opponent, and I'm not willing to do that anymore.
~ Chris Eubank Jr.
If I am training on a holiday, most likely nobody else is - and that gives me the edge. If I'm supposed to run for 20 minutes and I get back and it's only been 19:34, I'm going to jog in a circle for 26 more seconds. I'm never going to cut it short.
~ Carli Lloyd
If I were someone who could ever be pushed over the edge into performing an act of violence, that moment would surely have come approximately ten minutes ago. Instead, and to my great regret, I seem to be a person who can balance quietly on the edge he is pushed towards for as long as anybody feels inclined to yell at him.
~ Sophie Hannah
But you're worried I'll get in trouble?" I try not to show how much this pleases me. I've managed to ignore him for days now and here I sit. Lapping up his attention like a neglected puppy. My voice takes on an edge. "Why do you care? I've ignored you for days." His smile fades. He looks serious, mockingly so. "Yeah. You got to stop that.
~ Sophie Jordan
Nothing gives so keen an edge to the intelligence as a passionate suspicion.
~ Stefan Zweig
Empathy took the edge off, and the truth is, we need our edge. Our edge is trying to speak to us, and we are too, too good at shutting it up.
~ Deb Caletti
...and an edge that could cut a truth from a lie.
~ Mark Lawrence
I took comfort, as a kid, in knowing that things had always been as awful and as wonderful as they were now, that the world was always on the edge of total destruction.
~ Michael Chabon
McCaleb classified these cops as avenging angels. It had been his experience that these cop/angels were the best investigators he ever worked with. He also came to believe that they traveled closest to that unseen edge beneath which lies the abyss.
~ Michael Connelly
He's sitting in the catbird seat.
~ Red Barber
The Pacific is about a foot and a half higher along its western edge—a consequence of the centrifugal force created by the Earth's spin.
~ Bill Bryson
Beauty walks a razors edge, someday I'll make it mine.
~ Bob Dylan