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Quotes About Edge

Space is already fully expanded without boundaries. To imagine otherwise is the same kind of thinking as the concept humans used to have that the world was flat and that if we reached the edge of the world, we would fall off.
~ Chris Prentiss
Her scent enveloped him, drove him wild. Temptation and sin were wrapped around this exotic creature and he was falling over the edge fast.
~ Christine Feehan
I think there was always some scrawny dreamer sitting at the edge of the firelight, who had the ability to imagine dangers, to look into the future in his imagination and see possibilities, and therefore survived to pass his genes on to the next generation.
~ Christopher Moore
There's a fine edge to new grief, it severs nerves, disconnects reality—there's mercy in a sharp blade. Only with time, as the edge wears, does the real ache begin.
~ Christopher Moore
There's a fine edge to new grief, it severs nerves, disconnects reality—there's mercy in a sharp blade. Only with time, as the edge wears, does the real ache begin. So
~ Christopher Moore
When others write about people who live on the edge, who challenge their comfortable lives—and it has happened to me—they usually do it in a way that allows a reader a way out. You could render generosity into pathology, commitment into obsession. That's all in the repertory of someone who wants to put the reader at ease rather than conveying the truth in a compelling manner.
~ Tracy Kidder
You feel you are creeping up over the edge of a precipice and that this cliff beckons you; worse, that you have a secret desire to fall over its edge into oblivion and that there is no way to stop that fall because you are the precipice.
~ Tsitsi Dangarembga
Your entire being can become a scream. At the edge of a hurled knife, that fast. Karou's did. She wasn't flesh and blood in that instant but only air rushing in to gather for a scream that might never end.
~ Laini Taylor
I slid over to the edge of the bed and leaned back, letting my hair fall onto him. "Ack!" he cried. "Don't scare me like that!
~ Catherine Clark
I always try to keep that feeling of being on the edge. I'm afraid of knowing too well and seeming mechanical.
~ Catherine Deneuve
There is nothing in back of this cafe. Since the place sits right on the margin between the edge of the world and infinite possibility, he back door opens out to a void. It takes courage to turn the knob and heart to leave the steps.
~ Gloria Naylor
The edge of autumn frosts with winter's chilled breath.
~ Terri Guillemets
We live along the shores of night, At the edge of the eternal sea.
~ Jack McDevitt
Seventeen consecutive years of irregular war, extended years of budget uncertainty, and an increasing complex security environment have eroded our competitive edge.
~ Mark Esper
I had grown up with music influence of my grandad, uncle, dad. So, professionally I first assisted others to do something different, to get an edge.
~ Amaal Mallik
We all have an edge. We all are floating our psyche on top with a great ocean underneath.
~ Brad Dourif
A compass calibrated by my greed is a rather shrewd way to legitimize my agenda. However, true north on a compass such as this is a straight line to the edge of a really big cliff.
~ Craig D. Lounsbrough
Knowledge is what you know, that gives you an edge overthe ordinary person.
~ Dele Ayo Bankole
It is at the edge of intelligence that wisdom awaits.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
I have me brave women who are exploring the outer edge of human possibility, with no history to guide them, and with a courage to make themselves vulnerable that I find moving beyond words.
~ Gloria Steinem
I like playing someone with a certain stability at the periphery of the madness.
~ Carrie Brownstein
The edge of inappropriate is the spiritual home of the best stand-up comedy.
~ Frank Skinner
Men saw the stars at the edge of the sea They thought great thoughts about liberty Poets wrote down words that did fit Writers wrote books Thinkers thought about it.
~ Van Morrison
I am the bridge between the bleeding edge and the dead center. I stand between the Wizard of Oz and the man behind the curtain. I am the curtain.
~ Peter Watts