Familiarity so dulls the edge of perception as to make us least acquainted with things forming part of our daily life. — Julia Ward Howe Copy Share Image
The best thing about living at the water's edge: You only have assholes on three sides of you, and if they come… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
The characters have desperation and it doesn't work out for everyone. Maybe it's not fair because I'm responding to the adaptations that… — Robert Sikoryak Copy Share Image
Life as we call it, is nothing but the edge of the boundless ocean of existence when it comes upon soundings. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The things that separate the planes are the incisions and the edges of the matter. Each separate layer of cutting or painting… — Ellen Gallagher Copy Share Image
I feel that I'm more of a speed player, being able to rush the edge with a lot of speed coming around… — Justin Cole Copy Share Image
The West may collapse very suddenly. Complex civilizations do that, because they operate, most of the time, on the edge of chaos. — Niall Ferguson Copy Share Image
Pushing the envelope' sort of implies that you're inside the envelope with everyone else, and you're trying to find the edges on… — Louis C. K Copy Share Image
Those who declared librarians obsolete when the Internet rage first appeared are now red-faced. We need them more than ever. The Internet… — Patricia Schroeder Copy Share Image
The California I knew, old rancho California, is gone. It just doesn't exist, except maybe in little pockets. I lived on the… — Sam Shepard Copy Share Image
Childhood is what ended me up in the hospital and teetering on the edge of deathly alcoholism. It was really good for… — Augusten Burroughs Copy Share Image
Women get the short shrift in history. It's been largely written and dictated by men, or at least men believe that we… — Colum McCann Copy Share Image
Time goes on, and your life is still there, and you have to live it. After a while you remember the good… — Lois Lowry Copy Share Image
We're left with so little to go on. Only the present is full enough to seem complete, and even that is an… — Ivan Vladislavic Copy Share Image
“A falcon hovers at the edge of the sky. Two gulls drift slowly up the river. Vulnerable while they ride the wind,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
You start in April and cross to the time of May One has you as it leaves, one as it comes Since… — Ovid Copy Share Image
You can't really judge an actor's abilities by their career, because the business is going to pigeonhole people into whatever turns a… — Nic Pizzolatto Copy Share Image
When I'm awake all night, sometimes I see the people and the city waking up around me. I feel a little bit… — Burial Copy Share Image
My father was a very good amateur pianist, and he had a collection of books on technique. One of the things he… — Marc-Andre Hamelin Copy Share Image
Yeah. I started using them [SDD-3000s] shortly after first working with Edge on The Unforgettable Fire. Basically, I stole his sound. It… — Daniel Lanois Copy Share Image
When we reveal ourselves to our partner and find that this brings healing rather than harm, we make an important discovery -… — John Welwood Copy Share Image
Pompeii, especially, with its grand murals and its flourishing gardens haunted by the dark shadow of Vesuvius, has always suggested uncomfortable parallels… — Eleanor Antin Copy Share Image
Well, we are Americans. I've always believed that you work with where you are - I am a Mormon woman who was… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
If I like hardcore straight-edge punk music, gentle psychedelic folk music, gangster rap, indie-rock with a lot of guitar pedals, and I… — Jeffrey Lewis Copy Share Image
The world, nature, human beings, do not move like machines. The edges are never clear-cut, but always frayed. Nature never draws a… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
“It is, after all, not the tasks people do but the things they do around the edges of them that reveal who… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
I have real admiration for chefs who can maintain an edge and find new inspiration in their cooking after many years. — Daniel Boulud Copy Share Image
Whenever there was a crisis, I found a man to help me take the edge off the feelings of helplessness and pain. — Susan Cheever Copy Share Image
By about the sixth romance I knew I wasn't in exactly the right place. I liked writing action. And I wanted to… — Janet Evanovich Copy Share Image
There was an edge of, 'Go away kid, you're bothering me'. I've kicked myself a million times since. I could've discovered Whitney… — Billy Joel Copy Share Image
Preconceptions and knowledge really only get you to the edge of where creativity begins. Then intuition and faith take over, hopefully. — Judith Schaechter Copy Share Image
Wise sayings are not only for ornament, but for action and business, having a point or edge, whereby knots in business are… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
Another good reducing exercise consists in placing both hands against the table edge and pushing back — Robert Quillen Copy Share Image
Success can make you go one of two ways. It can make you a prima donna - or it can smooth the… — Barbara Walters Copy Share Image
Better stop short than fill to the brim. Oversharpen the blade, and the edge will soon blunt. Amass a store of gold… — Laozi Copy Share Image
When I'm given an opportunity with music and goodness, then I want to do that [play that role]. I want to go… — Kelli O'Hara Copy Share Image
Ann Winder-Boyle's small-scale encaustic pictures always reward a second look - they have an intriguing edge of darkness about them. — Andrew Graham-Dixon Copy Share Image
A wise person does not fear the edges and fringes, but studies them. Indeed, he or she is often in them, working… — Laurie Beth Jones Copy Share Image
Only music has the ability to take you to the edge of reality and allow you to peek in for a moment. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
We're always attracted to the edges of what we are, out by the edges where it's a little raw and nervy. — E. L. Doctorow Copy Share Image