My attitude on skis is different now. I have learned to put less pressure on myself and on the edges of my… — Hermann Maier Copy Share Image
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What does interest me is how difficult my culture seems to find it to look the dark side of life directly in… — Paul Kingsnorth Copy Share Image
Actually, social drug-taking went kind of low-key for a couple of years. Probably because of AIDS, people got very conscious of their… — Carrie Fisher Copy Share Image
My Irish mate told me, if you file down the edges of a 50 pence piece, you can use it as a 10p. — Frank Carson Copy Share Image
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Most of us stand poised at the edge of brilliance, haunted by the knowledge of our proximity, yet still demonstrably on the… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
The experience of a cosmos existing in precarious balance on the edge of emergence from nothing and returning to nothing must be… — Eric Voegelin Copy Share Image
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Sometimes it is not wise to make a second plan; it diminishes the power of the first plan! In risky paths, make… — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
To wake in the night: be wide awake in an instant, with all your faculties on edge: to wake, and be under… — Henry Handel Richardson Copy Share Image
I am passionate about keeping the human dimension in things. You have to keep the rough edges and the inconsistencies, that's what… — Jarvis Cocker Copy Share Image
Honest hope has an edge. It's messy. It requires that we let go of all pat answers, all preconceived formulas, all confidence… — Frances Moore Lappé Copy Share Image
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In his larger forms, Schubert is a wanderer. He likes to move at the edge of the precipice, and does so with… — Alfred Brendel Copy Share Image
The symmetry of form attainable in pure fiction can not so readily be achieved in a narration essentially having less to do… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
I think this fear of insanity is comparable to the fear people once had of falling off the edge of the world.… — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
It's the originality of Pauls Toutonghi's voice and vision that makes this such a remarkable novel. Toutonghi is a true daredevil of… — Skip Horack Copy Share Image
Old golfers don't win (it's not an absolute, it's a general rule). Why? The older golfer can hit the ball as far… — Paul Arden Copy Share Image
I'm a piano player. I never thought of myself as a singer, at all. I was always trying to sound like somebody… — Billy Joel Copy Share Image
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