Fringe Quotes · Page 10

Have you never, when waves were breaking, watched children at sport on the beach, With their little feet tempting the foam-fringe, till…

— Alfred Austin

I've gotten death threats, yes. I have. I think anytime you shine a spotlight on homosexuality or minorities and you try and…

— Ryan Murphy

Writers are the lunatic fringe of publishing.

— Judith Rossner

Because we humans are big and clever enough to produce and utilize antibiotics and disinfectants, it is easy to convince ourselves that…

— Bill Bryson

I'm more than ever of the opinion that a decent human existence is possible today only on the fringes of society, where…

— Hannah Arendt

Any useful logic must concern itself with Ideas with a fringe of vagueness and a Truth that is a matter of degree.

— Norbert Wiener

Why has America's fringe left been making common cause with the Taliban, whose views on such matters as women's rights and separation…

— James Taranto

For centuries, as pope and emperor tore each other apart in their quarrels over power, the excluded went on living on the…

— Umberto Eco

I was always prepared for my 'Fringe' journey to end immediately. I had only signed up for a guest role but they…

— Seth Gabel

My real self, the self I have always been from a child, is a loner and nerd, slightly overweight, with a very…

— Hayley Atwell

I'm drawn to the stuff that's maybe a little bit on the fringe. Part of that is just practical sometimes. We can't…

— David Byrne

Nearly half of the American population is eagerly anticipating the end of the world. This dewy-eyed nihilism provides absolutely no incentive to…

— Sam Harris

There is apt to be a lunatic fringe among the votaries of any forward movement.

— Theodore Roosevelt

The woods are never solitary– they are full of whispering, beckoning, friendly life. But the sea is a mighty soul, forever moaning…

— Anonymous

Anti-Muslim protests represent a fringe of our society that's seeking to promote hatred and division.

— Tim Soutphommasane

The book [ One Thousand Gifts] took just over a year to write, on the fringe hours, early and late, around home…

— Ann Voskamp

And, indeed, is there not something holy about a great kitchen?... The scoured gleam of row upon row of metal vessels dangling…

— Angela Carter

In God’s economy, vision should move from the fringes to the middle.

— Dave Gibbons

Among the myrtles the mantids moved, lightly, carefully, swaying slightly, the quintessence of evil. They were lank and green, with chinless faces…

— Gerald Durrell

Do not the Rays which differ in Refrangibility differ also in Flexibity; and are they not by their different Inflexions separated from…

— Isaac Newton

Every time you get the chance to work with somebody you admire and would like to collaborate with... it feels like the…

— Andrea Riseborough

There are some fringe factions of the alt-right that have demonstrated genuinely racist, anti-Semitic, and prejudiced leanings. They clearly don't want a…

— Milo Yiannopoulos

And their pals vote for their stuff when they're not on the panel, and it just keeps going that way. And they…

— Charlton Heston

If you think back to the fight over drones, when I was proud to be standing shoulder to shoulder with Rand Paul…

— Ted Cruz

In this particular tub, two knees jut up like icebergs, while minute brown hairs rise on arms and legs in a fringe…

— Sylvia Plath