Edge Quotes
1418 quotes by 1078 authors
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Fear of failure is what fuels me, keeps me on edge and sharp. I'm not as good when I'm comfortable.
— Alex Rodriguez
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Tell us what it is to be a woman so that we may know what it is to be a man. What moves at the…
— Toni Morrison
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Belief is reassuring. People who live in the world of belief feel safe. On the contrary, faith is forever placing us on the razor's edge.
— Jacques Ellul
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Important thing is not the me that's lying here, but the me that's sitting on the edge of the bed looking back at me, and…
— Ray Bradbury
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Wisdom can see the red, the rose, the stained and sculptured curve of grey, the charcoal scars of fire, and see around that living tower…
— Judith Wright
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America is addicted to oil...We must also change how we power our automobiles. We will increase our research in better batteries for hybrid and electric…
— George W. Bush
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Change itself is what fascinates me. I am drawn, as a moth to the flame, by edge situations, by situations of metamorphosis.
— Annie Proulx
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I like the poem on the page and not at the podium. I like to address the poem in peace and quiet, not on the…
— Ted Kooser
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Another good reducing exercise consists in placing both hands against the table edge and pushing back
— Robert Quillen
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The longer I write, the more important I believe it is to write the first draft as fast as possible. In drafting, I push myself…
— Donald Murray
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Good teaching is forever being on the cutting edge of a child's competence.
— Jerome Bruner
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Great photography is always on the edge of failure.
— Garry Winogrand
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The central act of photography, the act of choosing and eliminating, forces a concentration on the picture edge - the line that separates in from…
— John Szarkowski
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Every day I am aware of the flow and constant change; perhaps I am at the edge of discovering what more our bodies might be…
— Ruth Bernhard
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We're at the top of the cliff and we can either fall off the edge or keep climbing.
— Gary Neville
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The young child approaching a new subject or anew problem is like the scientist operating at the edge of his chosen field.
— Jerome Bruner
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The drinking of wine seems to me to have a moral edge over many pleasures and hobbies in that it promotes love of one's neighbor.
— Clifton Fadiman
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One function of the librarian, as he saw it, was to blunt the edge of these differences and to provide a means whereby the rich…
— Unknown Author
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I walk in the garden, I look at the flowers and shrubs and trees and discover in them an exquisiteness of contour, a vitality of…
— Bernard Berenson
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I've been thinking of death a lot, and I am amazed by its inevitability, frightened, as we all are, of the totally unknown, and yet…
— Jackson Pollock
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