Edges Quotes
Pushing the envelope' sort of implies that you're inside the envelope with everyone else, and you're trying to find the edges on the outsides.
By placing intelligence at the edges rather than control in the middle of the network, the Internet has created a platform for innovation.
The beauty and charm of the wilderness are his for the asking, for the edges of the wilderness lie close beside the beaten roads of the present travel.
It is easy to be liked when the world has no jagged edges, when life is electric blankets and peach ice cream. But to be beloved, a man needs a dragon.
A wise person does not fear the edges and fringes, but studies them. Indeed, he or she is often in them, working to make change happen.
We're always attracted to the edges of what we are, out by the edges where it's a little raw and nervy.
You have to keep on the very edge of something, all the time, or the picture dies.
Dead fields under a November sky, scattered rose petals brown and turning up at the edges, empty pools scummed with algae, rot, decomposition, dust.
Spring seems far off, impossible, but it is coming. Already there is dusk instead of darkness at five in the afternoon; already hope is stirring at the edges of the day.
I'll tell you, my friends: it's all in the nerves. The nerves that tense and relax as you approach the edges of companionship and love. The razor-sharp edges of companionship and love.
People Expect Something New From Me All The Time.And That's Good It Keeps Me On The Edge
I worry that, especially as the Millennium edges nearer, pseudo-science and superstition will seem year by year more tempting, the siren song of unreason more sonorous and attractive.
We believe that we invent symbols. The truth is that they invent us; we are their creatures, shaped by their hard, defining edges.
We took special pride in the fact that climbing rocks and icefalls had no economic value in society...We were like a wild species living in the edges of an ecosystem - adaptable, resilient and tough.
The present has its élan because it is always on the edge of the unknown and one misunderstands the past unless one remembers that this unknown was once part of its nature.
Leadership is making happen what wouldn't happen anyway and this always entails working at the edge of what is acceptable
Writers sometimes give up what is most strange and wonderful about their writing - soften their roughest edges - to accommodate themselves toward a group response.
You should draw not what the thing looks like, not even what it is, but what it is doing... Gesture has no precise edges, no forms. The forms are in the act of changing. Gesture is movement in space.
I don't just look at the thing itself or at the reality itself; I look around the edges for those little askew moments-kind of like what makes up our lives-those slightly awkward, lovely moments.
Familiarity so dulls the edge of perception as to make us least acquainted with things forming part of our daily life.
She is a loner, too bright for the slutty girls and too savage for the bright girls, haunting the edges and corners of the school like a sullen disillusioned ghost
Look, how they scold me for all my loving and tippling, now that the silvery edges shine forth from my brow!
At its edges, a painting makes its surrender to reality. The ways in which it can do so are endlessly revealing, as infinite as the potential forms of painting itself.
It isn't fair that there's pressure exerted on those who choose to live on the edges of the bell-shaped curve of normal.
Who wants a bag of bones?” he said, with absolute sincerity. “I don’t want to hurt myself on the sharp edges of the woman I’m bedding.
There are certain sounds that I've found work well in nearly any context. Their function is not so much musical as spatial: they define the edges of the territory of the music.
The things that separate the planes are the incisions and the edges of the matter. Each separate layer of cutting or painting is visible and readable as an edge.
When shucked and released from its edges, the windowless subject stands alone as its own thing.
And that's an even greater love: to love somebody when he's a little...worn at the edges. —Teddy Bear
In our culture I think most people think of grief as sadness, and that's certainly part of it, a large part of it, but there's also this thorniness, these edges that come out.
Those edges and turns teach control and discipline, just like finger exercises on the piano.
