Quotes having the keyword Edge
The Edge... there is no honest way to explain it because the only people who really know where it is are the ones who have gone over.
by Hunter S. Thompson (Journalist, American , born in 1937) keywords: because, edge, explain, gone, honest, know, ones, only, over, really, way , where Comedy has to be done en clair. You can't blunt the edge of wit or the point of satire with obscurity. Try to imagine a famous witty saying that is not immediately clear.
by James Thurber (Comedian, American , born in 1894) keywords: blunt, clear, comedy, done, edge, en, famous, imagine, immediately, obscurity, point, satire, saying, try, wit , witty Finnish companies tend to be very traditional, not taking many risks. Silicon Valley is completely different: people here really live on the edge.
by Linus Torvalds (Businessman, Finnish , born in 1969) keywords: companies, completely, different, edge, finnish, here, live, many, really, risks, silicon, taking, tend, traditional, valley , very I've experienced huge kindness here, a great welcome and some very generous reviews without the snide social edge I often suffer from at home. I'm not patronized here either, which I much appreciate!
by Joanna Trollope (Novelist, English , born in 1943) keywords: appreciate, edge, either, experienced, generous, great, here, home, huge, kindness, much, often, reviews, social, some, suffer, very, welcome, which , without When a pile of cups is tottering on the edge of the table and you warn that they will crash to the ground, in South Africa you are blamed when that happens.
by Desmond Tutu (Leader, South African , born in 1931) keywords: africa, blamed, crash, cups, edge, ground, happens, pile, south, table, warn , will I argue in this paper that we are on the edge of change comparable to the rise of human life on Earth.
by Vernor Vinge (Writer, American , born in 1944) keywords: argue, change, comparable, earth, edge, human, life, paper , rise I want to stand as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all the kinds of things you can't see from the center.
by Kurt Vonnegut (Author, American , born in 1922) keywords: center, close, edge, going, kinds, out, over, see, stand, things, want , without The winner's edge is not in a gifted birth, a high IQ, or in talent. The winner's edge is all in the attitude, not aptitude. Attitude is the criterion for success.
by Denis Waitley (Writer , American) keywords: aptitude, attitude, birth, criterion, edge, gifted, high, iq, success, talent , winner There's a certain edge about cruelty. If you're honest about it, most people wince, but say it had to be said.
by Pete Waterman (Producer, English , born in 1947) keywords: certain, cruelty, edge, had, honest, most, said, say , wince Twenty years ago, I was living in a lovely cottage on the edge of Dartmoor but I couldn't afford to run a car.
by Mary Wesley (Novelist, British , born in 1912) keywords: afford, ago, car, cottage, edge, living, lovely, run, twenty , years The enormous lake stretched flat and smooth and white all the way to the edge of the gray sky. Wagon tracks went away across it, so far that you could not see where they went; they ended in nothing at all.
by Laura Ingalls Wilder (Author, American , born in 1867) keywords: across, away, could, edge, ended, enormous, far, flat, gray, lake, nothing, see, sky, smooth, stretched, tracks, wagon, way, went, where , white The enormous lake stretched flat and smooth and white all the way to the edge of the gray sky. Wagon tracks went away across it, so far that you could not see where they went; they ended in nothing at all.
by Laura Ingalls Wilder (Author, American , born in 1867) keywords: across, away, could, edge, ended, enormous, far, flat, gray, lake, nothing, see, sky, smooth, stretched, tracks, wagon, way, went, where , white I love all of Albert Brooks' work from Defending Your Life back to his first film, Real Life, but am sorry that he seems to have lost his edge in his more recent work.
by Douglas Wood (Celebrity, Australian , born in 1942) keywords: albert, am, back, brooks, defending, edge, film, first, his, life, lost, love, more, real, recent, seems, sorry, work , your The existing principle of selfish interest and competition has been carried to its extreme point; and, in its progress, has isolated the heart of man, blunted the edge of his finest sensibilities, and annihilated all his most generous impulses and sympathies.
by Francis Wright (Activist, Scottish , born in 1795) keywords: annihilated, been, blunted, carried, competition, edge, existing, extreme, finest, generous, heart, his, impulses, interest, isolated, man, most, point, principle, progress, selfish, sensibilities , sympathies It was like fighting with the MPAA... to me it was like this is an R easy... but it was NC 17 over and over and even with this cut they were like, you are right on the edge buddy, one more thing and it's NC-17.
by Rob Zombie (Musician, American , born in 1966) keywords: buddy, cut, easy, edge, even, fighting, more, over, right, thing , were
