Edges Quotations

We all have an edge. We all are floating our psyche on top with a great ocean underneath.

I have always been interested - indeed, waylaid - by the leading edges of technology, even during my Ph.D. years when I pioneered (but did not publish) agarose gel electrophoresis for RNA fractionation. Also, much later, I was instrumental in showing that Green Fluorescent Protein and RNAi could be made to work in mammalian cells.

In 1880 at the Military Hospital at Constantine, I discovered, on the edges of the pigmented spherical bodies in the blood of a patient suffering from malaria, filiform elements resembling flagellae which were moving very rapidly, displacing the neighbouring red cells.

You have to just dive over the edge. You haven't got time to mess about.

I don't like playing standards. I like to do my own cutting edge work.

I have earned wages as a waitress, a nanny, a librarian, a personnel officer, an agricultural laborer, an advertising secretary, a typesetter, a proofreader, a mental-health-care provider, a substitute teacher, and a book reviewer. In and around the edges of all those jobs I have written poems, stories, and books, books, books.

I'm constantly working on these edges of photography, either to employ so much information or reduce information to the point of collapse.

Truth uncompromisingly told will always have its ragged edges.

Living at that pitch, on that edge, is something which many poets engage in to some extent.

I started in junior high doing the splits and flips and that kind of stuff. It was kind of the acceptable thing to do. But I had two older brothers, so I was a tomboy. I was the cute tomboy who could put on the skirt but then go tackle you or something. I was a little rough around the edges for a pretty woman!

I love to play women who are strong and unapologizing and kind of rough around the edges and don't care what anybody thinks about that.

Do we value privacy in any real way? Thinking about blogs, Twitter, Facebook, MySpace... all these suggest we value exposure rather more. And instead of challenging this transformation, as they are supposed to - certainly at the more thoughtful edges of the art - novelists are buying into it wholesale.

I want to be the guy out there on the edge.

The leading edge in evidence presentation is in science; the leading edge in beauty is in high art.

Grain isn't structured like a screen door that you're looking through, but pixels are. Film-based grain is just all over the place, one frame totally different from the next. So your edges are coolly sharp and have a different feeling, an organic feeling rather than this mechanic feeling you get with digital.

In The States I would have no edge, no advantage at all.

Only on the edge of the grave can man conclude anything.

I like situations that push a character to the edge.

Though it sold very well, I hated The Edge.

I love plays that have musical moments. I'm not a big fan of musicals per se, but I love straight plays that have musical edges to them. I don't know if I will ever be able to structure a musical, but 'Finer Noble Gases' is as close as I've gotten.

My mother can certainly be rough around the edges at times, but she also taught me to have compassion for people who have been wronged. She taught me to empathize with those who have made mistakes.

You have to travel globally today to know what's going on and maintain an edge.

I'm living to the edges of my fingernails, using everything I have. It's impossible for me to look at things politically or in any way as a project, to further my career. You're injected directly into the blood of the places in which you're living and what's going on there.

Whenever you're aggressive, you're at the edge of mistakes.

People on the edge of love go with their heart and not their head.

Probably what pushed the Russians over the edge was SDI. They realized they couldn't beat us.

Well, the stuff that has become more commercial doesn't have any edge.

Of all the soul divas, Gladys Knight was the one for me. Knight's always been about tone and heart, none of the big showboating or extraneous doodling. She nailed a melody and only played a little around the edges like Ma Staple.

I've created a chaotic life, and then I get on edge because of it.

Party switching has all the emotional edges and baggage of divorce.

When we do acquisitions, we do it from the edges of the solutions. It's hard to buy half a heart.

We're hoping to consolidate (the fires) and certainly the perimeter edges of those fires before the temperatures peak back into the 40s later in the week.

We were basically on the edges of roads. When the wind starts kicking up again, any of those fires could get pushed on to roads and in to grass.

I suppose that the main drive is to find the edge of something and then throw myself over it.

It's not a competency if you don't know the edge of it.

Curiosity is thought on its entering edge.

Women were a little rough around the edges back then. They had to fend for themselves. They had to hunt and grow their own food. The men weren't always around.

I was right at the edge of their circle, like the tail of a Q...

There are some mature birds that have short beards from a lack of melanin that makes the beard weak and it will break. The best method is to wait and see the bird in full strut. If his fan (tail feathers) form an even-edged circle, then he's mature. If there are shorter feathers on the edges of the fan with taller feathers in the middle, then it's a jake.

Being on the edge isn't as safe, but the view is better

Pessimism operates in a narrowed field of vision that fails to take into account the possibilities at the outer edges of experience.

I guess I like them a bit rough around the edges - like you need to take them home and give them a good scrub (on men).

If in life you feel like a stone tossed about in stormy sea, remember that the rough and jagged edges of a stone are smoothed away by the rough waters. It was a small smooth stone that defeated a giant. When your edges are gone what will you be able to conquer with your life?

I find the tone somewhat more moderate and noted that there appears to be some talk of community-building, working with others, that wasn't there before. Its edges are somewhat rounded; it's not as strident. It bends over backward to stress America's need to work with others.

From those measures you could sort of say, well, the Bush plan kind of edges out the Gore plan at the tape.

Kayak polo's a good excuse to put on a skirt and play a sport. When you play in a white-water kayak, which is a closed cockpit boat, you wear a short, black waterproof skirt you stretch over the kayak's top edges to keep water from coming inside.

Kayak polo's a good excuse to put on a skirt and play a sport, ... When you play in a white-water kayak, which is a closed cockpit boat, you wear a short, black waterproof skirt you stretch over the kayak's top edges to keep water from coming inside.

It adds to the rivalry but it also brings it back to reality and softens some of the edges to it. Certainly this is an intense rivalry and when you have family involved it brings it back to a sportsmanlike level.

I thought we set an early tone with our play on defense. Highland has some inexperience up front and we were able to take advantage of some things. Overall, we were pretty pleased for an opening game. There's always going to be some rough edges that first time out.

Jeff has had some rough edges but has gotten his feet on the ground. There is not enough of a sample, though, to judge. Whatever happens we will need that defensive presence behind the plate.

Overall, Manhattan Associates establishes itself as the lead in ground transportation solutions. The vendor edges out the competition with a solid foundation in both planning and procurement, and unmatched carrier and fleet management offerings.

I thought Joey's (forced) fumble was huge. Joey's just an inspirational leader for us back there. He did a great job of setting the edges (Sunday).

I forced a smile. It was the one I'd been practicing all morning. It felt tight at the edges and brittle everywhere in between.

Microsoft will smooth over the rough edges there with lots of little offers like this.

We were nibbling at the edges at the time, trying to find a champion. We found a champion in (Wise). This is clearly a product of his work.

We played some terrible defense in the first half, and that really got us in a hole. We planned to play on the edges with our defense. It was designed for what they call their zone running plays, and we couldn't pull it off.

We must move commuter parking to the edges of campus.

We have a lot of rough edges still. Practice will make us better.

We are not seeing the big slowdown but we are seeing some weakness around the edges showing the medicine is starting to take effect, ... And I don't think it's just psychological.

To be sure, the Fair Tax is a big idea. However, I believe America was built on big ideas, and I was elected to Congress to fight for those big ideas, not nibble around the edges of a broken and destructive system. The FairTax would be a real stimulus for economic growth, and it wouldn't cost taxpayers a dime.

Dance on the edge of mystery.

We are kind of rough around the edges right now.

People Expect Something New From Me All The Time.And That's Good It Keeps Me On The Edge

I don't like my language watered down, I don't like my edges rounded off.

Money pads the edges of things.

Life, for people, begins to crumble on the edges; they don't realize it.

... we die, just as we were born, at the edge of a road not of our choosing.

If I was any more on edge, I'd be Bono...

The action most worth watching is not at the center of things, but where edges meet.

But the act, called the sexual act, is not for the depositing of seed. It is for leaping off into the unknown, as from a cliff's edge, like Sappho into the sea.

I'm always standing on the edge of something bad.

Absent the edge, we drown in numbness.

We were rough around the edges there, not where we need to be.

What we are seeing is an unraveling of the way we finance healthcare in the United States. It is coming apart at the edges, and those edges are small business and low-wage workers. The levees are breaking.

Both of these effects are due to warming. Because the atmosphere is warmer, it holds more moisture, so you get more snow. But because it's warmer, the edges of the ice are breaking up.

Blair - except at the edges - was a Thatcherite. Brown, in contrast, regarded Thatcherism as something that had to be taken on board while at the same time seeking to retain as much as possible of the Labour legacy, or 'Labour values,' as he would put it.

There's something cool, even on a philosophical level, about understanding the bigger picture and exploring faith, if you will, in a very real way. The more you delve into it and give into it, you just have to have faith. The more you invest in faith, wherever it takes you, some of those jagged edges become less sharp.

The top three auto sites are relatively competitive with each other in terms of the online customer experience and customer conversion. However, Edmunds.com edges out its leading competitors based on strong user perceptions of its site performance. Service levels always play a role in customer perceptions, but we see a particularly heavy influence in the auto sales and information industry.

The worst rows were adjacent to the traffic patterns, next to the tractor and combine wheels, which were rows four, five, eight and nine. The best yields were on the outside edges of both sides rows one and 12 in a north-south oriented field.

These are all people who are thinking way outside the box. Leonardo invented the box, and these people are really pushing the edges of it in everything they do.

These fences were older than sin, and us. Safety levels have gone up 1,000 percent. The fences had jagged, sharp edges and the kids were often cut. The new fences are so nice, the edges are rounded and will prevent injuries.

I wanted the algorithm to make all the features important to radiologists degrade at the same rate - both the edges of large tumors and the smallest calcium deposits. I tried several approaches and eventually got a balance that seemed reasonable, based on what radiologists tell me they want.

Once you've finished typing and moving text around and everything else, you have to leave it alone for a while. You do that to see if it stands up, to see if all the loose edges have been trimmed, if it makes sense, if it's consistent, what shape it really has. You can't tell that while you're working on it.

Decision is a sharp knife that cuts or to do anything, never to turn back or to stop until the thing intended was clean and straight; indecision, a dull one that hacks and tears and leaves ragged edges behind it.

Australia's economy is increasingly showing some soft edges and inflation is tame. The risks of another rate increase are becoming much less pressing.

You need to nibble around the edges with these guys and we did make quality pitches when we had to, with runners on base.

There were a half-dozen Scottish and English theater groups who were not invited but decided to go anyway, and camped around the edges of the festival, ... A reporter saw some of the shows and said in a review that there were interesting things happening on the fringes of the festival; hence the term 'Fringe.'

It's a significant change in the structure of their offensive line and the philosophy to create wider edges for the ends, so they can't rush the quarterback. They make it almost impossible. And they're throwing the ball quicker this year.

It's two edges of the same coin; you see when you are obsessed with weight, getting fat is the other side of getting skinny,

For fixtures, rounded edges and brushed finishes continue to rule the day.

It's the one thing we can actually do something about. Obey the laws. If you're going to run fast, stay in the middle of the channel because the manatees spend more time on the edges where the grass is.

It?s like trying to survey elk by only looking at the edges of where they like to live. We?re stuck. We?re making decisions based on suspect information.

The ocean is the vehicle by which this heat is getting to the edges of the ice sheets, so if you increase the rate at which you're putting heat into the ocean, then it would further accelerate the melting.

That's significant. We're not just tweaking around the edges here. This is a pretty big deal.

The biggest single step that the president could take to cut our oil addiction, curb global warming and save consumers money at the gas pump is raising (fuel economy) standards substantially, and that's not what they're doing. They are tinkering around the edges rather than using the most powerful tool they've got.

The Bank of Japan is fiddling at the edges with existing policy, but this isn't a quantitative easing, ... a fairly significant set of steps.

Sweet beast, I have gone prowling, a proud rejected man who lived along the edges catch as catch can; in darkness and in hedges I sang my sour tone and all my love was howling conspicuously alone.

It's an early indicator that new technologies and new routes to market for standards-based technology can begin to crimp at the edges of brand-name vendors, ... If vendors aren't attentive to these things and don't have a mature story to tell their customers about open source in general, this could be very problematic for them.

It was not... that she was unaware of the frayed and ragged edges of life. She would merely iron them out with a firm hand and neatly hem them down.

The two planes were on the outer edges of getting closer than our separation standards allow, but this has not been determined yet.