Edge Quotes

A sharp tongue is the only edge tool that grows keener with constant use. (Washington Irving)
Resolve to edge in a little reading every day, if it is but a single sentence. If you gain fifteen minutes a day, it will make itself felt at the end of the year. View quote
Horace Mann
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. View quote
James Thurber
Though familiarity may not breed contempt, it takes off the edge of admiration. View quote
William Hazlitt
A business of high principle attracts high-caliber people more easily, thereby gaining a basic competitive and profit edge. View quote
Marvin Bower
The sun was like a great visiting presence that stimulated and took its due from all animal energy. When it flung wide its cloak and stepped down over the edge of the fields at evening, it left behind it a spent and exhausted world. View quote
Willa Cather
All our words from loose using have lost their edge. View quote
Ernest Hemingway
Authority without wisdom is like a heavy ax without an edge -- fitter to bruise than polish. View quote
Anne Bradstreet
The technology at the leading edge changes so rapidly that you have to keep current after you get out of school. I think probably the most important thing is having good fundamentals. View quote
Gordon Moore
Only by living at the edge of death can you understand the indescribable joy of life. View quote
James Clavell
'Tis the sharpness of our mind that gives the edge to our pains and pleasures. (Michel de Montaigne)
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. View quote
Desmond Tutu
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. View quote
Kurt Vonnegut
I think it's more fun to play a hero with an edge. View quote
Shawn Ashmore
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. View quote
Hunter S. Thompson
Our interest's on the dangerous edge of things. The honest thief, the tender murderer, the superstitious atheist. View quote
Robert Browning
If you must speak ill of another, do not speak it, write it in the sand near the water's edge. View quote
Napoleon Hill
Life is a travelling to the edge of knowledge, then a leap taken. View quote
D. H. Lawrence
Only on the edge of the grave can man conclude anything. View quote
Henry Adams
The smile that flickers on baby's lips when he sleeps- does anybody know where it was borne Yes, there is a rumor that a young pale beam of a crescent moon touched the edge of a vanishing autumn cloud, and there the smile was first born . . . . View quote
Rabindranath Tagore
Misery is the only thing in the world that has no end or edge. (Irving Stone)
It's fun to be on the edge. I think you do your best work when you take chances, when you're not safe, when you're not in the middle of the road, at least for me, anyway. View quote
Danny DeVito
Cold and silence. Nothing quieter than snow. The sky screams to deliver it, a hundred banshees flying on the edge of the blizzard. But once the snow covers the ground, it hushes as still as my heart. View quote
Laurie Halse Anderson
I don't like playing standards. I like to do my own cutting edge work. View quote
Andy Summers
You should never feel comfortable. There is something wrong if you are. You should always feel under threat, on the edge of your seat and pushing yourself. Win one and you want to win more. It's never-ending. View quote
Damon Hill