(542 quotes found)
“The problem with the cutting edge is that someone has to bleed”
Zalman Stern
“A guy is walking along the edge of the Grand Canyon and he falls off. He's hurtling down hundreds of feet to certain death and he looks up and grabs this twig, and it breaks his fall. He heaves a sigh of relief, and then, all of a sudden, he sees the roots coming loose. He looks up to the sky and says, "God, why me? I'm a good person. I've taken care of my family. I've paid all my taxes, I've worked all my life. Why me?" And this thunderous voice says, "Son, there's just something about you that I don't like."”
Bill Clinton
“He nothing common did, or mean, / Upon that memorable scene, / But with his keener eye / The axe's edge did try.”
Andrew Marvell
“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.”
Hunter S. Thompson
“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).”
Cat Deeley
“Those who talk on the razor-edge of double-meanings pluck the rarest blooms from the precipice on either side.”
Logan Pearsall Smith
“Candor is always a double-edged sword; it may heal or it may separate.”
Wilhelm Stekel
“No, 'tis slander, Whose edge is sharper than the sword, whose tongue Outvenoms all the worms of Nile, whose breath Rides on the posting winds and doth belie All corners of the world; kings, queens, and states, Maids, matrons, nay, the secrets of the”
William Shakespeare
“I think they've just slightly had the edge over Sri Lanka and I think Sri Lanka probably rely on too few players and I think South Africa have got more depth.”
Ricky Ponting
“We're always attracted to the edges of what we are, out by the edges where it's a little raw and nervy.”
E. L. Doctorow
