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Let your life lightly dance on the edges of Time like dew on the tip of a leaf.
Rabindranath Tagore
Inspirational
Life
Time
Dance
Lightly
Leaf
Like
Edges
Dew
Tip
Your
A great empire, like a great cake, is most easily diminished at the edges.
Benjamin Franklin
Great
Cake
Diminished
Easily
Empire
Like
Most
Edges
The beauty of the world, which is so soon to perish, has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder.
Virginia Woolf
Heart
World
Laughter
Beauty
Asunder
Anguish
Soon
Perish
Edges
Which
Cutting
Two
When I'm not working, I want to be the version of the person that I was born to be. I was born with curly hair. It fits my personality, and it's totally who I am. I am rough around the edges, and I am not a polished girl.
Erin Wasson
Personality
Girl
Hair
Born
Totally
Edges
Around
Polished
Am
Version
Fits
Person
Curly
Want
Working
Who
Rough
I'm just interested in people on the edges. I feel an affinity for people who haven't had the best breaks in society. I'm always on their side. I find them more human, maybe. What I want to do more than anything is acknowledge their existence.
Mary Ellen Mark
Best
People
Society
Side
Find
More
More Than Anything
Had
Feel
Edges
Always
Existence
Affinity
Than
Human
Maybe
Just
Want
Anything
Acknowledge
Interested
Breaks
Them
Who
A hangboard is a little piece of wood with edges, holes, and slopes. There's different strategies for different things - hanging, varying grips, adding weight. If I do a hard finger workout, I'm definitely sore.
Alex Honnold
Adding
Definitely
Finger
Weight
Piece
Sore
Edges
Hanging
Wood
Different
Holes
Little
Grips
Little Piece
Hard
Workout
Strategies
Different Things
Things
Success can make you go one of two ways. It can make you a prima donna - or it can smooth the edges, take away the insecurities, let the nice things come out.
Barbara Walters
Success
You
Nice
Ways
Out
Insecurities
Take
Prima
Come
Make
Edges
Smooth
Go
Nice Things
Away
Things
Two
Photography is about finding out what can happen in the frame. When you put four edges around some facts, you change those facts.
Garry Winogrand
You
Change
Photography
Frame
Those
Out
Finding
Some
About
Facts
Put
Edges
Around
Happen
Four
Flying into a storm, even its outer edges, did not seem like a good idea to me. And this was no ordinary tempest. Everyone on the bridge knew what it was: the Devil's Fist, a near-eternal typhoon that migrated about the North Indian basin year-round. She was infamous, and earned her name by striking airships out of the sky.
Kenneth Oppel
Good
Me
Sky
Devil
Earned
Everyone
Striking
Flying
Out
Indian
Outer
Tempest
About
Seem
Knew
Idea
Name
Like
She
Edges
Year-Round
Infamous
Fist
North
Did
Storm
Ordinary
Bridge
Even
Her
Good Idea
The worlds I paint leave a lot to engage the imagination by hinting at what lies beyond the four edges of the painting. I think getting beyond the four edges of an opportunity or challenge is one of the basic skills you need in business.
Thomas Kinkade
You
Business
Opportunity
Challenge
Painting
Think
Imagination
Worlds
Lies
Beyond
Edges
Leave
Lot
Getting
Engage
Skills
Paint
Basic
Four
Need
Gratefulness is a double-edged sword. Because I think we've poured it into a feeling. And the batter of gratitude gets kind of stuck to the edges of the Williams Sonoma melamine mixing bowl. But gratefulness, the act of being grateful is actually... a verb. It's an activity.
Abigail Spencer
Gratitude
Grateful
Feeling
Think
Batter
Williams
Kind
Stuck
Poured
Bowl
Edges
Because
Verb
Mixing
Gets
Being
Double-Edged
Double-Edged Sword
Act
Activity
Sword
Actually
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.
Adam Rapp
Love
Will
Big
Musical
Musicals
Able
Finer
Per
Structure
Noble
Know
Edges
Gotten
Big Fan
Close
Fan
Straight
Them
Moments
Ever
Gases
Plays
I didn't go into journalism thinking it would solidify my identity. I did it because I needed to make a living, and I was proficient in writing. But in becoming a journalist, I learned about other people who felt like they were on the edges of American mainstream life.
Alex Tizon
Life
People
Writing
Journalist
Living
Thinking
Other
Would
About
Mainstream
Journalism
Like
Identity
Make
Edges
Learned
Because
Felt
Becoming
Go
Were
American
Did
Who
Proficient
Needed
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.
Alison Moyet
Me
Soul
Heart
Big
Ma
Melody
About
Only
Knight
Nailed
Like
She
Edges
Around
None
Always
Been
Little
Staple
Played
Tone
Political correctness may make for smooth edges, but it does little for the imagination and nothing for the arts. Writers work best when they are exploring at the outer limits of what is traditional, acceptable, or conventional.
Amanda Foreman
Work
Best
Political
Nothing
Imagination
Correctness
Outer
Writers
Make
Edges
Acceptable
Does
Smooth
Limits
Traditional
Political Correctness
May
Arts
Conventional
Little
Exploring
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.
Anthony Rapp
Grief
Culture
People
Sadness
Think
Our
Out
Part
Come
Most
Also
Edges
Certainly
Large
Large Part
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.
Arundhati Roy
Me
You
Impossible
Living
Everything
Project
Way
Further
Fingernails
Directly
Look
Edges
Blood
Any
Going
Politically
Which
Places
Using
Things
Career
Those edges and turns teach control and discipline, just like finger exercises on the piano.
Barbara Ann Scott
Discipline
Control
Those
Finger
Piano
Like
Edges
Exercises
Just
Turns
Teach
The foundations of modern civil-rights law are exceptionally secure. Conservative judges nibble around the edges sometimes, and people still debate the constitutionality of affirmative-action programs. But almost no one seriously argues about the basic meaning or legitimacy of core civil-rights protections.
Benjamin Wittes
People
Conservative
Law
Sometimes
Debate
Seriously
Programs
Secure
About
Exceptionally
No-One
Almost
Edges
Judges
Around
Still
Modern
Legitimacy
Meaning
Foundations
Basic
Core
People from small towns have to have their edges roughed up to get along in the world. But as a street reporter, you learn quickly.
Bill Kurtis
You
People
World
Small
Small Towns
Along
Towns
Learn
Edges
Up
Quickly
Get
Reporter
Street
There is absolutely no one, apart from yourself, who can prevent you, in the middle of the night, from sneaking down to tidy up the edges of that hunk of cheese at the back of the fridge.
Boris Johnson
You
Yourself
Cheese
Down
Back
Hunk
Prevent
Absolutely
No-One
Tidy
Edges
Fridge
Up
Sneaking
Middle
Apart
Who
Night
Personally, I'm incredibly lucky to represent the 10th district of Illinois, which stretches from the edges of Cook county all the way north along Lake Michigan to the borders of Wisconsin. From the lake all the way west to Fox Lake. It's an incredible district.
Brad Schneider
Incredible
Incredibly
Way
Borders
District
Wisconsin
Along
County
Edges
West
North
Michigan
Represent
Lake
Which
Personally
Cook
Illinois
Lucky
Fox
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.
Brian Eno
Work
Music
Musical
Define
Well
Edges
Territory
Context
Sounds
Any
Much
Certain
Spatial
Function
Found
Nearly
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.
Corbin Bernsen
Faith
You
Will
Picture
Become
Understanding
Philosophical
Way
Those
Some
About
Give
Something
More
Invest
Takes
Sharp
Edges
Real
Very
Jagged
Just
Bigger
Bigger Picture
Wherever
Exploring
Less
Cool
Even
Level
Cinderella is a little edgy and a little rough around the edges.
Dania Ramirez
Cinderella
Edges
Edgy
Around
Little
Rough
Don't necessarily avoid sharp edges. Occasionally they are necessary to leadership.
Donald Rumsfeld
Leadership
Sharp
Occasionally
Edges
Avoid
Necessarily
Necessary
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