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  • I'm the light skinned version of Mandingo, I've seen more Beatles and Jagged Edges than Ringo. -- Ludacris
  • My life is not packaged, Not tidy. There are leftover strands and jagged Edges that cut even my friends. -- Walter Dean Myers
  • Truth uncompromisingly told will always have its ragged edges. -- Herman Melville
  • Don't necessarily avoid sharp edges. Occasionally they are necessary to leadership. -- Donald Rumsfeld
  • Nostalgia is a file that removes the rough edges from the good old days. -- Doug Larson
  • A great empire, like a great cake, is most easily diminished at the edges. -- Benjamin Franklin
  • Analysis is like a lobotomy. Who wants to have all their edges shaved off? -- David Byrne
  • Let your life lightly dance on the edges of Time like dew on the tip of a leaf. -- Rabindranath Tagore
  • Usually my ideas for work have revolved around my interest in people, especially people that live on the edges of society. -- Mary Ellen Mark
  • 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
  • No matter how much you think you love somebody, you'll step back when the pool of their blood edges up too close. -- Chuck Palahniuk
  • It's hard to get out of the barrel. It's slippery around the edges and people are happy to see you fall back in. -- Robert Downey, Jr.
  • 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
  • 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
  • Pushing the envelope' sort of implies that you're inside the envelope with everyone else, and you're trying to find the edges on the outsides. -- Louis C. K.
  • 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. -- Carrie-Anne Moss
  • Writers sometimes give up what is most strange and wonderful about their writing - soften their roughest edges - to accommodate themselves toward a group response. -- Mary Oliver
  • 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
  • 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
  • I am passionate about keeping the human dimension in things. You have to keep the rough edges and the inconsistencies, that's what makes it interesting. I've always striven to be as sloppy as possible. -- Jarvis Cocker
  • 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
  • I love films where you go into the cinema and loosen the edges of yourself and you hopefully enter into the world of the film. You're watching something unfold before you. I prefer the idea of wonder or intense wonder over shock or something. -- Julia Leigh
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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. -- Guy Gavriel Kay
  • Like a lot of you, I grew up in a family on the ragged edges of the middle class. My daddy sold carpeting and ended up as a maintenance man. After he had a heart attack, my mom worked the phones at Sears so we could hang on to our house. -- Elizabeth Warren
  • I am convinced that a good building must be capable of absorbing the traces of human life and taking on a specific richness... I think of the patina of age on materials, of innumerable small scratches on surfaces, of varnish that has grown dull and brittle, and of edges polished by use. -- Peter Zumthor
  • 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! -- Vivica A. Fox
  • Money pads the edges of things. -- E. M. Forster
  • cutting edges are always a little rough ... -- Rosalie Maggio
  • Love softens the hardest edges of life's tumult. -- Bryant H. McGill
  • Our assumptions are the edges of our worlds. -- Terence McKenna
  • A photograph has edges the world does not. -- Stephen Shore
  • Life wears down the edges of the mind. -- Howard Thurman
  • There are no edges to my loving now. -- Rumi
  • It's utterly beautiful not to know my own edges. -- Jenny Downham
  • Sutures of lightning tightened the edges of the sky. -- T. J. MacGregor
  • A thankful outlook smoothes the rough edges off life. -- Deborah Norville
  • If you round out your edges, you lose your edge. -- Danielle LaPorte
  • The world seemed to shimmer a little at the edges. -- Neil Gaiman
  • I like rough edges. That's what makes a person real. -- Cinda Williams Chima
  • Bloom to the fullest along the cutting edges of life. -- Angelica Hopes
  • The basis of self-discipline: Don't allow the edges to blur. -- Michael Johnson
  • People and things have edges, but where does a landscape stop? -- Myfanwy Pavelic
  • Party switching has all the emotional edges and baggage of divorce. -- Mark McKinnon
  • Love your curves and all your edges All your perfect imperfections -- John Legend
  • I'm still rough around the edges and need a lot of polishing. -- Tyson Chandler
  • We were too rough at the edges to be a pop group. -- Roger Daltrey
  • Memories do not always soften with time; some grow edges like knives. -- Barbara Kingsolver
  • Paranormal events are just edges of the infinite we 'happen' to encounter. -- C. Douglas Dillon
  • No trauma has discrete edges. Trauma bleeds. Out of wounds and across boundaries. -- Leslie Jamison
  • I am rough around the edges, and I am not a polished girl. -- Erin Wasson
  • Spring, / you are a pinking shears: you cut / fresh edges on the world. -- Erica Jong
  • Life, for people, begins to crumble on the edges; they don't realize it. -- Dorothea Lange
  • What can it be about low temperatures that sharpens the edges of objects? -- Ian Mcewan
  • Napa cabbage is very beautiful, all those long, pale leaves with ruffled edges. -- Nobu Matsuhisa
  • Music relates sound and time and so pictures the ultimate edges of human commmunications. -- Iris Murdoch
  • Sometimes, God uses difficult people, like sandpaper, to rub the rough edges off us. -- Joel Osteen
  • After the two drinks, she felt warm inside, and slightly indistinct at the edges. -- Rachel Joyce
  • It's fun to be at the edges, and tough to be squeezed in between. -- Bart Decrem
  • I don't like my language watered down, I don't like my edges rounded off. -- Ani DiFranco
  • Love is such a vast sea, it has neither edges nor ends nor corners. -- Rumi
  • Every blade has two edges; he who wounds with one wounds himself with the other. -- Victor Hugo
  • Fatigue roughens up the edges of your nerves; it exposes your fears and your weaknesses. -- June Havoc
  • Those edges and turns teach control and discipline, just like finger exercises on the piano. -- Barbara Ann Scott
  • I like playing misfits, I like playing oddballs, I like playing characters with rough edges. -- Rainn Wilson
  • The way to happiness is a high-speed road to those who know where the edges are. -- L. Ron Hubbard
  • Compromise is like the middle of the road; always safer to walk on than the edges. -- Dwight D. Eisenhower
  • All my novels are about the ambiguities that lie beneath the sharp edges of the law. -- Scott Turow
  • The action most worth watching is not at the center of things, but where edges meet. -- Anne Fadiman
  • Open the book. (The gilt rubs off the edges of the pages and pollinates the fingertips.) -- Elizabeth Bishop
  • I like to make definite choices and give my characters as many unique edges as possible. -- Keegan Connor Tracy
  • When shucked and released from its edges, the windowless subject stands alone as its own thing. -- Robert Genn
  • Disappointment forever lurked just beyond the edges of her joy, ready to spring like a ravenous cougar. -- Kathleen Rice Adams
  • I like Alexander McQueen's work a lot: he's always pushing boundaries, and he's rough around the edges. -- Sam Taylor-Wood
  • Knicks and dull edges are abominations, so use knives and hatchets for nothing but they were made for. -- Horace Kephart
  • The framework of men's wear is so narrow, that when you play at the edges you get labeled. -- Hedi Slimane
  • the 'total overpaintings' developed... through incessant reworking. The original motif peeped through the edges. Gradually it vanished completely. -- Arnulf Rainer
  • Learning the edges or limits or sources of friction in empathy was one of the big issues for me. -- Leslie Jamison
  • Selfliss giving rounds the edges in spiritual practice. Many people can meditate very well but they're still very egotistical. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
  • I believe with all my heart that the Church of Jesus Christ should be a Church of blurred edges. -- George Carey
  • Selfliss giving rounds the edges in spiritual practice. Many people can meditate very well but they're still very egotistical. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
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  • When you go through difficult times...recognize that God is refining you, knocking off some of your rough edges. -- Joel Osteen
  • Then he looked back to me, and smiled. It was a terrible expression, filled with edges, and with knives. -- Seanan McGuire
  • If she was broken, she would slash him with her jagged edges, reckless as a drunkard with a shattered bottle. -- Diana Gabaldon
  • I think I always have been someone who likes to push at the edges of things, looking for something different. -- Gary Burton
  • The world was not wheeling anymore. It was just very clear and bright and inclined to blur at the edges. -- Ernest Hemingway
  • All we are is eyes looking for the unbroken or the edges where the broken bits might fit each other. -- Ali Smith
  • Fascist political gatherings tend to encourage or at least expect a little violence around the edges, particularly against counter protesters. -- Rachel Maddow
  • A sunny temper [an attitude of gratitude for what blessings and mercies there are] gilds the edges of life's blackest cloud. -- Thomas Guthrie
  • And below the heimongmong, all along the ground, were weeds already spilling out over the edges, running wild in every direction. -- Amy Tan
  • Carrie doesn't seem to talk about anything with sharp edges. Maybe she's afraid they might poke her and then she'd burst. -- Lisa McMann
  • When we wake, it is because something, some event, some pinprick even, disturbs the edges of what we've taken as reality. -- Jeff Vandermeer
  • Human relationships are the perfect tool for sanding away our rough edges and getting at the core of divinity within us. -- Eknath Easwaran
  • The city glitters past us with its sharp edges, reminding us of how tiny, how weak, how totally unimportant we are. -- Joe Meno
  • It turned out that time doesn't heal the wound , but in its so merciful way , blunts the edges ever so slightly -- Al Pacino
  • The farther you go...the harder it is to return. The world has many edges and it's easy to fall off. -- Anderson Cooper
  • Later our dreams begin catching fire around the edges, they burn like paper, we wake with our hands full of ash. -- Naomi Shihab Nye
  • Look, how they scold me for all my loving and tippling, now that the silvery edges shine forth from my brow! -- Abu Yahya al-Libi
  • I grew into it. It grew into me. It and I blurred at the edges, became one amorphous, seeping, crawling thing. -- Marya Hornbacher
  • Though I play at the edges of knowing, truly I know our part is not knowing, but looking, and touching, and loving -- Mary Oliver
  • My Irish mate told me, if you file down the edges of a 50 pence piece, you can use it as a 10p. -- Frank Carson
  • God is not a God of the edges, with a vested interest in beginnings. God is the God of the whole show. -- John Polkinghorne
  • ... we see the poor as a mass of shadow, painted in one flat grey wash, at the remote edges of our sunshine. -- Albion Fellows Bacon
  • Messi. 86 goals in calendar year and still 3 games to play! Best to ever play the game in my opinion just edges Maradona. -- Joey Barton
  • I like being a woman, but I'm a little rough around the edges. I've been bungee jumping twice, but I was scared. -- Edy Ganem
  • There is a transformation, you see, when you just put four edges around it. That changes it. A new world is created. -- Garry Winogrand
  • It isn't fair that there's pressure exerted on those who choose to live on the edges of the bell-shaped curve of normal. -- Laurel Lea
  • Poetry and painting continue to be companions: they cast their shadow and light, their silences and tones, at the edges of each other. -- Pierre Coupey
  • We live in a time like dreaming.... The edges of our lives flutter and change as we watch them. Listen to the dream. -- Sheri S. Tepper
  • We believe that we invent symbols. The truth is that they invent us; we are their creatures, shaped by their hard, defining edges. -- Gene Wolfe
  • The secret of grace is that it can be all right at the center even when it is all wrong on the edges. -- Lewis B. Smedes
  • We believe that we invent symbols. The truth is that they invent us; we are their creatures, shaped by their hard defining edges. -- Gene Wolfe
  • By placing intelligence at the edges rather than control in the middle of the network, the Internet has created a platform for innovation. -- Vinton Cerf
  • The worlds I paint leave a lot to engage the imagination by hinting at what lies beyond the four edges of the painting. -- Thomas Kinkade
  • The most interesting parts of the natural world are the edges, places where ocean meets land, meadow meets forest, timberline touches the heights. -- Galen Rowell
  • So go ahead, break stuff. Break yourself on the once-hard edges of yourself. And recycle the debris into the foundation of your future. -- Mark Twight
  • But standing in that hallway, it was all coming back to me. Memories were waiting at the edges of things, beckoning to me. -- Neil Gaiman
  • Art is about the edges and the sharp corners and those places are not conducive to activism, which is about putting on a gloss. -- Scott Thompson
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