I want to stay as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can't see from the center. — Kurt Vonnegut
I like to be on the edge of the possible. — Jørn Utzon
A fractal is a mathematical set or concrete object that is irregular or fragmented at all scales... — Benoit Mandelbrot
You've got to go out on a limb sometimes because that's where the fruit is. — Will Rogers
A hair divides what is false and true. — Omar Khayyam
There's a very fine line between a groove and a rut; a fine line between eccentrics and people who are just plain nuts. — Christine Lavin
Following the herd, average performance, extremes — Howard Marks
Sever the edge between before and after. — Takuan Soho
Paranormal events are just edges of the infinite we 'happen' to encounter. — C. Douglas Dillon
Living on borders and in margins, keeping intact one's shifting and multiple identity and integrity, is like trying to swim in a new element, an "alien" element. — Gloria E. Anzaldúa
A free society cherishes nonconformity.
It knows from the non-conformist, from the eccentric,
have come many of the great ideas. — Henry Steele Commager
If you're not living on the edge you're taking up too much space. — Stephen Hunt
The most important thing to a lot of people, is to belong to something that's hip or whatever. To be a part of something that's not society, just a clique. — Ric Ocasek
Never underestimate the stimulation of eccentricity. — Neil Simon
The lunatic fringe wags the underdog. — H. L. Mencken
I'm looking more like my dogs every day - it must be the shaggy fringe and the ears. — Christine McVie
I started on the fringes of journalism as a cartoonist on The Daily Mail. — Humphrey Lyttelton
When I get a fringe, it's because I'm bored or need a change; I always regret it! — Chloe Sevigny
There is apt to be a lunatic fringe among the votaries of any forward movement. — Theodore Roosevelt
I did loads of student films and fringe theatre. I worked for free a lot. — Christopher Parker
What we perceive as the present is the vivid fringe of memory tinged with anticipation. — Alfred North Whitehead
I'm aware that I'm very fringe, and it's nice that way. — Ben Folds
People like me, who care about printing, constitute the tiniest lunatic fringe in the nation. — Leonard Baskin
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If organized religion is the opium of the masses, then disorganized religion is the marijuana of the lunatic fringe. — Kerry Thornley
The way to find what the mainstream will do tomorrow is to associate with the lunatic fringe today. — Jean Louis
I don't take any responsibility for the lunatic fringes of my own religion. — J. K. Rowling
Writers are the lunatic fringe of publishing. — Judith Rossner
That was like the moment of revelation for me that in fact we are not the lunatic fringe. — Jill Stein
One of the things about leadership is that you cannot be a moderate, balanced, thoughtful, careful articulator of policy. You've got to be on the lunatic fringe. — Jack Welch
I believe that in any initiative, you can't have a flavor of the month. When you believe something is profound in a company, you can not be a logical leader. You have to go to the lunatic fringe. There is no way that logic is what you need to change people. — Jack Welch
You can't behave in a calm, rational manner. You've got to be out there on the lunatic fringe. — Jack Welch
Among the wise and high-minded people who in self-respecting and genuine fashion strive earnestly for peace, there are the foolish fanatics always to be found in such a movement and always discrediting it the men who form the lunatic fringe in all reform movements. — Theodore Roosevelt
There are some fringe factions of the alt-right that have demonstrated genuinely racist, anti-Semitic, and prejudiced leanings. They clearly don't want a Jewish, homosexual, black-d - - supremacist as a spokesman. And I don't want to be associated with them, either. — Milo Yiannopoulos
I take comfort in knowing that it was the shepherds to whom the angels appeared when they announced Christ's birth. Invariably throughout the course of history, God has appeared to people on the fringes. It's nice to find theological justification for your quirks. — Rich Mullins
For anybody who’s tracking actual predictive power, The Fringe will surprisingly keep being the place where reality is spotted first. — Bret Weinstein
Man's Reason is in such deep insolvency to sense,that tho' she guide his highest flight heav'nward, and teach himdignity morals manners and human comfort,she can delicatly and dangerously bedizenthe rioting joys that fringe the sad pathways of Hell. — Robert Bridges
I'm more than ever of the opinion that a decent human existence is possible today only on the fringes of society, where one then runs the risk of starving or being stoned to death. In these circumstances, a sense of humor is a great help. — Hannah Arendt
It has to be acknowledged that in capitalist society, with its herds of hippies, originality has become a sort of fringe benefit, a mere convention, accepted obsolescence, the Beatnik model being turned in for the Hippie model, as though strangely obedient to capitalist laws of marketing. — Mary McCarthy
You know obviously a big TV or film break would be lovely, but I find that I’m essentially a theatre trained actor and that’s what I love doing. I love fringe theatres in London, I love theatres like the Royal Court, Soho and the National obviously and if I could work in any of those and be a jobbing actor for a while then I’m very lucky. — Sayings
As evangelical Christians we have tended to relegate art to the very fringe of life. The rest of human life we feel is more important. Despite our constant talk about the Lordship of Christ, we have narrowed its scope to a very small area of reality. — Francis Schaeffer
I seem to be a brief light that flashes but once in all the aeons of time a rare, complicated, and all-too-delicate organism on the fringe of biological evolution , where the wave of life bursts into individual, sparkling, and multicolored drops that gleam for a moment... only to vanish forever. — Alan Watts
It is a blatant lie put forth in the media that makes it seem there is only a fringe of scientists who don't buy into anthropogenic. — Stanley B. Goldenberg
If the authorities constrain banks and are aware of the activities of fringe banks and other financial institutions, they are in a better position to attenuate the disruptive expansionary tendencies of our economy. — Hyman Minsky
I always try to balance the light with the heavy - a few tears of human spirit in with the sequins and the fringes. — Bette Midler
Eagle of flowers! I see thee stand, And on the sun's noon-glory gaze; With eye like his, thy lids expand, And fringe their disk with golden rays: Though fix'd on earth, in darkness rooted there, Light is thy element, thy dwelling air, Thy prospect heaven. — James Montgomery
I live life in the margins of society, and the rules of normal society don't apply to those who live on the fringe. — Tamara de Lempicka
The Church has not yet touched the fringe of the possibilities of intercessory prayer. Her largest victories will be witnessed when individual Christians everywhere come to recognize their priesthood unto God and day by day give themselves unto prayer. — John Mott
A moustache to a man is the same as a fringe is to a woman. When you've got it, you want to grow it out; when you've grown it out, you want to cut it. — Billy Childish
People who are against hate are not a fringe minority, not even a silent majority, but are a silenced majority, silenced by the corporate media. — Amy Goodman
It is fatal for any body of workers to have forever hanging from the fringes of its skirts other bodies on a level just below its own; for that means continual pressure downward, additional difficulty to be overcome in the struggle to maintain reasonable rates of wages. — Florence Kelley
Having established that good ideas do indeed come in from the cold, start on the fringes and become mainstream, can we make any predictions about what the next move will be? — Nigel Farage
Always in the short story there is this sense of outlawed figures wandering about the fringes of society.... As a result there is in the short story at its most characteristic something we do not often find in the novel--an intense awareness of human loneliness. — Frank O'Connor
And their pals vote for their stuff when they're not on the panel, and it just keeps going that way. And they tend to be very fringe artists, so anything before the 20th century is not worth considering. This is out of date. — Charlton Heston
Any useful logic must concern itself with Ideas with a fringe of vagueness and a Truth that is a matter of degree. — Norbert Wiener
I believe, in a funny way, the job of the novelist is to be out there on the fringes and speaking for an experience that has not really been spoken for. — Donna Tartt
At one point I was introduced to a devastatingly handsome young man -- beautiful, really -- with black unruly hair, large sensitive eyes fringed by long dark lashes, a full sensuous mouth -- and an irresistible personality. His name was Tony Curtis. — Janet Leigh
My real self, the self I have always been from a child, is a loner and nerd, slightly overweight, with a very heavy fringe. That is who I was as a kid. I don't think I will ever be anything other than that. — Hayley Atwell
I’ve always been a sort of self-imposed outsider, not a geeky outsider or a snobby outsider but, I just have a natural desire to live on the fringe. I’m not like a weirdo with a trench-coat but I just prefer to be alone or minimally surrounded by people. — Sara Quin
The gay rights movement is not a party. It is not a lifestyle. It is not a hair style. It is not a fad or a fringe or a sickness. It is not about sin or salvation. The gay rights movement is an integral part of the American promise of freedom. — Urvashi Vaid
My theory is that everyone at one time or another has been at the fringe of society in some way: an outcast in high school, a stranger in a foreign country, the best at something, the worst at something, the one who's different. Being an outsider is the one thing we all have in common. — Alice Hoffman
The good thing, really, is that electronic music started as a fringe subculture, and now it's the biggest youth culture in the world. People pretty much everywhere go crazy for electronic music. — Paul van Dyk
The City of New York is like an enormous citadel, a modern Carcassonne. Walking between the magnificent skyscrapers one feels the presence on the fringe of a howling, raging mob, a mob with empty bellies, a mob unshaven and in rags. — Henry Miller
I've hidden behind my hair more than clothes. Sometimes having long hair with a fringe is very useful when you don't want to look at people. I used to have very short hair, but long hair is my thing - a black nocturnal shield. — Bat for Lashes
Society isn't a simple organism with one nucleus and a fringe of little feet, it's an infinitely complex living structure and if you try to suppress any part of it by that much, and perhaps more, you diminish, you mutilate the whole. — Maureen Duffy
People shouldn't expect the mass media to do investigative stories. That job belongs to the 'fringe' media. — Ted Koppel
A wise person does not fear the edges and fringes, but studies them. Indeed, he or she is often in them, working to make change happen. — Laurie Beth Jones
I find the whole concept of being 'sexy' embarrassing and confusing. If I do a photo-shoot, people desperately want to change me - dye my hair blonder, pluck my eyebrows, give me a fringe. Then there's the choice of clothes. I know everyone wants a picture of me in a mini-skirt. But that's not me. — Emma Watson
Whenever there is injustice, oppression, aggression, violence, it's standard for it to be supported by those we now call "intellectuals," but typically not by all; there is typically a fringe of dissidents. With very rare exceptions - in fact, it's hard to think of any - they suffer in one or another way; how depends on the nature of the society. — Noam Chomsky
I've gotten death threats, yes. I have. I think anytime you shine a spotlight on homosexuality or minorities and you try and say they are as normal or as worthy as acceptance as others, the people who are on the fringe don't like that and they will come after you. And they have come after me. — Ryan Murphy
A few years ago the idea that extreme poverty was harmful was on the fringes of the economic and political debate. But having made the case we are now seeing an emerging consensus among business leaders, economic leaders, political leaders and even faith leaders. — Winnie Byanyima
The moon has set In a bank of jet That fringes the Western sky, The pleiads seven Have sunk from heaven And the midnight hurries by; My hopes are flown And, alas! alone On my weary couch I lie. — Sappho
On the other hand it was bad manners to look a gift horse in the mouth. Even if you're getting it from an overweight cracker in a fringe shirt. — Ilona Andrews
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