Sitting On The Edge Quotes:

Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.

- Will Rogers

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Daily Work, Management Motivation

A lonely man is a lonesome thing, a stone, a bone, a stick, a receptacle for Gilbey's gin, a stooped figure sitting at the edge of a hotel bed, heaving copious sighs like the autumn wind.

- John Cheever

source: 1966 Collected in The Journals,'The Sixties'.

topic: Lonely, Being Alone, Autumn, Gin, Lonesome

Rosa Hubermann was sitting on the edge of the bed with her husband's accordion tied to her chest. Her fingers hovered above the keys. She did not move. She didn't ever appear to be breathing.

- Markus Zusak

topic: Husband, Moving, Breathing, Accordions, Sitting On The Edge

Well, I'm English, so it's intimidating to step anywhere. I used to be painfully shy. I wouldn't say that I'm painfully shy anymore. But if I have the option of sitting on the edge of a circle, I will.

- Gavin Rossdale

source: Source: collider.com

topic: Circles, Shy, Sitting, Sitting On The Edge

(After getting out of another treatment center) I came home one Sunday morning. I sat on the edge of my bed. I never grew up going to church. I never read a Bible. I wasn't anti-God. I just never thought about God. I just lived for myself and thought about myself...I was married by this point. I'd been married for two years. So, here I am sitting on the edge of my bed, nine o'clock Sunday morning. I have a son who's not quite two yet and I just broke down crying because I had been out all weekend doing cocaine.

- Jay Haizlip

source: Source: www.beliefnet.com

topic: Morning, Home, Son, Anti God, Sitting On The Edge

When you know you have 1,000 people sitting on the edge of their seats in silence because of a shift that just happened on stage, there is no better feeling.

- Kevin Spacey

source: Source: www.skyword.com

topic: People, Silence, Feelings, Sitting On The Edge

When you're writing for the screen you're really thinking all the time of what you have to do to make sure that they have the information that they need, that the emotional thread is not snapped, that the story moves at the right speed, to keep the audience hopefully sitting on the edge of their seats or else weeping or laughing.

- Salman Rushdie

topic: Moving, Writing, Emotional, Sitting On The Edge

In the four hundred and thirteenth year of the Christian era, some three hundred miles above Alexandria, the young monk Philammon was sitting on the edge of a low range of inland cliffs, crested with drifting sand.

- Charles Kingsley

topic: Christian, Book, Years, Alexandria, Sitting On The Edge

As time goes by the memories of sitting on the edge of a bed and reading aloud with your kid are going to be very meaningful in your own mental scrapbook.

- Gary Ross

source: "On Penning Verse, Creating Readers, and Loving Libraries: An Interview With The Hunger Games Director Gary Ros". Interview with Earl Martin Phalen, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 14, 2012.

topic: Meaningful, Memories, Reading, Reading Aloud, Very Meaningful

Important thing is not the me that's lying here, but the me that's sitting on the edge of the bed looking back at me, and the me that's downstairs cooking supper, or out in the garage under the car, or in the library reading. All the new parts, they count. I'm not really dying today. No person ever died that had a family.

- Ray Bradbury

topic: Death, Lying, Reading, Supper, Lying Here

I figured it out eventually," she says. She's sitting on the edge of the gurney again; her features slowly materialize as my vision clears. "It's momentum." "What?" I whisper. The feeling returning to my lips, spreading out to my fingertips and toes. "Momentum," she repeats. "You can't just stand there if you want something to fly. You have to run.

- Lauren DeStefano

topic: Running, Want Something, Feelings, Sitting On The Edge

"Jace?" She offered him the glass. "I am a man," he told her. "And men do not consume pink beverages. Get thee gone, woman and bring me something brown." "Brown?" Isabelle made a face. "Brown is a manly colour," said Jace and yanked on a stray lock of Isabelle's hair with his free hand. "In fact, look - Alec is wearing it." Alec looked mournfully down at his sweater. "It was black," he said. "But then it faded." "You could dress it up with a sequined headband," Magnus suggested.

- Cassandra Clare

source: "City of Glass". Book by Cassandra Clare, 2009.

topic: Men, Glasses, Hair, Just A Thought, Olivia

What's crazy to me is that people now assume I'm behind [hip-hop] tracks that other people are putting out. They're just sitting on the edge of their chair waiting for me to put out [rap beats]. But it's not going to happen. I've graduated from that.

- AraabMuzik

source: Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. February 6, 2012.

topic: Crazy, Rap, People, Sitting On The Edge