Quotes of Fringe - somelinesforyou

“ It was not… that she was unaware of the frayed and ragged edges of life. She would merely iron them out with a firm hand and neatly hem them down. ”

- P. D. James

“ Terrorism knows no borders. Therefore, opposition to terrorism must know no borders. ”

- Elie Wiesel

“ Prayer serves as an edge and border to preserve the web of life from unraveling. ”

- Robert Hall

“ The ability to get to the verge without getting into the war is the necessary art. If you try to run away from it, if you are scared to go to the brink, you are lost. ”

- John Foster Dulles

“ Every passion borders on the chaotic, but the collector's passion borders on the chaos of memories. ”

- Walter Benjamin

“ Fashion is born by small facts, trends, or even politics, never by trying to make little pleats and furbelows, by trinkets, by clothes easy to copy, or by the shortening or lengthening of a skirt. ”

- Elsa Schiaparelli

“ After starting her career as a beauty queen on the fleshy fringes of show business, Imelda grew into bigger roles, playing Jackie to her husband's Jack, Bonnie to his Clyde, Evita to his strongman. ”

- Russell Watson

“ Every reform movement has a lunatic fringe. ”

- Theodore Roosevelt

“ It can be shown that for any nutty theory, beyond-the-fringe political view, or strange religion there exists a proponent on the Net. The proof is left as an exercise for your kill-file. ”

- unattributed truth from r.g.frp

“ 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

“ This sentimental comedy by the Soviet playwright Aleksei Arbuzov is said to have had a great success in its own country. So do fringed lamp shades. ”

- Richard Eder

“ The lunatic fringe wags the underdog. ”

- H. L. Mencken

“ The fringed curtains of thine eye advance. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ 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

“ Even the choicest literature should be taken as the condiment, and not as the sustenance of life. It should be neither the warp nor the woof of existence, but only the flowery edging upon its borders. ”

- Horace Mann

“ The idea of a successful novel was something that was reviewed in the Observer and then sank without trace. Literature wasn't a happening thing in those days. Music and fringe theatre and television playwriting were far more exciting. ”

- Kazuo Ishiguro

“ How ironic that these very people are the source of the Political Correctness 2.0. The political continuum is a wrap-around universe and the fringes are not opposites but different flavours of the exactly same thing 'Decency in entertainment' is Political Correctness. ”

- Craig Bruce

“ More non-fringe, non-radical homosexuals emerge into public view every day. As the stereotype of the homosexual as antisocial deviant crumbles, a party or faction that tolerates gay-baiting rhetoric in the name of 'family values' makes 'family values' look more and more like common bigotry. ”

- Jonathan Rauch

“ What the hell is nostalgia doing in a science-fiction film? With the whole universe and all the future to play in, Lucas took his marvelous toys and crawled under the fringed cloth on the parlor table, back into a nice safe hide hole, along with Flash Gordon and the Cowardly Lion and Luke Skywalker and the Flying Aces and the Hitler Jugend… ”

- Ursula K. Le Guin

“ 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
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