Edgewise Quotes & Sayings

Quentin Tarantino was fantastic. I mean, he can be almost unbearable as a person. At a party, you can't get a word in edgewise for, like, an hour. But as a director, he is so completely open and just ... present. — Phil LaMarr

I was no more than the garment worker who made sure the stitching was correct in an outfit designed, produced, and consumed by the wealthy white people of the world. They owned the means of production, and therefore the means of representation, and the best that we could ever hope for was to get a word in edgewise before our anonymous deaths. — Viet Thanh Nguyen

I've seen some movies where people improvise and will say some bizarre phrase they had heard the other day, and unless it's coming directly from character and the moment they're experiencing and driving the movie forward, then it's always welcome. — Scot Armstrong

We still lend our old house out to relatives. They keep a guest book for my fans to sign. — Loretta Lynn

I've always envied girls having Ugg boots, so when I found some for men, I had to have them. — Marc Warren

Amazing things can happen when the family of God bands together. — Billy Graham

Known as the biosphere to scientists and as the creation to theologians, all of life together consists of a membrane around earth so thin that it cannot be seen edgewise from a satellite yet so prodigiously diverse that only a tiny fraction of species have been discovered and named. — E. O. Wilson

I'm at a loss for words. But even my loss is amplified. — Talib Kweli

Business writer Polly LaBarre notes, The United States spends more on trash bags than ninety other countries spend on everything. — Daniel H. Pink

Giulio and Maria have a beautiful apartment, the most impressive feature of which is, to my mind, the wall that Maria once covered with angry curses against Giulio (scrawled in black magic marker) because they were having an argument and 'he yells louder than me' and she wanted to get a word in edgewise. — Elizabeth Gilbert

Much that may seem evil can be good. — George R R Martin

A discontinuity, like a vacuum, is abhorred by nature. — Harold Hotelling

It was a huge mistake," Chris recalls. "I had a real case of culture shock. I was a crew-cut kid who had been working as a ranch hand in the summers in Montana, and there I was, with a whole bunch of long-haired city kids, most of them from New York. And these kids had a whole different style than I was used to. I couldn't get a word in edgewise at class. They were very inquisitive. Asking questions all the time. I was crammed into a dorm room. There were four of us, and the other three guys had a whole different other lifestyle. They were smoking pot. They would bring their girlfriends into the room. I had never smoked pot before. So basically I took to hiding in the library. — Malcolm Gladwell

And you make people nervous, young man," she said - most equably, for her. "You either take to somebody or you don't. If you do, then you do all the talking and nobody can even get a word in edgewise. If you don't like somebody - which is most of the time - then you just sit around like death itself and let the person talk themself into a hole. I've seen you do it. — J.D. Salinger

Gods are what people worship. Men are what die. — Alaya Dawn Johnson

The true way to a man's heart is six inches of metal between his ribs. You have to love Anita Blake ... ... — Laurell K. Hamilton

I got well by talking. Death could not get a word in edgewise, grew discouraged, and traveled on. — Louise Erdrich

Not everything has to be immediate. — Sandra Bullock

It is hardly lonely in a nunnery, son, with other women. And God is there."
Morgause said, "I would rather dwell in a hermitage in the forest than in a house full of chattering ladies! If God is there, it must be hard for him to get a word in edgewise! — Marion Zimmer Bradley

One discovers weeping - one's weeping personality - only upon weeping. It is a strange discovery, not only to others but to oneself — Yann Martel

You are mad to be spending the summer in the country, where the days are too quiet and you have so much time to think. In the city you live on Broadway, where the noise is so thick your scary thoughts can't get a word in edgewise. But here in the county, there is only space. On the stone bridge by the stream. On the mossy rock at the edge of the yard. Behind the abandoned trailer where Art, the old man with the glass eye, used to live. Space, space, space, and you can scare yourself into thinking your thoughts are more like voices. — Lena Dunham

Being a writer requires an intoxication with language. — Jim Harrison