On The Cusp Quotes

#1. We may be living at that moment, on the cusp, when we go from being a species that feels a kind of loneliness in the cosmos to actually one sometime in the not too distant future being able to confirm the existence of other intelligent life.

Ann Druyan

#2. It's about a girl who is on the cusp of becoming someone.. A girl who may not know what she wants right now, and she may not know who she is right now, but who deserves the chance to find out.

Jodi Picoult

#3. We're on the cusp, on the brink, of enormous change in this country.

Jennifer Granholm

#4. The possibility of paradise hovers on the cusp of coming into being, so much so that it takes powerful forces to keep such a paradise at bay. If paradise now arises in hell, it's because in the suspension of the usual order and the failure of most systems, we are free to live and act another way.

Rebecca Solnit

#5. Both of us on the cusp of adulthood, and this is how my brother and I understood what it meant to be a woman: working, dour, full of worry. What it meant to be a man: resentful, angry, wanting life to be everything but what it was.

Jesmyn Ward

#6. You can't be on the cusp of innovation and at the forefront of technology if you're wearing blinders. If you don't have an exploration program where you're exploring your world here on Earth, underwater, and in space, then you're wearing blinders and handicapping yourself.

Gwynne Shotwell

#7. there is no name for what he's looking for, which, typically, is a technology, or an idea, on the cusp of commercial viability. The new new thing.

Michael Lewis

#8. These people living on the streets could have been friends you once knew. They are people who have somehow fallen through the gaps and found themselves, often through unimaginable circumstances, on the cusp of existence. In another reality, this could easily be me or you.

Kathryn Prescott

#9. Years of fighting, andm before that, a lifetime on the cusp of it. Conflict we didn't understand ... had been at the center of everything.

Tea Obreht

#10. We stopped and listened. Just on the cusp of hearing I detected a rhythmic pounding, more a vibration in the concrete than a sound.
'Drums,' I said and then because I couldn't resist it. 'Drums in the deep.'
'Drum and Bass in the deep,' said Kumar.

Ben Aaronovitch

#11. There are times when you stand on the cusp of moments so huge, you know you'll remember them forever. This is that moment for me and for Ryan.

Katie McGarry

#12. Eustace remembered a day like this one: spring on the cusp of summer, the earth unclenching its fist, thick green leaves, rich with fragrance, fattening the trees. A

Justin Cronin

#13. I would never trust anyone who didn't get at least a little nervous on the cusp of doing something important to them in front of other people.

Gwenda Bond

#14. I think that I was just on the cusp of the generation that was beginning to really challenge some of the assumptions about the role of women and the role of men on campus.

Claire McCaskill

#15. 'General Hospital' was so massive in the 80s and that's when people my age or even younger watched that show. A generation grew up on that show, Luke and Laura, I came in on the cusp of that so there's still a lot of 'Frisco.'

Jack Wagner

#16. Interestingly, human irrationality is a hot topic in economics at the moment. Behavioural economics it's called, on the cusp of economics and psychology.

Evan Davis

#17. I live on the cusp of two worlds, trying desperately to fit into one.

Tricia Levenseller

#18. I think drugs are like strawberries and peaches..There's no way to tell anyone who hasn't been through it, there's no way to explain it to anyone who hasn't tasted it . To keep that superlative high, just on the cusp of each day, so that I radiate sunshine

Edie Sedgwick

#19. I think it is no exaggeration to say we are on the cusp of the further perfection of extreme evil, an evil whose possibility spreads well beyond that which weapons of mass destruction bequeathed to the nation-states, on to a surprising and terrible empowerment of extreme individuals.

Bill Joy

#20. While living in Florida I realized that I could never stay there, because it's so damn hot. There's only like three months when you don't feel like you're on the cusp of hell.

Jennifer L. Armentrout

#21. Here I was, on the cusp of my own great dream, my own impossible truth, and this gluttonous man was crowding it with his improbable vision. There wasn't enough magic in the universe for both of us. Worse, Garth's mad theory put mine in an altogether new light. Was I as crazy as his fat ass?

Mat Johnson

#22. I'd been beaten before; I'd been humiliated; I'd been spit on and ostracized...all the things you should not have to know about when you are on the cusp of sixteen, but do because you're different.

Chris O'Guinn

#23. I'd like to turn on the whole world for just a moment... just for a moment. I'm greedy; I'd like to keep most of it for myself and a few others, a few of my friends... to keep that superlative high, just on the cusp of each day... so that I'd radiate sunshine.

Jean Stein

#24. What do you mean Taurus? he frowns. I'm not a Taurus.

You were born on the cusp, I remind him. Jason merely shrugs.

Shows what you know, Scotty, I was born in Ohio.

I can take him anywhere but out.

Steve Kluger

#25. We are on the cusp of a marketing revolution. And it's being led by YOU.

Mark Schaefer

#26. I had been feeling permanently on the cusp of a flu, feeling at that point where I just wanted to borrow somebody else's coat- borrow somebody else's life- their aura. I seemed to have lost the ability to create any more aura on my own.

Douglas Coupland

#27. A young woman on the cusp of her sexual awakening is a powerful creature.' She

Kathleen Tessaro

#28. I feel like I am either on the cusp of something great, or standing on the edge of my abyss, discovering something brand new, or uncovering somebody elses lost imagination.

Carroll Bryant

#29. What I'm suggesting to you is that this could be a renaissance. We may be on the cusp of a future which could provide a tremendous leap forward for humanity.

Jeremy Rifkin

#30. We tremble on the cusp of half-remembered prophecies, of wonders and terrors that no man now living could hope to comprehend

George R R Martin

#31. Milk which is just about to turn is akin to that moment spent on the cusp of failure in a dulled and fettered relationship.

Matt Roper

#32. I am on the cusp of change and the curve is shifting fast.

Audre Lorde

#33. We live on the cusp of death
Thinking it won't be us

Macklemore

#34. I recently lost 50 pounds. I'm hovering on the cusp of a size eight, which seems unbelievable.

Kathy Najimy

#35. I suffer from the delusion that every product of my imagination is not only possible, but always on the cusp of becoming real.

Sean Parker

#36. The world is poised on the cusp of an economic and cultural shift as dramatic as that of the Industrial Revolution.

Steven Levy

#37. We are on the cusp of this time where I can say, "I speak as a citizen of the world" without others saying, God, what a nut.

Lawrence Lessig

#38. I believe Business Objects is on the cusp of becoming a multi-billion-dollar sales company. There is tremendous growth potential for business intelligence.

Bernard Liautaud

#39. We're getting close to making our vision a reality. It's exciting to be on the cusp of opening our doors to the public. We're right on schedule.

James K. Coyne, III

#40. His coworker was velvety-skinned, a sexy boy-on-the-cusp-of man.

Karen Marie Moning

#41. And Jack, who felt like he was on the cusp of being able to read minds and thought it would be all right if Luce wrote him down for that. ("I sense that you're okay with that, am I right?" He made a gun out of his fingers and clicked his tongue.)

Lauren Kate

#42. My manager lives on my block; four of the apartments in my apartment complex of seven are people I know. It's a really close-knit community, and almost everyone on these few blocks are artists or graphic designers, because we live right on the cusp of a warehouse district.

Grimes

#43. But we live on the cusp of a Renaissance in consciousness of who we truly are and, thus, we can now begin to thrive in this exciting age of our humanity's journey toward a greater life and a more fundamentally intelligent evolution of our species.

Martha Char Love

#44. A novelist is on the cusp between someone who knows everything and someone who knows nothing.

Jane Smiley

#45. A protector - that's who he was, and would always be. What I had wanted when I was cold and hard and joyless; what I had needed to melt the ice of bitter years on the cusp of starvation. I didn't have the nerve to wonder what I wanted or needed now. Who I had become.

Sarah J. Maas

#46. We've been here before. She knows I won't stop until she screams. Her pride won't let her scream until she's on the cusp of death.

Poppet

#47. We in our present generation stand on the cusp of a new and glorious dawn when mastery of these energies lies fully within our grasp as secret yields to inquiry, which yields to experimentation, which leads to verification and duplication, which, in the final course, leads to knowledge.

Stephen R. Lawhead

#48. I wanted the Andy of Toy Story 3 to be right on the cusp, straddling childhood and adulthood ... I wanted to find this sweet spot where he had gotten tall and had clearly grown up but still retained many boyish qualities, including a boyish charm.

Lee Unkrich

#49. One of the most poignant pieces of recent science fiction for me was the portrayal of the adults in the Pixar film WALL-E. I feel like we're on the cusp of becoming fat babies in floating chairs being fed everything in shake form, and I feel like I am as prone to laziness as anybody.

Nick Offerman

#50. I feel I understand now why, whenever there are revolutions, Shakespeare is what people turn to. Because whenever a society is on the cusp, about to become something else, they find themselves in Shakespeare.

Neil MacGregor

#51. I always want to be on the cusp of being in the best shape that I can be.

Michelle Obama

#52. I'm either on the cusp of greatness or the edge of insanity.

Meb Bryant

#53. You can be on the cusp of something. Appreciate the cusp, not the something. Appreciate this moment now.

Ernest Holmes

#54. You and your SoulMate are pioneers on the frontier of spiritual partnerships. You are the cusp of the next evolutionary wave. As architects of true SoulMate relationships, you are the Magellans of inner space.

Annette Vaillancourt

#55. Ever poised on that cusp between past and future, we tie memories to souvenirs like string to trees along life's path, marking the trail in case we lose ourselves around a bend of tomorrow's road.

Susan Lendroth