Rivers Edge Quotes

#1. Only a loser finds it impossible to accept a temporary setback. A winner asks why.

Ita Buttrose

#2. Here on the edge of the river, the motifs are very plentiful, the same subject seen from a different angle gives a subject for study of the highest interest and so varied that I think I could be occupied for months without changing my place, simply bending a little more to the right or left.

Paul Cezanne

#3. Every time I get on an airplane I figure it's gonna get blown up. You live on the edge.

Joan Rivers

#4. The major concern ... was to create a monument which would have lasting significance and would be a landmark of our time ... Neither an obelisk nor a rectangular box nor a dome seemed right on this site or for this purpose. But here, at the edge of the Mississippi River, a great arch did seem right.

Eero Saarinen

#5. I am dealing with people and not with things. And, because I am dealing with people, I cannot refuse my wholehearted and loving attention, even in personal matters, where I see that a student is in need of such attention.

Paulo Freire

#6. People have a hard time believing that, but not having a father around, being shy, I just never participated in sports much.

Chuck Norris

#7. Nervous and scared is a good thing, it's your friend. You feel more on the edge, you feel like you're about to fall down the river, it's a good thing for me. I like that feeling.

Georges St-Pierre

#8. Joan Rivers telling Lauren Bacall her dress is all wrong is like Carrot Top telling Lenny Bruce he needs to get an edge.

Dennis Miller

#9. The cold, remote Faye. It's shit.

Kristen Ashley

#10. Bright was the summer's noon when quickening steps
Followed each other till a dreary moor
Was crossed, a bare ridge clomb, upon whose top
Standing alone, as from a rampart's edge,
I overlooked the bed of Windermere,
Like a vast river, stretching in the sun.

William Wordsworth

#11. People say that love is easy, but love spares nothing and no-one.

Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan