Verging On Quotes

#1. Every night of our lives, we dream, and our brain concocts visions which are, at least until we wake up, highly convincing. Most of us have had experiences which are verging on hallucination. It shows the power of the brain to knock up illusions.

Richard Dawkins

#2. Creation not only exists, it also discharges truth... Wisdom requires a surrender, verging on the mystical, of a person to the glory of existence.

Gerhard Von Rad

#3. My general attitude toward life when I first get up is of deep suspicion, verging on hatred ... I am simply basted together until after breakfast.

Gladys Taber

#4. I have taken taking my music to labels for years, and everyone just thought it was creepy. They thought the images with the music were weird and verging on psychotic.

Lana Del Rey

#5. Donald was verging on the sad realization that humanity had been thrown to the brink of extinction by insane men in positions of power following one another, each thinking the others knew where they were going.

Hugh Howey

#6. Redford always has been a cool presence both before and behind the camera. His best movie as a filmmaker, 1994's 'Quiz Show,' exhibits a classicism verging on self-repression, and the social indignation in many of his films engages more than moves you.

Steve Erickson

#7. Picasso, Michelangelo, possibly, might be verging on genius, but I don't think a painter like Rembrandt is a genius.

Damien Hirst

#8. A people [America] that does not prepare to fight should then be morally prepared to surrender. To fail to prepare soldiers and citizens for limited, bloody ground action, and then to engage in it, is folly verging on the criminal.

T.R. Fehrenbach

#9. A favorite Wired icon for the information feedback loop, a dragon curling in a circle to swallow its own tail, could become more apt as a symbol of the timeless libertarian paradox: Monopoly verging on feudalism emerges from unregulated competition to bite libertarianism in the posterior.

Jedediah Purdy

#10. I must not seek the sex of a sentence and work on embracing the sensual words surrounding, those that breathe with an ecstasy verging on their arrival.

Meia Geddes

#11. I took the swab using the collection kit that I'd borrowed from Dominic who, I realized, had left the Boy Scout scale behind and was now verging on Batman levels of crazy preparedness.

Ben Aaronovitch

#12. Sashimi is velvet dust, verging on silk, or a bit of both, and the extraordinary alchemy of its gossamer essence allows it to preserve a milky density unknown even by clouds ... my cheeks recalled the effects of its profound caress.

Muriel Barbery

#13. The silent horror of Archie's ordeal had been temporarily replaced by the howling, agonising pain of the blood refusing to drain from his penis, the end of which was a deep purple verging on black where Officer Griff had tested how hard it was by using the back of his hand to give it a solid twang.

Dylan Perry

#14. I can say with pride verging on smugness that I've got two very successful shows that assume their audience is very smart.

Steven Moffat

#15. The Morganville in her wanted to tell people to go home and be safe, but she knew that was verging on crazy. The world these laughing people lived in was a very different place. She was in a very different place.

Rachel Caine

#16. A native speaker of English who has never read a word of the King James Bible is verging on the barbarian.

Richard Dawkins

#17. Suki is the nation's ideal girlfriend, a woman for whom bubbliness is a way of life, verging on a disorder.

David Nicholls

#18. The Republic's most wanted criminal is just a boy, sitting before me, suddenly vulnerable, laying all his weaknesses out for me to see.

Marie Lu

#19. Science is a satisfactory curiosity.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#20. The notion that war forever separates veterans from the rest of mankind has been long embedded in our collective consciousness.

Phil Klay

#21. Surely you can hear him now?

Alastair Reynolds

#22. I've been voted one of Australia's 50 national treasures. I've even had my face on an Australian stamp - the only non-Australian to do so, apart from the Queen, of course.

Russell Crowe

#23. One other thing, if it's possible, as songwriters, you should also develop yourself as record producers.

Barry Mann

#24. I had an album out at exactly the same time as 'Love to Love You' called 'Einzelganger,' and it's great, all electronic. I'm using a vocoder, doing all this cut-up stuff on there, but no one knows about it.

Giorgio Moroder

#25. Of all psychic conditions, anxiety verging upon paranoia/hysteria is perhaps the most contagious, even among men.

Joyce Carol Oates

#26. All else being equal, the guy with the best genetics will have the best physique. But rarely are all things equal.

Dorian Yates

#27. My wife is so stupendously ugly it is easier to take her with me than to kiss her goodbye.

Max Miller

#28. God decided that this time in history was perfect for you to glorify Him and make an eternal difference. So God gave you unique gifts, talents, passions, and experiences to propel you into your life purpose.

Craig Groeschel

#29. I don't have hardly any caffeine, I don't drink alcohol and I watch my red meat intake. My diet at the minute seems to be verging towards the vegetarian, which is surprising me because I tend to just listen to what my body is fancying.

Jayne Middlemiss

#30. The sea slapped ominously, confessing its strategic impartiality. The sea is an international sea, and the sky a universal sky. Often we forget that. Often we think that what is verging upon us is ours alone. We forget that there are other sides entirely.

Hilary Thayer Hamann

#31. Entertainment is needed, and so I do think escapism is needed.

Ving Rhames

#32. He imagined the door to a sad, empty room closing with a faint click, never to be opened again, and that calmed him a little.

Donald Ray Pollock

#33. Letters of friendship require no study.

George Washington