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The Edge Quotes

Running my hands really fast up and down the fretboard... I mean, anybody can do that. It's the Guitar Olympics, and I can't think of anything more pointless.

The Edge

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: musician
Nationality: welsh
Birth: August 8, 1961

Topics

Think Guitar Hands Down Fast Mean

I'm not thinking when I'm writing, 'How's this going to read?' Or, 'What percentage of the audience is going to stay with me?' The thing itself is what gives me pleasure. Sometimes stuff just falls onto the page so beautifully and happily that it's deeply satisfying. It's selfish!

Jim Crace

Me Writing Selfish Thinking Page

I think most people, including me, like to read gossipy things about others: revealing things that I love to read but I don't really want known about me.

Julia Davis

Love People Me Think Want Others

I would never do something like Speed 2 again. If I'd wanted to make those kind of movies I could have signed up for five of them while it was in the can. It wasn't worth it to me. That was just an innocuous, boring movie.

Jason Patric

Me Speed Worth Movies Kind Boring

Keeping a bar clean is basic in this business. Having a staff that speaks adequate English is basic.

Jon Taffer

Business Clean Bar English Basic

I have read books that are so cliched and lazy, my eyes have bled. But I also have read books marketed under the chick-lit umbrella that are so honest, clever and gritty that I've wanted to give up writing and paint walls instead.

Jojo Moyes

Eyes Walls Writing Lazy Clever Up

So for years I kept mum about my passion for needle arts.

Deborah Norville

Passion Years Arts Needle About Mum

Having 'The Expats' not be 'wholesale-y' rejected by the world made it possible for me to write the second book and have a publisher buy it before it was entirely written. And it made it easier for me and my publisher to get 'The Accident' out into the world without trying to convince people to pay attention to it the way you do for a first novel.

Chris Pavone

People Me World Book Attention You

Science fiction is boring when someone starts explaining the science to me.

Colm McCarthy

Science Me Someone Boring Fiction

Every time Washington regulators pass down another heavy-handed rule or levy another hefty fine, Colorado loses potential jobs, revenue, and economic security.

Bob Beauprez

Time Potential Security Down Revenue

The reward of labour is life. Is that not enough?

William Morris

Life Enough Reward Labour

For a southern belle, my grandmother was remarkably modern. She threw my grandfather out, for one thing - some kind of argument about bourbon whiskey - shortly after the birth of their third child, and then went back to school to get herself a teaching certificate.

Preston Sturges

School Child Back Grandfather Kind

Since young people would much rather play fast-action, rapidly advancing video games, and gambling laws for slot machines and roulette tables haven't changed much since the 1950s, look for casinos to build large video game tournament centers and allow people to bet on the action, similar to betting on college basketball.

Thomas Frey

People College Video Games Game Look