My style of comedy is very real and bittersweet, and sort of always on the verge of kind of being tragic.
Even in ordinary reproduction [photography] verges on facsimile.
Everyone is on the verge of insanity. . . insanity meaning on the verge of the unknown.
I discover myself on the verge of a usual mistake.
I have always had the urge to open forbidden doors: with a curiosity and an obstinacy that verge on masochism.
I'm on the verge of suicide, so what's murder?
Anna despises two classes of people: first, those who own their own homes and have cars and families, and second, everybody else. Constantly she is on the verge of exploding. With rage. A pool of pure red. The pool is filled with speechlessness that talks away at her nonstop.
Harry Reid was talking about soup lines, and Hillary Clinton was talking about the economy being on the verge of collapse. Yet, in the same breath, they say that Social Security is rock solid, and there's no crisis there. How are you going to work-you said you're going to reach out to these people-how are you going to work with people who seem to have divorced themselves from reality?
[Even if the U. S. doesn't attack] Saddam Hussein is not going to survive. His regime is on the verge of implosion.
In adolescence, I hated life and was continually on the verge of suicide, from which, however, I was restrained by the desire to know more mathematics. Now, on the contrary, I enjoy life; I might almost say that with every year that passes I enjoy it more.
This idea that America is somehow on the verge of collapse, this vision of violence and chaos everywhere, doesn't really jibe with the experience of most people.
Here, on the river's verge, I could be busy for months without changing my place, simply leaning a little more to right or left.
. . . The books we need are the kind that act upon us like a misfortune, that make us suffer like the death of someone we love more than ourselves, that make us feel as though we were on the verge of suicide, or lost in a forest remote from all human habitation-a book should serve as an axe for the frozen sea within us.
If anyone on the verge of action should judge himself according to the outcome, he would never begin.
The media is trying to portray that [Donald] Trump supporters are on the verge of abandoning him right now by highlighting how many of them wanted Hillary locked up, prosecuted, convicted, and all that.
I'm on the verge of taking a stand.
Twilight fans are literally on the verge of being clinically insane.
'Tis dangerous to think - For who by thinking tempts his jealous Fate, Is straight arraign'd as Traytor to the State, And none that come within the Verge of Sense, Have to Preferment now the least Pretence. . . .
The truth, it seems, is not just what you find when you open a door: it is itself a door, which the poet is always on the verge of going through.
Every great idea is on the verge of being stupid.
