High Wire Act Quotes

#1. Designing is a lot like a high-wire act - if the tightrope walker is only six inches off the ground, where's the excitement?

Douglas Wilson

#2. The only TV I would be interested in exploring would be live television. There's no substitute for a team of artists performing at their peak live when failure is possible. It's a high-wire act. That excites me.

Francis Ford Coppola

#3. I'm not an artist, and I want to take risks, and when the possibility of failure occurs, it's because the idea is all exciting or interesting as a high wire act, and sometimes you've got to fall off, just by virtue of the fact that you're constantly trying to evolve and do new things.

Peter Morgan

#4. Debatable how long the seduction took. The smarter the girl, the swifter these things go. Physical forwardness as intellectual high-wire act: the pleasure not of pleasure but of performance and revenge against the retainer, the flute, the stack of expectations.

Lauren Groff

#5. The joy of art is particularly sweet, though, because it carries with it the threat of rejection, of failure, and of missed connections. It's precisely the high-wire act of "this might not work" that makes original art worth doing.

Seth Godin

#6. The great thing about theater is that you have so much time to prepare, and to fail, before presenting it to the public. In film, the high-wire act seems to be that much farther up, and the net seems to be less there.

Chris Pine

#7. I quickly learned that motherhood was a high wire act sometimes performed without a net.

Marita Golden

#8. Nietzsche [10w]
Zarathustra's high-wire act is over;
the circus has left town.

Beryl Dov

#9. Acting is like a high wire act. Your margin for error is very slim.

Christine Baranski

#10. Carter is doing a high-wire act over a cesspool, preaching all the way. Sinclair Lewis, thou shouldst be living in this hour. We have a Warren Harding impersonating Elmer Gantry.

Jimmy Carter

#11. Give yourself permission to shoot for something that seems totally beyond your grasp. You may be surprised at your capabilities

Danica Patrick

#12. That's really all I want, to be able to change the world with my voice.

Jackie Evancho

#13. Forty-five years since I made my first paycheck, and I'm telling you that 'Breaking Bad' is as good as it gets.

Jonathan Banks

#14. I want you to be concerned about your next door neighbor. Do you know your next door neighbor?

Mother Teresa

#15. I can never tell what I'm gonna wear. I kind of just put on whatever feels right. Sometimes that's Converse and a T-shirt, sometimes it's Givenchy heels and leather pants.

Willow Smith

#16. How can you give something to someone who has everything? If you think men are tough to shop for at Christmas, try God. God has everything except one thing, friends. God doesn't have friends.

Frederick Lenz

#17. You both think I know not what,' said I. 'Have the goodness to make me as little the subject of your mutual talk and thoughts as possible. I have my own sort of life apart from yours.

Charlotte Bronte

#18. The realities of the world affected me as visions, and as visions only, while the wild ideas of the land of dreams became, in turn, - not the material of my every-day existence
but in very deed that existence utterly and solely in itself.

Edgar Allan Poe

#19. Reality depends upon your mind alone.[34] If your mind is not at peace what use are riches?

Kamo No Chomei

#20. I want people to know that I'm a force to be reckoned with.

Tinashe

#21. I didn't have musical upbringing. I never listened to music growing up, thinking "I want to make my own music". I just listened to music for pleasure.

Mike Stud

#22. A novel is a great act of passion and intellect, carpentry and largess. From the very beginning, I wrote to explain my own life to myself, and I invited readers who chose to make the journey with me to join me on the high wire.

Pat Conroy