High Wire Walker 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. Memories don't age

Lorraine Heath

#3. It would be very, very dangerous for a wire walker to experience fear while he is balancing on the wire. Fear has its place on earth, before and maybe after a high-wire walk, but not during for me.

Philippe Petit

#4. Power has only one duty - to secure the social welfare of the People.

Benjamin Disraeli

#5. You get a checklist, and then you just sort of ride herd on it. It's just a few items on a single sheet of paper.

Kirk Kerkorian

#6. Hud? Back here? Oh, man, what a birthday present," Hilde said, giving her another hug. "I'm so sorry, sweetie. I can imagine what seeing him again did to you."
"I still want to kill him," Dana whispered.
"Not on your birthday." Hilde frowned.

B. J. Daniels

#7. Our love has been the thread through the
labyrinth, the net under the high-wire walker, the only real thing in this strange life of mine that I could ever trust.

Audrey Niffenegger

#8. At the danger of waxing nostalgic about the 'old days,' I don't want to be like everyone else. I want acceptance, but I want acceptance of my difference, not my sameness. It's a funny contract. The cultural machine wants to chew everyone up and turn them into this uniform little substance.

Alison Bechdel

#9. If you understand the importance of developing a relationship with the director and making that director see that you're the best technical adviser and resource in the world on your subject, you'll be invited on set as a respected and integral part of the process.

John Fusco

#10. Silence is the most perfect expression of scorn.

George Bernard Shaw

#11. It is a sore point, because you do have advantages if you have access to more than one language. You also have problems, because on bad days you don't trust yourself , either in your first or second language, and so you feel like a complete halfwit.

W.G. Sebald

#12. What "I" could there be apart from life, apart from Being? It is utterly impossible. So there is no such thing as "my life," and I don't have a life. I am life. I and life are one.

Eckhart Tolle

#13. As a high wire walker, I do not allow myself to 'leave the wire' during a performance.

Philippe Petit

#14. Throughout evolution, ostracism was death indeed.

Helen Fisher

#15. Negro banks, as a rule, have failed because the people, taught that their own pioneers in business cannot function in this sphere, withdrew their deposits.

Carter G. Woodson

#16. Things can get very lovey and feasty with a bunch of stimulated hams.

Mary Martin

#17. In many ways we are all sons and daughters of ancient Greece.

Nia Vardalos

#18. A friend is someone who understands your past, believes in your future and accepts you for who you are today.

Aleatha Romig

#19. In some communities, I show up, and they say, 'Well, we haven't seen our Democrat congressman in 10 years.'

Rand Paul