Street Performing Quotes

#1. Originally the dream was about traveling and developing a job that would permit me to travel. And I decided to go into street performing because it was a traveling job; it would let me go around the world.

Guy Laliberte

#2. I've been arrested many times for illegal high wire walking and illegal street performing.

Philippe Petit

#3. Teller and I worked Renaissance Festivals and street performing - actually more real, no kidding around, Philadelphia street performing than we did Renaissance Festivals.

Penn Jillette

#4. For men born and educated like our citizens, the only way, in my opinion, of arriving at a right conclusion about the possession and use of women and children is to follow the path on which we originally started, when we said that the men were to be the guardians and watchdogs of the herd. True.

Plato

#5. I'd rather deal with thick-face people rather than wasting time with two-faced ones.

Jhinang

#6. There's a built-in ending to everything in the world, right?

Jennifer Niven

#7. I had no intention of becoming an academic. How could a person who was having trouble reading become an academic?

Frances Fox Piven

#8. Before I was an actor I was a break dancer, one of those street performers you see. I guess my introduction into the professional world of performing was a stint as back up dancer for Lionel Richie and I performed at the closing ceremony at the '84 Olympics.

Cuba Gooding Jr.

#9. Why is it surprising that scientists might have long hair and wear cowboy boots? In fields like neuroscience, where the events you are recording are so minute, I suspect scientists cultivate a boring, reliable image. A scientist with a reputation for flamboyance might be suspect.

Steven Pinker

#10. If you want to talk to me, you'll have to put out that cigarette.

Jimmy Piersall

#11. I don't avoid anyone but I always think some people hate me.

Alan Cumming

#12. Sixty million people were announcing that they preferred one reality to another. Inherent in this decision was the revolutionary idea that you can choose your own set of facts. Blue-state

Matt Taibbi

#13. We have fewer troops in Afghanistan than we had law enforcement [officers] at the Olympics in Salt Lake City.

Hillary Clinton

#14. In my opinion, creative control means a lot, I feel like I'm really in touch with who my fans are and what they like about my music, and I'm able to communicate directly with them.

G-Eazy

#15. The sirens in the distance were growing louder. Although it was the music of his neighbourhood, he knew the pigs would soon be performing in his dead-end street.

Marita A. Hansen

#16. Avoid alcohol as you would a loathsome disease. Beer will do to you what hard liquor will do. Each contains alcohol in varying amounts.

Gordon B. Hinckley

#17. Do people ever ask me to say 'Wow?' Never in interviews, but a few times on the street. I don't do it. I try to get away from them as quickly as possible and explain that I'm not a performing seal.

Hannah Murray

#18. I have been performing in the street for more than 50 years: magic for basically 60 years, and the high wire 45 years. The beauty of it is that it's never the same. It's never easy. And yet, part of my art is to make it look easy.

Philippe Petit

#19. I tell ya, it's tough to save a buck. Right now I'm supporting two fighters. My wife and her mother.

Rodney Dangerfield

#20. How can we extinguish a fire if we don't first cut off the fuel that ignites the inferno?

Arun Manilal Gandhi