Tight Rope Quotes

#1. You always want to walk a tight-rope of flavor

Rick Bayless

#2. If I am practicing on the wire, and you pushed me, I would not move, and if you take a piece of wood and beat me up on the shoulder and the head, I would not move. You would not put me out of balance. You would not be able to. I am solid as granite when I am on the tight rope, and I should be.

Philippe Petit

#3. Between birth and death, neighbour, there is no business that is not risky; drinking water in a sitting position included! . The gist of the matter is to do everything with fine tuning as an acrobat does when walking a tight rope, like a carpenter measuring everything meticulously!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#4. Never ask the tight-rope walker how he keeps his balance. if he stops to think about it, he falls off

Terry Pratchett

#5. Life is either always a tight-rope or a featherbed. Give me a tight-rope.

Edith Wharton

#6. The way of paradoxes is the way of truth. To test Reality we must see it on the tight-rope. When the Verities become acrobats we can judge them.

Oscar Wilde

#7. God says, Sure, take away the safety net. And when that's gone, take away the tight rope too.

Stephen King

#8. We all admire the spangled acrobat with classic grace meticulously walking his tight rope in the talcum light; but how much rarer art there is in the sagging rope expert wearing scarecrow clothes and impersonating a grotesque drunk! I should know.

Vladimir Nabokov

#9. Well, the way of paradoxes is the way of truth. To test reality we must see it on the tight rope.

Oscar Wilde

#10. One should adopt only those situations in which is in no need of sham virtues, but rather, like the tight-rope dancer on his tight rope, in which one must either fall or stand - or escape

Friedrich Nietzsche

#11. Maybe the church was right.
Maybe I'm selfish.
Maybe I'm evil.
Maybe I'm damned.
I feel like I'm on a tight rope,
barely balancing. I know it's
a long way down and I'm
afraid I'm destined to crash.

Ellen Hopkins

#12. I've made choices that work with my family. I want to work and I want to be with my family so I just walk the tight-rope of showing up for both those things.

Helen Hunt

#13. The essence of show business is, if you see a tight-rope walker go across a tight rope, everybody claps. But, if you see him wobble, everybody gasps.

T Bone Burnett

#14. I keep telling this story - different people, different places, different times - but always you, always me, always this story, because a story is a tight rope between two worlds.

Jeanette Winterson

#15. That is the logical tight-rope on which we have to walk if we wish to interpret nature.

Richard P. Feynman

#16. A spiritually illumined soul lives in the world, yet is never contaminated by it.

Swami Bhaskarananda Saraswati

#17. Our goal isn't outrageous. We simply want to live in dignity on our own land, see a just solution for the refugees, and closure to 55 years of injustice and denial of our own existence.

Hanan Ashrawi

#18. We yearn for an unquestioned experience of belonging, to feel at home with ourselves and others, at ease and fully accepted. But the trance of unworthiness keeps the sweetness of belonging out of reach.

Tara Brach

#19. When a knot gets to tight, you can always cut the rope

Dean Koontz

#20. You were always an underdog in a videogame, but always guaranteed to win if you just kept plugging away, learned the moves, knew when to Save and when to Quit.

Danny Wallace

#21. I have, like, three suits to my name. But one thing I've learned is that when you dress up in real life, people treat you differently.

Matt Bomer

#22. Blacksmiths sometimes twist a rope tight around the nose of a horse, and by thus inflicting a little pain they distract his attention from the shoeing process. One way to get air out of a
glass is to pour in water. Be Absorbed by Your Subject

Dale Carnegie

#23. Do you mind?" I looked at him from my upside-down position. The rope tight around my ankle, hands fought a losing battle with gravity over my t-shirt.
"What are you doing here?" He kneeled, hand rested on the crossbow while he dug his mismatched eyes into me.
"Oh, you know... just hanging.

Isabelle Crusoe

#24. We both try to fight the rope that binds us, but the knots are too tight.

Corinne Michaels

#25. Everybody's got somewhere they call home.

Roger Waters