Tightrope Walker Sayings

#1. My cousin just died. He was only 19. He got stung by a bee - the natural enemy of a tightrope walker.

Dan Rather

#2. An honest religious thinker is like a tightrope walker. He almost looks as though he were walking on nothing but air. His support is the slenderest imaginable. And yet it really is possible to walk on it.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

#3. A tightrope walker uncertain if he could make it to the other side probably would not. A race car driver wondering if he was taking a turn too fast was likely to lose control. If a man feared death, whether his own or the taking of another's, death would surely come calling.

Roy L. Pickering Jr.

#4. If one's life depends on doing something right, as in the case of the tightrope walker, one will practice on a much deeper level.

Kenny Werner

#5. If you had a friend who was a tightrope walker, and you were walking down a sidewalk, and he fell, that would be completely unacceptable.

Mitch Hedberg

#6. When I was younger, I wanted to be a vet or a tightrope walker. But I have no sense of balance, and I can't bear animals dying, so I abandoned both ideas.

Georgia May Jagger

#7. How often does the tightrope walker balance when walking across the tightrope? All the time! It is the same thing if you really want to have a successful career, and you want to have a happy home life. It is a matter of balance.

Brian Tracy

#8. Criticism - however valid or intellectually engaging - tends to get in the way of a writer who has anything personal to say. A tightrope walker may require practice, but if he starts a theory of equilibrium he will lose grace (and probably fall off).

J.R.R. Tolkien

#9. The line between normal and crazy seemed impossibly thin. A person would have to be an expert tightrope walker in order not to fall.

Augusten Burroughs

#10. Any tightrope walker can walk in a straight line and hold a cane at the same time. It's the balancing on the rope at those dizzying heights that they have to practise

Cecelia Ahern

#11. The qualities of an exceptional cook are akin to those of a successful tightrope walker: an abiding passion for the task, courage to go out on a limb and an impeccable sense of balance.

Bryan Q. Miller

#12. Matilda said nothing. She simply sat there admiring the wonderful effect of her own handiwork. Mr Wormwood's fine crop of black hair was now a dirty silver, the colour this time of a tightrope-walker's tights that had not been washed for the entire circus season.

Roald Dahl

#13. I think science works the way a tightrope walker works: by not looking at its feet. As soon as it looks at its feet, it realizes its operating in midair.

Annie Dillard

#14. 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

#15. Now, the typical way you make good things happen in Washington is you find a bunch of wealthy companies who agree with you.

Aaron Swartz

#16. There are certain things I learned when I first started learning about acting, to try and place the character physically and emotionally. And the way you place them emotionally is often with humor.

David Duchovny

#17. To live is to be willing to die over and over again.

Pema Chodron

#18. I was always told at school that you had to have a back-up plan, but all I ever wanted to do was act. There was no plan B for me.

Aaron Johnson

#19. Her genius derives from the fact that she was capable of the deepest feeling but also of the most discerning and disciplined thought.

David Brooks

#20. We are compelled, our faith urging us, to believe and to hold - and we do firmly believe and simply confess - that there is one holy Catholic and Apostolic Church, outside of which there is neither salvation nor remission of sins.

Pope Boniface VIII

#21. I say half jokingly that photography is the most difficult of the arts. It does require a certain arrogance to see and to choose. I feel myself walking on a tightrope instead of on the ground.

Walker Evans