Walking On A Tightrope Quotes

#1. 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

#2. In the beginning you must subject yourself to the influence of nature. You must be able to walk firmly on the ground before you start walking on a tightrope.

Henri Matisse

#3. Singing bel canto is like walking on a tightrope - especially with a larger voice like mine.

Sondra Radvanovsky

#4. We were walking that tightrope between friends and something more ...

Melissa Aragon

#5. You don't have to be someone who likes walking a tightrope across the Twin Towers to watch 'Man On Wire.'

Asif Kapadia

#6. The French are never serious. They juggle with principles, make fun of difficulties and have been walking the tightrope of virtuosity for ten centuries. A singular nation, you know.

Maurice Dekobra

#7. 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

#8. In psychoanalysis as in art, God resided in the details, the discovery of which required enormous patience, unyielding seriousness, and the skill of an acrobat - walking a tightrope over memory and speculation, instinct and theory, feeling and denial.

Judith Perelman Rossner

#9. You must walk that tightrope between accident and discipline. Accident by itself ... so what? Discipline by itself is boring. By walking that tightrope and putting down something on a canvascoming from your guts, you have a chance of making marks that will live longer than you.

Fritz Scholder

#10. The most ordinary everyday living is as delicate, as breath-taking, as difficult, takes as terrific physical and mental control and effort, as walking a tightrope.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

#11. We must be courageous but also reasonable. The world admires us for walking a tightrope without falling off. It asks us to keep our balance.

Lech Walesa

#12. [ Being naked on scene ] was like walking a tightrope without a net - with a giant fan blowing at you.

Joe Manganiello

#13. Thinking in words slows you down and actually decreases comprehension in much the same way as walking a tightrope too slowly makes one lose one's balance.

Bill Vaughan

#14. Being in a foreign country means walking a tightrope high above the ground without the net afforded a person by the country where he has his family, colleagues, and friends, and where he can easily say what he has to say in a language he has known from childhood.

Milan Kundera

#15. Every working mom I know is constantly walking some kind of a tightrope of guilt.

Sarah Wayne Callies

#16. The thing about a cartoon is, you can do whatever you want. The tightrope that we are walking on 'The Simpsons' and 'Futurama' is 'How do you continue to surprise the audience, but make them good surprises?' Not every surprise is good, but you want to continue jolting people.

Matt Groening

#17. Skill is successfully walking a tightrope over Niagara Falls. Intelligence is not trying.

Marilyn Vos Savant

#18. It's like I'd been walking a tightrope with a big safety net underneath me, but I never really thought about the net until someone took it away. And then every single step scared me to death.

Margaret Peterson Haddix

#19. There is always a chance of failure, of producing something totally unnecessary. But I guess that chance of failure is what makes tightrope walking, race-car driving ...

John Updike

#20. (L)ife is like walking between two tall buildings on a tightrope. For some, the rope is wide enough and the walk is easy. For others, it's narrow and hard and maybe there's a strong wind blowing through their days

Walter Dean Myers