I needed more knowledge in rigging and knotting. I started collecting books on knots and really learning more and more. That's how… — Philippe Petit Copy Share Image
The process of rating players can be compared to the measurement of the position of a cork bobbing up and down on… — Arpad Elo Copy Share Image
“Another thing I learned: it’s one thing to climb a rope in gym class. It’s a completely different thing to climb a… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
Understand, my own politics aren't necessarily interchangeable with what any of my characters believe. You could take each of the characters in… — James Vance Copy Share Image
“Regardless of how people divide people by color, social code, and category, the equality of one human being to the next (civilized… — Tracey Bond Copy Share Image
We knew the pain of winter rushing up your skirt, and the ache of keeping your knees together in class, and how… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
Green grass, green grandstands, green concession stalls, green paper cups, green folding chairs and visors for sale, green and white ropes, green-topped… — John Updike Copy Share Image
You know that expression, 'wild horses couldn't drag me away'? Well, let me tell you, that was obviously made by someone who's… — Terri Farley Copy Share Image
Step on a crack , you'll break your mama's back. Step on a stone, you'll end up all alone. Step on a… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
Renaissance cowboy/raconteur Pop Wagner ...deadpan funny ...his presence is like meeting Woody Guthrie and Will Rogers riding a single, many colored horse.… — Ron Miles Copy Share Image
Working your core always, your foot speed, jumping rope, push-ups and sit-ups - things like that are really important. Those things will… — Mark Sanchez Copy Share Image
You fall so deeply in love with your grandbaby. It's so so so much easier than being a parent, because you really… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
That was what her parents did not understand—and had never understood—about stories. Liza told herself storied as though she was weaving and… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
Ah, the power of two. There's nothing quite like it. Especially when it comes to paying utility bills, parenting, cooking elaborate meals,… — Sloane Crosley Copy Share Image
If I am practicing on the wire, and you pushed me, I would not move, and if you take a piece of… — Philippe Petit Copy Share Image
In the United States those bits of our history that remain are paved over, sanitized, packaged for easy consumption. At those sites… — Biloine W. Young Copy Share Image
Climbing has worked for me in a number of ways on Capitol Hill. I'm much more inclined to look at what people… — Mark Udall Copy Share Image
If you're Mejicana or Mejicano and don't know who Pedro Infante is, you should be tied to a hot stove with yucca… — Denise Chavez Copy Share Image
“The bastards who dommed you before needed rope, and duct tape. All I need is a firm grip in your hair, my… — Sai Marie Johnson Copy Share Image
What are you" -Mac "I don't follow" -Jericho "You dropped 30 feet in that warehouse. You should have broken something. What are… — Karen Marie Moning Copy Share Image
The greatest blunders, like the thickest ropes, are often compounded of a multitude of strands. Take the rope apart, separate it into… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
One of the most ironic things about capitalism is that the capitalist will sell you the rope to hang himself with. Actually… — Michael Moore Copy Share Image
I cherish the fantasy, even the hope, of adventures in other realms to come. But how can we choke out that most… — Gerry Spence Copy Share Image
My name is Herondale," the boy said cheerfully. "William Herondale, but everyone calls me Will. Is this really your room? Not very… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
There is no one who has cooked but has discovered that each particular dish depends for its rightness upon some little point… — Hilaire Belloc Copy Share Image
All any feeling wants is to be welcomed with tenderness. It wants room to unfold. It wants to relax and tell its… — Geneen Roth Copy Share Image
Is there a word for the moment you win tug-of-war? When the weight gives, and all that extra rope comes hurtling towards… — Sarah Kay Copy Share Image
The human race is intoxicated with narrow victories, for life is a string of them like pearls that hit the floor when… — Mark Helprin Copy Share Image
The universe is illusion merely, not one speck of it real, and we are not only its victims, falling always into or… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
“Merry kept talking, but he lost the thread. She wandered closer. With the knots banished, she gripped the tail of the rope… — Cara McKenna Copy Share Image
Ruin, weariness, death, perpetually death, stand grimly to confront the other presence of Elizabethan drama which is life: life compact of frigates,… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
To give the theory plenty of 'rope' and see if it hangs itself eventually is better tactics than to choke it off… — William James Copy Share Image
With my quick success, I didn't have time to learn the ropes of the music business. Because my first record was such… — Phoebe Snow Copy Share Image
I remember when we were having cage matches and Superfly Snuka was the first to do this - both of us were… — Ricky Steamboat Copy Share Image
Many have been led astray by the Qur'an: by clinging to that rope many have fallen into the well. There is no… — Rumi Copy Share Image
Owing to ignorance of the rope the rope appears to be a snake; owing to ignorance of the Self the transient state… — Guru Nanak Copy Share Image
Victory is freedom of mind and body.' I believe that is true. I would go further and say that victory is freedom… — Douglas Clegg Copy Share Image
The Hopi Indians thought that the world’s religions each contained one spiritual thread, and that these threads are always seeking each other,… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
I never had any desire to get a tattoo. If I was ever going to get one, I would get a plain… — John Waters Copy Share Image
I was being musically mentored by a lot of people who were obviously more talented and skilled than I was, and I… — Katy Perry Copy Share Image
