Life is either always a tight-rope or a featherbed. Give me a tight-rope. — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
Whatever happens, do not lose hold of the two main ropes of life - hope and faith. — Zig Ziglar Copy Share Image
Nixon is the kind of guy who, if you were drowning twenty feet from shore, would throw you a fifteen-foot rope. — Eugene McCarthy Copy Share Image
His hands would plait the priest's guts, if he had no rope, to strangle kings. — Denis Diderot Copy Share Image
I am the drying meadow; you the unspoken apology; he is the fluctuating distance between mother and son; she is the first… — Aimee Bender Copy Share Image
Man, you’re a regular Bonnie Parker.” “A dame that knows the ropes isn’t likely to get tied up.” Jesse found that hysterical.… — Ruta Sepetys Copy Share Image
“all they want to do is tie the poem to a chair with rope and torture a confession out of it. They… — Billy Collins Copy Share Image
Writing is an affair of yearning for great voyages and hauling on frayed ropes. — Israel Shenker 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
I've seen some terrible plays, but I generally enjoy myself. One play I walked out of, I have a tremendous respect for… — August Wilson Copy Share Image
I give people a huge amount of rope, and then I hold them accountable for the rope. — Sergio Marchionne Copy Share Image
Every bit as visceral and hypnotic as its award-winning predecessor, On the Ropes is a tour-de-force of fluid, yet detailed storytelling. — Dave Gibbons Copy Share Image
It pains me to see my old company, which has meant so much to America, on the ropes. But Chrysler has been… — Lee Iacocca Copy Share Image
About three years went by and I had become exhausted - really at the end of my rope almost - and I… — Milton Resnick Copy Share Image
Black folks never bungie jump. That's too much like lynching for us. I'm gonna let you tie a rope around me and… — D. L. Hughley 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
Everyone wants to get behind the red rope, but actually: be yourself, don't believe what you see, don't believe all this marketing. — Daphne Guinness Copy Share Image
We cannot swing up a rope that is attached only to our own belt. — William Ernest Hocking Copy Share Image
It look like the lord just work for wite folks cause ever sens i wasn nothin but a litle boy i been… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
On the morning the last Lisbon daughter took her turn at suicide- it was Mary this time, and sleeping pills, like Therese-… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
What relationship could exist between the lives of the fools and healthy rabble who were well, who slept well, who performed the… — Sadegh Hedayat Copy Share Image
I am a woman. My life is a long, strong, twisted rope, made up of a number of human relationships, nothing more. — Mary Borden Copy Share Image
“Brandon, until this very moment, the world and the people in it have always been dark and incomprehensible to me, and I've… — Arthur Laurents Copy Share Image
