As a piece of rope, when burnt, retains its form, but cannot serve to bind, so is the ego which is burnt… — Ramakrishna Copy Share Image
You can't tie a rope around the ice sheet. You can't build a wall around the ice sheets. — James Hansen Copy Share Image
The essence of show business is, if you see a tight-rope walker go across a tight rope, everybody claps. But, if you… — T Bone Burnett Copy Share Image
That's what it's like when people have crawled very high up in a tree, then they sometimes need help to get down… — Anders Fogh Rasmussen Copy Share Image
Ah, we men and women are like ropes drawn tight with strain that pull us in different directions. — Bram Stoker Copy Share Image
Playing scales is like a boxer skipping rope or punching a bag. It's not the thing in itself; it's preparatory to the… — Barney Kessel Copy Share Image
I've always got into stunts; even at drama school, I was falling down trap doors, and swinging in on ropes. — Thomas Howes Copy Share Image
I was probably about 13 or 14. I got pulled from a rope swing and some boy kicked me in the head… — Rylan Clark-Neal Copy Share Image
If I do hit that rope and do a hop, skip and a jump and get up as high as I can,… — Hulk Hogan Copy Share Image
A man called, wanting to borrow a rope. "You cannot have it," said Nasrudin. "Why not?" "Because it is in use." "But… — Nasreddin Copy Share Image
I think the first time I really heard poetry was in the schoolyard. Just the little limericks that kids say when they're… — Jill Scott Copy Share Image
I look at decisions like - it's like an Indiana Jones movie. The guy comes to a rope ladder, and he's being… — Mark Burnett Copy Share Image
I try to keep this in mind when tied in to a rope 75 feet up in a tree... The history of… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Man is something that shall be overcome… Man is a rope, tied between beast and overman -- a rope over an abyss...… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I keep telling this story - different people, different places, different times - but always you, always me, always this story, because… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
We've gone from the image of India as land of fakirs lying on beds of nails, and snake charmers with the Indian… — Shashi Tharoor Copy Share Image
And certainly when I reached La Chorerra in 1971 I had a price on my head by the FBI, I was running… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
You always want to be the person who doesn't need to be included, but it feels damn good to be among you… — Kelli O'Hara Copy Share Image
... you... are stones of the temple of the Father, prepared for the Father's building, and drawn up on high by the… — Ignatius of Antioch Copy Share Image
Once Henry had heard a crying noise at sea, and had seen a mermaid floating on the ocean's surface. The mermaid had… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
Explore me' you said and I collected my ropes, flasks and maps, expecting to be back home soon. I dropped into the… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
When winter fails to provide an adequate snow base, my boys bring their sleds in the house and ride them down the… — John Eldredge Copy Share Image
you can't live life without consequences. They occur regardless of the decision. A consequence is an outcome, good or bad. You can… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Heaven knows insanity was disreputable enough, long ago; but now that the lawyers have got to cutting every gallows rope and picking… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Had an audition for a pilot today, but realized I could save gas and help the environment by pissing up a rope… — Dana Gould Copy Share Image
She believed in letting children have a certain amount of rope, and only intervened at the last moment, in order to prevent… — Phyllis Bottome Copy Share Image
I rope steers in team roping events. There's a header and a heeler on a roping team, and I'm the heeler. — Wilford Brimley Copy Share Image
Once or twice a week, I try to do some kind of boxing. I'm hitting the bags and jumping rope - all… — Mekhi Phifer Copy Share Image
There are two sides of the Velvet Rope. Those who want to be on the other side and those who are on… — Janet Jackson Copy Share Image
It's an old sailor's idea that every ship has a rope with one end made fast to her bows and the other… — Bruce Chatwin Copy Share Image
Works? Works? A man get to heaven by works? I would as soon think of climbing to the moon on a rope… — George Whitefield Copy Share Image
I was doing a show in L.A. called 'Celebrity Autobiography,' where celebrities read excerpts from other celebrities' books and hang themselves with… — Scott Adsit Copy Share Image
The past is an anchor with suffering written on the rope. I don't live there now. I am cutting myself free. — Mark Millar Copy Share Image
You just let people do what they do and look at them and give them enough rope until they do what you… — Samuel L. Jackson Copy Share Image
The gospel casts out a rope to hale sinners to land; but the sinner has no hands to lay hold on it;… — Thomas Boston Copy Share Image
I hope no one asks me to show them the ropes; I have no idea where they are. Maybe I could pull… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
What use is it to endure the Dutch Rubs and Indian Rope Burns that are politics if you can't obtain mastery over… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Unix gives you just enough rope to hang yourself - and then a couple of more feet, just to be sure. — Eric Allman Copy Share Image
When you're at the end of your rope, all you have to do is make one foot move out in front of… — Samuel Fuller Copy Share Image
No one can really pull you up very high - you lose your grip on the rope. But on your own two… — Louis D. Brandeis Copy Share Image
