I am the poet of the high wire - I never do stunts; I do theatrical performances. — Philippe Petit Copy Share Image
My time is always divided when I prepare for a wire walk. First I dream, technically and artistically, and then I go… — Philippe Petit Copy Share Image
Books turn people into isolated individuals, and once that's happened, the road only grows rockier. Books wire you to want to be… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
Every woman's path is difficult, and many mothers were as equipped to raise children as wire monkey mothers. I say that without… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
There might've been wires, but I have this ability to make myself light. Well you know what, in ballet, when you kind… — Albert Finney Copy Share Image
Next time y'all need to find me, just rub these two wires for the doorbell. — Redman Copy Share Image
Without God, life is like a school without a teacher. It is a wire with no current passing through it; it is… — Sathya Sai Baba Copy Share Image
Just the other day the AP wire had a story about a man from Arkansas who entered some kind of contest and… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
The day when the scientist, no matter how devoted, may make significant progress alone and without material help is past. This fact… — Ernest Lawrence Copy Share Image
It's awesome to realize that if your greatest potential talent is for riding a bicycle upside down on a high wire, you… — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
I have found that the person with a sense of story built in from childhood is in better shape than one who… — James Hillman Copy Share Image
Our biggest art forms are film and television, and there hasn't been a great film about 9/11 yet, nor has there been… — Teju Cole Copy Share Image
I looked at the ceiling and wished this life was over. This unhappy life that had started out so confidently. I thought… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
The telephone is the greatest single enemy of scholarship; for what our intellectual forebears used to inscribe in ink now goes once… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
When a teacher of the future comes to point out to the youth of America how the highest rewards of intellect and… — Elihu Root Copy Share Image
I think 'The Wire' is my all-time favorite TV show. It's so brilliant, the way it critiques society, and how it handles… — Joel Kinnaman Copy Share Image
The greatest thing about the call-in show is that you always felt like you were on a high wire without a net. — Brian Lamb Copy Share Image
When I reached Fort Binjemma, for example, where my grandfather was stationed for a while, the whole Victorian fort was decaying. Barbed… — Chris Cleave Copy Share Image
There's no mistaking the fact that some of the best longform fiction out there now is in American television. 'The Wire' and… — Kevin Barry Copy Share Image
There's a wire injected under my skin a few days before an event and connected to that is a wireless transmitter. That… — Charlie Kimball Copy Share Image
My direction as a person working in film has been to never get comfortable with anything I was doing. At the time… — Nicolas Cage Copy Share Image
Neurons that fire together wire together. You can rewire your brain for higher consciousness by focusing on love. — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
But now all the natural secrets have been exposed, and it is likely that the turtles have been sold to laboratory scientists… — Mary Gaitskill Copy Share Image
