Tightrope Quotes

53 quotes by 51 authors

Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting. — Karl Wallenda
Life should be lived on the edge of life. You have to exercise rebellion: to refuse to tape yourself to rules, to refuse your own… — Philippe Petit
It's tough, acting. You have to walk two lines of a tightrope. There's the all-consuming fear of failure: I'm about to fall flat on my… — Jessica Chastain
My wife says that stage acting is like being on a tightrope with no net, and being in the movies, there is a net -… — Eli Wallach
I think that you can fall into bad habits with comedy... It's a tightrope to stay true to the character, true to the irony, and… — Ben Kingsley
In this day and time, with no competition you are really walking a tightrope. I mean you may think that no competition is good, but… — Jerry Lawler
Achievement must be made against the possibility of failure, against the risk of defeat. It is no achievement to walk a tightrope laid flat on… — Ray Kroc
When he grew old, Aristotle, who is not generally considered a tightrope dancer, liked to lose himself in the most labyrinthine and subtle of discourses… — Michel de Certeau
Sometimes I think we're all tightrope walkers suspended on a wire two thousand feet in the air, and so long as we never look down… — Dorothy Gilman
Somewhere between sanity and madness lays a fine line, for some it is a tightrope walked daily, a fight for balance to be won or… — ZoÃ« Heller
The beginnings were sweet, the endings usually bitter, but the middles were only the tightrope you walked between the one and the other. No more… — Robert Goolrick
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
A photographer is part pick-pocket and part tightrope dancer. — Henri Cartier-Bresson
It is no achievement to walk a tightrope laid flat on the floor. — Ray Kroc
I suppose that there are endeavors in which self-confidence is even more important than it is in writing -- tightrope walking comes immediately to mind… — Calvin Trillin
Designing is a lot like a high-wire act - if the tightrope walker is only six inches off the ground, where's the excitement? — Douglas Wilson
Some writers find that they don't know their themes until they've finished the first draft (I am one). They then rewrite with an eye toward… — Nancy Kress
Men walk this tightrope where any sign of weakness illicits shame, and so they're afraid to make themselves vulnerable for fear of looking weak. — BrenÃ© Brown
I want to be an entrepreneur too; I like the business side of things. When I was younger I wanted to be a vet or… — Georgia May Jagger
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… — Matt Groening

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