Tightrope Quotes

53 Tightrope quotes by 51 unique authors

I have a very eclectic iPod. So I've got my cardio people - so it's anything from Beyonce to some Jay-Z to Janelle Monae, her… — Michelle Obama
Skill is successfully walking a tightrope between the twin towers of New York's World Trade Center. Intelligence is not trying. — Marilyn vos Savant
A well-developed sense of humor is the pole that adds balance to your steps as you walk the tightrope of life. — William Arthur Ward
Life is always a tightrope or a feather bed. Give me the tightrope. — Edith Wharton
Criticism - however valid or intellectually engaging - tends to get in the way of a writer who has anything personal to say. A tightrope… — J.R.R. Tolkien
It was a Monday and they walked on a tightrope to the sun. — Markus Zusak
An honest religious thinker is like a tightrope walker. He almost looks as though he were walking on nothing but air. His support is the… — Ludwig Wittgenstein
Being in a foreign country means walking a tightrope high above the ground without the net afforded a person by the country where he has… — Milan Kundera
To know nothing about yourself is to be constantly in danger of nothingness, those voids of non-being over which a man walks the tightrope of… — Athol Fugard
To be left alone on the tightrope of youthful unknowing is to experience the excruciating beauty of full freedom and the threat of eternal indecision. — Maya Angelou
The terrible thing about love is that it takes away your safety net, your balancing pole. Even the tightrope you walk upon will disappear beneath… — Christopher Barzak
You know how the tightrope guy at the circus wants everyone to believe his act is an art, but deep down you can see that… — Jodi Picoult
To be left alone on the tightrope of youthful unknowing is to experience the excruciating beauty of full freedom and the threat of eternal indecision.… — Maya Angelou
The line between normal and crazy seemed impossibly thin. A person would have to be an expert tightrope walker in order not to fall. — Augusten Burroughs
If you're frightened of damaging yourself, you increase the risk of doing just that. Consider the tightrope walker. Do you think he spares any thought… — Mathias Malzieu
Any tightrope walker can walk in a straight line and hold a cane at the same time. It's the balancing on the rope at those… — Cecelia Ahern
It is not merely enough to love literature if one wishes to spend one's life as a writer. It is a dangerous undertaking on the… — Harlan Ellison
With cold eyes and indifferent mind the spectators regard the work. Connoissers admire the "skill" (as one admires a tightrope walker), enjoy the "quality of… — Wassily Kandinsky
It doesn't feel like a date. It doesn't feel like friendship. It feels like something that fell off the tightrope but hasn't yet hit the… — David Levithan
You may reasonably expect a man to walk a tightrope safely for ten minutes; it would be unreasonable to do so without accident for two… — Bertrand Russell
The biggest lesson that I've learned is that fashion is this tightrope where you have to be consistent but inconsistent. You need the connective thread… — Michael Kors
The short story is a very natural mode of storytelling; most stories can be told quickly. I always think of them as like a tightrope… — Kevin Barry
The qualities of an exceptional cook are akin to those of a successful tightrope walker: an abiding passion for the task, courage to go out… — Bryan Q. Miller
The world may end up under a Sword of Damocles on a tightrope over the abyss. — Andrei A Gromyko
To truly know, Love, It's beauty, It's depths, We must know, Pain, Loss, Heartache. To truly know, Passion, We must have known, Indifference. To truly… — Eric Nickel

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