Wire Quotes

337 quotes by 282 authors

It is treacherous on a high wire to change your focus point and suddenly look down. — Philippe Petit
If I have to make a self-portrait, I would put poetry and rebellion on the list. To be able to walk on a wire, to… — Philippe Petit
My time is always divided when I prepare for a wire walk. First I dream, technically and artistically, and then I go to work, and… — Philippe Petit
It would be very, very dangerous for a wire walker to experience fear while he is balancing on the wire. Fear has its place on… — Philippe Petit
If I am practicing on the wire, and you pushed me, I would not move, and if you take a piece of wood and beat… — Philippe Petit
Of course, the slightest little mistake on the wire will deprive me of my life, so in that sense, yes, it is a dangerous profession.… — Philippe Petit
On a very long and very high wire, I will not hope to not be blown off by high winds. I will have the certitude… — Philippe Petit
I am not up there by chance. I am there by choice. And I know the wire. And I know my limits. And I am… — Philippe Petit
I am the poet of the high wire - I never do stunts; I do theatrical performances. — Philippe Petit
The meat-and-potatoes work of world journalism is performed by the wire service reporters. — Bob Greene
When Paul and I were first friends, starting in the sixth grade and seventh grade, we would sing a little together and we would make… — Art Garfunkel
There was some scene in The Blues Brothers movie, when they had the chicken wire across the front of the stage, and it was almost… — William Bell
We were the first urban school system in the country to wire all of our schools for the Internet. — Thomas Menino
I was relatively technically adept. I can edit and wire up a light. — Ian Hart
In the first debate the bulges create the impression of a letter T with a small feature which appears similar to a wire under the… — Robert Nelson
Iron which is brought near a spiral of copper wire, traversed by an electrical current, becomes magnetic, and then attracts other pieces of iron, or… — Hermann von Helmholtz
Later we learned that it was one of our own men hanging on the wire. Nobody could do anything for him; two men had already… — Ernst Toller
When the machine had been fastened with a wire to the track, so that it could not start until released by the operator, and the… — Orville Wright
Instead of an attic with a few test tubes, bits of wire and odds and ends, the attack on the atomic nucleus has required the… — Ernest Lawrence
I started walking a wire when I was 2 years old, and this has been a dream of mine to recreate this walk. — Nik Wallenda

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