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We forget the origin of a parvenu if he remembers it; we remember it if he forgets it.
— Jean Antoine Petit-Senn
Limits exist only in the souls of those who do not dream.
— Philippe Petit
It's impossible, that's for sure. So let's start working.
— Philippe Petit
My parents were intelligent and encouraging, but at the same time, they were displeased at me becoming a wandering troubadour and wire walker.
— Philippe Petit
Adversity, which makes us indulgent to others, renders them severe towards us.
— Jean Antoine Petit-Senn
The rest is usually just an inhuman amount of tenacious work.
— Philippe Petit
You're beautiful, but you're empty. No one could die for you.
— Antoine De Saint-Exupery
A pedant holds more to instruct us with what he knows, than of what we are ignorant.
— Jean Antoine Petit-Senn
Do not crowd the understanding; it can comprehend so much and no more. A pint pot will not contain the measure of a quart.
— Jean Antoine Petit-Senn
An angry woman is vindictive beyond measure, and hesitates at nothing in her bitterness.
— Jean Antoine Petit-Senn
In saying " I don't Know." opens the door to Know.
— Denice Petit
I know it's impossible. But I know I'll do it!
— Philippe Petit
I would like to continue to tell stories of what I did in a biographical way, so I will continue to write.
— Philippe Petit
If somebody wants a sheep, that is a proof that one exists.
— Antoine De Saint-Exupery
Faith is what replaces doubt in my dictionary.
— Philippe Petit
I have been expelled from five different schools when I was a kid. And I learned basically all what I do by myself.
— Philippe Petit
There is a proverb in the South that a woman laughs when she can, and weeps when she pleases.
— Jean Antoine Petit-Senn
I rendezvous with the long wire and perform the 'torero walk', gliding my feet, holding the pole away from my body, head high.
— Philippe Petit
I was not born into the world of the stuntman and the daredevil; I was born into the world of theater and writing and sculpting and classical music.
— Philippe Petit
Our virtues live upon our incomes; our vices consume our capital.
— Jean Antoine Petit-Senn
When I see three oranges, I juggle; when I see two towers, I walk!
— Philippe Petit
There was a time when fire and story would fall asleep in unison. It was dream time.
— Philippe Petit
To be able to create fully, it's maybe fine that you learn the rules, but you have to forget and to rebel against those rules.
— Philippe Petit
That prudery which survives youth and beauty resembles a scarecrow left in the fields after harvest.
— Jean Antoine Petit-Senn
It is only before those who are glad to hear it, and anxious to spread it, that we find it easy to speak ill of others.
— Jean Antoine Petit-Senn
We tire of those pleasures we take, but never of those we give.
— John Petit-Senn
Where talent is a dwarf, self-esteem is a giant.
— John Petit-Senn
I was thrown out of different schools because I was practicing my arts - magic, juggling, and the high wire.
— Philippe Petit
I've been arrested many times for illegal high wire walking and illegal street performing.
— Philippe Petit
When art in general, and film in particular, succeeds is when it pulls you away onto a voyage. Then it's a good film.
— Philippe Petit
France is hypocritical and cowardly. I sometimes think that, having been invaded by the Germans, we'd be run better today.
— Emmanuel Petit
It's always easy to describe something complex by applying to it an already known label.
— Philippe Petit
I want to keep my own guard, I want to keep my secrets, I want to keep my private life for me.
— Emmanuel Petit
Doubt springs from the mind; faith is the daughter of the soul.
— Jean Antoine Petit-Senn
I adore you, mon petit, and would never allow him to hurt you, no matter how gently or madly.
— Vladimir Nabokov
Age whitens hairs, but not sin.
— Jean Antoine Petit-Senn
If it's a problem of fire, fire might very well be the answer.
— Philippe Petit
None despise fame more heartily than those who have no possible claim to it.
— Jean Antoine Petit-Senn
Why does almost every ad agency in the world set the time on a watch at 10:10 before photographing it?
— Philippe Petit
Wirewalker, trust your feet! Let them lead you; they know the way.
— Philippe Petit
I didn't go to school much. I was thrown out of different schools, and my university is the street.
— Philippe Petit
At Arsenal me and Patrick (Vieira) didn't want to face Scholes. We would avoid him.
— Emmanuel Petit
There are two times of day in which artistic misanthropes thrive: after everyone else goes to bed, and before everyone else wakes up.
— Brandon Gene Petit
On the high wire, within months, I'm able to master all the tricks they do in the circus, except I am not satisfied.
— Philippe Petit
People who declare that they belong to no party certainly do not belong to ours.
— Jean Antoine Petit-Senn
Of all trifles, titles are the lightest.
— Jean Antoine Petit-Senn
I was in art school once a week from six to 16, which was essential in shaping my artistic sensitivity.
— Philippe Petit
Let us respect gray Lairs, but, above all, our own.
— Jean Antoine Petit-Senn
On one day of the week, I relax - which is not true, I work furiously on other things. 'Relax' is not a word to me.
— Philippe Petit
One more thing: Philippe, you are not a coward-so what I want to hear from you is the ecstatic truth about the twin towers.
— Werner Herzog
The great chastisement of a knave is not to be known, but to know himself.
— Jean Antoine Petit-Senn
Our interests are grains of opium to our consciences, but they only put it to sleep for a terrible awakening.
— Jean Antoine Petit-Senn
It is treacherous on a high wire to change your focus point and suddenly look down.
— Philippe Petit
Happiness is where we find it, but rarely where we seek it.
— Jean Antoine Petit-Senn
The true worth of a soul is revealed as much by the motive it attributes to the actions of others as by its own deeds.
— Jean Antoine Petit-Senn
Passion is the motto of all my actions.
— Philippe Petit
We find ourselves less witty in remembering what we have said than in dreaming of what we would have said.
— Jean Antoine Petit-Senn
Many fortunes, like rivers, have a pure source, but grow muddy as they grow large.
— Jean Antoine Petit-Senn
What I think tailors the creativity of most people are the rules that we learn from the age we are very small - in school, our parents.
— Philippe Petit
Death frames the high wire. But I don't see myself as taking risks. I do all of the preparations that a non-death seeker would do.
— Philippe Petit
That experience which does not make us better makes us worse.
— Jean Antoine Petit-Senn
There is certainly no beauty on earth which exceeds the natural loveliness of woman.
— Jean Antoine Petit-Senn
I will never fall prey to celebrity because I am too busy. I have other things to do than look at myself in the mirror.
— Philippe Petit
It is almost impossible to find those who admire us entirely lacking in taste.
— Jean Antoine Petit-Senn
My destiny no longer has me conquering the highest toowers in the world, but rather the void they protect.
This cannot be measured. — Philippe Petit
This cannot be measured. — Philippe Petit
Pleasure limps for him. who enjoys it alone.
— Jean Antoine Petit-Senn
Let us believe neither half of the good people tell us of ourselves, nor half the evil they say of others.
— John Petit-Senn
Conscience serves us especially to judge of the actions of others.
— Jean Antoine Petit-Senn
Pleasure and satiety live next door to each other.
— Jean Antoine Petit-Senn
Another life, if it were not better than this, would be less a promise than a threat.
— Jean Antoine Petit-Senn
Conscience whispers, but interest screams aloud.
— Jean Antoine Petit-Senn
True courage is like a kite; a contrary wind raises it higher.
— John Petit-Senn
Religion is the hospital of the souls that the world has wounded.
— Jean Antoine Petit-Senn
Tottenham tried to sign me but I held off and came to Arsenal because Arsene Wenger was here.
— Emmanuel 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 a madman of details.
— Philippe Petit
You have to grow the same way that you're seeing your own kids grow.
— Emmanuel Petit
You look at Patrick Vieira and Emmanuel Petit at Arsenal or Roy Keane at Man United, and they are players that can do everything.
— Jamie Redknapp
Obsessed people are not humorless at all.
— Philippe Petit
It is more pitiable once to have been rich than not to be rich now.
— Jean Antoine Petit-Senn
Perfect servants would be the worst of all for certain masters, whose happiness consists in finding fault with them.
— Jean Antoine Petit-Senn
The wisest man may always learn something from the humblest peasant.
— Jean Antoine Petit-Senn
In love we are not only liable to betray ourselves, but also the secrets of others.
— Jean Antoine Petit-Senn
It is not what we have but what we enjoy that constitutes our abundance.
— Jean Antoine Petit-Senn
In my life, I wanted to meet certain people. I never met Charlie Chaplin, but I met Werner Herzog.
— Philippe Petit
The virtuous woman flees from danger; she trusts more to her prudence in shunning it than in her strength to overcome it.
— Jean Antoine Petit-Senn
I've frowned at the idea of breaking records, the first one to do something, or do it longer, higher, more difficult.
— Philippe Petit
Rage is a short-lived fury.
— Jean Antoine Petit-Senn
It is easy to be virtuous in prospective.
— Jean Antoine Petit-Senn
Usually, when I walk on a wire, I inspect the anchor point on both sides before crossing.
— Philippe Petit
Do you know a young and beautiful woman who is not ready to flirt-just a little?
— Jean Antoine Petit-Senn