Tightrope Quotes
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Tightrope Quotes & Sayings
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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 hundred years.
— Bertrand Russell
Are we etched in stone or just scratched in the sand
Waiting for the waves to come and reclaim the land?
tightrope - stone roses — Matt Squire
Waiting for the waves to come and reclaim the land?
tightrope - stone roses — Matt Squire
Singing bel canto is like walking on a tightrope - especially with a larger voice like mine.
— Sondra Radvanovsky
She walks a tightrope between psycho and smokin'.
— Daniel Marks
My cousin just died. He was only 19. He got stung by a bee - the natural enemy of a tightrope walker.
— Dan Rather
It is really a tightrope sort of thing, living.
— Joy Hester
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 net.
— David Levithan
A photographer is part pick-pocket and part tightrope dancer.
— Henri Cartier-Bresson
I'd rather walk a tightrope than have my feet on the ground.
— Nicole Kidman
If one's life depends on doing something right, as in the case of the tightrope walker, one will practice on a much deeper level.
— Kenny Werner
Americans like optimism, and 'Once' walks a tightrope: you feel uplifted at the end even if you're crying.
— John Carney
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
[ Being naked on scene ] was like walking a tightrope without a net - with a giant fan blowing at you.
— Joe Manganiello
The world may end up under a Sword of Damocles on a tightrope over the abyss.
— Andrei A. Gromyko
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
It was a Monday and they walked on a tightrope to the sun.
— Markus Zusak
This state of equilibrium is only attractive when we walk a tightrope; sitting on the ground there is nothing marvellous about it." 12
— Bjorn N. Sandaker
Skill is successfully walking a tightrope over Niagara Falls. Intelligence is not trying.
— Marilyn Vos Savant
Anybody in my job steers a tightrope between being popular and being principled.
— Virginia Bottomley
Tiptoeing on a tightrope past insider trading laws may be deft and clever, but it doesn't make it right.
— Andrew Ross Sorkin
I treat my life as though I am on a tightrope.
— Don McCullin
A person riding a unicycle on a tightrope doesn't worry about being likeable; they're doing something amazing that very few people can do.
— Ted Alexandro
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
It's like being on a tightrope stretched tightly between two skyscrapers - the past and the future.
— Donna Cooner
Every working mom I know is constantly walking some kind of a tightrope of guilt.
— Sarah Wayne Callies
Hipsterdom's a tightrope strung across the canyon of douche-baggery. He clung by a finger.
— Anthony Marra
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
Doing theater is like walking a tightrope without a net.
— Joe Manganiello
You don't have to be someone who likes walking a tightrope across the Twin Towers to watch 'Man On Wire.'
— Asif Kapadia
If you had a friend who was a tightrope walker, and you were walking down a sidewalk, and he fell, that would be completely unacceptable.
— Mitch Hedberg
In the half light of morning, in a world between the sheets
I swear I saw her angel wing, my vision was complete
from TIGHTROPE - Stone Roses — Matt Squire
I swear I saw her angel wing, my vision was complete
from TIGHTROPE - Stone Roses — Matt Squire
Writers themselves don't analyze what they do; to analyze would be to look down while crossing a canyon on a tightrope.
— Nadine Gordimer
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.
— Brene Brown