Tightrope Quotes

“Do you have kids?" Anna asks.I laugh. "What do you think?""It's probably a good thing," she admits. "No offense, but you don't exactly look like a parent."That fascinates me. "What do parents look like?"She seems to think about this. "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 he's really just hoping he makes it all the way across? Like that.”

“When you walk a tightrope, you don't want to be eating buttered popcorn.”

“Are we etched in stone or just scratched in the sand Waiting for the waves to come and reclaim the land?tightrope - stone roses”

“I am reminded of an image...that living with a terminal disease is like walking on a tightrope over an insanely scary abyss. But that living without disease is also like walking on a tightrope over an insanely scary abyss, only with some fog or cloud cover obscuring the depths a bit more -- sometimes the wind blowing it off a little, sometimes a nice dense cover.”

“Life is a tightrope walk. One has to balance the do's and don'ts.”

“A well-developed sense of humor is the pole that adds balance to your steps as you walk the tightrope of life.”

“Both precious and absurd, this tightrope of existence we walk in both directions; strung only on a rhythm of heartbeats across a void”

“In the beginning you must subject yourself to the influence of nature. You must be able to walk firmly on the ground before you start walking on a tightrope.”

“Skill is successfully walking a tightrope between the twin towers of New York's World Trade Center. Intelligence is not trying.”