Top 167 Ropes Quotes & Sayings

I am not a trained singer, but I used to sing for my father's theatre troupe and that's where I learnt the ropes of pitch and rhythm.

If you don't break your ropes while you're alive, do you think ghosts will do it after?

Relationships are ropes. Love is a noose. - Durzo Blint

Truth had me up against the ropes And semi-conscious without no boxing skills.

Songs are like ropes that you can kind of hang on to or pull yourself up on.

A woman needs ropes and ropes of pearls.

Having to wander through a maze of ropes at an airport or bank even when you are the only person in line.

God and devotee are bound for ever in ropes of love

He describes it as a large apartment, with a red brick floor and a capacious chimney; the ceiling garnished with hams, sides of bacon, and ropes of onions.

So many times in the history of Mormon polygamy, the outside world thought it had the movement on the ropes only to see it flourish anew.

I've always got into stunts; even at drama school, I was falling down trap doors, and swinging in on ropes.

Everton are now hitting the ropes running.

Every bit as visceral and hypnotic as its award-winning predecessor, On the Ropes is a tour-de-force of fluid, yet detailed storytelling.

I never thought I could do certain things like somersaults and jumping off the ropes and flips. When you actually learn to do it, you're really amazed with what your body can do.

I thought wrestling was the stuff where people jumped off ropes. So that was my experience with wrestling.

I tend to avoid televisions, politics, and places with velvet ropes.

For poems are not words, after all, but fires for the cold, ropes let down to the lost, something as necessary as bread in the pockets of the hungry.

Bhushan didn't want me to assist any director in Bollywood to learn the ropes, as it wouldn't have been appropriate, since I'm his wife.

I'd forgotten how challenging comics can be until I started working on Ropes. Yes, you're restricted by the boundaries of the page, but we all work within technical limitations of some kind.

...don't create snakes out of ropes. You have enough to worry about.

I always tell younger actors that if they want to learn the ropes, there's no better place to do it than right here in the U.K.

The only problem with Pride was guys would try to slip through the ropes to escape. But other than that, I love Pride rules.

Net neutrality is one where we the people are definitely on the ropes.

I was surfing the Internet, and I came across a school in Atlanta where you could learn how to climb trees with ropes the way the pros do. It sounded terrific, and so I went down there, and I began to learn these kind of rarified techniques for how you get up and down trees while using special ropes and gear.

Stay away from the ropes

People keep themselves at a tolerable height above an infernal abyss toward which they gravitate only by putting out all their strength and lovingly helping one another. They are tied together by ropes, and it's bad enough when the ropes around an individual loosen and he drops somewhat lower than the others into empty space; ghastly when the ropes break and he falls. That's why we should cling to the others.

Around existence twine, (Oh, bridge that hangs across the gorge!) ropes of twisted vine.

It's the ropes and the reins, and the joy and the pain. And they call the thing rodeo.

Let people return to making knots on ropes, instead of writing.

I never really had role models or guys in the NBA to show me the ropes or be a friend, mentor to me like that.

I will venture to go... but remember that you must hold the ropes.

Great blunders are often made, like large ropes, of a multitude of fibres.

I was asked to go in to the ring and perform things I was very uncomfortable with - doing jumps from high ropes in five inch heels.

We didn't have the lane ropes, we had to get up higher in the water to avoid the little waves.

I've loved wrestling from the first moment I stepped between the ropes. Don't know where I'd be without it.

I might be out of the league if I didn't have a guy like K.G. to show me the ropes and a coach like Doc Rivers.

Ah, we men and women are like ropes drawn tight with strain that pull us in different directions.

Every time I step foot through the ropes, I try to entertain and put on the best match possible.

Niggers was the ones on the rope, hanging off the thing. Niggas is the ones with gold ropes,hanging out at clubs.

It was only in 2001 that I set up a foundation, Arghyam. That was pretty much to learn the ropes of how to give, what to do.

Look at that sea, girls--all silver and shadow and vision of things not seen. We couldn't enjoy its loveliness any more if we had millions of dollars and ropes of diamonds.

Stay triumphant, keep on living. Stay on your toes, get off the ropes. Don't let 'em ever count you out.

My uncle is just, like, always pushing me to be better, be a man, and showing me the ropes of the game.

A women needs ropes and ropes of pearls.

I really like battle ropes. They're so versatile; you can get a terrific workout doing a ton of different exercises with them. My clients like them because they're a good way to get aggression out, too. Had a bad day? Take it out on the ropes!

Yonder showed me the ropes about life, showed me the ropes about baseball life; he showed me a lot that I couldn't have learned by myself.

Possibilities swung from the ropes of his life like charms on a watch chain, golden.

I hope no one asks me to show them the ropes; I have no idea where they are. Maybe I could pull some strings and find out.

I know the ropes of this industry, and I also know how unpredictable it can be.

Making a film is like learning the ropes all over again.

At one time, I wanted to be a WWE wrestler. I still do. I want to go in the ring once and mess around and jump off the ropes and do a Stone Cold stunt.

When the mighty chains of darkness had me on the ropes, everyone said quit now, that's when I found hope.

I've looked that old scoundrel death in the eye many times but this time I think he has me on the ropes.

Whatever happens, do not lose hold of the two main ropes of life - hope and faith.

My familiarity with the successful use of very long steel ropes for mining purposes naturally suggested their adaptation to the new purpose of deep sea work.

At my academy, I have a full 20x20 canvas but I don't have any ropes around it and do that for a reason so I don't get on my back on the ropes.

A dame that knows the ropes isn't likely to get tied up.

That's what it's like when people have crawled very high up in a tree, then they sometimes need help to get down with ladders and ropes and other instruments.

Writing is an affair of yearning for great voyages and hauling on frayed ropes.

For them to have the season that they had, for them to have us on the ropes ... Congrats to the Cavs.