Top 127 Tightrope Quotes & Sayings
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Last updated on December 22, 2024.
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.
A well-developed sense of humor is the pole that adds balance to your steps as you walk the tightrope of life.
Doing theater is like walking a tightrope without a net.
Skill is successfully walking a tightrope between the twin towers of New York's World Trade Center. Intelligence is not trying.
[ Being naked on scene ] was like walking a tightrope without a net - with a giant fan blowing at you.
Isabella is a woman who kind of walks on a tightrope. She walks on that tightrope because in the 'Narcos' society that she was born in, it reflects all of the cultural things that society imposes.
Designing is a lot like a high-wire act - if the tightrope walker is only six inches off the ground, where's the excitement?
It is no achievement to walk a tightrope laid flat on the floor.
To know nothing about yourself is to be constantly in danger of nothingness, those voids of non-being over which a man walks the tightrope of his life.
Thinking in words slows you down and actually decreases comprehension in much the same way as walking a tightrope too slowly makes one lose one's balance.
... the most ordinary everyday living is as delicate, as breath-taking, as difficult, takes as terrific physical and mental control and effort, as walking a tightrope.
I'd rather walk a tightrope than have my feet on the ground.
Anybody in my job steers a tightrope between being popular and being principled.
New York was something like a circus performer walking a tightrope an juggling at the same time....It could barely maintain its position, but an movement would tip the whole balance.
The qualities of an exceptional cook are akin to those of a successful tightrope walker: an abiding passion for the task, courage to go out on a limb and an impeccable sense of balance.
If I went back to live-action, I'd have to do it the Pixar way. If I didn't, I'd feel like I was walking a tightrope without a net.
Singing bel canto is like walking on a tightrope - especially with a larger voice like mine.
A photographer is part pick-pocket and part tightrope dancer.
The storytelling in a movie is in the cut; it's in the edit. It's not an actor's job, really. Your job is such a tiny little thing, and I love the feeling of juggling or tightrope walking.
Life can be a bore if you're constantly walking sidewalks instead of a tightrope once in a while.
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.
Acting is the most insecure profession in the world - you're insecure if you're successful, you're insecure if you're not. A tightrope walk without a net. It's a miracle I'm still standing!
Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
Living with coronavirus is a tightrope walk.
I treat my life as though I am on a tightrope.
How often does the tightrope walker balance when walking across the tightrope? All the time! It is the same thing if you really want to have a successful career, and you want to have a happy home life. It is a matter of balance.
Often, contrasts bring art to life: the bright speck of paint on a dark canvas; the tightrope walk between humor and tragedy.
Life is always either; a tight -rope or a feather-bed . — Give me the tightrope.
Every working mom I know is constantly walking some kind of a tightrope of guilt.
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.
Americans like optimism, and 'Once' walks a tightrope: you feel uplifted at the end even if you're crying.
My cousin just died. He was only 19. He got stung by a bee - the natural enemy of a tightrope walker.
Life is a tightrope between two errors: generalizing the wrong particular and particularizing the wrong general.
When I was younger, I wanted to be a vet or a tightrope walker. But I have no sense of balance, and I can't bear animals dying, so I abandoned both ideas.
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.
I want to be an entrepreneur too; I like the business side of things. When I was younger I wanted to be a vet or a tightrope walker. But I have no sense of balance and I can't bear animals dying, so I abandoned both ideas.
All day I wait for my job, which I do at night, and once I get there, I walk a tightrope, jump through hoops, and take breathtaking dives.
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.
The biggest lesson that I've learned is that fashion is this tightrope where you have to be consistent but inconsistent. You need the connective thread but at the same time you need a sense of surprise.
There's an appreciation, not unlike that for dancers or tightrope walkers, of the body undergoing tests and coming through them by courage and technique; a desire for "clean" results.
An honest religious thinker is like a tightrope walker. He almost looks as though he were walking on nothing but air. His support is the slenderest imaginable. And yet it really is possible to walk on it.
Let us look at Jim Crow for the criminal he is and what he has done to one life multiplied millions of times over these United States and the world. He walks us on a tightrope from birth.
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?
You must walk that tightrope between accident and discipline. Accident by itself…so what? Discipline by itself is boring. By walking that tightrope and putting down something on a canvascoming from your guts, you have a chance of making marks that will live longer than you.
It was a Monday and they walked on a tightrope to the sun.
It is really a tightrope sort of thing, living.
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.
Writers themselves don't analyze what they do; to analyze would be to look down while crossing a canyon on a tightrope.
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.
You don't have to be someone who likes walking a tightrope across the Twin Towers to watch 'Man On Wire.'
Chinese leaders are walking a tightrope in terms of maintaining internal stability so that the solid platform that has produced amazing results can continue to improve the quality of life for more of its citizens.
Any tightrope walker can walk in a straight line and hold a cane at the same time. It's the balancing on the rope at those dizzying heights that they have to practise
The line between normal and crazy seemed impossibly thin. A person would have to be an expert tightrope walker in order not to fall.
To be left alone on the tightrope of youthful unknowing is to experience the excruciating beauty of full freedom and the threat of eternal indecision.
I say half jokingly that photography is the most difficult of the arts. It does require a certain arrogance to see and to choose. I feel myself walking on a tightrope instead of on the ground.
Life is always a tightrope or a feather bed. Give me the tightrope.
The world may end up under a Sword of Damocles on a tightrope over the abyss.
If expectations are low, you can only impress people. But if expectations are there for you to be the leading guy, and you've been paid X amount of money, you're on a tightrope, and all of a sudden, you're looking down.
Tiptoeing on a tightrope past insider trading laws may be deft and clever, but it doesn't make it right.
The beginnings were sweet, the endings usually bitter, but the middles were only the tightrope you walked between the one and the other. No more than that.
