Rope Quotations

I don't really believe in 'directions' in art; the rope twists as you follow it, that's all.

Weave me a rope that will pull me through these impossible times.

A guy's who has all the money he needs and never faced any hard times, he won't have any character. But when you've had it tough and you've had it rough and you thought you were at the end of the rope and you work your way out of it, that's the way you build character.

I very rarely saw Tom Kite around. I've talked to Tom about it. I don't think Michael Jordan needed to be on the captain's cart with Kite; he needed to be walking in the gallery, supporting them from outside the ropes.

You don't need a rope to pinch a stranger's butt.

You might think about putting some heavy-duty hooks into the ceiling joists and beams so that you can have a rope ladder, or a small swing inside your house.

By the second tour I had rice cakes and hummus with me, and I was jumping rope in my room.

At home, when the heating pipes made noises, I imagined a tiny person was in there skipping with a rope. The fantasy world of tiny things became my escape.

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

It was as helpful as throwing a drowning man both ends of the rope.

On one level the sixties revolt was an impressive illustration of Lenin's remark that the capitalist will sell you the rope to hang him with.

I've been working with a holistic specialist, trying to bring my body into balance, and part of making that happen is putting my mom's death into a healthier perspective. I really need to let her go, let her go into the infinite. I can't keep hanging onto this rope that connects us.

Give him enough rope and he will hang himself.

I tend to pick objectives that I feel are safe because I know that, in the moment, I always go for it. I have some rules for myself, though: Look for the rock faces without a lot of loose rock. Always rope up on glaciers where there is even a slight chance of falling into a crevasse. No pure free soloing. Never climb below hanging glaciers.

I'd go to Coney Island to hang out, and I saw a magician doing a rope trick on the boardwalk. I was fascinated. I guess that's how it started.

If I do hit that rope and do a hop, skip and a jump and get up as high as I can, I'm just going to hold my breath, because I know i'm going to hear all kinds of scar tissue popping.

Don't ever rope me in as a late-night talk show host. I don't want to be one.

We've gone from the image of India as land of fakirs lying on beds of nails, and snake charmers with the Indian rope trick, to the image of India as a land of mathematical geniuses, computer wizards, software gurus.

I've seen some terrible plays, but I generally enjoy myself. One play I walked out of, I have a tremendous respect for the author. That was Robert Wilson, something called 'Network,' which consisted of Wilson sitting on a bunk, the dialogue of the movie 'Network' looped in while a chair on a rope went up and down.

I have a great tip - I have a jumping rope in the house, and I just do ten minutes of it whenever I can. You don't need to work out for hours, just ten minutes will do.

They call it the rope-a-dope. Well, I'm the dope. Ali just laid on the rope and I, like a dope, kept punching until I got tired. But he was probably the most smart fighter I've ever gotten into the ring with.

When I saw Wonder Woman being constantly put in positions where she'd get tied up with her own rope, or held hostage, even as a kid, my reaction was 'C'mon, she's too smart for that.'

Most songs that aren't jump-rope songs, or lullabies, are cautionary tales or goodbye songs and road songs.

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

Less rope is needed for two necks as the Government's noose tightens.

Less rope is needed for two necks, as the government's noose tightens. The government always benefits from the addition of high-level insiders who would have been party to conversations with most senior executives.

(Los Banos) picked it up a little bit and we didn't respond real well to it. The bottom line is that we had them on the rope and then gave up a couple threes for a 6-0 run.

How easy it is for a fantasy to grab hold of your foot like a rope, and dangle your life upside down while brigands go through your pockets ... Deal with the life you've got. Solve the problems you have, rather than fantasizing about a life without them.

His hands would plait the priest's guts, if he had no rope, to strangle kings.

Give a man enough rope and he'll hang himself.

If I'm going to hang myself, ... I'll put a rope around my neck. I just don't get into them. I think they're boring ... You can't get a coat and tie on this fat boy.

But they didn't have enough rope to pull me up. So they called the Jet Ski people and waited with me until they came and got me.

But all they want to do Is tie the poem to a chair with rope And torture a confession out of it. They begin beating it with a hose To find out what it really means.

He hauls at a long rope who expects another's death.

He tells us to get right alongside the head, so we do, and tie the rope off along the side with about 30, 40 feet of line.

He who is anxious for the death of another has a long rope to pull

He had to negotiate the rope ladder down to the launch. It was not an easy task, but no one offered to help him. Eventually, he managed.

I'm a musician who's at the end of his rope who's been addicted to coke for a while,

I was downright obnoxious. In second grade, we had some program where we kept a public list of all the books we read. I think it even included the number of pages. In my nerdy mind, having the longest and most impressive list was somehow going to make up for the fact that I couldn't climb a rope or do a backwards summersault in PE.

Marvel is the reason why I'm still playing football. Bottom line. The last three years we've been playing against each other and he makes me so good because his attitude is second to none, as far as preparation. There's nobody on the team that works harder than Marvel Smith. There isn't. You go in the weight room every day after practice and he's in there. He's getting better. His mechanics are superb, man. He stays square; his hands are great; his feet are good. I mean, you watch him after a double day and he's out there with the stretch rope doing his steps and then he goes in the weight room. He won't let anyone outwork him or outplay him. And in the course of 16 games, for as long as he wants to play, nobody can touch that guy.

I suppose being a bit of an antisocial weirdo definitely honed my skills as a soloist. It gave me a lot more opportunities to solo lots of easy routes, which in turn broadened my comfort zone quite a bit and has allowed me to climb the harder things without a rope that I've done now.

Man may escape from rope and gun; Nay, some have outliv'd the doctor's pill: Who takes a woman must be undone, That basilisk is sure to kill

John McIntyre was originally strangled. But the rope was too thick. So he was gagging. So Jimmy shot him in the head. And then pulled his teeth. And we buried him.

I'm sitting there after the second inning and we're losing, 5-0, and I've shown no signs of being able to get them out. Like I said, after the second inning, I was at the end of my rope and I had to figure out which way I was going to go.

I think there's not enough made about the chemistry of a team and the ability of everybody to pull on the same end of the rope and worry about what matters, and that's wins.

It could have been a lot worse. The tree service worked for five hours tying the tree so they could cut it down, but some of the rope just came loose.

I tied the rope around me and called up, if somebody had a cell phone, to call my sister and tell her I was OK. I didn't want her hearing about it on the news. We're very close.

We had one man out there trying to snag the flag with a fishing pole, since we couldn't use the rope to bring down the Mexican flag. I think all of our residents were upset about this, and we have a very diversified population here.

To be clear, I normally climb with a rope and partner. Free-soloing makes up only a small percentage of my total climbing. But when I do solo, I manage the risk through careful preparation. I don't solo anything unless I'm sure I can do it.

We don't have one of those houses where there's a rope that separates the kids' area from the adult area. There's a happy medium. It's all about fabric choices, accessories.

You can build a big metro economy purely out of high-level services. You get people there with gambling, then rope them into consuming other things.

You can come across as a jerk. ... But that's the No. 1 characteristic we're looking for from guys on our field. Whether it's checkers or jump rope or football, to stop me you've got to bring everything you've got.

We got embarrassed. We know it. We got our (expletive) kicked. (Today's) a different game. Hopefully, in the first period we'll have enough guys pulling the rope the same way.

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

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

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

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

We're all driven to premieres or nightclubs and seen the rope separating those who can enter and those who can't. Well, there's also velvet rope we have inside of us, keeping others from knowing our feelings.

There are two sides of the Velvet Rope. Those who want to be on the other side and those who are on the other side.

Remember how it was when we kissed? Armfuls and armfuls of light thrown right at us. A rope dropping down from the sky. How can the word love and the word life even fit in the mouth?

It's an old sailor's idea that every ship has a rope with one end made fast to her bows and the other held by the loved ones at home.

You cannot put a rope around the neck of an idea.

All they want to do is tie the poem to a chair with a rope and torture a confession out of it. They begin beating it with a hose to find out what it really means.

When a knot gets to tight, you can always cut the rope

When I can make Of ten small words a rope to hang the world! "I had you and I have you now no more.

Sometimes you can cattle rope your heart and sometimes you can't, is all.

When the wake-initiated lucid dream occurs, I stretch rope from a window to another And I dance.

Once released from life, having lost it in such violence, I couldn’t calculate my steps. I didn’t have time for contemplation. In violence it is the getting out that you concentrate on. When you begin to go over the edge, life receding from you as a boat recedes inevitably from the shore, you hold on to death tightly, like a rope that will transport you, and you swing out on it, hoping to land away from where you are.

I tied down time with a rope but it came back. Then I put my head in a death bowl and my eyes shut up like clams. They didn't come back.

Thurber did not write the way a surgeon operates, he wrote the way a child skips rope, the way a mouse waltzes.

The universe is illusion merely, not one speck of it real, and we are not only its victims, falling always into or smashed by a planet slung by the sun-but also its captives, bound by the mineral-made ropes of our senses.

When Rhett went down he picked up the rope and was unbelievable in the second half, ... He has waited his time and when Ben Hudson unfortunately went down he grabbed his opportunity with both hands.

When people send people on summer camps or bonding trips, they send them to do things like high rope climbing or extraordinary things. And when you do extraordinary things with people, like fighting battles or simulating huge wars, you do bond very quickly.

God's address is at the end of your rope.

My genes, my love, are rubber bands and rope; make yourself a structure you can live inside. Amen." — Aimee Bender (Willful Creatures: Stories)

Life is either always a tight-rope or a featherbed. Give me a tight-rope.

I was jumping rope. Everything was fine. And then suddenly everything seemed so futile.

The man who votes for the saloon is pulling on the same rope with the devil, whether he knows it or not.

When we hang the capitalists they will sell us the rope

We knew where it was because of its radio collar, and we treed it using hounds. We tranquilized it, and it stayed up in the tree, so our tree climber went up, put a rope around him and lowered him.

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

Communication is always a challenge in every district, ... Canton has a marvelous school district, and if we can get everyone to pull on the rope in the same direction we can do nothing but improve.

The soul that is attached to anything however much good there may be in it, will not arrive at the liberty of divine union. For whether it be a strong wire rope or a slender and delicate thread that holds the bird, it matters not, if it really holds it fast; for, until the cord be broken the bird cannot fly.

We've had three calls in reference to that rope swing in the past roughly six months, in reference to injuries,

Between car payments, getting married, buying property, having children, dealing with deaths, most people walk a very tight rope with debt. They make the huge mistake of only making minimum payments. Once something goes wrong in their lives and they need money fast ? they are at a major loss.

Put a rope around your neck and many will be happy to drag you along

Once you get over the rope burns, it wasn't bad. It's been a very questionable mood outside of our staff. We had so many good years back to back that people expect it all the time. We have lacked consistency for the last few years. I think the hardest part of my job is winning enough games to keep people happy.

A lot of places we couldn't use our boats. So one place...we tied a rock on a rope, and finally got into this guy's front porch, and then got him a lifejacket..... and tied a rope around it and got him out that way.

Rope baskets are a little bit scary. It's a safe operation as long as everything goes right. If you have bad weather, you have to depend on the crane operator and boat skipper - a lot of people are responsible for your safety.

You might as well have put her on a stage eating a plate of spaghetti and put a rope round her chair instead of putting her in a theatre where she wasn't at home and was struggling.

I'm not trying to be malicious. The only thing that Rene actually did with Velvet Rope is the production of the opening of the show.

I had the fish on a rope at the end of the dock, and I told John to pull the rope up because at the end was a fish we've been fishing for since we were kids, the one we've been dreaming of catching. When he pulled that rope up, he pulled it ever so slowly, like an inch at a time. And there on the end was that 20-pounder, and it no longer was a dream, but something we both could see and touch.

In the first rule of politics, you know, Harry Truman, the buck stops here. Take responsibility. What I've learned over the years is that people will give people in politics a lot of rope if they just take responsibility.

I had a client who was at the end of her rope and there wasn't much money on the table for her at selling time. She had been carrying this house, hoping to get a better price, but the strategy blew up in her face and she was now paying the consequences of 12 months of carrying costs that had eaten substantially into her equity. You have to be flexible and realize that people are in different circumstances.

I walk the straight lines. I walk through the summer nights. I walk the silver rope of dreams. I walk through dawns of dawns. Theres not a lot that isnt dying. I see people parading in front of each other like insects in a killing jar, watching each other die. I walk the straight lines throught the Christ machines. Through the eyes of throwaway people. Through the wards and the shores and the cracks in the skulls of the sidewalks. Through loves howling vacancy. I am the freedom soil. I dig my own grave. I resurrect myself every night. I am all things to myself. I walk the straight lines. I walk the spiderss jailhouse. I walk the think line, the thin line, the white line and all the line in between. I wish I could trade in my eyes.

Skipping -- at least without a rope -- is a little on the baby side, Carol, ... But you can if you want. We don't mind, do we, S-J?

Sunday, that was our ""fun day"". After Sunday school a group of boys that lived around Purdy, would meet at my house, nearly all owned saddle horses. We would go out on the prairie, there was not very many fences then. We would rope calves and have our rodeo, riding these calves on Sunday was when I learned to ride.

Sunday, that was our "fun day". After Sunday school a group of boys that lived around Purdy, would meet at my house, nearly all owned saddle horses. We would go out on the prairie, there was not very many fences then. We would rope calves and have our rodeo, riding these calves on Sunday was when I learned to ride.

The Bank of England is walking on a tight rope as the data this week has been quite weak, pointing to downside risks in the economy. We see sterling coming down from their lift last week, going lower against the euro from here.

Once or twice a week, I try to do some kind of boxing. I'm hitting the bags and jumping rope - all that stuff.