Stay away from the ropes
Those who sell their liberty for security are understandable, if pitiable, creatures. Those who sell the liberty of others for wealth, power, or even a moments respite deserve only the end of a rope.
Ah!" I cried, springing up. "But no! no! My uncle shall never know it. He would insist upon doing it too. He would want to know all about it. Ropes could not hold him, such a determined geologist as he is! He would start, he would, in spite of everything and everybody, and he would take me with him, and we should never get back. No, never! never!" My over-excitement was beyond all description.
What! Get to heaven on your own strength? Why, you might as well try to climb to the moon on a rope of sand!
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.
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.
When a knot gets to tight, you can always cut the rope
Stay triumphant, keep on living. Stay on your toes, get off the ropes. Don't let 'em ever count you out.
When I can make Of ten small words a rope to hang the world! "I had you and I have you now no more.
When Amos Moses was a boy his daddy would use him for alligator bait, tie a rope around his neck and throw him in the swamp.
The essence of show business is, if you see a tight-rope walker go across a tight rope, everybody claps. But, if you see him wobble, everybody gasps.
I played on teams with 24 guys pulling the rope one way and one guy pulling the other. I've seen how destructive it can be. I tell them, 'If 13 of you are insanely successful and one fails, we all lose. '
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.
Making a film is like learning the ropes all over again.
A man is like a rope: both break at a definite strain. . . . The solution is not splicing the rope; it's lessening the tension.
We cannot swing up a rope that is attached only to our own belt.
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.
Songs are like ropes that you can kind of hang on to or pull yourself up on.
I go to pick up a girl in a bar. I say will you go home with me? She says I don't know, do you have cable? I say no, but the rope should work just fine.
Republicans and conservatives have to figure out that Democrats have plenty of rope to hang themselves on their own. But you have to give voters a reason to vote for you as well.