Home
Topics
Authors
:
A
B
C
D
E
F
G
H
I
J
K
L
M
N
O
P
Q
R
S
T
U
V
W
X
Y
Z

Philippe Petit Quotes

If I had been born in the circus, my parents would have pushed me on that little high wire at four years old. That's when the body is most limber to learn those acrobatics.

Philippe Petit

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: celebrity
Nationality: french
Birth: August 13, 1949

Topics

Parents Me Learn Body Born Circus

What I try to capture as a writer is the feeling of being alive, of being awake.

Jenny Offill

Feeling Alive Try Capture Awake

I spend so much time hoping things for myself.

Jenny Slate

Time Myself Things Much Spend

I hate to think life is just facts and laws.

Ang Lee

Life Hate Think Facts Laws Just

I don't think we're at the point where most people are willing to get rid of body parts and replace them, but then again, people who shoot lasers in their eyes come out with better-than-perfect vision.

John Scalzi

Vision Eyes People Think Body Out

Very often, people are obsessed with what others think of them. It's like if a flower wants to be a cactus or a palm but it's not. A flower is a flower, and that's enough. That's all you have to do is be a flower.

Stjepan Hauser

Flower People Think Enough You Palm

My father was a minister and so rock music was banned in our house.

Tori Amos

Father Music House Rock Rock Music

My mother, who was professional schoolteacher, was particularly concerned about our formal education and even went so far as to start a private school together with some other parents so that our intellectual needs would be met.

Robert B. Laughlin

Education Mother Together School Far

He's my father married to my sister. That makes me his son and his brother-in-law. That is such a moral transgression... I cannot see him. I cannot have a relationship with my father and be morally consistent. I lived with all these adopted children, so they are my family. To say Soon-Yi was not my sister is an insult to all adopted children.

Ronan Farrow

Family Father Son Children Sister

As it turns out, three of my four kids are professional singers. And they're really interesting, good singers.

Loudon Wainwright III

Good Interesting Professional Three

I love to go see big movies, I just don't make them. It's just a different business.

Jason Blum

Love Business Go Movies See Big

Mick Jagger can't even make a successful solo album, and the Stones are the biggest rock group that ever was.

Don Henley

Group Rock Solo Successful Stones

Some people believe God is involved in every little decision we make. Some people believe you're given the free will to make the decisions. Sometimes people believe God is not involved at all.

Dean Cain

God Decision People Free Believe