Rope Quotes - Page 9

• You ache with loneliness one night so much you weep and I say 'here is a rope tie it around me Hafiz will be your companion for life'.

  Hafez

  Loneliness, Night, Ties

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

  Rich Hall

  Humorous, Airports, Mazes

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• I always knew I had to be 100 percent in charge, even when I was a middle manager. I used to say to my boss, "Just give me enough rope and then fire me."

  Ricky Gervais

  Fire, Giving, Boss

  "Ricky Gervais: The ESQ+A". Interview with Scott Raab, www.esquire.com. January 12, 2012.

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• It pains me to see my old company, which has meant so much to America, on the ropes. But Chrysler has been in trouble before, and we got through it, and I believe they can do it again... Let's face it, if your car breaks down, you're not going to take it to the White House to get fixed. But, if your company breaks down, you've got to go to the experts on the ground, not the bureaucrats.

  Lee Iacocca

  Pain, Believe, White

  "Lee Iacocca On Chrysler's Bankruptcy" by Julie Halpert, www.newsweek.com. April 29, 2009.

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• Victory is freedom of mind and body.' I believe that is true. I would go further and say that victory is freedom of mind from body. Separation from the thing that imprisons us. Flight. Perhaps freedom from life itself. That is victory. Life is brutal. It is like this whip and these ropes. It hurts. It scars. But we must take it.

  Douglas Clegg

  Hurt, Believe, Victory

  Douglas Clegg (2004). “The Machinery of Night”

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• My meetings with [Ahmed Chalabi] were very brief. I mean, I think I met with him at the State of the Union and just kind of working through the rope line, and he might have come with a group of leaders. But I haven't had any extensive conversations with him.

  George W. Bush

  Mean, Thinking, Leader

  Remarks By The President On Iraqi Interim Government, georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov. June 1, 2004.

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• When a man has the rope about his neck, you don't ask him about his health!

  Leonid Andreyev

  Death, Men, Necks

  Leonid Andreyev (1922). “He who Gets Slapped: A Play in Four Acts”

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• Understand, my own politics aren't necessarily interchangeable with what any of my characters believe. You could take each of the characters in On the Ropes, and I'd probably be in sympathy with a different one on any given day, depending on what's going on in the world.

  James Vance

  Believe, Character, Different

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Each firm held its rope; one by one, they realized that no matter how strongly they pulled, the balloon would eventually lift them off their feet.

  Michael Lewis

  Feet, Matter, Balloons

  Michael Lewis (2015). “The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine (movie tie-in)”, p.221, W. W. Norton & Company

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• 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.

  Anders Fogh Rasmussen

  People, Tree, Needs

  "British guns blazing as EU summit opens" by Andrew Rettman, euobserver.com. June 21, 2007.

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• About three years went by and I had become exhausted - really at the end of my rope almost - and I thought I couldn't last much longer... and at the very end, when I thought of giving it all up, suddenly I thought it was good. I knew that I now understood something about it and I painted it as easily as you can imagine.

  Milton Resnick

  Years, Giving, Three

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• There is no ideal length, but you develop a little interior gauge that tells you whether or not you're supporting the house or detracting from it. When a piece gets too long, the tension goes out of it. That word—tension—has an animal insistence for me. A piece of writing rises and falls with tension. The writer holds one end of the rope and the reader holds the other end—is the rope slack, or is it tight? Does it matter to the reader what the next sentence is going to be?

  John Jeremiah Sullivan

  Fall, Writing, Animal

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• A rich man's body is like a premium cotton pillow, white and soft and blank. ''Ours'' is different. My father's spine was a knotted rope, the kind that women use in villages to pull water from wells; the clavicle curved around his neck in high relief, like a dog's collar; cuts and nicks and scars, like little whip marks in his flesh, ran down his chest and waist, reaching down below his hip bones into his buttocks. The story of a poor man's life is written on his body, in a sharp pen.

  Aravind Adiga

  Dog, Father, Cutting

  FaceBook post by Aravind Adiga from Nov 30, 2013

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• 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.

  Ellen Willis

  Illustration, Levels, Impressive

  Ellen Willis (2011). “Out of the Vinyl Deeps: Ellen Willis on Rock Music”, p.221, U of Minnesota Press

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• Weave me a rope from this dark despair, from this dull-eyed pain... Weave me a rope from this endless night, from this distant shore... Weave me a rope that will pull me through these impossible times.

  Tim Finn

  Pain, Dark, Night

  Matt Cameron, Tim Finn (2009). “Poor Boy”

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• I mean, I grew up riding. I can't ever remember not being able to ride or rope and all that stuff. It was part of my life growing up, so it was fun for me.

  Tim McGraw

  Growing Up, Fun, Mean

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• It was rumored, in 1946, that the hangman in Nuremberg adjusted the nooses of some of the condemned to magnify the pain of suffocation. Such sadism was not called for then and is not called for now. But if fornication is wrong, there is no denying that it can bring pleasure. The death of Saddam Hussein at rope's end brings a pleasure that is undeniable, and absolutely chaste in its provenance.

  William F. Buckley, Jr.

  Pain, Sadism, Hussein

  "Spare Thoughts on Saddam" by William F. Buckley Jr., www.nationalreview.com. December 29, 2006.

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• Give a man enough rope and he'll wrap himself around your little finger.

  Diane Ackerman

  Men, Giving, Littles

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• A bird on a tether, no matter how long the rope, can always be pulled back.

  Ronald Reagan

  Long, Bird, Matter

  Moscow State University Address, delivered 31 May 1988, Moscow, Russia

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• Give a child enough rope and he will trip you up.

  Laurence J. Peter

  Children, Giving, Enough

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• Sex at the age of 90 is like playing billiards with a rope

  Camille Paglia

  Sex, Men, Age

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• When I was young, I thought it was normal to go to sleep to the sounds of sirens. People on my block were in the biggest gang in the city. They were my close friends - they showed me the ropes, who to watch out for.

  Emily Rios

  Block, Sleep, Cities

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• 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.

  James Vance

  Challenges, Pages, Kind

  Source: therumpus.net

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• The rope connecting two men on a mountain is more than nylon protection; it is an organic thing that transmits subtle messages of intent and disposition from man to man; it is an extension of the tactile senses, a psychological bond, a wire along which currents of communication flow.

  Trevanian

  Communication, Men, Two

  Trevanian (2005). “The Eiger Sanction: A Novel”, p.255, Crown

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• I've been asked if I'd consider doing Ropes as a straight novel - which is flattering, I suppose - but I can't imagine why I'd want to limit myself that way. There's a certain immediacy we gain from that specific image of Fred being struck by a revelation, of those union workers appearing from the shadows in an alley, of a lonely woman wondering for just a moment if she should make a pass at this young man in her hotel room

  James Vance

  Lonely, Men, Shadow

  Source: therumpus.net

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