Chiocciole Petit Quotes

I've frowned at the idea of breaking records, the first one to do something, or do it longer, higher, more difficult. ~ Philippe Petit

Would anyone but a crazed bicephalous being, half engineer, half poet, willingly shackle himself to a venture of such magnitude? I am prisoner of my dream. ~ Philippe Petit

The hatred we bear our enemies injures their happiness less than our own. ~ Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

Where talent is a dwarf, self-esteem is a giant. ~ John Petit-Senn

I've been arrested many times for illegal high wire walking and illegal street performing. ~ Philippe Petit

I walk on the wire; it's my profession, and there are no two high wire walks alike. ~ Philippe Petit

My journey has always been the balance between chaos and order. ~ Philippe Petit

The record from the Vostok core shows that CO2 levels and temperatures have varied in tandem. Current CO2 levels are unprecedented in the last 420,000 years. Credit: J.R. Petit et al, Nature, vol. 399 (1999). ~ Elizabeth Kolbert

If you ask me can you explain the success of Facebook or Twitter, its very simple. People want to have the right to speak, people want the right to say what they feel. They don't want to wait for the question to be asked, they want to say before asking the question, they want to say everything that they feel. ~ Emmanuel Petit

Metaphorically speaking, of course, if I put a problem behind my pillow and fall asleep, very often because my brain went to sleep with that idea or the problem alive, very often in the middle of the night I wake up, and I wake up with a solution or with a direction of solution. ~ Philippe Petit

The happiness of the tender heart is increased by what it can take away from the wretchedness of others. ~ Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

It is only before those who are glad to hear it, and anxious to spread it, that we find it easy to speak ill of others. ~ Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

If I have to make a self-portrait, I would put poetry and rebellion on the list. To be able to walk on a wire, to be able to juggle six hoops, you need focus, another word for tenacity, which is passion. ~ Philippe Petit

A pedant holds more to instruct us with what he knows, than of what we are ignorant. ~ Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

Fashionable debutantes in pastel chiffon party dresses wilt into leather club chairs like frosted petit fours melting under the July sun. ~ Libba Bray

I keep saying I am an auto-didact, but I have a lot of outside influences. One I could cite is juggler Francis Brunn, who was the first man to throw ten rings in the air; he was really an amazing juggler who showed onstage the quest for perfection. ~ Philippe Petit

Britta wanted to try to turn a guard. Tamara thought it was idiotic.
"What are you going to do? Buy him beer and tell him about Kropotkin?"
I envisioned the conversation:
Vanguard: Wage Slave, are you aware that you are but a wire nail in the toolbox of capitalism?
Wage Slave: I thought I was a chisel.
Vanguard: No, the petit bourgeois are the chisels.
Wage Slave: What about a washer set? Can I be a washer set?
Vanguard: No, my ferret, run free! For I have unlocked your collar with knowledge!
Wage Slave: I want to be a chisel.
Vanguard pushes screaming ferret through hole in fence cut by the clippers of noblesse oblige.
"Well, maybe we could bribe him," said Britta. Tamara laughed.
"With what? Health insurance? ~ Vanessa Veselka

You look at Patrick Vieira and Emmanuel Petit at Arsenal or Roy Keane at Man United, and they are players that can do everything. ~ Jamie Redknapp

I started very early, from five or six years old, to climb. To climb trees, to climb rocks everywhere I could. At some point, of course, I used a rope. ~ Philippe Petit

To endeavor to move by the same discourse hearers who differ in age, sex, position and education is to attempt to open all locks with the same key. ~ Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

Usually, when I walk on a wire, I inspect the anchor point on both sides before crossing. ~ Philippe Petit

I don't have a career, I have a life. Don't think of a career, think about your passion and look for inspiration. ~ Philippe Petit

Le Petit is where I cut my teeth with some of my early roles. In 1982, I was in the chorus of 'Gypsy' and soon after I had my first lead as Jamie Lockhart in 'The Robber Bridegroom.' ~ Bryan Batt

I am the poet of the high wire - I never do stunts; I do theatrical performances. ~ Philippe Petit

There are philanthropists who, incapable of managing their own little affairs, take upon themselves those of the whole world; but as their creditors always outnumber their disciples, they owe humanity more than she will ever owe them. ~ Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

I would not describe my personality. And I think when you describe people, you are making a mistake. That's not how they are; that's how you perceive them at that moment. It's limiting in front of something that is magnificent and unlimited: life. ~ Philippe Petit

One more thing: Philippe, you are not a coward-so what I want to hear from you is the ecstatic truth about the twin towers. ~ Werner Herzog

It is very normal for people on the ground to look at somebody apparently walking in midair and thinking first that person is crazy and thinking secondly that person risks his or her life. ~ Philippe Petit

If I see three oranges, I have to juggle. And if I see two towers, I have to walk. ~ Philippe Petit

When a loved one disappears, you continue to live with the accompaniment of that person. One has to find a balance between joy and sorrow. ~ Philippe Petit

Death frames the high wire. But I don't see myself as taking risks. I do all of the preparations that a non-death seeker would do. ~ Philippe Petit

Try 'Thank-you'," Ted said, giving me a hug (with the requirement of pounding me fraternally on the back - the only way that males are allowed to hug one another unless at least one of them has a fatal disease). ~ Blake Petit

There is a proverb in the South that a woman laughs when she can, and weeps when she pleases. ~ Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

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

To fight adversity, to improvise, to solve problems, and to save the coup, I had gathered all my senses into unusual configurations, which made me grow wild and enhanced my perceptions. ~ Philippe Petit