Petit Bougeois Quotes

A commune of library employees in Moscow created an "extreme" commune in which all clothing - including undergarments - was collectivized. According to Mehnert, if a communard preferred to wear his or her own underclothes "it would be characterized as a backslide into darkest capitalism; as prejudice originating in a petit-bourgeois ideology". ~ Richard Stites

If you want to be a professional footballer, you have to respect your profession. You have to respect the people that are making you the star you are. You have to protect the passion everyday. ~ Emmanuel Petit

When I was learning by myself, despite my parents, despite my teachers, despite society, when I was fighting for building my life as a young wire walker at age 16, I didn't have feelings, I had certainties. ~ Philippe Petit

As I'm studying magic, juggling is mentioned repeatedly as a great way to acquire dexterity and coordination. Now, I had long admired how fast and fluidly jugglers make objects fly. So that's it. I'm 14; I'm becoming a juggler. ~ Philippe Petit

France is hypocritical and cowardly. I sometimes think that, having been invaded by the Germans, we'd be run better today. ~ Emmanuel Petit

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

Let us believe neither half of the good people tell us of ourselves, nor half the evil they say of others. ~ John Petit-Senn

I would like to continue to tell stories of what I did in a biographical way, so I will continue to write. ~ Philippe Petit

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

My destiny no longer has me conquering the highest toowers in the world, but rather the void they protect.
This cannot be measured. ~ Philippe Petit

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

In the aftermath of their visions, Petit and Rice could not have imagined all that would be required of them. Neither Petit's dream of crossing the towers nor Rice's of fighting for justice came with an instruction manual. To accomplish their feats they'd have to overcome fear, test their plans against reality and maintain an unwavering focus on what their visions had revealed to them about their future selves. ~ Camille Sweeney

The weak-minded man is the slave of his vices and the dupe of his virtues. ~ Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

An angry woman is vindictive beyond measure, and hesitates at nothing in her bitterness. ~ Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

Some sexual theorists have argued that the perceptual link between orgasm and death is traceable to the elevated state in which orgasm in a rare few cases is accompanied by a loss of consciousness. Another explanation for the petit mort idea is inherent in a rare but persistent folk belief, of uncertain origin but found in cultures from Europe to the Far East, that a person is born with a certain number of orgasms in him or her, and that when the last is used, the person died. ~ Jonathan Margolis

If a leaf fell from a tree, I'd stop juggling and play with the leaf. I went to my prop bag and got a little bandage and stuck the leaf back on the tree. People loved it. ~ Philippe Petit

This is why the social networks are successful actually, because we are living in a society where people are frustrated with living their own life but in a quiet world so thats why with the internet they are creating a new world and that is why society has changed a lot in the space of 10 years. ~ Emmanuel Petit

I hate petit point. I want to make bread."
"We can't always do what we want," said Zilla gently. "Even you."
"And sometimes we have to do what we hate," said Vera. "Even you."
"Don't let me, then!" I said. "You're being mean!" And I ran out of the kitchen. ~ Margaret Atwood

The grave is a crucible where memory is purified; we only remember a dead friend by those qualities which make him regretted. ~ Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

Talking about theater, actually, I built a little barn in upstate New York, and I call it 'the smallest theater in the world,' but it has a mini stage and a red velvet curtain. ~ Philippe Petit

It's very normal - when you're not used to the world of the high wire, it's very normal to be simply terrified. The reason I'm not is because I've done it for so many years. ~ Philippe Petit

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

A football team is like a company. All of the people working in a company are not supposed to love each other, but they are supposed to be professional. ~ Emmanuel Petit

Every year, I am conscious of the anniversary of my 1974 World Trade Center walk. ~ Philippe Petit

Do you know a young and beautiful woman who is not ready to flirt-just a little? ~ Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

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

Right after my Twin Towers walk, I was approached by hundreds of people, and I said no to all the offers. I could have become a millionaire overnight, obviously, but I said no, and I continue to be uninterested. ~ Philippe Petit

You can always find a way to do something. Now, of course, when I do the action, it's an action that inspires people, it's a gift to people, it's not the other way around, I do not take something, I do not hurt people. Yes, I think today would be more than impossible and yet part of me would think that I continue to think that nothing is impossible. ~ Philippe Petit

I love to remember the World Trade Centre walk, but it should not define me. ~ Philippe Petit

The practical answer is, no it would be totally impossible for young or foreign people to get access to roof of a building that stands in the heart of a giant city and to put a cable across. ~ Philippe Petit

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

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

Voles-tu, mon petit papillon." Illium laughed at Galen's instruction to "fly, little butterfly ~ Nalini Singh

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

I don't like to risk my life, so I prepare sometimes for months or sometimes for years. But sometimes after a walk, I look what I have done, and I have a little bit of fear coming to me, just looking at pictures. ~ Philippe Petit

It's very easy to walk on a wire if you spend a whole lifetime practicing for it. ~ Philippe Petit

It would be very, very dangerous for a wire walker to experience fear while he is balancing on the wire. Fear has its place on earth, before and maybe after a high-wire walk, but not during for me. ~ Philippe Petit

There is certainly no beauty on earth which exceeds the natural loveliness of woman. ~ Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

The essential thing is to etch movements in the sky, movements so still they leave no trace. The essential thing is simplicity. / That is why the long path to perfection is horizontal. ~ Philippe Petit

The wisest man may always learn something from the humblest peasant. ~ Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

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

Another life, if it were not better than this, would be less a promise than a threat. ~ 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

None despise fame more heartily than those who have no possible claim to it. ~ Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

Life should be lived on the edge of life. You have to exercise rebellion: to refuse to tape yourself to rules, to refuse your own success, to refuse to repeat yourself, to see every day, every year, every idea as a true challenge - and then you are going to live your life on a tightrope. ~ Philippe Petit

You're beautiful, but you're empty. No one could die for you. ~ Antoine De Saint Exupery