Trapezes Quotes & Sayings

Louise de Keroualle, being a Frenchwoman from the French court, was feared by most Englishmen for how she might influence their king, and that fear quickly turned to hatred. — Susan Holloway Scott

Living as an actor is rather like living life on the trapezes in a circus. Every time you jump on, you have to pray that, when the time comes for you to jump off, there is another trapeze swinging your way. — Celia Imrie

Human thought, flying on the trapezes of the star-filled universe, with mathematics stretched beneath, was like an acrobat working with a net but suddenly noticing that in reality there is no net. — Vladimir Nabokov

Heaven's slow but sure redress of human ills. — Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl Of Lytton

I do not know You God because I am in the way. Please help me to push myself aside. — Flannery O'Connor

Cold walls do not a prison make, nor iron bands a bondsman. — Scott Lynch

Tuesday had come down through Dundrum and Foster Avenue, brine-fresh from sea-travel, a corn-yellow sun-drench that called forth the bees at an incustomary hour to their day of bumbling. Small house-flies performed brightly in the embrasures of the windows, whirling without fear on imaginary trapezes in the lime-light of the sun-slants. — Flann O'Brien

It's not so much that we're afraid of change or so in love with the old ways, but it's that place in between that we fear ... It's like being between trapezes. It's Linus when his blanket is in the dryer. There's nothing to hold on to. — Marilyn Ferguson

Memory can move very swiftly. Words do not possess the same swiftness. — C.S. Lakshmi

At the end I couldn't hear what the Queen was saying to me. But it was just great to see her lips moving. — Virginia Wade

In the theater, I've found that, in general, reaction and laughter come easier at an evening performance, when the audience is more inclined to forget its troubles. Matinee customers must enter the theatre in a more matter-of-fact frame of mind, hanging on tightly before they let themselves go. — Beatrice Lillie

You cannot blame the mismanagement of the economy or the fact that we have not invested adequately in education in order to give our people the knowledge, the skills and the technology that they need in order to be able to use the resources that Africa has to gain wealth. — Wangari Maathai

I see you've met Patrick of Ludlow," I replied, trying to stifle a giggle, for Tiger was thirty feet up in the shabby atrium , perched high upon a chandelier. "How long have you been up there?"
"Half an hour," he answered crossly, "with only a lot of dust and the Transient Moose for company. — Jasper Fforde

Of course I want to be good, but that may not be to your advantage. — Mason Cooley

Just because the boat rocks doesn't mean it's time to jump overboard. — Suzanne Woods Fisher

The enlightenment experience is not what you think. How could it be anything that you can configure, anything you can imagine, any way that you think it should be? — Frederick Lenz

The legal system in Afghanistan is very immature and porous. — Lindsey Graham

Literature is the denunciation of the times in which one lives. — Camilo Jose Cela

Monkeys"
"You can buy cooler, more humdrum pets
a monkey deprived of his mother in the cradle
feels the want of her affection so keenly
he either pines away or masters you
by literally hanging on your neck
no ounce of your patience or courage is misplaced;
the worst is his air of boredom and neglect,
manifested in tail-chewing and fur plucking.
The whole species is vulnerable to killing colds,
likes straw, hay or bits of a torn blanket,
a floortray thinly covered with sawdust,
they need trapezes, shelves, old rubber tires
any string or beam will do to set them swinging
these charming youngsters tend to sour with age — Robert Lowell