Rope Quotes

Most songs that aren't jump-rope songs, or lullabies, are cautionary tales or goodbye songs and road songs.

I rope steers in team roping events. There's a header and a heeler on a roping team, and I'm the heeler.

We cannot swing up a rope which is attached only to our own belt.

The mob, when they are gazing at a dancer on the slack rope, naturally writhe and twist and balance their own bodies, as they see him do.

I was jumping rope. Everything was fine. And then suddenly everything seemed so futile.

If you're Mejicana or Mejicano and don't know who Pedro Infante is, you should be tied to a hot stove with yucca rope and beaten with sharp dry corn husks as you stand in a vat of soggy fideos.

There are slavish souls who carry their appreciation for favors done them so far that they strangle themselves with the rope of gratitude.

Man is a rope, tied between beast and overman — a rope over an abyss.

There are two sides of the Velvet Rope. Those who want to be on the other side and those who are on the other side.

You might be a redneck if you own all the components of soap on a rope except the soap.

You might be a redneck if you have a color coordinating rope that ties down your car hood.

I've never seen a truly great fighter get knocked onto the ropes unconscious... knocked out cold before... and I saw Roy Jones get knocked out twice in a row.

I'm so fat and I'm so depressed; last night I tried to hang myself - but the rope broke.

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

I admire him, I frankly confess it; and when his time is come I shall buy a piece of the rope for a keepsake.

For poems are not words, after all, but fires for the cold, ropes let down to the lost, something as necessary as bread in the pockets of the hungry.

Around existence twine, (Oh, bridge that hangs across the gorge!) ropes of twisted vine.

A sentence well couched takes both the sense and understanding. I love not those cart-rope speeches that are longer than the memory of man can fathom.

All I had to do was go out and perform. One of the hardest things was doing those back flips, where you had to jump up and land on the top rope. It's precision movement.

The history of persecution is a history of endeavors to cheat nature, to make water run up hill, to twist a rope of sand.

The wise know that foolish legislation is a rope of sand, which perishes in the twisting.

Well one of the times I did a stunt was in the devil’s snare room and they lifted me up on a harness and a safety rope really, really high, and they just dropped me down into the devil’s snare.

The rope by which the great blocks of taxes are attached to any citizenry is simple loyalty.

For them to have the season that they had, for them to have us on the ropes ... Congrats to the Cavs.

Are you, are you coming to the tree? Wear a necklace of rope, side by side with me. Strange things did happen here. No stranger would let it be if we met up At midnight in the hanging tree.

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.

My genes, my love, are rubber bands and rope; make yourself a structure you can live inside. Amen." — Aimee Bender (Willful Creatures: Stories)

you could see the roads crisscrossing over the fields. When cars went by, far away, the beams were so bright they seemed to be ropes of light pulling the cars behind.

I go to pick up a girl in a bar. I say will you go home with me? She says I don't know, do you have cable? I say no, but the rope should work just fine.

Human nature is so weak that the honest men who have no religion make me fret with their perilous virtue, as rope-dancers with their dangerous equilibrium.

When I went to school, they told me literature was a rope I must use to climb out of the dark well of unknowing. Writers are the knots on the rope.

When Amos Moses was a boy his daddy would use him for alligator bait, tie a rope around his neck and throw him in the swamp.

I never had any desire to get a tattoo. If I was ever going to get one, I would get a plain anchor with a rope around it, the most unimaginative possible tattoo, like Popeye had.

Many a night I woke to the murmer of paper and knew (Dad) was up, sitting in the kitchen with frayed King James - oh, but he worked that book; he held to it like a rope ladder.

Dear Pope, send me some hope or a rope.

What a rope of sand we are without a leader.

Arrogance rides triumphantly through the gates, barely glancing at the old woman about to cut the rope and spring shut the trap.

The higher the rope, the more thrilling it is to climb.

Most people have a rope that ties them to someone, and that rope can be short or it can be long. (Be long. Belong. Get it?) You don't know how long, though. It's not your choice.

We bar girls don't cheat on wives, we are just the rope that cheating husbands hang themselves with.

That is the logical tight-rope on which we have to walk if we wish to interpret nature.

Water inflated the belly Of Hart Crane, and of Shelley. Coleridge was a dope. Southwell died on a rope.

Loss is the absence of something we were once attached to. Grief is the rope burns left behind, when that which is held is pulled beyond our grasp.

Great blunders are often made, like large ropes, of a multitude of fibres.

I tied down time with a rope but it came back. Then I put my head in a death bowl and my eyes shut up like clams. They didn't come back.

The end of the rope stops in the palm of God.

It makes Faith think of a hammock in their yard, a web of rope that she thought would unravel the first time she leaned back on it, but that managed to support her all the same.

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

I'll fight anybody who grabs the rope to hang themselves.

I think you always feel like you're about a hair's breadth away from being a bad actor anyway... It's not too hard to let the rope go slack, so to speak.