“I've always got into stunts; even at drama school, I was falling down trap doors, and swinging in on ropes.” SchoolFallDoorsDramaTrapsRopeFalling Down Author:Thomas Howes
“You fall so deeply in love with your grandbaby. It's so so so much easier than being a parent, because you really don't have much responsibility. And just when you are at the end of your rope with exhaustion, the parents take the baby away. So it's the best of both worlds.” WorldEndsFallParentResponsibilityLove YouBabyEasierGrandparentRopeExhaustionBeing A ParentBest Of Both WorldsDeeply In Love Author:Anne Lamott
“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 wordtensionhas 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 endis the rope slack, or is it tight? Does it matter to the reader what the next sentence is going to be?” WritingLittlesLongDoeEndsMatterFallNextHouseAnimalPiecesReaderIdealsSentencesTensionLengthInteriorsRopeInsistenceGaugesRise And FallDoes It Matter Author:John Jeremiah Sullivan
“One should adpot only those situations in which one is in no need of sham virtues, but rather, like the tight-rope dancer on his tight rope, in which one must either fall or stand--or escape.” NeedsShouldFallSituationVirtueDancerRope Book:Twilight of the Idols with the Antichrist and Ecce Homo Source: Twilight of the Idols with the Antichrist and Ecce Homo
“To get into just those situations where sham virtues will not suffice, but rather where, as with the ropedancer on his rope, one either falls or stands--or gets down.” FallSituationVirtueRope Author:Friedrich Nietzsche