Best Stilts Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Ladies like improv stilts, and I think men like improv giant cocks. But one of the great things about improv is that you get to play some roles you'd never get to play otherwise, you know, like the old Italian pizza-maker who's passing on the business down to his son. You get to play it all when you improvise.”

Thinking Knows Men Play Roles Son Passing Great Things Passings Giants Makers Italian Pizza Passing On Stilts

Author:Amy Poehler

“Judge not man by his outward manifestation of faith; for some there are who tremblingly reach out shaking hands to the guidance of faith; others who stoutly venture in the dark their human confidence, their leader, which they mistake for faith; some whose hope totters upon crutches; others who stalk into futurity upon stilts. The difference is chiefly constitutional with them.”

Men Humans Hands Faith Differences Dark Mistake Leader Judging Guidance Manifestation Reach Out Venture Shaking Stalking Crutches Shaking Hands Stilts

Author:Charles Lamb

“Any one may mouth out a passage with a theatrical cadence, or get upon stilts to tell his thoughts; but to write or speak with propriety and simplicity is a more difficult task. Thus it is easy to affect a pompous style, to use a word twice as big as the thing you want to express; it is not so easy to pitch upon the very word that exactly fits it.”

Source: Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)

“Ambition is but avarice on stilts, and masked. God sometimes sends a famine, sometimes a pestilence, and sometimes a hero, for the chastisement of mankind; none of them surely for our admiration.”

Sometimes Mankind Hero Ambition Admiration Famine Avarice Chastisement Pestilence Stilts

Book:Delphi Collected Poetical Works of Walter Savage Landor (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Collected Poetical Works of Walter Savage Landor (Illustrated)

“I do not think very highly of Madame D'Arblay's books. The style is so strutting. She does so stalk about on Dr. Johnson's old stilts.”

Thinking Doe Book Style Drs Johnson Stalking Stilts Strutting Dr Johnson

Book:The Life of Mary Russell Mitford ; Related in an Selection from Her Letters to Her Friends. Ed. by A.G. Estrange

Source: The Life of Mary Russell Mitford ; Related in an Selection from Her Letters to Her Friends. Ed. by A.G. Estrange

“Those who have made unhappy marriages walk on stilts, while the happy ones are on a level with the crowd. No one sees 'em!”

Made Walks Levels Marriage Crowds Unhappy Ems Happy Marriage Unhappy Marriage Stilts

Author:Pearl Mary Teresa Craigie

“Princeton is a wonderful little spot. A quaint and ceremonious village of puny demigods on stilts.”

Littles Education Wonderful Spots Village Quaint Princeton Demigods Stilts

Book:Einstein on Peace

Source: Einstein on Peace

“Processions that lack high stilts have nothing that catches the eye. What if my great-granddad had a pair that were twenty foot high, And mine were but fifteen foot, no modern stalks upon higher, Some rogue of the world stole them to patch up a fence or a fire.”

Ifs World Eye Fire Feet Modern Mines Higher Twenties Pairs What If Heritage Fifteen Fence Patches Stalking Rogues Procession Stilts Patch Up

Book:Poems of William Butler Yeats

Source: Poems of William Butler Yeats

“My favorite place that I've been to that most people haven't been to is the Golden Triangle in the northeast of Thailand, which is inhabited by people as if in the Stone Age, without any form of power, without running water, simply living in huts on stilts.”

People Ifs Running Age Form Water Havens Stones My Favorite Golden Huts Triangles Thailand Favorite Places Running Water Stone Age Stilts

Author:Arthur Frommer

“Whats the worst that could happen?! The worst that could happen is he could cut off your legs and use them to make stilts that look like legs!”

Looks Use Happens Cutting Worst Legs Stilts

Author:Aziz Ansari

“I used to entertain myself - I taught myself to use stilts and juggle and ride a unicycle. But I was never immediately interested in theatre.”

Use Used Taught Theatre Stilts Unicycles

Author:Tobias Segal

“Going back was like a reunion for all the cast. We were all there. It was weird to have been away from it for a few months, and then, "Hey look, here we all are. I can still walk on these stilts. Wow, we all still fit in our costumes." It was nice to connect again, and then we went to Star Wars Celebration right after that. It's neat.”

Looks Has Beens Stills I Can War Stars Walks Nice Months Fit Casts Hey Wow Celebration Costumes Neat Reunion Stilts

Author:Alan Tudyk

“I have a very close friend who is a brilliant clown, and I always wanted to do a show with him. So I did one year at La MaMa Theatre. I had not done stilts before that show, and I had about two weeks to learn how to do that, and they were just made with off-off Broadway money. The ones that I had in Rogue One were made by [Industrial Light & Magic]. So they were really easy. They were made with actual prosthetic feet on the bottom. They were athletic, in a way. I could run in them. There was a bounce to them that I could use.”

Way Years Made Two Done Use Shows Light Running Wanted Easy Magic Week Feet Bottom Theatre Brilliant Broadway Clown Athletic Mama Two Weeks Bounce Close Friends Rogues Prosthetics Stilts

Author:Alan Tudyk

“[Diego Luna Cassian] quite a smartass, and I really appreciate smartasses. He used to make fun of me for the stupid backpack I wore. There were a few situations where I couldn't [wear the stilts]. [When] I was on a cliffside or running in water and stuff like that, I had to wear this backpack with a telescoping head that came off the top, and it was really stupid looking.”

Running Used Fun Stuff Water Situation Stupid Appreciate Really Stupid Smartass Stilts

Author:Alan Tudyk

“It's hard enough for women to walk on high heels. And I'm on stilts!”

Hard Enough Walks Heels High Heels Stilts

Author:Aimee Mullins

“Beyond the town, darker than dark, King Haggard's castle teetered like a lunatic on stilts.”

Dark Kings Towns Castles Lunatic Haggard Stilts

Book:The Last Unicorn

Source: The Last Unicorn

“Friend, my enemy, I call you out. You, you, you there with a bad thorn in your side. You there, my friend, with a winning air. Who pawned the lie on me when he looked brassly at my shyest secret. With my whole heart under your hammer. That though I loved him for his faults as much as for his good. My friend were an enemy upon stilts with his head in a cunning cloud. -Dylan Thomas”

Heart Whole Lying Winning Sides Secret Enemy Air My Friends Faults Clouds Cunning Hammers Dylan Your Side Stilts

Author:Dylan Thomas

“Cassidy's heart tried to leap out through his taught skin and hop into his wet hands. But outwardly it was all very calm, very serene, just as always, and it seemed to last a tiny forever, just like that, a snapshot of them all on the curved parabola of a starting line, eight giant hearts attached to eight pairs of bellows-like lungs mounted on eight pairs of supercharged stilts. They were poised on the edge of some howling vortex they had run 10,000 miles to get to. Now they had to run one more”

Heart Hands Running Lasts Lines Forever Taught Skins Starting Calm Edges Eight Tiny Miles Giants Hops Pairs Leap Wet Lungs Serene Snapshots Vortex Stilts Parabola

Author:John L. Parker Jr.

“What is an "I", and why are such things found (at least so far) only in association with, as poet Russell Edson once wonderfully phrased it, "teetering bulbs of dread and dream" - that is, only in association with certain kinds of gooey lumps encased in hard protective shells mounted atop mobile pedestals that roam the world on pairs of slightly fuzzy, jointed stilts?”

World Kind Hard Dream Certain Found Poet Pairs Association Dread Shells Mobile Protective Lumps Pedestal Bulbs Fuzzy Stilts

Author:Douglas Hofstadter

“The gymnasium of running, walking on stilts, climbing, etc. stells and makes hardy single powers and muscles, but dancing, like a corporeal poesy, embellishes, exercises, and equalizes all the muscles at once.”

Running Walking Exercise Dancing Dance Muscles Etc Climbing Hardy Gymnasiums Stilts

Author:Jean Paul

“It is in vain that we get upon stilts, for once on them, it is still with our legs that we must walk. And on the highest throne in the world we are still sitting on our own ass.”

World Stills Walks Highest Sitting Legs Ass Vanity Vain Thrones Stilts

Author:Michel de Montaigne

“Natural rights is simple nonsense: natural and imprescriptible rights, rhetorical nonsense—nonsense upon stilts.”

Natural Simple Rights Nonsense Rhetorical Natural Rights Stilts

Author:Jeremy Bentham

“"Do you know," the Devil confided, "not even the best mathematicians on other planets - all far ahead of yours - have solved it? Why, there is a chap on Saturn - he looks something like a mushroom on stilts - who solves partial differential equations mentally; and even he's given up."”

Knows Looks Given Planets Devil Mathematics Solve Do You Know Mathematician Equations Given Up Mushrooms Chaps Saturn Differential Equations Stilts

Author:Arthur Porges