Best Trapeze Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Painted and smiling, I balance on my trapeze. Luka is poised ten metres away, his muscles shining under the lights. The wooden circles in his earlobes twitch as his jaw clenches, unclenches, clenches.”

Circus Island Trapeze Acrobat Aerialist

Book:The Rental Heart and Other Fairytales

Source: The Rental Heart and Other Fairytales

“[My job is] a very high trapeze act, frequently with no net.”

Jobs Trapeze Trapeze Artists

Author:Dan Rather

“I don't call myself a poet, because I don't like the word.”

Poet Trapeze Trapeze Artists

Book:Bob Dylan: Inspirations

Source: Bob Dylan: Inspirations

“My mother was a Chinese trapeze artist in pre-war Paris Smuggling bombs for the underground. And she met my father at a fete in Aix-en-Provence; He was disguised as a Russian cadet in the employ of the Axis.”

War Mother Artist Father Mets Chinese Paris Bombs Axes Smuggling Provence Trapeze Cadets Trapeze Artists

Author:Colin Meloy

“There were times in my career ... when I felt like a trapeze artist doing dangerous somersaults without a net underneath. When you execute those somersaults flawlessly, the audience feels the same sense of triumph the performer does.”

Feels Doe Artist Felt Careers Audience Dangerous Triumph Performers Trapeze Trapeze Artists

Author:Beverly Sills

“I've been taking a trapeze class for the last couple of years. I'm working on my double back flip right now.”

Years Lasts Class Couple Right Now Take A Chance Flip Double Standard Trapeze

Author:Neil Patrick Harris

“Sometimes, you run into trouble as an actor when you're not working with someone who is collaborative or doesn't bring themselves to the piece, and you sort of have to start worrying about yourself and protecting what works for you in the scene. I never had to do that in this movie because it was sort of this trapeze act.”

Sometimes Running Actors Worry Pieces Trouble Scene About Yourself Trapeze

Author:Josh Peck

“The trouble with the jokes is that once they're written, I know how they're supposed to work, and all I can do is not hit them. I'm more comfortable improvising. If I have just two or three ideas and I know how the character feels, what the character wants, everything in between is like trapeze work.”

Ifs Knows Want Feels I Can Two Ideas Character Three Can Do Know How Written Trouble Comfortable Jokes Improvising Trapeze

Author:Stephen Colbert

“There are a thousand ways of playing a good classic. If it were effective, I would play Hamlet on a trapeze.”

Ifs Way Play Thousand Classic Trapeze

Author:Orson Welles

“There are so many quiet times you spend as a mother that aren't glorified but are a foundation for your kids. No matter what, there was always a thick safety net under this trapeze.”

Matter Kids Mother Quiet No Matter What Safety Foundation Thick Safety Net Quiet Time Trapeze Trapeze Artists

Author:Tina Fey

“The trapeze was my first love. To me, it's normal. It's all I've ever known.”

Firsts Known Normal First Love Trapeze Trapeze Artists

Author:Neon Hitch

“I always wanted to be a lawyer,but I certainly never wanted to be a trapeze performer.”

Wanted Lawyer Performers Trapeze

Author:Nat Hentoff

“Being on a trapeze is like dreaming. I feel totally outside of myself when I'm flying. You know, designing shoes, my imagination is flying in my drawings.”

Knows Feels Dream Imagination Design Shoes Drawing Flying My Imagination Trapeze

Author:Christian Louboutin

“The essential is to excite the spectators. If that means playing Hamlet on a flying trapeze or in an aquarium, you do it.”

Ifs Mean Essentials Entertainment Flying Spectators Aquariums Trapeze

Author:Orson Welles

“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.”

Way Peace Growth Change Things Change Blanket Old Ways Starting Anew Dryers Afraid Of Change Trapeze

Author:Marilyn Ferguson

“You don't necessarily have to write to be a poet. Some people work in gas stations and they're poets. I don't call myself a poet, because I don't like the word. I'm a trapeze artist.”

People Writing Artist Poet Gas Stations Gas Stations Trapeze Trapeze Artists

Book:Dylan on Dylan: The Essential Interviews

Source: Dylan on Dylan: The Essential Interviews

“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.”

Humans Reality Universe Stars Mathematics Filled Flying Noticing Human Thought Trapeze

Author:Vladimir Nabokov

“My friend and coach reminded me this week that there is a moment when the acrobat lets go of one trapeze and is completely suspended in mid-air before she catches the incoming rung. You have to let go to get there.”

Moments Air Week Letting Go My Friends Coaches Suspended Trapeze Trapeze Artists

Author:Danielle LaPorte

“I have three things I really, really want to do. I want to do aerial trapeze, I want to do martial arts, and I want to learn Russian. And, because of my life, I'm not able to do any of these.”

Want Art Able Three Martial Arts Three Things Trapeze

Author:Natalia Tena

“She's a shiksa goddess and a trapeze artist, all of that. She can fix the truck...she's outta this world...she's bold, inventive and fearless. That's who you wanna go in the woods with, right? Somebody who finishes your sentences for you.”

World Artist This World Woods Sentences Fearless Goddess Truck Trapeze Trapeze Artists

Author:Tom Waits

“A circus of stars, your dreams a trapeze, faces lift like mirrored moons.”

Dream Faces Stars Moon Lifts Your Dreams Circus Trapeze Trapeze Artists

Book:The Terrorist at My Table

Source: The Terrorist at My Table

“Art is constant tension and release. That is where artists live, between the two, or at times, submerged in either. The challenge is never ending perfection is impossible, it could always be different, better, or worse. It's not important, just process and striving to be like the man who walks the trapeze maintaining balance.”

“The experience of being in between-between the time we leave home and arrive at our destination; between the time we leave adolescence and arrive at adulthood; between the time we leave doubt and arrive at faith. It is like the time when a trapeze artist lets go the bars and hangs in midair, ready to catch another support: it is a time of danger, of expectation, of uncertainty, of excitement, or extraordinary aliveness.”

Home Artist Support Doubt Danger Ready Letting Go Expectations Extraordinary Bars Uncertainty Excitement Destination Adulthood Adolescence Trapeze Trapeze Artists

Author:Paul Tournier

“I'm never gonna be somebody who's gonna fall down from the sky on a trapeze. That's not me. I really want to make sure that my focus stays on connecting with the audience.”

Want Fall Audience Focus Sky Connecting Falling Down Trapeze

Author:Sara Bareilles

“Muhammad, my friend, I'm getting very scared. Teach me how to love my brothers who don't know the law, and what about the deal on the flying trapeze?”

Knows Law Religion Religious Deals Teach Brother My Friends Scared Flying My Brother Muhammad How To Love Love My Brother Trapeze

Author:Tori Amos

“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.”

Way Actors Praying Live Life Circus Trapeze

Book:The Happy Hoofer

Source: The Happy Hoofer

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