A book is like a piece of rope; it takes on meaning only in connection with the things it holds together.
Norman Cousins

A person needs a little madness, or else they never dare cut the rope and be free.
Nikos Kazantzakis

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.
Owen Hart

By the second tour I had rice cakes and hummus with me, and I was jumping rope in my room.
Taylor Dayne

Chemists employed by the police can do remarkable things with blood. They can weave it into a rope to hang a man.
Margery Allingham

Experiments were not attempted at that time, we did not believe in the usefulness of the concept anyway, and I finished my thesis in 1962 with a feeling like an artist balancing on a high rope without any interested spectators.
Richard Ernst

First you find a little thread, a little thread leads you to a string, and the string leads you to a rope. And from the rope you hang by the neck.
A. I. Bezzerides

Give him enough rope and he will hang himself.
Charlotte Bronte

God can be realized through all paths. All religions are true. The important thing is to reach the roof. You can reach it by stone stairs or by wooden stairs or by bamboo steps or by a rope. You can also climb up by a bamboo pole.
Ramakrishna

His hands would plait the priest's guts, if he had no rope, to strangle kings.
Denis Diderot

I certainly do get at the end of my rope at times. We all do.
Joan Allen

I don't really believe in 'directions' in art; the rope twists as you follow it, that's all.
Graham Nelson

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.
Tim McGraw

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

I think you have everyone kind of pulling on the same end of the rope. It's not like you're Robin Williams and everyone else is a deaf mute. It's like - there's plenty of help.
Michael McKean

I'm still at the end of my rope because I find myself not handling things well when I travel.
Stephen Lewis

If I do hit that rope and do a hop, skip and a jump and get up as high as I can, I'm just going to hold my breath, because I know i'm going to hear all kinds of scar tissue popping.
Hulk Hogan

It was as helpful as throwing a drowning man both ends of the rope.
Arthur Baer

On one level the sixties revolt was an impressive illustration of Lenin's remark that the capitalist will sell you the rope to hang him with.
Ellen Willis

Owing to ignorance of the rope the rope appears to be a snake; owing to ignorance of the Self the transient state arises of the individualized, limited, phenomenal aspect of the Self.
Guru Nanak