Acrobat Quotes

And I want you to be my acrobat, I want you to be my lover. Oh there were others who would treat you cruel, But oh Jeannie, I will always be your fool. (Elton John)
the distribution of flexibility among the many variables of a system is a matter of very great importance. The healthy system ... may be compared to an acrobat on a high wire. To maintain the ongoing truth of his basic premise ("I am on the wire”), he must be free to move from one position of instability to another, i.e., certain variables such as the position of his arms and the rate of movement of his arms must have great flexibility, which he uses to maintain the stability of other more fundamental and general characteristics. If his arms are fixed or paralyzed (isolated from communication), he must fall. View quote
Gregory Bateson
Constantly risking absurdity and death whenever he performs above the heads of his audience, the poet, like an acrobat, climbs on rhyme to a high wire of his own making. View quote
Lawrence Ferlinghetti
I don't think anyone's found a way of eliminating thoughts of danger and loss. It's rather that, when they're unrealistic, you become an acrobat at marshaling evidence against them. View quote
Martin Seligman
the translator, a lonely sort of acrobat, becomes confused in a labyrinth of paradox, or climbs a pyramid of dependent clauses and has to invent a way down from it in his own language. View quote
Lydia Davis
Physical expression was my first language: Before I was an actor, I was a dancer, an acrobat, a mime and a street performer. View quote
Denis Lavant
the poet like an acrobat climbs on rime to a high wire of his own making. View quote
Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Sometimes a writer, like an acrobat, must try a trick that is too much for him. View quote
E. B. White