Trapeze Artists Quotes:

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

- Dan Rather

topic: Jobs, Trapeze, Trapeze Artists

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

- Bob Dylan

topic: Poet, Trapeze, Trapeze Artists

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

- Neon Hitch

source: Source: www.elle.com

topic: First Love, Firsts, Normal, Trapeze, Trapeze Artists

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.

- Danielle LaPorte

topic: Letting Go, Air, Moments, Trapeze, Trapeze Artists

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

- Imtiaz Dharker

source: Imtiaz Dharker (2007). “The Terrorist at My Table”, p.156, Penguin Books India

topic: Dream, Stars, Moon, Trapeze, Trapeze Artists

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.

- Dave Liebman

topic: Art, Men, Two, Submerged, Trapeze

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.

- Tina Fey

topic: Mother, Kids, Safety, Trapeze, Trapeze Artists

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.

- Paul Tournier

topic: Letting Go, Home, Artist, Trapeze, Trapeze Artists

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.

- Tom Waits

topic: Artist, Fearless, World, Trapeze, Trapeze Artists

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.

- Colin Meloy

topic: Mother, War, Father, Trapeze, Provence

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.

- Beverly Sills

topic: Artist, Careers, Triumph, Trapeze, Trapeze Artists

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.

- Bob Dylan

topic: Writing, Artist, People, Trapeze, Trapeze Artists