We are receiving plenty of offers. In a fortnight we will have decided.
JEAN PETIT But I don't want that. I think we need a change. And if we find a coach tomorrow I'd step aside glad...
JEAN PETIT It was clear for me. Lille was meant to be my last match and despite the fact that we won it, I don'...
JEAN PETIT I hope that the club's managers have understood what I said when I became the caretaker,
JEAN PETIT I accepted to take care of the team so that they can rediscover some sort of balance and stability.
JEAN PETIT Money dishonestly acquired is never worth its cost, while a good conscience never costs as much as i...
JEAN PETIT SENN Talking about theater, actually, I built a little barn in upstate New York, and I call it 'the s...
PHILIPPE PETIT I started making monkey bridges, like kids do, and climbing and rappelling with ropes. Very naturall...
PHILIPPE PETIT Many people use the words 'death defying' or 'death wishing' when they talk about wi...
PHILIPPE PETIT Every year, I am conscious of the anniversary of my 1974 World Trade Center walk.
PHILIPPE PETIT I keep saying I am an auto-didact, but I have a lot of outside influences. One I could cite is juggl...
PHILIPPE PETIT In my life, I wanted to meet certain people. I never met Charlie Chaplin, but I met Werner Herzog.
PHILIPPE PETIT On a very long and very high wire, I will not hope to not be blown off by high winds. I will have th...
PHILIPPE PETIT I started putting a wire up in secret and performing without permission. Notre Dame, the Sydney Harb...
PHILIPPE PETIT When I was learning by myself, despite my parents, despite my teachers, despite society, when I was ...
PHILIPPE PETIT Notre Dame and Sydney - that was nothing. Notre Dame doesn't have a police station; it is not 1,...
PHILIPPE PETIT My first walk illegally at 20 years old was between the towers of Notre Dame.
PHILIPPE PETIT I didn't go to school much. I was thrown out of different schools, and my university is the stre...
PHILIPPE PETIT I was thrown out of different schools because I was practicing my arts - magic, juggling, and the hi...
PHILIPPE PETIT I have been expelled from five different schools when I was a kid. And I learned basically all what ...
PHILIPPE PETIT I've frowned at the idea of breaking records, the first one to do something, or do it longer, hi...
PHILIPPE PETIT If I am practicing on the wire, and you pushed me, I would not move, and if you take a piece of wood...
PHILIPPE PETIT Certainly, in the story of my life, the walk between the Twin Towers was one of the grandest, one of...
PHILIPPE PETIT For years, I have been working on crossing the Grand Canyon. Actually, there is nobody who says '...
PHILIPPE PETIT I rendezvous with the long wire and perform the 'torero walk', gliding my feet, holding the ...
PHILIPPE PETIT Death frames the high wire. But I don't see myself as taking risks. I do all of the preparations...
PHILIPPE PETIT I have a fear of water, believe it or not. To put a wire 12 feet over a swimming pool frightens me. ...
PHILIPPE PETIT I was never part of the sailing circle, but I enjoy when I'm invited to sail.
PHILIPPE PETIT I am a wire-walker. I can walk any time, anywhere - I'm indestructible.
PHILIPPE PETIT If a leaf fell from a tree, I'd stop juggling and play with the leaf. I went to my prop bag and ...
PHILIPPE PETIT As I'm studying magic, juggling is mentioned repeatedly as a great way to acquire dexterity and ...
PHILIPPE PETIT If I have to make a self-portrait, I would put poetry and rebellion on the list. To be able to walk ...
PHILIPPE PETIT If I see three oranges, I have to juggle. And if I see two towers, I have to walk.
PHILIPPE PETIT I needed more knowledge in rigging and knotting. I started collecting books on knots and really lear...
PHILIPPE PETIT My time is always divided when I prepare for a wire walk. First I dream, technically and artisticall...
PHILIPPE PETIT I am fascinated by the engineering. The science of constructing and understanding why it stands. And...
PHILIPPE PETIT I am not up there by chance. I am there by choice. And I know the wire. And I know my limits. And I ...
PHILIPPE PETIT As a high wire walker, I do not allow myself to 'leave the wire' during a performance.
PHILIPPE PETIT I walk on the wire; it's my profession, and there are no two high wire walks alike.
PHILIPPE PETIT If I had been born in the circus, my parents would have pushed me on that little high wire at four y...
PHILIPPE PETIT I was born in a world of opera, theatre, films, poetry, art, and therefore, out of the wire, I made ...
PHILIPPE PETIT I've been arrested many times for illegal high wire walking and illegal street performing.
PHILIPPE PETIT It's very normal - when you're not used to the world of the high wire, it's very normal ...
PHILIPPE PETIT It is treacherous on a high wire to change your focus point and suddenly look down.
PHILIPPE PETIT On the high wire, within months, I'm able to master all the tricks they do in the circus, except...
PHILIPPE PETIT I have been performing in the street for more than 50 years: magic for basically 60 years, and the h...
PHILIPPE PETIT I am the poet of the high wire - I never do stunts; I do theatrical performances.
PHILIPPE PETIT I found out that total creativity involves a certain intellectual rebellion - not to become a crimin...
PHILIPPE PETIT They miss the aura of him. He is a protector for the other guys in the team. I think they are missin...
EMMANUEL PETIT Women are ultimately all that matters in life. Everything that we do is for them.
EMMANUEL PETIT I love England, one reason being the magnificent breasts of English girls.
EMMANUEL PETIT I know I won't be with Chelsea next season,
EMMANUEL PETIT The club is following a path with which I cannot identify,
EMMANUEL PETIT Arsenal have really missed Patrick's driving force in midfield, and they haven't replaced him. They ...
EMMANUEL PETIT For every thinking and reflecting man the existence of evil is a riddle he cannot escape.
FRANçOIS PETIT My journey has always been the balance between chaos and order.
PHILIPPE PETIT We seek riches, power and glory all in order to make them happy
EMMANUEL PETIT Fame was never something I was seeking in my artistic journey. It's to be used as a tool for an ...
PHILIPPE PETIT How could I share with you how I felt when two towers that I loved, two pieces of steel and glass an...
PHILIPPE PETIT The wire is a safe place for me to be. The street is not. Life is not. It's a rigorous and simpl...
PHILIPPE PETIT Try 'Thank-you'," Ted said, giving me a hug (with the requirement of pounding me fraternally on the ...
BLAKE PETIT Usually, when I walk on a wire, I inspect the anchor point on both sides before crossing.
PHILIPPE PETIT The impossible - we are told - cannot be achieved. To overcome the 'impossible,' we need to ...
PHILIPPE PETIT I'm taking my time to come back,
EMMANUEL PETIT They don't want to keep me and I don't want to stay.
EMMANUEL PETIT It was every year under threat,
EMMANUEL PETIT I was not born into the world of the stuntman and the daredevil; I was born into the world of theate...
PHILIPPE PETIT Art is maybe a subversive activity. There is a certain rebellion when you are an artist at heart, ev...
PHILIPPE PETIT Little deer, I've stuffed all the world's diseases inside you. / Your veins are thorns // and the go...
PASCALE PETIT I am what the water gave me, / a smoke-ring in a jar, / the braided rope / my ladder-to-the-light, /...
PASCALE PETIT One despairs of others so as not to despair too much of oneself
HENRI PETIT We have not offered four million euros, nor have we offered a four-year contract, as some people are...
LAURENT PETIT The deal is on the right track. We remain very hopeful it will go through this weekend.
LAURENT PETIT Not what we have But what we enjoy, constitutes our abundance.
J. PETIT-SENN The world is full of fools, and he who would not see it should live alone and smash his mirror.
CLAUDE LE PETIT True courage is like a kite; a contrary wind raises it higher.
J. PETIT-SENN Let us believe neither half of the good people tell us of ourselves, nor half the evil they say of o...
J. PETIT-SENN We tire of those pleasures we take, but never of those we give.
J. PETIT-SENN Not what we have But what we enjoy, constitutes our abundance.
JOHN PETIT-SENN Let us believe neither half of the good people tell us of ourselves, nor half the evil they say of o...
JOHN PETIT-SENN Where talent is a dwarf, self-esteem is a giant.
J. PETIT-SENN Where talent is a dwarf, self-esteem is a giant.
JOHN PETIT-SENN True courage is like a kite; a contrary wind raises it higher.
JOHN PETIT-SENN True courage is like a kite; a contrary wind raises it higher.
JOHN PETIT-SENN A slender child, you don't know if he's built like this or if he's ill. For a child to have beautifu...
DR CHRISTIAN PETIT Where talent is a dwarf, self-esteem is a giant. - Conceits and Caprices.
J. PETIT-SENN We tire of those pleasures we take, but never of those we give.
JOHN PETIT-SENN Beauty and ugliness disappear equally under the wrinkles of age; one is lost in them the other hidde...
JONATHAN PETIT SENN I am sure that unless attitudes change, in 10 or 15 years the poor classes will be obese and the ric...
DR CHRISTIAN PETIT Eating habits are certainly changing quickly.
DR CHRISTIAN PETIT There is always a period when a man with a beard shaves it off. This period does not last. He return...
JEAN COCTEAU The conscience of children is formed by the influences that surround them; their notions of good and...
JEAN PAUL The moon looks upon many night flowers; the night flowers see but one moon.
JEAN INGELOW Only the mediocre are always at their best.
JEAN GIRAUDOUX A healthful hunger for a great idea is the beauty and blessedness of life.
JEAN INGELOW My daddy was a minister, my grandfather was a voodoo priest, my uncle was a mason; I was raised with...
WYCLEF JEAN Like dreams, statistics are a form of wish fulfillment.
JEAN BAUDRILLARD At the end of the day, just know that God made you, so you can be your own individual, and don't...
WYCLEF JEAN In my long and difficult and mature life, I have come to learn that the less I know about acting and...
JEAN SEBERG There are souls which fall from heaven like flowers, but ere they bloom are crushed under the foul t...
JEAN PAUL Too often, we make budget cuts - then blow the savings. Instead, think about your financial picture....
JEAN CHATZKY One way to make sure you don't lose assets in the future is to streamline your accounts. Conside...
JEAN CHATZKY The brave men die in war. It takes great luck or judgment not to be killed. Once, at least, the head...
JEAN GIRAUDOUX If you want to give a tangible present, but you know the recipient wants cash, give a little bit of ...
JEAN CHATZKY Idleness is many gathered miseries in one name.
JEAN PAUL It would be ugly to watch people poking sticks at a caged rat. It is uglier still to watch rats poki...
JEAN HARRIS Courage consists not in blindly overlooking danger, but in seeing it, and conquering it.
JEAN PAUL Turning a blind eye to your finances always brings trouble. When you let the bills or late notices s...
JEAN CHATZKY I don't judge a regime by the damning criticism of the opposition, but by the ingenuous praise of th...
JEAN ROSTAND A poor person who is unhappy is in a better position than a rich person who is unhappy because the p...
JEAN KERR The more sand has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.
JEAN PAUL That's the best way to feed the human mind. That's how Bob Marley did it. He never put it in...
WYCLEF JEAN Men try to run life according to their wishes; life runs itself according to necessity.
JEAN TOOMER Bob Marley stood for universal peace and love. He tried to break racial barriers.
WYCLEF JEAN The look of a king is itself a deed.
JEAN PAUL Children and lunatics cut the Gordian knot which the poet spends his life patiently trying to untie.
JEAN COCTEAU Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window. You m...
JEAN KERR I think I am one of those who can manage not to take on a completely different appearance under thei...
JEAN ROSTAND Unlike other loans, a reverse mortgage doesn't have to be repaid until the borrower moves out of...
JEAN CHATZKY A woman of mystique is fully aware of her flaws and weaknesses, yet she is strong enough to admit ...
JEAN LUSH Nothing leads the scientist so astray as a premature truth.
JEAN ROSTAND When a scientist is ahead of his times, it is often through misunderstanding of current, rather than...
JEAN ROSTAND It is not easy to imagine how little interested a scientist usually is in the work of any other, wit...
JEAN ROSTAND It is sometimes important for science to know how to forget the things she is surest of.
JEAN ROSTAND A body of work such as Pasteur's is inconceivable in our time: no man would be given a chance to cre...
JEAN ROSTAND The truly terrible thing is that everybody has their reasons.
JEAN RENOIR To reflect is to disturb one's thoughts.
JEAN ROSTAND Perhaps the world's second worst crime is boredom. The first is being a bore.
JEAN BAUDRILLARD She said, "As long as we're with each other--"
"We know we're in exactly the right place," he f...
JEAN FERRIS Prerequisite for rereadability in books: that they be forgettable.
JEAN ROSTAND The books one has written in the past have two surprises in store: one couldn't write them again, an...
JEAN ROSTAND She could give herself up to the written word as naturally as a good dancer to music or a fine swimm...
JEAN RHYS In politics, yesterday's lie is attacked only to flatter today's.
JEAN ROSTAND In order to remain true to oneself one ought to renounce one's party three times a day.
JEAN ROSTAND It is sometimes well for a blatant error to draw attention to overmodest truths.
JEAN ROSTAND One of the most difficult things to contend with in a hospital is that assumption on the part of the...
JEAN KERR Whether man is disposed to yield to nature or to oppose her, he cannot do without a correct understa...
JEAN ROSTAND Certain brief sentences are peerless in their ability to give one the feeling that nothing remains...
JEAN ROSTAND The only things one can admire at length are those one admires without knowing why.
JEAN ROSTAND There are certain moments when we might wish the future were built by men of the past.
JEAN ROSTAND Certain brief sentences are peerless in their ability to give one the feeling that nothing remains t...
JEAN ROSTAND The only things one can admire at length are those one admires without knowing why.
JEAN ROSTAND God, that dumping ground of our dreams.
JEAN ROSTAND God, that checkroom of our dreams.
JEAN ROSTAND I'm starting to believe that happily ever after includes people doing things that upset each other. ...
JEAN FERRIS The principle goal of education in the schools should be creating men and women who are capable of d...
JEAN PIAGET The principle goal of education is to create men who are capable of doing new things, not simply of ...
JEAN PIAGET You don't seem to realize that a poor person who is unhappy is in a better position than a rich pe...
JEAN KERR Strong character is brought out by change, weak ones by permanence.
JEAN PAUL The nobility of a human being is strictly independent of that of his convictions.
JEAN ROSTAND The timid are afraid before the danger, the cowardly while in danger, and the courageous after dange...
JEAN PAUL We can be seduced...by powerful political groups that promise more wealth and lower taxes. Those wit...
JEAN VANIER Mirrors should think longer before they reflect.
JEAN COCTEAU At twenty-four she imagined with dread that she was growing old.
JEAN RHYS A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness.
JEAN GENET Stupidity, outrage, vanity, cruelty, iniquity, bad faith, falsehood -- we fail to see the whole arra...
JEAN ROSTAND Power may be at the end of a gun, but sometimes it's also at the end of the shadow or the image of a...
JEAN GENET Contact with men who wield power and authority still leaves an intangible sense of repulsion. It's v...
JEAN BAUDRILLARD Life is a comedy to those who think, a tragedy to those who feel.
JEAN RACINE Memory is the only paradise from which we cannot be driven.
JEAN PAUL The only medicine that does women more good than harm is dress.
JEAN PAUL To be adult is to be alone.
JEAN ROSTAND Perhaps all music, even the newest, is not so much something discovered as something that re-emerges...
JEAN GENET All good music resembles something. Good music stirs by its mysterious resemblance to the objects an...
JEAN COCTEAU No author can be as moral as his work and no preacher as pious as his sermons.
JEAN PAUL Humankind's chief fault is that they have so many small ones.
JEAN PAUL Passion makes the best observations and the sorriest conclusions.
JEAN PAUL The parent is low, who having children, truly feels bored.
JEAN PAUL It takes a very deep-rooted opinion to survive unexpressed.
JEAN ROSTAND You don't seem to realize that a poor person who is unhappy is in a better position than a rich pers...
JEAN KERR If a hermit lives in a state of ecstasy, his lack of comfort becomes the height of comfort. He must ...
JEAN COCTEAU We all have the extraordinary coded within us... waiting to be released.
JEAN HOUSTON The era of the political was one of anomie: crisis, violence, madness and revolution. The era of the...
JEAN BAUDRILLARD Politicians -- power itself -- are abject because they merely embody the profound contempt people ha...
JEAN BAUDRILLARD It only takes a politician believing in what he says for the others to stop believing him.
JEAN BAUDRILLARD The abjection of our political situation is the only true challenge today. Only facing up to this si...
JEAN BAUDRILLARD The end we aim at must be known, before the way can be made.
JEAN PAUL The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain ...
JEAN KERR The ideal, without doubt, varies, but its enemies, alas, are always the same.
JEAN ROSTAND Brevity is the body and soul of wit.
JEAN PAUL Idleness is many gathered miseries in one name.
JEAN PAUL No one is more profoundly sad as one who laughs too much.
JEAN PAUL Even though a number of people have tried, no one has ever found a way to drink for a living.
JEAN KERR It may offend us to hear our own thoughts expressed by others: we are not sure enough of their souls...
JEAN ROSTAND One of the characteristics of the dream is that nothing surprises us in it. With no regret, we agree...
JEAN COCTEAU If you can keep your head about you when all about you are losing theirs, its just possible you have...
JEAN KERR If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs, it's just possible you haven't grasp...
JEAN KERR Effective action is always unjust.
JEAN ANOUILH Beauty in art is often nothing but ugliness subdued.
JEAN ROSTAND I'm tired of all this nonsense about beauty being only skin-deep. That's deep enough. What do you wa...
JEAN KERR Fiction is not imagination. It is what anticipates imagination by giving it the form of reality. Thi...
JEAN BAUDRILLARD The divine is perhaps that quality in man which permits him to endure the lack of God.
JEAN ROSTAND One must credit an hypothesis with all that has had to be discovered in order to demolish it.
JEAN ROSTAND The greatest masterpiece in literature is only a dictionary out of order.
JEAN COCTEAU Small crimes always precedes great ones.
JEAN RACINE Repudiating the virtues of your world, criminals hopelessly agree to organize a forbidden universe. ...
JEAN GENET Crimes of which a people is ashamed constitute its real history. The same is true of man.
JEAN GENET Our senses are indeed our doors and windows on this world, in a very real sense the key to the unloc...
JEAN HOUSTON Poetry is indispensable --if I only knew what for.
JEAN COCTEAU Such is the role of poetry. It unveils, in the strict sense of the word. It lays bare, under a light...
JEAN COCTEAU