Not what we have But what we enjoy, constitutes our abundance.
J. PETIT-SENN 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 Where talent is a dwarf, self-esteem is a giant. - Conceits and Caprices.
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 Money dishonestly acquired is never worth its cost, while a good conscience never costs as much as i...
JEAN 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 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 Old age adds to the respect due to virtue, but it takes nothing from the contempt inspired by vice; ...
J. P. SENN Old age adds to the respect due to virtue, but it takes nothing from the contempt inspired by vice...
J. P. SENN I think that will be the test in the Southeast for AT&T. Is it swooping in to make an acquisition, o...
JAMES 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 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's his choice and we have to respect it,
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 The world is full of fools, and he who would not see it should live alone and smash his mirror.
CLAUDE LE PETIT 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 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 My mom taught me from a young age to give back and volunteer any chance you get. It was something th...
J. J. WATT No doubt about it. For every player. Thursday nights are very tough for us because it is a short tur...
J. J. WATT When I picture myself after football, it's down home, coaching high school football, just a rela...
J. J. WATT I know that I'm going out there, and I know that I am going to get hit in the head. I know that&...
J. J. WATT Since my sophomore year in high school, I knew I didn't want to do anything but be a professiona...
J. J. WATT If you're an outsider looking into my life, you're thinking, 'That dude is crazy. He'...
J. J. WATT Houston is kind of a melting pot. There are many different cultures and ethnicities represented out ...
J. J. WATT I get a lot of letters that say, 'I'm a normal, down-to-earth girl. I love to cook, and I lo...
J. J. WATT My dad's a firefighter, so I know what it's like for policemen and firefighters to be on the...
J. J. WATT If you're going to nap, make sure you have a proper chunk of time blocked out. I'm not one o...
J. J. WATT I will always do what I can to help others, but when I retire, I want to be a dad and a husband. I w...
J. J. WATT When it comes down to that moment, when it's me against you, you know in your head whether you w...
J. J. WATT You have to find the right situation, and you have to be in that right mindset where you can give ev...
J. J. WATT I ate a whole 20-inch pizza by myself one time.
J. J. WATT A reputation takes years and years and years to build, and it takes one press of a button to ruin it...
J. J. WATT I'll fight a bear, but I don't like spiders. I'm not a fan of those.
J. J. WATT I never want to let a day go by without having done something to get a little better.
J. J. WATT There's no greater feeling in the world than when you can put a smile on somebody's face jus...
J. J. WATT I want to coach high school football, and that's always what I've wanted to do.
J. J. WATT People always ask, 'Man, why don't you come out and enjoy it? Why don't you celebrate? W...
J. J. WATT A sack is way better than any nightclub. A touchdown is way better than any bar experience I've ...
J. J. WATT If you don't have that vision for the end goal, you have no clue where you're going, and you...
J. J. WATT I want to go out and chase greatness. That's all I want to do.
J. J. WATT Midi is my hobby.
J. J. JOHNSON There are no black film composers doing the likes of Star Wars, doing the likes of E.T., doing the l...
J. J. JOHNSON I was lucky enough to occasionally break out of that racist situation that prevails in the Hollywood...
J. J. JOHNSON Sometimes you need to stand with your nose to the window and have a good look at jazz. And I've ...
J. J. JOHNSON We have this obsession with broken homes. Everyone wants to find a problem with it, but not me. I ha...
J. J. FIELD You can win a talent show and be so famous that you can't walk down the street, but no-one knows...
J. J. FIELD The two cities I've found very hard to leave in my life were New York and Buenos Aires.
J. J. FIELD The ability of a television series to make adjustments is something you've got to take advantage...
J. J. ABRAMS I hate to look at the stuff I've written and consider what it means or why I do it.
J. J. ABRAMS I've had the same friends since I was in kindergarten.
J. J. ABRAMS I believe in anything that will engage the audience and make the story more effective.
J. J. ABRAMS When I was a kid, among the other embarrassing things I would do, and there's a list of stupid t...
J. J. ABRAMS People never know what they want, though everyone says they do. If they did, nobody would ever be su...
J. J. ABRAMS The goal is always to do B material in an A fashion.
J. J. ABRAMS I don't try and write strong female characters or strong male characters, I just try and write, ...
J. J. ABRAMS I work with really hard-working people who are really good at what they do.
J. J. ABRAMS Pitching is always a weird, difficult thing.
J. J. ABRAMS Whenever a toddler sees a pile of blocks, he wants to tear it down.
J. J. ABRAMS I don't think I have a signature.
J. J. ABRAMS I'm not trying to be coy or manipulative or Machiavellian, I want to spark people's imaginat...
J. J. ABRAMS I think that even if you're wondering if two characters are ever going to kiss, drawing out the ...
J. J. ABRAMS I love the idea of anthropomorphizing machines. I love the idea of taking technology and giving it a...
J. J. ABRAMS I try to push ideas away, and the ones that will not leave me alone are the ones that ultimately end...
J. J. ABRAMS When I was a kid, it was a huge insult to be a geek. Now it's a point of pride in a weird way.
J. J. ABRAMS You never want to have that ticking clock and know that you had all this time and didn't use it.
J. J. ABRAMS To me the interesting main character is never the one without flaws.
J. J. ABRAMS I think you have a passion and an obsession for something when it's not necessarily ubiquitous.
J. J. ABRAMS We live in an age of instant knowledge. And there's almost a sense of entitlement to that.
J. J. ABRAMS It's a leap of faith doing any serialised storytelling.
J. J. ABRAMS When you work on something that combines both the spectacular and the relatable, the hyperreal and t...
J. J. ABRAMS Robotics are beginning to cross that line from absolutely primitive motion to motion that resembles ...
J. J. ABRAMS You can never guess or assume what anyone is going to think.
J. J. ABRAMS When budget cuts happen - which has been happening a lot in this country - after-school athletics an...
J. J. WATT I'm not strict on my calorie count; I just pay attention to my body.
J. J. WATT There are things of deadly earnest that can only be mentioned under the cover of a joke.
J. J. PROCTER If you want to be remembered as great, if you want to be a legend, you have to go out there every si...
J. J. WATT I obviously would love to have a girlfriend, but a girlfriend deserves so much of your time and ener...
J. J. WATT What I remember most about high school are the memories I created with my friends.
J. J. WATT I'm obsessed with things that are distinctly analogue.
J. J. ABRAMS Death is a low chemical trick played on everybody except sequoia trees.
J. J. FURNAS What's a bigger mystery box than a movie theater? You go to the theater, you're just so exci...
J. J. ABRAMS My dad was a firefighter for almost 30 years. My mom worked her way up from a secretary to vice pres...
J. J. WATT I'm sure I frustrate the trainers - in fact, I know I frustrate the trainers to no end. But I th...
J. J. WATT What I'm still grappling with and learning how to do is to be looking and thinking cinematically...
J. J. ABRAMS With three kids you are just trying to survive. You can't be fastidious.
J. J. ABRAMS You can find just about everything on my iPod from Eminem to Zac Brown to Justin Timberlake to One D...
J. J. WATT My family is a middle-class family. When I grew up and learned how much it actually cost for us to p...
J. J. WATT When you're in the National Football League, and you get this window where all eyes are on you, ...
J. J. WATT Making movies was more a reaction to not being chosen for sports. Other kids were out there playing ...
J. J. ABRAMS I Googled 'What do rich people buy?' Because I don't feel like a rich person, and I don&...
J. J. WATT Stories in which the destruction of society occurs are explorations of social fears and issues that ...
J. J. ABRAMS It's hard to understand the life that I live and rationalize some of the things that I do. I don...
J. J. WATT In the off-season, I train twice a day, five times a week with my trainer. Then, there's always ...
J. J. WATT The way I look at it is that somebody in the world, no matter what your field is - teacher, violinis...
J. J. WATT You know, we've got to this place, where you go to a movie for one particular surgical fix. So, ...
J. J. ABRAMS I love the Stanley Cup playoffs.
J. J. WATT There is a malaise that exists in your land - what appears to many as the sudden and tragic disappea...
J. J. GREENE I'm a fast writer.
J. J. ABRAMS There are games where I go a whole game without saying a word. There are games where I'm talking...
J. J. WATT It's literally, if I'm not working out, I eat the whole time I'm not working out. It'...
J. J. WATT It's pretty neat to be able to help the team in different ways.
J. J. WATT I work on holidays. I work on birthdays. I work on New Year's. I work. I keep my ears to the str...
JUICY J I pay attention to lyrics and I know what rap fans care about. I try to write for the average listen...
J. COLE If I was to go to sleep before midnight, I would feel weird about myself, like I wasted a day. My mo...
J. COLE You can't reverse fame. You can lose all the money, but you'll never lose people knowing you...
J. COLE I was a class clown. At 12, I was definitely clowning. I was making all the jokes. But I was smart, ...
J. COLE Usually I like to have them, but going drum-less pushes everything in a new direction and makes it e...
J MASCIS I play a Fender Jazzmaster and three stacks and a combo, two old Marshall Plexis and a Hiwatt combo ...
J MASCIS 'No Bones' has some reverb that I kick around.
J MASCIS You might as well play at the show everyone else is playing at.
J MASCIS I was just reading about Paul Simon in 'Uncut', and it was fascinating. I never think about ...
J MASCIS People have to do what they want to do.
J MASCIS All labels are offensive in some way.
J MASCIS Yeah, you know, I'm always into cassette. At least they seem to be the longest-lasting medium we...
J MASCIS I've always worn earplugs, but I'm sure my hearing's not great.
J MASCIS It's harder to play drums than guitar, physically. I'm always kind of on the edge. I guess t...
J MASCIS I have a couple of gold teeth. I had braces for a year but I didn't wear the retainer.
J MASCIS I enjoy having some boundaries to work within. That's why I generally don't like alternate t...
J MASCIS I've never liked rehearsing too much.
J MASCIS When I play a solo I'm just expressing that moment. It can go horribly wrong easily enough.
J MASCIS Generally my songs are just some riffs slung together as an excuse for a guitar solo.
J MASCIS It's good to have certain restrictions sometimes, but it's definitely more fun to play reall...
J MASCIS I prefer cynical people. Nice guys grow on trees.
J MASCIS The chips are in production, the machines aren't. So we've got a little bit of work left to ...
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