There are two sides of the Velvet Rope. Those who want to be on the other side and those who are on the other side.
When we hang the capitalists they will sell us the rope we use.
Ah!" I cried, springing up. "But no! no! My uncle shall never know it. He would insist upon doing it too. He would want to know all about it. Ropes could not hold him, such a determined geologist as he is! He would start, he would, in spite of everything and everybody, and he would take me with him, and we should never get back. No, never! never!" My over-excitement was beyond all description.
It's an old sailor's idea that every ship has a rope with one end made fast to her bows and the other held by the loved ones at home.
A person needs a little madness, or else they never dare cut the rope and be free.
You just let people do what they do and look at them and give them enough rope until they do what you thought they were going to do. . . which is screw you over.
Sex at the age of 90 is like playing billiards with a rope
Visit with your predecessors from previous Administrations. They know the ropes and can help you see around some corners. Try to make original mistakes, rather than needlessly repeating theirs.
A man is like a rope: both break at a definite strain. . . . The solution is not splicing the rope; it's lessening the tension.
God and devotee are bound for ever in ropes of love
It was rumored, in 1946, that the hangman in Nuremberg adjusted the nooses of some of the condemned to magnify the pain of suffocation. Such sadism was not called for then and is not called for now. But if fornication is wrong, there is no denying that it can bring pleasure. The death of Saddam Hussein at rope's end brings a pleasure that is undeniable, and absolutely chaste in its provenance.
I'll fight anybody who grabs the rope to hang themselves.
Gravity was something you could beat; all it took was hydrogen, hot air, or even a bit of rope. But being a girl was a miserable, never-ending struggle.
With acting it's your neck up there in the end. And if you think the director can't help you it's one thing. But if you feel they're reining you in when they need to be giving you some rope, or vice versa, then I just don't tolerate that.
Scatter money in a crowd, how they scramble for it; offer bread to the starving, how greedily they seize it; throw a rope to the drowning, how he eagerly grasps it! With like eagerness and earnestness may the Spirit of God help you to lay hold on Christ.
Remember how it was when we kissed? Armfuls and armfuls of light thrown right at us. A rope dropping down from the sky. How can the word love and the word life even fit in the mouth?
I'd go to Coney Island to hang out, and I saw a magician doing a rope trick on the boardwalk. I was fascinated. I guess that's how it started.
Our tribe unraveled like a coarse rope, frayed at either end as the old and new among us were taken.
ROPE, n. An obsolescent appliance for reminding assassins that they too are mortal. It is put about the neck and remains in place one's whole life long.
You might be a redneck if you have a color coordinating rope that ties down your car hood.