#ropes

My grandmother and I followed my mother here, to a house a block north of Hollywood Boulevard but a million miles away from Hollywood, if you know what I mean. We would hang out behind the ropes and look at the movie stars arriving at the premieres. ↗

— Carol Burnett

#away #behind #block #boulevard #followed

I've looked that old scoundrel death in the eye many times but this time I think he has me on the ropes. ↗

— Douglas MacArthur

#eye #i #i think #looked #many

I tend to avoid televisions, politics, and places with velvet ropes. ↗

— Demetri Martin

#i #places #politics #ropes #televisions

It's obviously nerve-wracking, because I don't know the ropes really, William is obviously used to it, but I'm willing to learn quickly and work hard. ↗

— Kate Middleton

#hard #i #know #learn #obviously

I have stretched ropes from steeple to steeple; garlands from window to window; golden chains from star to star, and I dance. ↗

— Arthur Rimbaud

#dance #garlands #golden #i #ropes

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. ↗

— Donald Rumsfeld

#corners #help #know #make #mistakes

I very rarely saw Tom Kite around. I've talked to Tom about it. I don't think Michael Jordan needed to be on the captain's cart with Kite; he needed to be walking in the gallery, supporting them from outside the ropes. ↗

— Payne Stewart

#around #captain #cart #gallery #i

I was tortured fifteen times, that's total submission. They did that with shutting off your blood circulation with ropes, giving you claustrophobia and pain at the same time, bending you double. ↗

— James Stockdale

#blood #circulation #did #double #fifteen

I could tell I loved her from the moment I saw her, right after she opened the trunk, untied me, and took off my blindfold.
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— Jarod Kintz

#bound #kidnap #love #ropes #trunk

Social media is addictive precisely because it gives us something which the real world lacks: it gives us immediacy, direction, a sense of clarity and value as an individual. ↗

— David Amerland

#social-media-addiction #social-media-qualities #social-network-tropes #business