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Every bit as visceral and hypnotic as its award-winning predecessor, On the Ropes is a tour-de-force of fluid, yet detailed storytelling. -- Dave Gibbons
I'd forgotten how challenging comics can be until I started working on Ropes. Yes, you're restricted by the boundaries of the page, but we all work within technical limitations of some kind. -- James Vance
Understand, my own politics aren't necessarily interchangeable with what any of my characters believe. You could take each of the characters in On the Ropes, and I'd probably be in sympathy with a different one on any given day, depending on what's going on in the world. -- James Vance
I tend to avoid televisions, politics, and places with velvet ropes. -- Demetri Martin
A dame that knows the ropes isn't likely to get tied up. -- Mae West
We didn't have the lane ropes, we had to get up higher in the water to avoid the little waves. -- Johnny Weissmuller
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
I have stretched ropes from steeple to steeple; garlands from window to window; golden chains from star to star, and I dance. -- Arthur Rimbaud
Desktop computers - boxes inside boxes - began appearing in those cubicles in the mid-eighties, electrical cords curling on the floor like so many ropes. -- Jill Lepore
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
So many times in the history of Mormon polygamy, the outside world thought it had the movement on the ropes only to see it flourish anew. -- Scott Anderson
I've never seen a truly great fighter get knocked onto the ropes unconscious... knocked out cold before... and I saw Roy Jones get knocked out twice in a row. -- Jim Lampley
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
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
At one time, I wanted to be a WWE wrestler. I still do. I want to go in the ring once and mess around and jump off the ropes and do a Stone Cold stunt. -- Rob Gronkowski
I am very proud of Jim Leiken. He has worked with me for six years and has been patient enough to learn the ropes. He's now matured into a true chef and is working on building his team. -- Daniel Boulud
I was a troubled teen and I was constantly looking for someone to throw me a rope. Those ropes are connections. They allow us to see that life exists beyond the little worlds we are currently a part of. -- Lauren Oliver
Learning how to interact with customers is something that anyone starting any business must master. It's an amazing opportunity to be able to learn the ropes at an established company and then employ your expertise at your own company. -- Marc Benioff
The leg drop was a move that nobody really used, and nobody ever hit the ropes and jumped up really high, so I tried it out in Japan and the people loved it. That's how I came up with it. -- Hulk Hogan
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
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
My dad was one of the reasons I got into rock and roll, because I was learning the ropes of his business, which was selling powertools, and I was looking for a way out from under his heel. I was like, 'Where's the fun? Where's the glamour?' -- Billy Idol
Hurtling the Pentagon into an unprecedented budgetary meltdown is horrifically irresponsible. Obama doesn't care. This is war - not against the Taliban, but war against the GOP. He has Republicans on the ropes, and that's a victory he savors and desires - unlike Afghanistan, where he seems only to want to turn tail. -- John Podhoretz
I don't mean to offend anybody, but I think that we get a lot of scientists now who are bent into a system, and we lose some of their boldness by that. Obviously, you have to learn the ropes, but I think it's important to do that without hammering out the radicalness that makes innovation happen. -- Taylor Wilson
I started making monkey bridges, like kids do, and climbing and rappelling with ropes. Very naturally, I needed some knots. At the very beginning, I didn't care, I didn't know, and then slowly I started to know, and I started to care. I wanted to know more knots or the right knot for the special action. -- Philippe Petit
One Tree Hill' was my first television experience, so naturally I was nervous initially. There is no rehearsal, you get your script a few days ahead, and you work. I was also the youngest actor, 13, on set at that time, but it was amazing to be able to 'learn the ropes' with such a supportive group of people. -- Kelsey Chow
Darkness comes. In the middle of it, the future looks blank. The temptation to quit is huge. Don't. You are in good company... You will argue with yourself that there is no way forward. But with God, nothing is impossible. He has more ropes and ladders and tunnels out of pits than you can conceive. Wait. Pray without ceasing. Hope. -- John Piper
With my quick success, I didn't have time to learn the ropes of the music business. Because my first record was such a hit, I was terribly spoiled and I thought I couldn't do anything wrong. I was also desperate to make tons of money because of my responsibility to my daughter. And there was no longer any joy in making music. -- Phoebe Snow
I don't know how I didn't kill any one of my sisters. For this one horror film we were making, I made my own harness for my sister. I wrapped her in all these ropes, but then also put a noose around her neck and hung her from a tree. Now I think, 'What if my harness didn't work?' I'm so lucky that nothing ever happened. -- Alexa Vega
Stay away from the ropes -- Muhammad Ali
Everton are now hitting the ropes running. -- Glenn Hoddle
A woman needs ropes and ropes of pearls. -- Grace Kelly
A women needs ropes and ropes of pearls. -- Coco Chanel
I am learning the ropes of captaincy from MS Dhoni. -- Dwayne Bravo
Relationships are ropes. Love is a noose. - Durzo Blint -- Brent Weeks
God and devotee are bound for ever in ropes of love -- Shri Radhe Maa
Making a film is like learning the ropes all over again. -- Miley Cyrus
Let people return to making knots on ropes, instead of writing. -- Laozi
...don't create snakes out of ropes. You have enough to worry about. -- Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
Great blunders are often made, like large ropes, of a multitude of fibres. -- Victor Hugo
Truth had me up against the ropes And semi-conscious without no boxing skills. -- Pharoahe Monch
I will venture to go... but remember that you must hold the ropes. -- William Carey
Net neutrality is one where we the people are definitely on the ropes. -- Alexis Ohanian
Writing is an affair of yearning for great voyages and hauling on frayed ropes. -- Israel Shenker
Around existence twine, (Oh, bridge that hangs across the gorge!) ropes of twisted vine. -- Matsuo Basho
Then the soldiers cut off the ropes of the boat, and let her fall off -- Bible
Possibilities swung from the ropes of his life like charms on a watch chain, golden. -- Susan Moody
If you don't break your ropes while you're alive, do you think ghosts will do it after? -- Kabir
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Whatever happens, do not lose hold of the two main ropes of life - hope and faith. -- Zig Ziglar
It's the ropes and the reins, and the joy and the pain. And they call the thing rodeo. -- Garth Brooks
Ah, we men and women are like ropes drawn tight with strain that pull us in different directions. -- Bram Stoker
Stay triumphant, keep on living. Stay on your toes, get off the ropes. Don't let 'em ever count you out. -- Mariah Carey
When the mighty chains of darkness had me on the ropes, everyone said quit now, that's when I found hope. -- Graham Parker
I've always got into stunts; even at drama school, I was falling down trap doors, and swinging in on ropes. -- Thomas Howes
For them to have the season that they had, for them to have us on the ropes ... Congrats to the Cavs. -- Steve Kerr
I have stretched ropes from steeple to steeple; garlands from window to window; golden chains from star to star, and I dance -- Arthur Rimbaud
Having to wander through a maze of ropes at an airport or bank even when you are the only person in line. -- Rich Hall
Niggers was the ones on the rope,hanging off the thing. Niggas is the ones with gold ropes,hanging out at clubs. -- Tupac Shakur
My familiarity with the successful use of very long steel ropes for mining purposes naturally suggested their adaptation to the new purpose of deep sea work. -- Alexander Agassiz
No prison can hold me; no hand or leg irons or steel locks can shackle me. No ropes or chains can keep me from my freedom. -- Harry Houdini
A lot of people confuse free climbing with free solo. Free climbing is when we use ropes, but we only make upward progress with our bodies. -- Dean Potter
I hope no one asks me to show them the ropes; I have no idea where they are. Maybe I could pull some strings and find out. -- George Carlin
He describes it as a large apartment, with a red brick floor and a capacious chimney; the ceiling garnished with hams, sides of bacon, and ropes of onions. -- Charles Dickens
For poems are not words, after all, but fires for the cold, ropes let down to the lost, something as necessary as bread in the pockets of the hungry. -- Mary Oliver
That's what it's like when people have crawled very high up in a tree, then they sometimes need help to get down with ladders and ropes and other instruments. -- Anders Fogh Rasmussen
you could see the roads crisscrossing over the fields. When cars went by, far away, the beams were so bright they seemed to be ropes of light pulling the cars behind. -- Cynthia Kadohata
April 19 And now it is spring. Birds are singing. Wistful notes and jubilant. And bare streets and no need for coats, and skipping ropes and bicycles and a thin new moon. -- Elizabeth Smart
Look at that sea, girls--all silver and shadow and vision of things not seen. We couldn't enjoy its loveliness any more if we had millions of dollars and ropes of diamonds. -- L.M. Montgomery
Look at that sea, girls--all silver and shadow and vision of things not seen. We couldn't enjoy its loveliness any more if we had millions of dollars and ropes of diamonds. -- L.M. Montgomery
I was tortured fifteen times, thats 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
My definition (of a philosopher) is of a man up in a balloon, with his family and friends holding the ropes which confine him to earth and trying to haul him down. -- Louisa May Alcott
I see these guys, they throw a guy into the ropes and they do a back flip and then clothesline the guy and it looks stupid. Why don't you just clothesline the guy? -- Owen Hart
It's right to trust in God; but, if you don't stand to your halliards your craft'll miss stays, and your faith'll be blown out of the bolt-ropes in the turn of a marlinspike. -- George MacDonald
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Green grass, green grandstands, green concession stalls, green paper cups, green folding chairs and visors for sale, green and white ropes, green-topped Georgia pines. If justice were poetic, Hubert Green would win it every year. -- John Updike

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