Stilts Quotes

• Los derechos naturales son simples tonterías: derechos naturales e imprescriptibles, tonterías retóricas, tonterías sobre zancos.

  Jeremy Bentham

  Simple, Rights, Nonsense

  Anarchical Fallacies art. 2 (1816)

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• It's hard enough for women to walk on high heels. And I'm on stilts!

  Aimee Mullins

  High Heels, Enough, Walks

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• The gymnasium of running, walking on stilts, climbing, etc. stells and makes hardy single powers and muscles, but dancing, like a corporeal poesy, embellishes, exercises, and equalizes all the muscles at once.

  Jean Paul

  Dance, Running, Exercise

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• I used to entertain myself - I taught myself to use stilts and juggle and ride a unicycle. But I was never immediately interested in theatre.

  Tobias Segal

  Theatre, Use, Taught

  Fuente: www.broadwayworld.com

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• Processions that lack high stilts have nothing that catches the eye.
  What if my great-granddad had a pair that were twenty foot high,
  And mine were but fifteen foot, no modern stalks upon higher,
  Some rogue of the world stole them to patch up a fence or a fire.

  William Butler Yeats

  Ojo, Fuego, Pies

  William Butler Yeats (1962). “Poems of William Butler Yeats”, p.193, Hayes Barton Press

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• It is in vain that we get upon stilts, for once on them, it is still with our legs that we must walk. And on the highest throne in the world we are still sitting on our own ass.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Vanity, Thrones, Sitting

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• Friend, my enemy, I call you out. You, you, you there with a bad thorn in your side. You there, my friend, with a winning air. Who pawned the lie on me when he looked brassly at my shyest secret. With my whole heart under your hammer. That though I loved him for his faults as much as for his good. My friend were an enemy upon stilts with his head in a cunning cloud. -Dylan Thomas

  Dylan Thomas

  Lying, Heart, Winning

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• Whats the worst that could happen?! The worst that could happen is he could cut off your legs and use them to make stilts that look like legs!

  Aziz Ansari

  Cutting, Looks, Use

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• Princeton is a wonderful little spot. A quaint and ceremonious village of puny demigods on stilts.

  Albert Einstein

  Education, Village, Littles

  Albert Einstein (2017). “Einstein on Peace”, p.357, Pickle Partners Publishing

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• [Diego Luna Cassian] quite a smartass, and I really appreciate smartasses. He used to make fun of me for the stupid backpack I wore. There were a few situations where I couldn't [wear the stilts]. [When] I was on a cliffside or running in water and stuff like that, I had to wear this backpack with a telescoping head that came off the top, and it was really stupid looking.

  Alan Tudyk

  Running, Fun, Stupid

  Fuente: www.avclub.com

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• What is an "I", and why are such things found (at least so far) only in association with, as poet Russell Edson once wonderfully phrased it, "teetering bulbs of dread and dream" - that is, only in association with certain kinds of gooey lumps encased in hard protective shells mounted atop mobile pedestals that roam the world on pairs of slightly fuzzy, jointed stilts?

  Douglas Hofstadter

  Dream, Pedestal, Shells

  "Godel, Escher, Bach". Book by Douglas Hofstadter, observer.com. 1979.

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• A las mujeres les gustan los zancos de la improvisación, y creo que a los hombres les gustan las pollas gigantes de la improvisación. Pero una de las cosas buenas de la improvisación es que te da la oportunidad de interpretar papeles que de otro modo nunca podrías hacer, como el del viejo pizzero italiano que le pasa el negocio a su hijo. Cuando improvisas, puedes interpretarlo todo.

  Amy Poehler

  Hijo, Italiano, Hombres

  Fuente: www.avclub.com

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• Ambition is but avarice on stilts, and masked. God sometimes sends a famine, sometimes a pestilence, and sometimes a hero, for the chastisement of mankind; none of them surely for our admiration.

  Walter Savage Landor

  Hero, Ambition, Pestilence

  Walter Savage Landor (2016). "Delphi Collected Poetical Works of Walter Savage Landor (Ilustrado)", Delphi Classics.

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• No tengo muy buena opinión de los libros de Madame D'Arblay. El estilo es tan pavoneante. Se pasea sobre los viejos zancos del Dr. Johnson.

  Mary Russell Mitford

  Libro, Pensamiento, Estilo

  Mary Russell Mitford (1870). "The Life of Mary Russell Mitford ; Related in an Selection from Her Letters to Her Friends. Ed. por A.G. Estrange", p.60

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• El corazón de Cassidy intentó saltar a través de su piel enseñada y brincar a sus manos mojadas. Pero por fuera todo era muy tranquilo, muy sereno, como siempre, y parecía durar una eternidad, una instantánea de todos ellos en la parábola curva de una línea de salida, ocho corazones gigantes unidos a ocho pares de pulmones como bramidos montados en ocho pares de zancos sobrealimentados. Estaban al borde de un vórtice aullante por el que habían corrido 16.000 kilómetros. Ahora tenían que correr uno más.

  John L. Parker Jr.

  Correr, Corazón, Ocho

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• I have a very close friend who is a brilliant clown, and I always wanted to do a show with him. So I did one year at La MaMa Theatre. I had not done stilts before that show, and I had about two weeks to learn how to do that, and they were just made with off-off Broadway money. The ones that I had in Rogue One were made by [Industrial Light & Magic]. So they were really easy. They were made with actual prosthetic feet on the bottom. They were athletic, in a way. I could run in them. There was a bounce to them that I could use.

  Alan Tudyk

  Running, Years, Two

  "Alan Tudyk on making Moana's chicken noises and his fear of becoming Rogue One's Jar Jar". Interview with Esther Zuckerman, film.avclub.com. December 7, 2016.

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• Going back was like a reunion for all the cast. We were all there. It was weird to have been away from it for a few months, and then, "Hey look, here we all are. I can still walk on these stilts. Wow, we all still fit in our costumes." It was nice to connect again, and then we went to Star Wars Celebration right after that. It's neat.

  Alan Tudyk

  Stars, War, Nice

  "Alan Tudyk on making Moana's chicken noises and his fear of becoming Rogue One's Jar Jar". Interview with Esther Zuckerman, film.avclub.com. December 7, 2016.

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• Beyond the town, darker than dark, King Haggard's castle teetered like a lunatic on stilts.

  Peter S. Beagle

  Kings, Dark, Castles

  Peter S. Beagle (1968). "El último unicornio", Roc

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• Mi lugar favorito en el que he estado y en el que la mayoría de la gente no ha estado es el Triángulo de Oro, en el noreste de Tailandia, habitado por gente como en la Edad de Piedra, sin ningún tipo de energía, sin agua corriente, viviendo simplemente en chozas sobre pilotes.

  Arthur Frommer

  Running, People, Water

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• Judge not man by his outward manifestation of faith; for some there are who tremblingly reach out shaking hands to the guidance of faith; others who stoutly venture in the dark their human confidence, their leader, which they mistake for faith; some whose hope totters upon crutches; others who stalk into futurity upon stilts. The difference is chiefly constitutional with them.

  Charles Lamb

  Faith, Mistake, Dark

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• "Do you know," the Devil confided, "not even the best mathematicians on other planets - all far ahead of yours - have solved it? Why, there is a chap on Saturn - he looks something like a mushroom on stilts - who solves partial differential equations mentally; and even he's given up."

  Arthur Porges

  Mushrooms, Devil, Saturn

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• Those who have made unhappy marriages walk on stilts, while the happy ones are on a level with the crowd. No one sees 'em!

  Pearl Mary Teresa Craigie

  Marriage, Unhappy, Levels

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• Any one may mouth out a passage with a theatrical cadence, or get upon stilts to tell his thoughts; but to write or speak with propriety and simplicity is a more difficult task. Thus it is easy to affect a pompous style, to use a word twice as big as the thing you want to express; it is not so easy to pitch upon the very word that exactly fits it.

  William Hazlitt

  Writing, Simplicity, Style

  William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.1270, Delphi Classics

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