There are slavish souls who carry their appreciation for favors done them so far that they strangle themselves with the rope of gratitude.

- Friedrich Nietzsche

You can't tie a rope around the ice sheet. You can't build a wall around the ice sheets.

- James Hansen

I like to give my daughter some rope and let her make her own decisions.

- Jason Bateman

When we hang the capitalists they will sell us the rope we use.

- Joseph Stalin

You know, people think you have to be dumb to skip rope for 45 minutes. No, you have to be able to imagine something else. While you're skipping rope, you have to be able to see something else.

- John Irving

If I do hit that rope and do a hop, skip and a jump and get up as high as I can, I'm just going to hold my breath, because I know i'm going to hear all kinds of scar tissue popping.

- Hulk Hogan

I like to jump some rope and swing kettle bells to get my blood pumping. It makes my voice sound better, and it clears my head.

- Harry Connick, Jr.

I don't really believe in 'directions' in art; the rope twists as you follow it, that's all.

- Graham Nelson

I've forgotten more about bad putting than all the lousy putters in the firmament combined. My mind has been twisted into an incurable, disturbing venue of bad speed and inadequate line. I just want to go out and not feel like I'm putting a Rubik's Cube with a flimsy piece of rope.

- Gary McCord

They call it the rope-a-dope. Well, I'm the dope. Ali just laid on the rope and I, like a dope, kept punching until I got tired. But he was probably the most smart fighter I've ever gotten into the ring with.

- George Foreman

It was as helpful as throwing a drowning man both ends of the rope.

- Arthur Baer

On one level the sixties revolt was an impressive illustration of Lenin's remark that the capitalist will sell you the rope to hang him with.

- Ellen Willis

Everyone wants to get behind the red rope, but actually: be yourself, don't believe what you see, don't believe all this marketing.

- Daphne Guinness

His hands would plait the priest's guts, if he had no rope, to strangle kings.

- Denis Diderot

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.

- David Blaine

We don't have one of those houses where there's a rope that separates the kids' area from the adult area. There's a happy medium. It's all about fabric choices, accessories.

- Candice Olson

I played on teams with 24 guys pulling the rope one way and one guy pulling the other. I've seen how destructive it can be. I tell them, 'If 13 of you are insanely successful and one fails, we all lose.'

- Curt Schilling

Don't ever rope me in as a late-night talk show host. I don't want to be one.

- Craig Ferguson

Give him enough rope and he will hang himself.

- Charlotte Bronte

The skyline in Alfred Hitchcock's 'Rope' is made up: no, you don't get the Waldorf and the Chrysler and the Empire State buildings and a dozen other magnificent structures in one window.

- Bill Buford