Philippe Petit Quotes

I like stability.

Part of me longs to do a job where there's not a gray area.

I don't like two stories. I like one story. I never grew up with stairs. I like to stick to what I know.

Everything is very black and white for me. I don't really like playing mind games.

I'm just interested in having a handle on my environment.

It's all about consistency, and what makes a child or a dog secure: order, clarity - all those things.

We all want certainty.

The Great Guarantee; and the only sufficient Guarantee

We’ve got to have some certainty here.

For me life is simple and consistent.

Clear rules provide huge amounts of freedom: freedom to be safe and freedom to work efficiently because things are in order.

An island of surety in a changing world.

Better one safe way than a hundred on which you cannot reckon.

Simplicity is a strict taskmaster.

I am a simple man and I want simple answers.

Ha! for a divine and lordly manor, there is nothing like solid ground.

Be simple and reliable

Simple is the speech of truth.

It's amazing, when the moment arrives that you know you'll be alright.

The thing about getting older is that you don't need everything to be possible any more, you just need things to be certain.

They never played games with each other, they never had tow worry where they stood, because if either of them had a moment of wavering, the other would say I love you and would mean it and all doubts were forgiven because in this one case it was found that love conquers all.

It is excellent discipline for an author to feel that he must say all he has to say in the fewest possible words, or his reader is sure to skip them; and in the plainest possible words, or his reader will certainly misunderstand them. Generally, also, a downright fact may be told in a plain way; and we want downright facts at present more than anything else.

Simplicity is not the absence of clutter.

Nothing's as good as holding on to safety.

Security of character would be like a compass, you know? Other people may say that this way is north, or this way might be north. But the compass just says -- north. That's what we count on.