To Reach the Clouds Quotes

“I know it's impossible. But I know I'll do it!”
― Philippe Petit, To Reach the Clouds: My High Wire Walk Between the Twin Towers

“It's impossible, that's for sure. So let's start working.”
― Philippe Petit, Man on Wire

“On one side, the mass of a mountain. A life I know.
On the other, the universe of the clouds, so full of unknown that it seems empty to us. Too much space.”
― Philippe Petit, To Reach the Clouds: My High Wire Walk Between the Twin Towers

“When the towers again twin-tickle the clouds, I offer to walk again, to be the expression of the builder's collective voice. Together, we will rejoice in an aerial song of victory. I will carry my life across the wire, as your life, as all our lives, past, present, and future -the lives lost, the lives welcomed since.
we can overcome.”
― Philippe Petit, To Reach the Clouds: My High Wire Walk Between the Twin Towers

“When I see three oranges, I juggle; when I see two towers, I walk!”
― Philippe Petit, To Reach the Clouds: My High Wire Walk Between the Twin Towers

“I know it’s impossible. But I know I’ll do it!”
― Philippe Petit, To Reach the Clouds: The Walk film tie in

“Wirewalker, trust your feet! Let them lead you; they know the way.”
― Philippe Petit, To Reach the Clouds: My High Wire Walk Between the Twin Towers

“My destiny no longer has me conquering the highest toowers in the world, but rather the void they protect.
This cannot be measured.”
― Philippe Petit, To Reach the Clouds: My High Wire Walk Between the Twin Towers

“Would anyone but a crazed bicephalous being, half engineer, half poet, willingly shackle himself to a venture of such magnitude? I am prisoner of my dream.”
― Philippe Petit, To Reach the Clouds: My High Wire Walk Between the Twin Towers

“The success of this first “official” intrusion seems to bring the coup closer to … To reality?”
― Philippe Petit, To Reach the Clouds: My High Wire Walk Between the Twin Towers

“The union of altitude and solitude fills me with an arrogant sense of ownership.”
― Philippe Petit, To Reach the Clouds: My High Wire Walk Between the Twin Towers