It's Niagara Falls. It's one of the most beautiful natural wonders in the world. Who wouldn't want to walk across it?
We train very hard under windy conditions. I've actually walked a wire in my backyard with 90-mile-an-hour winds.
One thing that I pride myself on is, everything that I do is completely legit. We go through every channel, and do it the proper way.
Every walk that I do, there's obstacles in the way. There's always somebody or something that comes across negative, but I live for that sort of thing.
I'm facing Niagara Falls - the wind and the mist and the dark and the peregrine falcons - and I'm going to stay focused on the other side.
Our nation today needs men and women who are bold enough to play on the field and passionate to change the status quo !
Wearing underwear on the outside of your clothes can turn a tedious trip to the store for a forgotten carton of milk into an amusement park romp.
We are a breathtakingly alienated people... One of my props is the world's largest underpants. I've had the president of Costa Rica in my underpants with me.
Things changed with the discovery of neutron stars and black holes - objects with gravitational fields so intense that dramatic space and time-warping effects occur.
An intellectual challenge presents itself? I am in bliss. Instantly, it brings forth the notion of triumph.
On the high wire, within months, I'm able to master all the tricks they do in the circus, except I am not satisfied.
I have been expelled from five different schools when I was a kid. And I learned basically all what I do by myself.
When a loved one disappears, you continue to live with the accompaniment of that person. One has to find a balance between joy and sorrow.
To be able to create fully, it's maybe fine that you learn the rules, but you have to forget and to rebel against those rules.
Wire-walking in performance is one thing - I never fell, of course. If I had, I wouldn't be here talking about it.
There was quite a lot of lying around in fields at Stonar, a small independent girls' school in the country near Bath. It was a non-selective school and the right environment for me: academically not particularly pushy.
It's harder and harder for journalists to get out in the field and interview Iraqis. The Web can get these voices out easily and cheaply.
As a scientist in the field of biological warfare defense, I have never had any reservations whatsoever about helping the anthrax investigation in any way that I could.
To address questions of scientific responsibility does not necessarily imply that one needs technical competence in a particular field (e.g. biology) to evaluate certain technical matters.
When I drive through a field, I want to see green grass sometimes, and I don't want to see black and white.
Clean, tasty, real foods do not come processed in boxes or bags; they come from the earth, the sea, the field, or the farm.
