Wire famous quotes

There might've been wires, but I have this ability to make myself light. Well you know what, in ballet, when you kind of lift yourself here, it's all up in the head.
-- Albert Finney

#Light #Ballet #Wire

I have been making wire jewelry - and think I'll really do something with it, eventually.
-- Alexander Calder

#Thinking #Wire #Jewelry

I've realized that the world is, in essence, full of banana peels - loaded with things that may unwittingly trip an internal wire in my mind, opening a floodgate of fears without warning.
-- Amanda Lindhout

#Essence #Mind #Wire

The Wire,' I was such a fan of that show the first season - I think that's the best-written show on TV.
-- Amy Ryan

#Thinking #Wire #Fans

I've been obsessed with Michael B. Jordan since The Wire. He's so charismatic and talented. It'd be even better—we'd have interracial bisexuality!
-- Andrew Garfield

#Wire #Jordan #Obsessed

Instead of having to program, to wire, to solder, littleBits allow you to program using very simple intuitive gestures.
-- Ayah Bdeir

#Technology #Simple #Wire

My first book, 'The Age of Wire and String,' came out in 1995, and it was hardly reviewed at all.
-- Ben Marcus

#Book #Age #Wire

Historically, musicians know what it is like to be outside the norm - walking the high wire without a safety net. Our experience is not so different from those who march to the beat of different drummers.
-- Billy Joel

#Safety #Wire #Musician

I can get onstage and cut that off and be superinstinctive. To be a good live performer, you have to be instinctive. It's like, to walk in the jungle, or to do anything where there's a certain tightrope wire aspect you need to be instinctive. And you have to be comfortable at it also.
-- Bruce Springsteen

#Cutting #Wire #Needs

We did some cool wire work in 'The Pact' - they had me strapped to a harness underneath my shirt so they could fling me around the house and slam me into doors. I definitely got some bruises even with all the padding!
-- Caity Lotz

#Doors #House #Wire

You're out there on a high wire without a net, and that's the way actors operate. They have to be fearless about how they work and they have to create a life for the audience in 90 minutes and make them believe.
-- Charles Durning

#Believe #Fearless #Wire

To become conscious of this power is to become a 'live wire.' The universe is the live wire. It carries power sufficient to meet every situation in the life of every individual. When the individual mind touches the universal mind, it receives all its power.
-- Charles F. Haanel

#Law Of Attraction #Mind #Wire

When the green hills are covered with talking wires and the wolves no longer sing, what good will the money you paid for our land be then
-- Chief Seattle

#Talking #Land #Wire

At 6 p.m. I stood in the doorway of my studio facing the Venice boardwalk. A few spectators watched as I pushed two live electric wires into my chest. The wires crossed and exploded, burning me but saving me from electrocution.
-- Chris Burden

#Two #Venice #Wire

For a business plan written when the hardware was a wire-wrapped board and the software was three demos on a graphics substrate, it was pretty close.
-- Chris Espinosa

#Wire #Boards #Three

The great thing about theater is that you have so much time to prepare, and to fail, before presenting it to the public. In film, the high-wire act seems to be that much farther up, and the net seems to be less there.
-- Chris Pine

#Wire #Film #Failing

An extra pressure, a silent rebuke, an unseen praising, a firm correction: all these passed between us as through telegraph wires.
-- Christilot Hanson-Boylen

#Horse #Wire #Unseen

Acting is like a high wire act. Your margin for error is very slim.
-- Christine Baranski

#Errors #Wire #Acting

I rely on Taegan Goddard's Political Wire for straight, fair political news, he gets right to the point. It's an eagerly anticipated part of my news reading.
-- Craig Newmark

#Reading #Political #Wire

People actually ask me why I bring in projects on budget and on time. It seems I am not living up to the fashionable genius role. I really enjoy when a project gets down to the wire, and through sheer force of will and faith in our process, we cross the goal line, when most people thought it impossible.
-- Curtis W. Fentress

#People #Goal #Wire

You can’t have him, okay,” she said from behind the wire barrier. “Mm-hmm,” I whispered. “This is certainly a beautiful neighborhood.” “Yeah, I guess.” “I will scratch those eyes out of your ugly head.
-- Darynda Jones

#Beautiful #Eye #Wire

Neurons that fire together wire together. You can rewire your brain for higher consciousness by focusing on love.
-- Deepak Chopra

#Fire #Brain #Wire

Transmission of documents via telephone wires is possible in principle, but the apparatus required is so expensive that it will never become a practical proposition.
-- Dennis Gabor

#Wire #Principles #Telephones

No, I don't think 'The Wire' screwed up my career at all.
-- Dominic West

#Thinking #Careers #Wire

I'm only stopped by people in uniform, whether it's customs people, janitors, or the FBI - they all watch 'The Wire.' Sadly, beautiful, glamorous women don't know anything about it.
-- Dominic West

#Beautiful #People #Wire

You've got this piece of wood and some wires, pickups and some strings. How somebody uses that configuration to make something memorable, that's what's interesting to me.
-- Don Felder

#Memorable #Interesting #Wire

I'm a huge fan of things like The Wire and The Shield.
-- Donal Logue

#Wire #Fans #Shields

Neurons that fire together wire together.
-- Donald O. Hebb

#Fire #Wire #Together

Designing is a lot like a high-wire act - if the tightrope walker is only six inches off the ground, where's the excitement?
-- Douglas Wilson

#Design #Wire #Six

We are dominated by the relatively small number of persons who understand the mental processes and social patterns of the masses. It is they who pull the wires which control the public mind.
-- Edward Bernays

#Numbers #Mind #Wire

Start with a clean grill. Keep it clean by brushing with a wire brush after preheating, and again after cooking. Make sure to oil your grates and your food before putting it on the grill to keep it from sticking.
-- Emeril Lagasse

#Oil #Cooking #Wire

I stopped watching TV because of 'The Wire.' Like, 'The Wire' ruined everything for me because I don't even want to watch anything else now.
-- Eminem

#Wire #Watching Tv #Watches

After watching my first World Series in 1977, I wanted to be Reggie Jackson. I bought a big Reggie poster. I ate Reggie candy bars. I entered a phase during which I insisted on having the same style of glasses Reggie had: gold wire frames with the double bar across.
-- Eric Liu

#Glasses #Style #Wire

I auditioned for Robert Redford once and I was so starstruck I couldn't even speak. I had a mic wire at a screen test clipped to me and then I got kind of nervous and I paced in a circle and then took a step and tripped and fell on my face. You just have to forgive yourself and keep going on.
-- Ethan Hawke

#Circles #Forgiving #Wire

I'm a live wire in a dead world,
-- Eyedea

#Wire #World

I devoted my career to building an affinity with my fans who have supported me unflinchingly and no barbed wire fence or prison wall will stop that.
-- Foxy Brown

#Wall #Careers #Wire

The only TV I would be interested in exploring would be live television. There's no substitute for a team of artists performing at their peak live when failure is possible. It's a high-wire act. That excites me.
-- Francis Ford Coppola

#Team #Artist #Wire

I check the list. Rubber tubing, gas, saw, gloves, cuffs, razor wire, hatchet, Gladys, and my mitts.
-- Frank Miller

#Wire #Cuffs #Razors

If you got to castrate your miser'ble self with a piece o' rusty barb wire, do it.
-- Fred Phelps

#Self #Scary #Wire

I spent my boyhood behind the barbed wire fences of American internment camps and that part of my life is something that I wanted to share with more people.
-- George Takei

#People #Wire #Boyhood

Yes, I remember the barbed wire and the guard towers and the machine guns, but they became part of my normal landscape. What would be abnormal in normal times became my normality in camp.
-- George Takei

#Gun #Wire #Would Be

I started working occasionally for my father when I was around six. The first skill I learned was how to join a plug to a wire.
-- Gordon Bell

#Father #Skills #Wire

A photographer is an acrobat treading the high wire of chance, trying to capture shooting stars.
-- Guy Le Querrec

#Stars #Trying #Wire

When our new armies are ready it seems folly to send them to Flanders, where they will chew barbed wire, or be wasted in futile frontal attacks.
-- H. H. Asquith

#War #Army #Wire

Remember when the music Came from wooden boxes strung with silver wire And as we sang the words, it would set our minds on fire, For we believed in things, and so we'd sing.
-- Harry Chapin

#Fire #Mind #Wire

I was in The Wire for three years, and I left at the highlight of that.
-- Idris Elba

#Years #Wire #Three

It's actually quite criminal how 'The Wire' was systematically ignored.
-- Idris Elba

#Wire #Criminals #Ignored

Having wires strewn across your couch and across the floor is a big deal to a lot of people.
-- J Allard

#People #Wire #Couches

But my body was like a harp and her words and gestures were like fingers running upon the wires.
-- James Joyce

#Beautiful #Running #Wire

I did not know whether I would ever speak to her or not or, if I spoke to her, how I could tell her of my confused adoration. But my body was like a harp and her words and gestures were like fingers running upon the wires.
-- James Joyce

#Running #Confused #Wire

Electricity, the peril the wind sings to in the wires on a gray day.
-- Janet Frame

#Wind #Wire #Electricity

Lux’s frequent forged excuses from phys. Ed. She always used the same method, faking the rigid t’s and b’s of her mother’s signature and then, to distinguish her own handwriting, penning her signature, Lux Lisbon, below, the two beseeching L’s reaching out for each other over the ditch of the u and barbed-wire x.
-- Jeffrey Eugenides

#Mother #Two #Wire

I thought she was going to win it, she just got out-bobbed at the wire.
-- Jerry Hollendorfer

#Winning #Wire #Rodeo

I used to say, for me, writing was like walking a high wire, and ***** made me forget there was no net. Which is a fancy way of saying dope made me forget how shitty I felt for being on dope.
-- Jerry Stahl

#Writing #Dope #Wire

If I'm successful in fooling a wire service, I don't really have to do anything else to promote the story.
-- Joey Skaggs

#Successful #Wire #Stories

I wish the stage were as narrow as the wire of a tighrope dancer so that no incompetent would dare step upon it.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#Dancer #Wish #Wire

I forget sometimes that Im in the HBO stable because I am such a fan of so much of their programming. Like, The Wire is my favorite TV show of all time.
-- John Gallagher, Jr.

#Hbo #Tv Shows #Wire

the end of anything is a relief. In every relationship, even the most valuable, there are certain unpleasant tensions - and the ending of it snaps those taut inner wires.
-- Kathleen Winsor

#Wire #Relief #Ends

Another thing to do with the blues is how they were recorded. They were done on the quick, and some of that stuff was made on wire, not even tape, let alone digital.
-- Keith Richards

#Wire #Tape #Done

I'm an Internet expert too. It's all right to wire the industrial zone only, but there are many problems if other regions of the North are wired.
-- Kim Jong Il

#Wire #Experts #Problem

Is our time up and on to the next fire / Got my fingers burnt and cut into the wire.
-- Kim Wilde

#Cutting #Fire #Wire

As far as I'm concerned ... the Universe is a junk yard, with everything overpriced. I am through poking around in the junk heaps, looking for bargains. Every so-called bargain ... has been connected by fine wires to a dynamite bouquet.
-- Kurt Vonnegut

#Wire #Junk #Yards

Nothing will ever top 'The Wire.' It was historical. It was black cinema.
-- Lance Reddick

#Historical #Black #Wire

The Wire' really drew on a lot of real-life situations and real-life organizations - it created fiction to make a social statement about reality.
-- Lance Reddick

#Real #Organization #Wire

Streets teemed with hell's wretched souls. New dead with their gadgets and old dead from antiquity. Demons roamed the avenues and alleyways, tormenting hapless damned at random with branding irons, flaming pitchforks, and razor-wire whips. -From the story Remember, Remember, Hell in November, in the anthology, Lawyers in Hell.
-- Larry Atchley Jr.

#Iron #Soul #Wire

As long as I can walk and talk, I'll try almost anything. I say "almost" because the high wire is definitely out.
-- Lauren Bacall

#Long #Trying #Wire

Constantly risking absurdity and death whenever he performs above the heads of his audience, the poet, like an acrobat, climbs on rhyme to a high wire of his own making.
-- Lawrence Ferlinghetti

#Wire #Rhyming #Poet

the poet like an acrobat climbs on rime to a high wire of his own making.
-- Lawrence Ferlinghetti

#Wire #Poet #Climbs

Like a bird on a wire, like a drunk in a midnight choir, I have tried in my way to be free!!
-- Leonard Cohen

#Drunk #Bird #Wire

Putting people in a room and strapping wires to their wrist to find out if I make them tingle when I'm telling them about Beirut is a long way from Edward R. Murrow.
-- Linda Ellerbee

#Long #People #Wire

Those who take refuge behind theological barbed wire fences, quite often wish they could have more freedom of thought, but fear the change to the great ocean of truth as they would a cold bath.
-- Luther Burbank

#Ocean #Wish #Wire

The movements of some more little red birds in the garden, like animated rosebuds, appeared unbearably jittery and thievish. It was as though the creatures were attached by sensitive wires to his nerves.
-- Malcolm Lowry

#Garden #Bird #Wire

I quickly learned that motherhood was a high wire act sometimes performed without a net.
-- Marita Golden

#Motherhood #Wire #Sometimes

What is desire but the hard wire argument given to the mind's unstoppable mouth
-- Mary Jo Bang

#Mind #Desire #Wire

Life is on the wire. The rest is just waiting.
-- Matt Damon

#Waiting #Wire #Life Is

If you've ever felt oppressed on any level, there's something from 'The Wire' that you can take and identify with.
-- Michael K. Williams

#Wire #Levels #Oppressed

The Wire' is very realistic and based on real events.
-- Michael K. Williams

#Real #Wire #Events

I'm totally comfortable today with the success that Omar and 'The Wire' have brought me - living with that character, being recognized and remembered for that character.
-- Michael K. Williams

#Character #Wire #Today

It's awesome to realize that if your greatest potential talent is for riding a bicycle upside down on a high wire, you will somehow discover it.
-- Mignon McLaughlin

#Wire #Riding A Bicycle #Talent

There is nothing like tasting the grit of fear for rediscovering that the umbilical cord is made of piano wire.
-- Moss Hart

#Family #Piano #Wire

I remember attaching a wire clothing hanger to the antenna of my radio in my bedroom, so I could get the frequency and get that station and listen to the top 10 every night.
-- Nelly Furtado

#Night #Wire #Top 10

What I'm doing is a natural wonder. If not, there'd be 150 people behind me on the wire.
-- Nik Wallenda

#People #Wire #Wonder

You don't have to tell me how long I'm on the wire,
-- Nik Wallenda

#Long #Wire

A closet full of wire hangers can be the most dangerous place in the world.
-- Paul Lynde

#Wire #World #Closets

I am the poet of the high wire - I never do stunts; I do theatrical performances.
-- Philippe Petit

#Wire #Poet #Theatrical

Death frames the high wire. But I don’t see myself as taking risks. I do all of the preparations that a non-death seeker would do.
-- Philippe Petit

#Risk #Preparation #Wire

A collection of huts surrounded by a barbed wire fence, and in the huts lived 500 of the original inhabitants of our area. And so it went with many country towns around Australia.
-- Phillip Noyce

#Country #Australia #Wire

It so often happens that somebody says 'change your life' and you repaint your car rather than re-wire the engine.
-- Pico Iyer

#Car #Wire #Changing Your Life

When you take the sires of the cage apart, you do not hurt the bird, but you help it. You let it out of its prison. How do you you know that death does not help me when it takes the wires of my cage down?-that it does not release me, and put me into some better place and better condition of life?
-- Randolph Sinks Foster

#Hurt #Bird #Wire

Next time y'all need to find me, just rub these two wires for the doorbell.
-- Redman

#Rapper #Two #Wire

When your house contains such a complex of piping, flues, ducts, wires, lights, inlets, outlets, ovens, sinks, refuse disposers, hi-fi re-verberators, antennae, conduits, freezers, heaters -when it contains so many services that the hardware could stand up by itself without any assistance from the house, why have a house hold it up. When the cost of all this tackle is half of the total outlay (or more, as it often is) what is the house doing except concealing your mechanical pudenda from the stares of folks on the sidewalk?
-- Reyner Banham

#Light #House #Wire

The heart of it all is mystery, and science is at best only the peripheral trappings to that mystery--a ragged barbed-wire fence through which mystery travels, back and forth, unencumbered by anything so frail as man's knowledge.
-- Rick Bass

#Heart #Men #Wire

When you think of things like The Sopranos, The Wire, Damages, they are beating film on a regular basis. Most films are terrible. It's only the 2% that are good. There's things you can do on TV which you can't do on film. There is something about those episodic, serialisations that are grand and operatic.
-- Ricky Gervais

#Thinking #Wire #Damage

We cannot go up on a wire. We cannot do a search without a judge on the FISA Court approving it and determining that we have met the standard that has been set forth by Congress in order to utilize these techniques.
-- Robert Mueller

#Order #Judging #Wire

To be on the wire is life - the rest - is waiting.
-- Roy Scheider

#Waiting #Wire

If you want to learn about America, watch The Wire. Its a profound piece of entertainment.
-- Sam Neill

#America #Profound #Wire

There are women who take it to the wire. That's what they are looking for, the ultimate confrontation. They want a smack.
-- Sean Connery

#Alaska #Wire #Want

But there are still good shows like 24, Boomtown and the Wire, the Shield.
-- Shemar Moore

#Wire #Shields #Shows

I have a lot of brothers. It's easy for me to do physical stuff. I had to survive. I really love it, and I'd love to do more of it. I want to do action films. I want to go and hang off of wires, and jump off of bridges, and hang on bungee cords. I've always really loved it.
-- Stana Katic

#Brother #Bridges #Wire

dont be afraid", i murmured. "We belong together." I was abruptly overwhelmed by th truth of my own words. This moment was so perfect, there was no way to boubt it. His arms wrapped around me, holding me against him...It felt like every nerve ending in my body was a live wire. "Forever," he agreed.
-- Stephenie Meyer

#Perfect #Forever #Wire