Wire Quotes - Page 11

• My direction as a person working in film has been to never get comfortable with anything I was doing. At the time that I decided to do action films, people were telling me, "Well, you can't do it. You're not that type. It's not going to work." And so obviously that made me think, "Well, that's not comfortable. Maybe I should try it. What can I do with it?" So I did that, and I'm glad I did it. I'll probably do it again, and I did other kinds of things that seemed like challenges for me, because I like being on the high wire.

  Nicolas Cage

  Thinking, People, Challenges

  Source: www.aboutfilm.com

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• It doesn't do any good to wire the world if we short circuit the soul.

  Tom Brokaw

  Soul, World, Short Circuit

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• I've argued that Trump's biggest success in his first 100 days was to keep the Russia story at bay, toss out whatever it takes to push the story back, including those false charges that Obama had his wires tapped.

  David Brooks

  Whatever It Takes

  Source: www.npr.org

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• I personally didn't like the idea of Bond in space. Having to fly around on a wire was not particularly comfortable, and I didn't like the outfit. It had a terrible helmet.

  Roger Moore

  Terrible, Helmet

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• If you had come to me a hundred years ago, do you think I should have dreamed of the telephone? Why, even now I cannot understand it! I use it every day, I transact half my correspondence by means of it, but I don’t understand it. Thnk of that little stretched disk of iron at the end of a wire repeating in your ear not only sounds, but words-not only words, but all the most delicate and elusive inflections and nuances of tone which separate one human voice from another! Is not that something of a miracle?

  William Crookes

  Mean, Thinking, Should Have

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• Once the concentration camps and the hell-holes of the world were in darkness. Now they are lit by the light of the Amnesty candle; the candle in barbed wire. When I first lit the Amnesty candle, I had in mind the old Chinese proverb: 'Better light a candle than curse the darkness.'

  Peter Benenson

  Light, Darkness, Chinese

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• All anyone really needs to know about barbed wire is that it can tear the arse out of your trousers, give a cow a good fright, entangle a Yorkshire terrier for life, and is nasty stuff made by greedy men.

  Billy Connolly

  Funny, Humor, Men

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• 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, Often Is, House

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• I believe a young player will run through a barbed wire fence for you. An older player looks for a hole in the fence, he’ll try and get his way through it some way, but the young player will fight for you.

  Brendan Rodgers

  Running, Believe, Fighting

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• Just who has imposed on the suffering human race poison gas, barbed wire, high explosives, experiments in eugenics, the formula for zyklon b, heavy artillery, pseudo-scientific justifications for mass murder, cluster bombs, attack submarines, napalm, intercontinental missiles , military space platforms and nuclear weapons? If memory serves it was not the Vatican.

  David Berlinski

  Memories, Military, Eugenics

  David Berlinski (2009). “The Devil's Delusion: Atheism and Its Scientific Pretensions”, p.21, Basic Books

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• What is desire but the hard wire argument given to the mind's unstoppable mouth

  Mary Jo Bang

  Mind, Desire, Mouths

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• It’s what non-car people don’t get. They see all cars as just a ton and a half, two tons of wires, glass, metal, and rubber, and that’s all they see. People like you or I know we have an unshakable belief that cars are living entities… You can develop a relationship with a car and that’s what non-car people don’t get… When something has foibles and won’t handle properly, that gives it a particularly human quality because it makes mistakes, and that’s how you can build a relationship with a car that other people won’t get.

  Jeremy Clarkson

  Mistake, Two, Glasses

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• 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, Fans

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• Life is on the wire. The rest is just waiting.

  Matt Damon

  Waiting, Life Is

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• 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, Watches

  "Down to The Wire with Dominic West". Interview with Sara Bliss, www.esquire.com. December 31, 2006.

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• 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, Seekers

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• So I went ahead and made me a guitar. Igot me a cigar box, I cut me a round hole in the middle of it, takeme a little piece of plank, nailed it onto that cigar box, and I gotme some screen wire and I made me a bridge back there and raised itup high enough that it would sound inside that little box, and got mea tune out of it. I kept my tune and I played from then on.

  Lightnin' Hopkins

  Cutting, Guitar, Bridges

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• I saw a sign in Boulder. It said, 'Live Music and Darts.' Chicken wire isn't going to help at all.

  Tom Rush

  Boulders, Saws, Helping

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• The relative importance of the white and gray matter is often misunderstood. Were it not for the manifold connection of the nerve cells in the cortex by the tens of millions of fibres which make up the under-estimated white matter, such a brain would be useless as a telephone or telegraph station with all the interconnecting wires destroyed.

  Edward Anthony Spitzka

  Science, Cells, Gray Matter

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• The airplane is just a bunch of sticks and wires and cloth, a tool for learning about the sky and about what kind of person I am, when I fly. An airplane stands for freedom, for joy, for the power to understand, and to demonstrate that understanding. Those things aren't destructable.

  Richard Bach

  Airplane, Sky, Joy

  Richard Bach (2012). “Nothing By Chance”, p.96, Simon and Schuster

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• 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, Unseen, Pressure

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• Human material existence is limited by ideas, not stuff, people don't need copper wires they need ways to communicate, oil was a contaminant, then it became a fuel

  Paul Romer

  Ideas, Oil, People

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• Almost every song on OK Computer revolves around how I am afraid computers get up at night and attempt to choke me with their wires.*doesn't laugh*

  Thom Yorke

  Song, Night, Laughing

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• I read about a guy in Michigan this winter who was cruising along on his snow mobile. "Whoo hoo!" Didn't see a barbed wire fence. FOOM - cut his head right off. And I'll be honest with you, my first thought was... That's how I want to go. Having the time of your life, "whoo hoo!" FOOM. I want the last thought in my head to be, 'Hey, check out that headless snow mobile driver. He's got a jacket just like mine.'

  David Crowe

  Winter, Cutting, Snow

  "Bob & Tom Comedy All-Stars Tour". Comedy, www.imdb.com. 2007.

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• As great Pythagoras of yore,
  Standing beside the blacksmith's door,
  And hearing the hammers, as they smote
  The anvils with a different note,
  Stole from the varying tones, that hung
  Vibrant on every iron tongue,
  The secret of the sounding wire.
  And formed the seven-chorded lyre.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Iron, Doors, Secret

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1848). “Poems”, p.105

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