Wire Quotes - Page 15

• Electricity, the peril the wind sings to in the wires on a gray day.

  Janet Frame

  Wind, Electricity, Gray Days

  Janet Frame (1980). “Faces in the water”

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• 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, Technique

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• "Those who fought know a secret about themselves, and it is not very nice." ... They have experienced secretly and privately their natural human impulse toward sadism and brutality... Not merely did I learn to kill with a noose of piano wire put around somebody's neck from behind, but I learned to enjoy the prospect of killing that way.

  Paul Fussell

  War, Nice, Piano

  "The Initial Shock... A Conversation with Paul Fussell". Humanities, November/December 1996.

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• The economic transmission of power without wires is of all-surpassing importance to man. By its means he will gain complete mastery of the air, the sea and the desert. It will enable him to dispense with the necessity of mining, pumping, transporting and burning fuel, and so do away with innumerable causes of sinful waste.

  Nikola Tesla

  Mean, Men, Air

  Nikola Tesla (2013). “The Wireless Tesla”, p.23, Simon and Schuster

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• Gramophone and movies were merely the mechanization of speech and gesture. But the radio and TV were not just the electronification of speech and gesture but the electronification of the entire range of human personal expressiveness. With electronification the flow is taken out of the wire and into the vacuum tube circuit, which confers freedom and flexibility such as are in metaphor and in words themselves.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Taken, Media, Vacuums

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• I'm a live wire in a dead world.

  Eyedea

  World

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• When the Bible itself becomes irksome, inquire whether you have not been spoiling your appetite by sweetmeats and renounce them; and believe that the Word is the wire along which the voice of God will certainly come to you if the heart is hushed and the attention fixed.

  F.B. Meyer

  Believe, Heart, Voice

  F. B. Meyer (2010). “The Secret of Guidance”, p.42, Moody Publishers

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• The great trains howling from track to track all night. The taut and telegraphic murmur of ten thousand city wires, drawn most cruelly against a city sky. The rush of city waters, beneath the city streets. The passionate passing of the night's last El.

  Nelson Algren

  Night, Sky, Cities

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• I chose to not wear a wire and tape people. I chose to not get immunity until - were accepted, whatever - until the independent counsel's office was comfortable with what I said was the truth.

  Monica Lewinsky

  Independent, Office, People

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• 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, Six, Excitement

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

  Nik Wallenda

  People, Natural Wonders, Behinds

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

  Idris Elba

  Years, Three, Highlights

  "Idris Elba and Ruth Wilson Interview LUTHER". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. October 2, 2010.

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

  J Allard

  People, Couches, Bigs

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• 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, Roles

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• Nine Years Under is a sparkling debut--- brimming with love and bursting with life. Booker's Baltimore is equal parts The Wire and The Cosby show. She doesn't shrink from the realities of life in an inner city funeral home, but she is also a loving witness, documenting the big hearted community that takes care of its own. Told with compassion, wit, and good old fashioned story telling, Sheri Booker gives us unforgettable characters who will make you laugh right up until they break your heart.

  Tayari Jones

  Character, Home, Heart

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• 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, Today, Omar

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• The Wire' is very realistic and based on real events.

  Michael K. Williams

  Real, Events, Realistic

  "Michael K Williams: my guide to being a Barack Obama-endorsed badass" by Rich Pelley, www.theguardian.com. November 2, 2012.

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• 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

  Levels, Felt, Oppressed

  "All in the Game". Interview with Elizabeth Gettelman, www.motherjones.com. September/October 2011.

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• No, I don't think 'The Wire' screwed up my career at all. It's the only reason people have heard of me. It's only been a huge, huge, very fortunate bonus.

  Dominic West

  Thinking, Careers, Screwed Up

  "People seem to think I'm Satan". Interview with Stuart Jeffries, www.theguardian.com. May 30, 2011.

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• What makes 'The Wire' a beautiful story is how true to life it is. In other shows, you have a good guy and a bad guy. In 'The Wire,' bad guys are trying to be good, good guys are doing bad. You have real life. The people who do bad get bad things done to them.

  Tristan Wilds

  Beautiful, Real, People

  "Getting to the End of The Wire with Tristan Wilds". Interview with Jon Hein, www.tvguide.com. March 3, 2008.

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• '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, Fiction

  "Masters of SciFi – Lance Reddick Discusses Playing Darth Vader on 'Lost' and Captain Kirk on 'Fringe'". AMC Interview, www.amc.com. September 2008.

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• I carefully lay out the provisions. One thin black sleeping bag that reflects body heat. A pack of crackers. A pack of dried beef strips. A bottle of iodine. A box of wooden matches. A small coil of wire. A pair of sunglasses. And a half-gallon plastic bottle with a cap for carrying water that's bone dry. No water. How hard would it have been for them to fill up the bottle?

  Suzanne Collins

  Sleep, Iodine, Water

  Suzanne Collins (2009). “The Hunger Games”, p.149, Scholastic Inc.

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• I am not perfect." It came out in a rush of breath. "See I thought I was. Thank God I ain't. See a perfect thing ain't got a chance. The world kills it, everything perfect. (Listen to him!) Now see a thing that ain't perfect, it grows like a weed. Yeah, like a weed! A thing that ain't perfect gets hand clapping, smiles, takes the wire an easy winner. But the world ain't set up right if you perfect. You lible to run right into a brick wall. Looks like suicide. All the weeds say, looka there, it suicide!

  Harry Crews

  Suicide, Running, Weed

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• Books turn people into isolated individuals, and once that's happened, the road only grows rockier. Books wire you to want to be Steve McQueen, but the world wants you to be SMcQ23667bot@hotmail.com.

  Douglas Coupland

  Book, People, World

  Douglas Coupland (2009). “Generation A: A Novel”, p.222, Simon and Schuster

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

  Frank Miller

  Sin City, Cuffs, Razors

  "Sin City". www.imdb.com. 2005.

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