Wire Quotes - Page 17

• I cannot walk under the wires. The sparrows scatter like handfuls of gravel. Really, wires are voices in thin strips. They are words wound in cables. Bars of connection.

  William H. Gass

  Voice, Connections, Bars

  William H. Gass (1968). “In the Heart of the Heart of the Country & Other Stories”, p.191, David R. Godine Publisher

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• In her dance, she controlled the bright paper birds with invisible wires and threads. She played the human: heavy, tied to earth. Her dances weren't pretty or delightful, but they were magical, [...] They called her a dancer and a puppeteer and an artist. They might have called her a witch, and not the good kind either.

  Katherine Catmull

  Artist, Dancer, Bird

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• I would rather play with forked lightning, or take in my hand living wires with their fiery current, than to speak a reckless word against any servant of Christ, or idly repeat the slanderous darts which thousands of Christians are hurling on others, to the hurt of their own souls and bodies.

  A. B. Simpson

  Christian, Hurt, Soul And Body

  A.B. Simpson “The Holy Spirit, or, Power from on high”, Рипол Классик

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• True Love Isn't Hearts & Flowers. It's Blood & Guts & Bouquets Of Barbed Wire

  Dean Cavanagh

  Flower, Heart, Love Is

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• 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, Nerves

  Malcolm Lowry (2012). “Under the Volcano: A Novel”, p.101, Open Road Media

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• People want to talk to other people - not a house, or an office, or a car. Given a choice, people will demand the freedom to communicate wherever they are, unfettered by the infamous copper wire. It is that freedom we sought to vividly demonstrate in 1973.

  Martin Cooper

  People, Car, Office

  "38 years ago he made the first cell phone call" by Bob Greene, edition.cnn.com. April 3, 2011.

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• Avoiding risk is not much of a goal...whether you crawl into a hole or walk a high wire, nobody gets out of here alive. We cannot grow without challenge.

  Steven Callahan

  Goal, Challenges, Risk

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• Most folks are like a barb-wire fence. They have their good points.

  Texas Bix Bender

  Fence, Barbs, Folks

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• 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, Top 10, Radio

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• Standing on the bridge, looking across at that empty city, everything in the compass of my gaze had been set there by a human hand. Somehow those pylons had been strung with wire, and those towers raised, and roofs tiled. There had been food and drink for millions of mouths. I don't cry easy, but my vision blurred as I stared on the ruins of what we had been, and I watched the small band of men in rags move toward it to pick at it like birds on the carcass of some giant.

  Marcel Theroux

  Moving, Men, Hands

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• If one thinks about racism by examining only one wire of the cage, or one form of disadvantage, it is difficult to understand how and why the bird is trapped. Only a large number of wires arranged in a specific way, and connected to one another, serve to enclose the bird and to ensure that it cannot escape.

  Iris Marion Young

  Thinking, Numbers, Racism

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• 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, Television

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• The average parent may, for example, plant an artist or fertilize a ballet dancer and end up with a certified public accountant. We cannot train children along chicken wire to make them grow in the right direction. Tying them to stakes is frowned upon, even in Massachusetts.

  Ellen Goodman

  Children, Artist, Average

  Ellen Goodman (1986). “Close to Home”, Fawcett Books

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• My first stringed instrument was a cigar box banjo where I cut and turned the pegs and strung the wires myself.

  Carl Sandburg

  Cutting, Firsts, Cigar

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• My faith
  is a great weight
  hung on a small wire,
  as doth the spider
  hang her baby on a thin web.

  Anne Sexton

  Faith, Baby, Spiders

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• Jazz presumes that it would be nice if the four of us-simpatico dudes that we are-while playing this complicated song together, might somehow be free and autonomous as well. Tragically, this never quite works out. At best, we can only be free one or two at a time-while the other dudes hold onto the wire. Which is not to say that no one has tried to dispense with wires. Many have, and sometimes it works-but it doesn't feel like jazz when it does. The music simply drifts away into the stratosphere of formal dialectic, beyond our social concerns.

  Dave Hickey

  Song, Nice, Two

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

  Sam Neill

  America, Profound, Watches

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• 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, Burning

  Chris Burden, Alberta College of Art. Gallery (1976). “Chris Burden, February 18, 1976”

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• This Administration also puts forward a false choice between the liberties we cherish and the security we demand... That means no more illegal wire-tapping of American citizens. No more national security letters to spy on citizens who are not suspected of a crime. No more tracking citizens who do nothing more than protest a misguided war. No more ignoring the law when it is inconvenient. That is not who we are.

  Barack Obama

  War, Mean, Law

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• He was born in fury and he lived in lightning. Tom came headlong into life. He was a giant in joy and enthusiasms. He didn't discover the world and its people, he created them. When he read his father's books, he was the first. He lived in a world shining and fresh and as uninspected as Eden on the sixth day. His mind plunged like a colt in a happy pasture, and when later the world put up fences, he plunged against the wire, and when the final stockade surrounded him, he plunged right through it and out. And as he was capable of giant joy, so did he harbor huge sorrow.

  John Steinbeck

  Father, Book, Eden

  John Steinbeck (2002). “East of Eden”, p.38, Penguin

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• Luck is a very thin wire between survival and disaster, and not many people can keep their balance on it.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Funny Life, People, Luck

  Hunter S. Thompson (2014). “Fear and Loathing in America: The Brutal Odyssey of an Outlaw Journalist 1968-1976”, p.19, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Anything can become a musical sound. The wind on telegraph wires is a great sound; get it into your machine and play it and it becomes interesting.

  Hans Zimmer

  Wind, Play, Interesting

  "From 'Gladiator' to 'The Simpsons': Composer Hans Zimmer". CNN interview, www.cnn.com. August 27, 2007.

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• Love consists not in feeling great things but in having great detachment and in suffering for the Beloved. The soul that is attached to anything, however much good there may be in it, will not arrive at the liberty of Divine union. For whether it be a strong wire rope or a slender and delicate thread that holds the bird, it matters not, if it really holds it fast; for until the cord be broken, the bird cannot fly.

  John of the Cross

  Strong, Broken, Bird

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• A photographer is an acrobat treading the high wire of chance, trying to capture shooting stars.

  Guy Le Querrec

  Stars, Trying, Shooting

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• When things go badly, individuals look for scapegoats. I just do not believe that barbed-wire fences or guns on our border will solve any of our problems.

  Ron Paul

  Believe, Gun, Borders

  "Paul: Immigration not solved by barbed wire, guns" by Beth Fouhy, www.deseretnews.com. February 1, 2012.

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