Wire Quotes

At Gatling-gun tempo word-perfect the first time out. the journalistic equivalent of a high-wire front somersault without a net.

The telephone is the greatest single enemy of scholarship; for what our intellectual forebears used to inscribe in ink now goes once over a wire into permanent oblivion.

That win means so much. They got back into the game but I think we showed today that we want to go to the wire. We want to go all the way.

I was going to tape some records onto a cassette, but I got the wires backwards. I erased the all of the records. When I returned them to my friend, he said, "Hey, these records are all blank."

The world was all mud and wire. The war in the heavens was only a faint imitation of the horror men had learned to make.

It's not Brits who think American readers are a bunch of whinging morons with the geo-social understanding of a wire coathanger, it's American editors.

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

I don't believe in waiting for great feelings. I need to wire myself for positivity and gratitude. I need to build a highway to those.

I've been doing that song ["Live Wire"] on my own for years, so no, I'm not worried about [high notes] at all.

The Wire' really is an American classic, and I think that's something to be very proud of.

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.

If you need someone to come out of the sewer with a wire you don't hire someone who needs laborious collective instruction. You let someone do his job, whether he's a focus puller or a surgeon.

If I had to marry someone, it wouldn't be a bossy little gal with a tongue like barbed-wire and a mind about as narrow.

The world was a shitpot with a barbed-wire handle and the further he could kick it the better he liked it.

On the single strand of wire strung to bring our house electricity, grackles and starlings neatly punctuated an invisible sentence.

We are all alone in this world

Christ asked people who follow him to be the voice for the voiceless - not to wire their mouths shut.

You Are Hard-Wired For The Kingdom

Life is like defusing a bomb, once you cut the wrong wire your whole life is ruined.

It cannot be done all at once. To overpower vertigo - the keeper of the abyss- one must tame it, cautiously.