Wire Quotes

Do the one thing you think you cannot do. Fail at it. Try again. Do better the second time. The only people who never tumble are those who never mound the high wire. This is your moment. Own it. (Oprah Winfrey)
You see, wire telegraph is a kind of a very, very long cat. You pull his tail in New York and his head is meowing in Los Angeles. Do you understand this And radio operates exactly the same way you send signals here, they receive them there. The only difference is that there is no cat. View quote
Albert Einstein
There are women who take it to the wire. That's what they are looking for, the ultimate confrontation. They want a smack. View quote
Sean Connery
It's easier to floss with barbed wire than admit you like someone in middle school. View quote
Laurie Halse Anderson
I sent the club a wire stating, "PLEASE ACCEPT MY RESIGNATION. I DON'T WANT TO BELONG TO ANY CLUB THAT WILL ACCEPT PEOPLE LIKE ME AS A MEMBER". View quote
Groucho Marx
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. View quote
Kim Jong-il
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. View quote
George Takei
Like a bird on a wire, like a drunk in a midnight choir, I have tried in my way to be free!! View quote
Leonard Cohen
Is our time up and on to the next fire / Got my fingers burnt and cut into the wire. View quote
Kim Wilde
"Squatting on old bones and excrement and rusty iron, in a white blaze of heat, a panorama of naked idiots stretches to the horizon. Complete silence - their speech centres are destroyed - except for the crackle of sparks and the popping of singed flesh as they apply electrodes up and down the spine. White smoke of burning flesh hangs in the motionless air. A group of children have tied an idiot to a post with barbed wire and built a fire between his legs and stand watching with bestial curiosity as the flames lick his thighs. His flesh jerks in the fire with insect agony. View quote
William S. Burroughs
As long as there is a wall, barbed wire and orders to shoot, there can be no talk of normality in Germany. (Helmut Kohl)
War is now a form of TV entertainment, and what made the First World War so particularly entertaining were two American inventions, barbed wire and the machine gun. View quote
Kurt Vonnegut
[Percy] kept hoping things would get better for Annabeth and him, but their lives just got more dangerous, as if the Three Fates were up there spinning their futures with barbed wire instead of thread just to see how much two demigods could tolerate. View quote
Rick Riordan
And I said to myself: That's true, hope needs to be like barbed wire to keep out despair, hope must be a mine field. View quote
Yehuda Amichai
It's hard to say goodbye for good at any time or any place. It's harder still to say it through a meshed wire. It crisscrossed his face into little diagonals, gave me only little broken-up molecules of it at a time. It stenciled a cold, rigid frame around every kiss. View quote
Cornell Woolrich
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. View quote
Robert Mueller
Acting is like a high wire act. Your margin for error is very slim. View quote
Christine Baranski
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. View quote
Eric Liu
Although I had resigned my commission as an officer two years before, I immediately left Switzerland, accompanied by my wife, in order to report for duty. As it happened, a wire reached me a day later calling me to the colors. View quote
Fritz Kreisler
Nothing will ever top 'The Wire.' It was historical. It was black cinema. View quote
Lance Reddick
In reality, we can prove that the incidents of drug, alcohol abuse and violence have dropped dramatically among professional athletes - but the problem is it would be impossible to convince than fans, because of what they read on the AP wire. (Leigh Steinberg)
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. View quote
Monica Lewinsky
A closet full of wire hangers can be the most dangerous place in the world. View quote
Paul Lynde
All my wire sculptures come from the same loop. And there's only one way to do it. The idea is to do it simply, and you end up with a shape. View quote
Ruth Asawa
But there are still good shows like 24, Boomtown and the Wire, the Shield. View quote
Shemar Moore