Cables Quotes

• No cord or cable can draw so forcibly, or bind so fast, as love can do with a single thread.

  Robert Burton

  Love, Dream, Umbilical Cord

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• The spider's most attenuated thread Is cord, is cable, to man's tender tie On earthly bliss; it breaks at every breeze.

  Edward Young

  Happiness, Men, Ties

  Edward Young, Charles Edward DE COETLOGON (1793). “Night thoughts on life death and immortality ... to which are added the life of the author and a paraphrase on part of the Book of Job”, p.9

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• Technology gives us the facilities that lessen the barriers of time and distance - the telegraph and cable, the telephone, radio, and the rest.

  Emily Greene Balch

  Distance, Technology, Giving

  Emily Greene Balch (1972). “Beyond Nationalism: The Social Thought of Emily Greene Balch”, New York : Twayne Publishers

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• The Fox News cable channel is doing very well because there is a market for what Fox News has to offer.

  Paul Weyrich

  News, Foxes, Wells

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• Great blunders are often made, like large ropes, of a multitude of fibers. Take the cable thread by thread, take separately all the little determining motives, you break them one after another, and you say: that is all! Wind them and twist them together, they become an enormity.

  Victor Hugo

  Wind, Together, Twists

  Victor Hugo (1994). “Les Miserables Volume One”, p.323, Wordsworth Editions

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• Speculators are obsessed with predicting: guessing the direction of stock prices. Every morning on cable television, every afternoon on the stock market report, every weekend in Barron's, every week in dozens of market newsletters, and whenever business people get together. In reality, no one knows what the market will do; trying to predict it is a waste of time, and investing based upon that prediction is a purely speculative undertaking.

  Seth Klarman

  Morning, Weekend, Reality

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• I told our guys they must not have cable because Antoine Walker knows how to play, Derek Anderson can play, Shandon Anderson knows how to play, and Gary Payton knows how play.

  Shaquille O'Neal

  Basketball, Winning, Play

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• If you looked at their cable bill, their telephone, their cell phone bill, other things they're spending money on, it may turn out that, it's just that they haven't prioritized health care.

  Barack Obama

  Phones, Cells, Care

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• We, more than others, should carry jumper and tow cables not only in our cars, but also in our hearts, by which means we can send the needed boost or charge of encouragement or the added momentum to mortal neighbors.

  Neal A. Maxwell

  Encouragement, Heart, Mean

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• Maybe I could just James Bond my way down the cable if I draped the scarf over it, clinging to the ends as my body careened down it to safety-- Careened. What an ugly word that was

  Katie MacAlister

  Safety, Scarves, Body

  Katie Macalister (2005). “Fire Me Up: An Aisling Grey, Guardian, Novel”, p.155, Penguin

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• She led him past the engine room, which looked like a very dangerous, mechanized jungle gym, with pipes and pistons and tubes jutting from a central bronze sphere. Cables resembling giant metal noodles snaked across the floor and ran up the walls. “How does that thing even work?” Percy asked. “No idea,” Annabeth said. “And I’m the only one besides Leo who can operate it.” “That’s reassuring.” “It should be fine. It’s only threatened to blow up once.” “You’re kidding, I hope.” She smiled. “Come on.

  Rick Riordan

  Wall, Blow, Past

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• Best-selling horror fiction is indeed necessarily conservative because it must entertain a large number of readers. It’s like network television. I’m your local cable access station.

  Thomas Ligotti

  Numbers, Fiction, Television

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• Amy Rapp, my producing partner, and I are drawn to character-driven material. We're developing and producing movies and TV, fiction and non-fiction, studio and independent, broadcast and cable, theatre, and web so our slate is really diverse.

  Meredith Vieira

  Character, Independent, Theatre

  "Interview with Meredith Vieira – Executive Producer of The Woman Who Wasn’t There". Interview with Melissa Silverstein, www.indiewire.com. January 8, 2013.

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• There'll never be any revolution. Humanity has bartered it for Coca-Cola and cable television.

  Liza Marklund

  Humanity, Television, Revolution

  Liza Marklund (2011). “Red Wolf: A Novel”, p.335, Simon and Schuster

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• I had all those cable networks reporting to me, I had a number of windows in my office and I had all the corporate perks you could possibly imagine, but that wasn't what I was about, so I left.

  Geraldine Laybourne

  Numbers, Office, Window

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• Cable would not translate into the public radio universe.

  Juan Williams

  Radio, Translate, Universe

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• Whenever I catch a chunk of an Adam Sandler comedy on cable, it looks as badly shot and goofily tossed off as a Jerry Lewis gag reel once he hit the late downslide with 'Hardly Working' and 'Cracking Up.'

  James Wolcott

  Looks, Comedy, Adam

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• Most other documents leaked to WikiLeaks do not carry the same explosive potential as candid cables written by American diplomats.

  Evgeny Morozov

  Wikileaks, Diplomats, Candid

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• People always talk about good time rock and roll, Chuck Berry or whatever, like this liberating force for feeling good. But what I need in my life is to be liberated into feeling bad. Not sad. I have plenty of sad. What I need is a place where I can spray anger in sparks like a gnarled piece of electrical cable. Just be mad at stuff and soak in the helplessness.

  John Darnielle

  Rocks, Rock And Roll, People

  John Darnielle (2008). “Black Sabbath's Master of Reality”, p.75, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• When I did 'Ugly Betty' it was very similar to working on 'Mad Men' - great group of people in their own little world. But I don't really see a lot of difference. Of course, on the cable shows, you can tackle subjects and be more specific, because networks have to appeal to the masses, but that's constantly changing and evolving.

  Bryan Batt

  Men, Differences, People

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• Now that we've transitioned to more Smart TVs, where people are broadcasting their cable box, I hope that Geek & Sundry is something that people will click on in the future, knowing that they're going to get content that they love.

  Felicia Day

  Smart, Knowing, People

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• People spend thousands of dollars on stereos. Sometimes tens of thousands. There is a specialist industry right here in the States which builds stereo gear to a standard you wouldn't believe. Tubed amplifiers which cost more than a house. Speakers taller than me. Cables thicker than a garden hose. Some army guys had that stuff. I'd heard it on bases around the world. Wonderful. But they were wasting their money. Because the best stereo in the world is free. Inside your head. It sounds as good as you want it to. As loud as you want it to be.

  Lee Child

  Believe, Army, Garden

  Lee Child (2006). “Killing Floor: A Jack Reacher Novel”, p.48, Penguin

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• If God's Word is not absolutely and completely true, it is too weak a cable to fix our anchorage and guarantee our eternal peace.

  A. B. Simpson

  Guarantees, Weak, Eternal Peace

  A. B. Simpson (2010). “The Supernatural: Making Room for the Power of God”, p.15, Moody Publishers

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• Al Bernstein has seen cable television sports grow up. In 30 Years/30 Undeniable Truths he looks at his time in the industry through a prism that is unique to him. This book gives the reader an insight into the sometimes absurd world of television sports. There is a 31st undeniable truth: Al Bernstein is a truly funny man.

  Barry Tompkins

  Sports, Growing Up, Book

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• Eighteen fifty-eight was a year of great technological advancement in the West. That was the year when Queen Victoria was able, for the first time, to communicate with President Buchanan, through the Transatlantic Telegraphic Cable. And they were the first to ‘Twitter’ transatlantically.

  Hans Rosling

  Queens, Eight, Years

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