Wire Quotes

• Constantly risking absurdity and death whenever he performs above the heads of his audience, the poet, like an acrobat, climbs on rhyme to a high wire of his own making.

  Lawrence Ferlinghetti

  Rhyming, Poet, Coney Island

  "At 96, Poet And Beat Publisher Lawrence Ferlinghetti Isn't Done Yet". "Morning Edition" with Ari Shapiro, www.npr.org. June 11, 2015.

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• Some minds improve by travel, others, rather, resemble copper wire, or brass, which get the narrower by going farther.

  Thomas Hood

  Mind, Brass, Copper

  Thomas Hood (1847). “Poems”, p.204

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• Information is the oxygen of the modern age. It seeps through the walls topped by barbed wire, it wafts across the electrified borders.

  Ronald Reagan

  Wall, Humor, Oxygen

  The Guardian, June 14, 1989.

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• Keep an open heart. We are wired to find love.

  Helen Fisher

  Heart, Finding Love, Open Heart

  "Finding and Keeping the Love of Your Life". www.oprah.com. February 2009.

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• 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 mount the high wire. This is your moment. Own it.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Money

  "23 Leadership Tips From Oprah Winfrey" by John Greathouse, www.forbes.com. September 27, 2012.

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• The only people who never tumble are those who never mount the high wire.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Love, Life, Failure

  "23 Leadership Tips From Oprah Winfrey" by John Greathouse, www.forbes.com. September 27, 2012.

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• 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.

  George Takei

  Gun, Would Be, Towers

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I spent my boyhood behind the barbed wire fences of American internment camps and that part of my life is something that I wanted to share with more people.

  George Takei

  People, Boyhood, Life Is

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I just received the following wire from my generous Daddy; Dear Jack, Don't buy a single vote more than is necessary. I'll be damned if I'm going to pay for a landslide.

  John F. Kennedy

  Daddy, Politics, Pay

  Remarks at Gridiron Dinner,Washington, D.C., 15 Mar. 1958.

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• You're out there on a high wire without a net, and that's the way actors operate. They have to be fearless about how they work and they have to create a life for the audience in 90 minutes and make them believe.

  Charles Durning

  Believe, Fearless, Actors

  "PLAYBILL ON-LINE'S BRIEF ENCOUNTER with Charles Durning". Playbill On-Line Interview, www.playbill.com. February 22, 2000.

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• To be on the wire is life. The rest is waiting.

  Roy Scheider

  Waiting

  "Fictional character: Joe Gideon". "All That Jazz", www.imdb.com. December 16, 1979.

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• Historically, musicians know what it is like to be outside the norm - walking the high wire without a safety net. Our experience is not so different from those who march to the beat of different drummers.

  Billy Joel

  Safety, Musician, Different

  FaceBook post by Billy Joel from Jul 25, 2012

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• the poet like an acrobat climbs on rime to a high wire of his own making.

  Lawrence Ferlinghetti

  Rhyming, Poet, Coney Island

  1958 'A Coney Island of the Mind', section 15.

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• A woman's dress should be like a barbed-wire fence: serving its purpose without obstructing the view.

  Sophia Loren

  Love, Fashion, Women

  "Good Morning, America" on ABC TV, en.wikiquote.org. August 10, 1979.

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• When you are wired to God in a unique way, nothing can separate you from the love of God

  T. B. Joshua

  Unique, Way, God Love

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• The town has a sense, not of history, but of time, and the telephone poles seem to know this. If you lay your hand against one, you can feel the vibration from the wires deep within the wood, as if souls had been imprisoned in there and were struggling to get out.

  Stephen King

  Struggle, Hands, Soul

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• Well. There is a psychiatric occurrence we see in men-not often women-where they put all their hopes and dreams onto one person, so intensely that at some point it trips a wire in the brain circuitry, and that causes them to go, in a minute, 180 degrees the other way.

  Emma Forrest

  Dream, Men, Brain

  Emma Forrest (2012). “Your Voice in My Head”, p.169, A&C Black

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• The age of isolation is gone. And gone are the days in which barbed wire served as demarcation lines, separating and isolating countries from one another. No country can escape looking beyond its boundaries to find the source of the currents which influence how it can live with others.

  Gamal Abdel Nasser

  Country, Justice, Diversity

  Gamal Abdel Nasser (1955). “Egypt's liberation: the philosophy of the revolution”

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• That seemed to handle it. That was it. Send a girl off with one man. Introduce her to another to go off with him. Now go and bring her back. And sign the wire with love. That was it all right. I went in to lunch.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Girl, Men, Lunch

  Ernest Hemingway (2016). “The Sun Also Rises”, p.122, Hamilton Books

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• You can’t have him, okay,” she said from behind the wire barrier. “Mm-hmm,” I whispered. “This is certainly a beautiful neighborhood.” “Yeah, I guess.” “I will scratch those eyes out of your ugly head.

  Darynda Jones

  Beautiful, Eye, Scratches

  Darynda Jones (2011). “First Grave on the Right”, p.34, Macmillan

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• Our love has been the thread through the labyrinth, the net under the high-wire walker, the only real thing in this strange life of mine that I could ever trust.

  Audrey Niffenegger

  Real, Labyrinth, Our Love

  Audrey Niffenegger (2014). “The Time Traveler's Wife”, p.515, Simon and Schuster

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• The universalists, the idealists, the Utopians all aim too high. They give promises of an unattainable paradise, and by doing so they deceive mankind. Whatever label they wear, whether they call themselves Christians, Communists, humanitarians, whether they are merely sincere but stupid or wire-pullers and cynics, they are all makers of slaves. I myself have always kept my eye fixed on a paradise which, in the nature of things, lies well within our reach. I mean an improvement in the lot of the German people. (21st February 1945)

  Adolf Hitler

  Christian, Lying, Stupid

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• 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

  Athlete, Reality, Alcohol

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• Thought itself needs words. It runs on them like a long wire. And if it loses the habit of words, little by little it becomes shapeless, somber.

  Ugo Betti

  Running, Ideas, Long

  Ugo Betti (1968). “Three Plays”

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