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 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• I am unarmed. But Butler here, my ...ah...butler, has a Sig Saucer in his shoulder holster, two shrike-throwing knives in his boots, aderringer two-shot up his sleeve, garrotte wire in his watch, and three stun greanades concealed in variouse pockets. Anything else, Butler?

  Eoin Colfer

  Knives, Two, Pockets

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• I've been watching more American TV because of all the great TV series that have come out in the last five to 10 years. I'm a 'Sopranos' fan, I'm a 'Wire' fan, I'm a 'Mad Men' fan. I'm a 'Deadwood' fan. It makes me optimistic for the future of storytelling on TV that producers are willing to take that kind of jump.

  Jo Nesbo

  Optimistic, Men, Years

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• But there are still good shows like 24, Boomtown and the Wire, the Shield.

  Shemar Moore

  Shields, Shows, Stills

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

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• I did not like 'The Hurt Locker.' It's a lazy way to make a movie, frankly. I could put you on the edge of your seat quite easily, and have you feel the tension for 2 hours, if every other scene practically is, 'Should we cut the red wire or the green wire?'

  Michael Moore

  Hurt, Cutting, Lazy

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• Girdles and wire stays should have never been invented. No man wants to hug a padded bird cage.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Inspiring, Men, Should Have

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• 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.

  Yehuda Amichai

  Despair, Needs, Fields

  Yehuda Amichai (2006). “Open Closed Open: Poems”, p.84, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Human reason is beautiful and invincible. No bars, no barbed wire, no pulping of books, No sentence of banishment can prevail against it. It puts what should be above things as they are. It does not know Jew from Greek nor slave from master.

  Czeslaw Milosz

  Beautiful, Book, Greek

  Czeslaw Milosz, “Incantation”

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• When the wires are all down and your heart is covered with the snows of pessimism and the ice of cynicism, then, and only then, have you grown old.

  Samuel Ullman

  Heart, Ice, Snow

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