Wire Quotes - Page 14

• For me, I'm a fan of really dark, depressing stuff. Even something like The Wire, which can be hugely depressing and really serious, the bits I always remember are the jokes, you know?

  Declan Shalvey

  Depressing, Dark, Serious

  Source: www.denofgeek.com

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• You just have to re-wire your brain when you’re shifting from the stage to the screen, or the silver screen or the HD flat screen.

  Beau Willimon

  Brain, Shifting, Silver

  "‘Ides Of March’ Screenwriter Beau Willimon Talks Political Vs. Oscar Campaigns & Why George Clooney Deserved More Oscar Nods". Interview with Kevin Jagernauth, www.indiewire.com. February 25, 2012.

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• It so often happens that somebody says 'change your life' and you repaint your car rather than re-wire the engine.

  Pico Iyer

  Car, Changing Your Life, Happens

  "Want to be happy? Slow down". "TED Radio Hour" with Guy Raz, ideas.ted.com. January 23, 2015.

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• In my day a reporter who took an assignment was wholly on his own until he got back to the office, and even then he was little molested until his copy was turned in at the desk; today he tends to become only a homunculus at the end of a telephone wire, and the reduction of his observations to prose is commonly farmed out to literary castrati who never leave the office, and hence never feel the wind of the world in their faces or see anything with their own eyes.

  H. L. Mencken

  Eye, Wind, Office

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• Modern American marriage is like a wire fence. The woman's the wire -the posts are the husband's.

  Langdon Elwyn Mitchell

  Marriage, Husband, Modern

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• Physical force has no value, where there is nothing else. Snow in snow-banks, fire in volcanoes and solfataras is cheap. The luxury of ice is in tropical countries, and midsummer days. The luxury of fire is, to have a little on our hearth; and of electricity, not the volleys of the charged cloud, but the manageable stream on the battery-wires. So of spirit, or energy; the rests or remains of it in the civil and moral man, are worth all the cannibals in the Pacific.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Country, Men, Fire

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2282, Delphi Classics

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• If you had come to me a hundred years ago, do you think I should have dreamed of the telephone? Why, even now I cannot understand it! I use it every day, I transact half my correspondence by means of it, but I don’t understand it. Thnk of that little stretched disk of iron at the end of a wire repeating in your ear not only sounds, but words-not only words, but all the most delicate and elusive inflections and nuances of tone which separate one human voice from another! Is not that something of a miracle?

  William Crookes

  Mean, Thinking, Should Have

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• I went to New York to be born again. And when the train plunged into a tunnel under New York City, with its lining of pipes and wires, I was out of the womb and into the birth canal.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  New York, Tunnels, Cities

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• Cellular phones will absolutely not replace local wire systems.

  Martin Cooper

  Phones, Cellular, Locals

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• Just as, when we touch a live wire, the electric force infuses itself into our body, when we deeply meditate on God the power of the whole universe seeks entry into our personality.

  Krishnananda Saraswati

  Personality, Body, Force

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• Science, freedom, beauty, adventure: what more could you ask of life? Aviation combined all the elements I loved. There was science in each curve of an airfoil, in each angle between strut and wire, in the gap of a spark plug or the color of the exhaust flame. There was freedom in the unlimited horizon, on the open fields where one landed. A pilot was surrounded by beauty of earth and sky. He brushed treetops with the birds, leapt valleys and rivers, explored the cloud canyons he had gazed at as a child. Adventure lay in each puff of wind.

  Charles Lindbergh

  Children, Adventure, Flames

  Charles Lindbergh, “Untitled”

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• My favorite TV show of all time is 'The Wire,' which has the feeling of a project-based show. You draw in people from disparate parts of the world, and they have to work together to achieve a goal.

  Michael Schur

  Tv Shows, Goal, People

  Interview with Steve Heisler, www.avclub.com. March 24, 2011.

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• Many people think the Cards at the end of the wire will cross the finish line first.

  Jerry Coleman

  Funny, Baseball, Humor

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• When I first started I didn't know a lot about the job, so I kinda had to figure it out by wire, ya know? It was hit and miss, I made mistakes, and fortunately I was able to recover from most of 'em. But I promised myself if I ever get to a point where I can help somebody that's trying to learn how to do this, that I would try to do that.

  Billy Joel

  Jobs, Mistake, Missing

  "Backstage With Billy Joel: The Billboard Cover Story Interview (Exclusive)". Interview with Ray Waddell, www.billboard.com. January 31, 2014.

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• This was the ultimate form of ostentation among technology freaks - to have a system so complete and sophisticated that nothing showed; no machines, no wires, no controls.

  Michael Swanwick

  Funny, Science, Technology

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• I'd rather hug Magic Johnson after he rolled around in barbed wire.

  Jim Norton

  Funny, Humor, Magic

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• You don't want the United States to become South America, where you have a super collection of rich people at the tippy-top of society, they are surrounded by barbed wire living in McMansions with security guards, and the rest of the society is suffering, and you've got a broken educational system and a broken government.

  Anthony Scaramucci

  Educational, Government, Security Guards

  ""Life Is Unfair": Talking Inequality With The Hedge Fund Industry's Biggest Cheerleader". Interview with Hamilton Nolan, gawker.com. October 5, 2015.

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• Good fences make good neighbors, and these were apparently good enough that they had not felt the need for razor wire at the top. I crested the fence, threw myself into the yard beyond, fell, rolled to my feet, and ran with the expectation of being garroted by a taut clothesline. I heard panting, looked down, and saw a gold retriever running at my side, ears flapping. The dog glanced up at me tongue rolling, grinning, as though jazzed by the prospect of an unscheduled play session.

  Dean Koontz

  Running, Dog, Play

  Dean Koontz (2014). “The Odd Thomas Series 7-Book Bundle: Odd Thomas, Forever Odd, Brother Odd, Odd Hours, Odd Apocalypse, Odd Interlude, Deeply Odd”, p.950, Bantam

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

  Wendell Pierce

  Thinking, Proud, Classic

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• The Wire,' I was such a fan of that show the first season - I think that's the best-written show on TV.

  Amy Ryan

  Thinking, Fans, Firsts

  "Amy Ryan" with Kyle Ryan, www.avclub.com. February 21, 2008.

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• Nothing will ever top 'The Wire.' It was historical. It was black cinema.

  Lance Reddick

  Historical, Black, Cinema

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• 'The Wire' really drew on a lot of real-life situations and real-life organizations - it created fiction to make a social statement about reality.

  Lance Reddick

  Real, Organization, Fiction

  "Masters of SciFi – Lance Reddick Discusses Playing Darth Vader on 'Lost' and Captain Kirk on 'Fringe'". AMC Interview, www.amc.com. September 2008.

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• What makes 'The Wire' a beautiful story is how true to life it is. In other shows, you have a good guy and a bad guy. In 'The Wire,' bad guys are trying to be good, good guys are doing bad. You have real life. The people who do bad get bad things done to them.

  Tristan Wilds

  Beautiful, Real, People

  "Getting to the End of The Wire with Tristan Wilds". Interview with Jon Hein, www.tvguide.com. March 3, 2008.

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• No, I don't think 'The Wire' screwed up my career at all. It's the only reason people have heard of me. It's only been a huge, huge, very fortunate bonus.

  Dominic West

  Thinking, Careers, Screwed Up

  "People seem to think I'm Satan". Interview with Stuart Jeffries, www.theguardian.com. May 30, 2011.

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• Designing is a lot like a high-wire act - if the tightrope walker is only six inches off the ground, where's the excitement?

  Douglas Wilson

  Design, Six, Excitement

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