Wire Quotes - Page 5

• The hatchet must fall on the block; the oak must be cleft to the centre. The weight of the world is on my shoulders. Here is the pen and the paper; on the letters in the wire basket I sign my name, I, I, and again I.

  Virginia Woolf

  Block, Fall, Names

  Virginia Woolf (2015). “The Waves”, p.109, Booklassic

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• What made losing someone you loved bearable was not remembering but forgetting. Forgetting small things first... it's amazing how much you could forget, and everything you forgot made that person less alive inside you until you could finally endure it. After more time passed you could let yourself remember, even want to remember. But even then what you felt those first days could return and remind you the grief was still there, like old barbed wire embedded in a tree's heartwood.

  Ron Rash

  Grief, Losing Someone, Tree

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• Every time I go to sleep, I know I may never wake up. How could anyone expect to? You drop your tiny, helpless mind into a bottomless well, crossing your fingers and hoping when you pull it out on its flimsy fishing wire it hasn't been gnawed to bones by nameless beasts below.

  Isaac Marion

  Sleep, Fishing, Mind

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• It is this kindness of his that unsettles me most. I can dodge a blow or block a knife. I am impervious to poison and know a dozen ways to escape a chokehold or garrote wire. But kindness? I do not know how to defend against that.

  R.L. LaFevers

  Kindness, Block, Blow

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• Emergency Valve Regulators," she repeated. "So you do know what your doing? "Not really," he said yanking another wire. 'I made up that term to keep you happy. I'm just pulling all the red wires because they're the pretty ones.

  Derek Landy

  Red, Emergencies, Made

  Derek Landy (2015). “Skulduggery Pleasant:”, p.76, HarperCollins UK

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• There was a danger whenever I was on home ground. It was the danger of seeing my life through other eyes than my own. Seeing it as an ever-increasing roll of words like barbed wire, intricate, bewildering, uncomforting—set against the rich productions, the food, flowers, and knitted garments, of other women’s domesticity. It became harder to say that it was worth the trouble.

  Alice Munro

  Flower, Home, Eye

  Alice Munro (2002). “Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage: Stories”, Vintage

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• I had never before thought of how awful the relationship must be between the musician and his instrument. He has to fill it, this instrument, with the breath of life, his own. He has to make it do what he wants it to do. And a piano is just a piano. It's made out of so much wood and wires and little hammers and big ones, and ivory. While there's only so much you can do with it, the only way to find this out is to try; to try and make it do everything.

  James A. Baldwin

  Ivory, Piano, Trying

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• Peaceful circulation has been interupted by barbed wire and concrete blocks. For a city or a people to be truly free, they must have the secure right, without economic, political or police pressure, to make their own choices and live their own lives.

  John F. Kennedy

  Block, Cities, People

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• Will began to straighten up, to turn away from the bed. And as he did, he felt something wrap tightly around his wrist. He glanced down and saw Jem’s hand braceleting his own. For a moment he was too shocked to do anything but stare. “I am not dead yet, Will,” Jem said in a soft voice, thin but as strong as wire. “What did Magnus mean by asking you if I knew you were in love with Tessa?

  Cassandra Clare

  Strong, Mean, Hands

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• This is how your heart gets snagged, like a balloon on a barbed-wire fence, this is where pieces of you get torn away.

  Pete Wentz

  Heart, Pieces, Balloons

  Pete Wentz, James Montgomery (2013). “Gray”, p.27, Simon and Schuster

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• What's so funny?" "Your panties have a bow," he said. I looked down. I was wearing a short tank top -not mine- and my blue panties with a narrow white strip of lace at the top and a tiny white bow. Would it have killed me to check what I was wearing before I pulled the blanket down? "What's wrong with bows?" "Nothing." He was grinning now. "I expected barbed wire. Or one of those steel chains." Wiseass. "I'm secure enough in myself to wear panties with bows on them. Besides, they are comfy and soft." "I bet.

  Ilona Andrews

  Blue, White, Lace

  Ilona Andrews (2008). “Magic Burns”, p.97, Penguin

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• At Gatling-gun tempo word-perfect the first time out. the journalistic equivalent of a high-wire front somersault without a net.

  Shana Alexander

  Gun, Perfect, Firsts

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• Time and tide wait for no man. A pompous and self-satisfied proverb, and was true for a billion years; but in our day of electric wires and water-ballast we turn it around: Man waits not for time nor tide.

  Mark Twain

  Funny, Time, Men

  Mark Twain (1897). “More Tramps Abroad”

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• I looked at the ceiling and wished this life was over. This unhappy life that had started out so confidently. I thought I would sleep no more that night but eventually I did. In the end we always wear out our worries. That's what Wire man says.

  Stephen King

  Sleep, Happy Life, Night

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• As in any machine, all the wires must be connected to the mains through one main wire. In the same way, you all must be connected to God individually so that you all are connected among yourselves. I have been saying this again and again and again because at the Sahasrara you are being blessed with this collective spirit.

  Nirmala Srivastava

  Love, Wisdom, Yoga

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• A teacher's job is to take a bunch of live wires and see that they are well-grounded.

  Darwin D. Martin

  Education, Teacher, Jobs

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• Next time y'all need to find me, just rub these two wires for the doorbell.

  Redman

  Rapper, Two, Needs

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• The lifeblood of our business is that R&D spend. There's nothing that flows through a pipe or down a wire or anything else. We have to continuously create new innovation that lets people do something they didn't think they could do the day before.

  Steve Ballmer

  Business, Technology, Thinking

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• Anyway, I'm doing my rave and this spittle comes out of my mouth and it winds its way very delicately through the wire fence that separates us and lands clear and bright on Denzel's lip. And we're at the beginning of the scene and I've got to do the rest of the scene, and the camera isn't on him, it's on me - and I'm fully aware that I've just spat on Denzel Washington!

  Russell Crowe

  Wind, Land, Cameras

  "American Gangster - Russell Crowe interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• I think it's important to also realize that this isn't a case of Apple being asked to simply flip a switch or, you know, plug in a wire from one place to another. They're being asked to write new software that doesn't exist. They purposefully did not create this kind of backdoor.

  Angus King

  Writing, Thinking, Apples

  "Congress Should Decide Encryption Issue, Sen. Angus King Says". "Morning Edition" with Steve Inskeep, www.npr.org. February 19, 2016.

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• It will do us little good to wire the world if we short circut our souls. There is no delete button for racism, poverty, or sectarian violence. No key stroke can ever clean the air, save a river, preserve a forest. This transformational new technology must be an extension of our hearts as well as of our mind.

  Tom Brokaw

  Heart, Acceptance, Technology

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• [Oz the Great] it's not like I had to imagine things, and as far as wire work goes, I had fun with it.

  Mila Kunis

  Fun, Imagine, Had Fun

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• My father modestly referred to himself as the Great Santini when we were growing up. And he took it - I later learned he had seen a high-wire aerialist when he was a boy, and he was up doing acrobatics in his airplane, and when he came down one time - when was a young lieutenant - he said, I was better than the Great Santini today. And some of the other pilots heard it, and the nickname stuck.

  Terry Gross

  Growing Up, Father, Airplane

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• I would be so curious to wire my brain up and see what's occurring when I act, because a performance is such a heightened state. I've always found that with doing theatre especially. It's so hard to come down.

  Luke Kirby

  Brain, Theatre, Would Be

  Source: www.rogerebert.com

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• When a teacher of the future comes to point out to the youth of America how the highest rewards of intellect and devotion can be gained, he may say to them, not by subtlety and intrigue; not by wire pulling and demagoguery; not by the arts of popularity; not by skill and shiftiness in following expediency; but by being firm in devotion to the principles of manhood and the application of morals and the courage of righteousness in the public life of our country; by being a man without guile and without fear, without selfishness, and with devotion to duty, devotion to his country.

  Elihu Root

  Country, Teacher, Courage

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