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“Ideal government would be a very boring job - it would be a matter of organizing a lot of utilities and keeping the wires together and the power plant and all that kind of stuff. It's not a matter of telling people how to live, it's a matter of making it pleasant for them to live. Government should be in the position of distributing food, stuff like that.”

People Should Kind Matter Government Would Be Together Jobs Stuff Position Ideals Plant Boring Pleasant Wire Utility Power Plants

Author:Grace Slick

“I went and I started teaching computers to young kids, to fifth graders at first, later to sixth, seventh, eighth and ninth graders. I also started teaching teachers. And that was back in the days when we'd wire up the labs ourselves and crimp on the Ethernet connectors and then we would.”

Firsts Kids Young Teacher Teaching Computer Fifth Wire Labs Connectors Fifth Graders

Author:Steve Wozniak

“We did some cool wire work in 'The Pact' - they had me strapped to a harness underneath my shirt so they could fling me around the house and slam me into doors. I definitely got some bruises even with all the padding!”

House Doors Shirts Wire Slam Harness Bruises Fling Pact

Author:Caity Lotz

“Nature and books belong to the eyes that see them. It depends on the mood of the man, whether he shall see the sunset or the fine poem. There are always sunsets, and there is always genius; but only a few hours so serene that we can relish nature or criticism. The more or less depends on structure or temperament. Temperament is the iron wire on which the beads are strung. Of what use is fortune or talent to a cold and defective store?”

Source: Essays, First and Second Series

“It's awesome to realize that if your greatest potential talent is for riding a bicycle upside down on a high wire, you will somehow discover it.”

Ifs Realizing Talent Riding Wire Bicycle Upside Down Riding A Bicycle

Book:Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin

Source: Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin

“I think that very often younger writers don't appreciate how much hard work is involved in writing. The part of writing that's magic is the thinnest rind on the world of creation. Most of a writer's life is just work. It happens to be a kind of work that the writer finds fulfilling in the same way that a watchmaker can happily spend countless hours fiddling over the tiny cogs and bits of wire. ... I think the people who end up being writers are people who don't get bored doing that kind of tight focus in small areas.”

People Thinking World Way Writing Kind Ends Hard Happens Life Is Bits Hours Focus Magic Creation Hard Work Involved Areas Appreciate Tiny Bored Working It Fulfilling Wire Cogs

Author:Diane Ackerman

“Tragedy massages the human ego even as comedy deflates it. ... Tragedy pits us against large foes and the trip wire is our own character. ... In comedy we fall afoul of one another. Comedy depends on social life, on our behavior in groups. In tragedy you can observe one human against the gods. In comedy it's one human versus other humans and often one man (or woman if I'm writing it) against her own worst impulses.”

Ifs Men Writing Humans Character Fall Social Comedy Groups Worst Depends Ego Behavior Tragedy Impulse One Man Versus Foe Wire Pits Social Life Massage

Author:Rita Mae Brown

“You could not presume that people were healthy. You could not presume that they would welcome the little nudges and jostlings of life. You had to behave as though everyone you met was walking a thin wire far above the earth, where the slightest wind might rock them off their balance and send them tumbling to the ground.”

People Littles Might Earth Rocks Wind Balance Walking Healthy Mets Welcome Behave Wire Nudge Tumbling

Author:Kevin Brockmeier

“The borderline between prose and poetry is one of those fog-shrouded literary minefields where the wary explorer gets blown to bits before ever seeing anything clearly. It is full of barbed wire and the stumps of dead opinions.”

Literature Bits Opinion Seeing Prose Poetry Is Fog Wire Explorers Borderline Stumps Barbed Wire Minefields Prose And Poetry

Book:Dancing at the Edge of the World: Thoughts on Words, Women, Places

Source: Dancing at the Edge of the World: Thoughts on Words, Women, Places

“This Administration also puts forward a false choice between the liberties we cherish and the security we demand... That means no more illegal wire-tapping of American citizens. No more national security letters to spy on citizens who are not suspected of a crime. No more tracking citizens who do nothing more than protest a misguided war. No more ignoring the law when it is inconvenient. That is not who we are.”

“I thought tamarinds were made to eat, but that was probably not the idea. I ate several, and it seemed to me that they were rather sour that year. They pursed up my lips, till they resembled the stem-end of a tomato, and I had to take my sustenance through a quill for twenty-four hours. They sharpened my teeth till I could have shaved with them, and gave them a 'wire edge' that I was afraid would stay; but a citizen said 'no, it will come off when the enamel does' - which was comforting, at any rate. I found, afterward, that only strangers eat tamarinds - but they only eat them once.”

Source: 60 WESTERNS: Cowboy Adventures, Yukon & Oregon Trail Tales, Famous Outlaws, Gold Rush Adventures & much more: Riders of the Purple Sage, The Night Horseman, The Last of the Mohicans, Rimrock Trail, The Hidden Children, The Law of the Land, Heart of the West, A Texas Cow-Boy, The Prairie…

“When you think of things like The Sopranos, The Wire, Damages, they are beating film on a regular basis. Most films are terrible. It's only the 2% that are good. There's things you can do on TV which you can't do on film. There is something about those episodic, serialisations that are grand and operatic.”

Thinking Film Can Do Tvs Terrible Bases Damage Wire Sopranos

Author:Ricky Gervais

“I used to say, for me, writing was like walking a high wire, and heroin made me forget there was no net. Which is a fancy way of saying dope made me forget how shitty I felt for being on dope.”

Way Writing Made Used Felt Forget Walking Fancy Wire Heroin Dope

Author:Jerry Stahl

“Attempts to limit female mobility by hampering locomotion are ancient and almost universal. The foot-binding of upper-class Chinese girls and the Nigerian custom of loading women's legs with pounds of heavy brass wire are extreme examples, but all over the world similar stratagems have been employed to make sure that once you have caught a woman she cannot run away, and even if she stays around she cannot keep up with you. ... Literally as well as figuratively modern women's shoes are what keeps Samantha from running as fast as Sammy.”

“Ambas and Bobia Islands are perfect gems of beauty. Mondoleh I cannot say I admire. It always looks to me exactly like one of those flower-stands full of ferns and plants - the sort you come across in drawing rooms at home, with wire-work legs. I do not mean that Mondoleh has wire-work legs under water, but it looks as if it might have.”

Ifs Looks Mean Home Might Water Perfect Rooms Flower Plant Legs Drawing Admire Islands Wire Gems Ferns

Author:Mary Kingsley

“We were made to believe / our faces betrayed us. / Our bodies were loud / with yellow / screaming flesh / needing to be silenced / behind barbed wire.”

World Believe Made War Body Faces Behinds Racism Flesh Loud War Of The Worlds Bigotry Yellow World War Ii World War I Betrayed Wire Barbed Wire

Book:We, the Dangerous: New and Selected Poems

Source: We, the Dangerous: New and Selected Poems

“I stopped watching TV because of 'The Wire.' Like, 'The Wire' ruined everything for me because I don't even want to watch anything else now.”

Want Watches Tvs Ruined Wire Watching Tv

Author:Eminem

“I can get onstage and cut that off and be superinstinctive. To be a good live performer, you have to be instinctive. It's like, to walk in the jungle, or to do anything where there's a certain tightrope wire aspect you need to be instinctive. And you have to be comfortable at it also.”

Needs I Can Certain Walks Cutting Comfortable Aspect Performers Jungle Wire

Author:Bruce Springsteen

“the end of anything is a relief. In every relationship, even the most valuable, there are certain unpleasant tensions - and the ending of it snaps those taut inner wires.”

Ends Certain Valuable Tension Relief Wire Snaps

Author:Kathleen Winsor

“I quickly learned that motherhood was a high wire act sometimes performed without a net.”

Sometimes Motherhood Wire

Author:Marita Golden

“I am the poet of the high wire - I never do stunts; I do theatrical performances.”

Poet Performances Wire Theatrical Stuntman

Author:Philippe Petit

“The great thing about theater is that you have so much time to prepare, and to fail, before presenting it to the public. In film, the high-wire act seems to be that much farther up, and the net seems to be less there.”

Seems Film Failing Theater Great Things Wire Presenting

Author:Chris Pine

“I forget sometimes that Im in the HBO stable because I am such a fan of so much of their programming. Like, The Wire is my favorite TV show of all time.”

Sometimes Shows Forget Fans Tvs My Favorite All Time Programming Stable Tv Shows Wire Hbo Favorite Tv Shows

Author:John Gallagher, Jr.

“The scrape and snap of Keds on loose alley pebbles seems to catapult their voices high into the moist March air blue above the wires.”

Seems Voice Air Blue March Wire Snaps Alleys Pebbles Catapults Keds

Book:Rabbit, Run

Source: Rabbit, Run

“I cannot walk under the wires. The sparrows scatter like handfuls of gravel. Really, wires are voices in thin strips. They are words wound in cables. Bars of connection.”

Voice Walks Connections Wounds Bars Wire Handful Cables Sparrows Gravel

Book:In the Heart of the Heart of the Country & Other Stories

Source: In the Heart of the Heart of the Country & Other Stories

“Automobile in America,Chromium steel in America,Wire-spoke wheel in America,Very big deal in America!Immigrant goes to America,Many hellos in America,Nobody knows in America,Puerto Rico's in America!I like the shores of America!Comfort is yours in America!Knobs on the doors in America!Wall-to-wall floors in America!”

Knows Bigs America Deals Doors Wall Comfort Wheels Immigrants Spokes Shore Steel Wire Big Deal Automobile Nobody Knows Puerto Rico Rico Knobs Chromium

Author:Stephen Sondheim

“Carter is doing a high-wire act over a cesspool, preaching all the way. Sinclair Lewis, thou shouldst be living in this hour. We have a Warren Harding impersonating Elmer Gantry.”

Way Hours Preaching Wire American Politics Carter Harding Warren Harding

Author:Jimmy Carter

“Television has - particularly at the HBO level in the United States - become a completely new genre. Something like Deadwood or The Wire is a whole new thing - there was no equivalent to that medium before. It's like a new way of telling stories.”

Way States Whole Stories Levels United United States Television Mediums Genre New Things New Ways Wire Telling Stories Hbo

Author:William Gibson

“Hope doesn't require a massive chain where heavy links of logic hold it together. A thin wire will do...just strong enough to get us through the night until the winds die down.”

Enough Together Night Dies Strong Wind Logic Heavy Chains Massive Links Wire Strong Enough

Author:Charles R. Swindoll

“I rely on Taegan Goddard's Political Wire for straight, fair political news, he gets right to the point. It's an eagerly anticipated part of my news reading.”

Political Reading News Fairs Rely Wire

Author:Craig Newmark

“True Love Isn't Hearts & Flowers. It's Blood & Guts & Bouquets Of Barbed Wire”

Heart Love Is Blood Flower Guts Wire True Love Is Bouquets Barbed Wire

Author:Dean Cavanagh

“The next innovation, Sensavision, will be like a Walkman attached to your forehead. You won't actually have your head wired because infrared wires will send signals to you. In 2007 Mick Jagger will be on stage, and when Mick feels heat, you'll feel heat.”

Feels Next Stage Innovation Heat Signals Wire Foreheads Jagger Infrared

Author:Tony Verna

“If you got to castrate your miser'ble self with a piece o' rusty barb wire, do it.”

Ifs Self Pieces Scary Wire Misers Barbs

Author:Fred Phelps

“Life is horrible, but it is not relentlessly black from wire to wire. You can sit down and hear a Mozart symphony, or you can watch the Marx Brothers, and this will give you a pleasant escape for a while. And that is about the best that you can do.”

Giving Life Is Black Can Do Watches Brother Down And Horrible Pleasant Wire Symphony Marx Brothers

Author:Woody Allen

“To me, words are like stickpins. I can throw a word at you and it will bounce right off your body. But if I take that little stickpin and wire it to the back of an iron bar called human emotion, I can put that thing right through your heart.”

Ifs Humans Heart Littles I Can Body Emotion Your Body Bars Iron Wire Bounce Human Emotions

Author:Tony Robbins

“If you're not flying people around on wires, and you're only allowing them to do things that people can really do, it can't go on for very long, because eventually somebody gets the drop on the other person and then it's over.”

People Ifs Persons Long Goes On Flying Allowing Wire People Lie

Author:Steven Soderbergh

“There was a time in my acting career, where I was trying to figure out if acting was the thing to do. You know? I was always on this journey of trying to learn more about humanity and people - using the characters and situations as guideposts. I could switch up and do another job as long as I'm continuing that same search and that same journey of revealing my connection to humanity and the universe. And directing gives me the opportunity to explore ALL these different lives and their connection to their environments and the people. And I get to connect to the wires of the universe.”

“Acting still rings my bell as much as it did in high school. Plus, I can now indulge my interests as a producer as well. My work is more fun than fun but, best of all, it's still very scary. You are always walking some kind of high wire.”

Wells Kind Stills I Can School Fun Interest Acting Walking High School Scary Rings Producers Plus Bells Wire Indulge

Author:Tom Hanks

“The average parent may, for example, plant an artist or fertilize a ballet dancer and end up with a certified public accountant. We cannot train children along chicken wire to make them grow in the right direction. Tying them to stakes is frowned upon, even in Massachusetts.”

May Children Ends Artist Grows Parent Example Train Plant Average Dancer Chickens Stakes Ballet Wire Right Direction Accountants Massachusetts Ballet Dancer Certified Public Accountant

Book:Close to Home

Source: Close to Home

“Putting people in a room and strapping wires to their wrist to find out if I make them tingle when I'm telling them about Beirut is a long way from Edward R. Murrow.”

People Ifs Way Long Rooms Television Long Way Wire Wrists Beirut Edward R Murrow

Author:Linda Ellerbee

“My faith is a great weight hung on a small wire, as doth the spider hang her baby on a thin web.”

Faith Baby Weight Hung Spiders Wire

Author:Anne Sexton

“My first stringed instrument was a cigar box banjo where I cut and turned the pegs and strung the wires myself.”

Firsts Cutting Instruments Boxes Wire Cigar Banjos Peg

Author:Carl Sandburg

“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.”

Brain Stage Screens Silver Flats Wire Shifting

Author:Beau Willimon

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

Happens Car Engines Wire Changing Your Life

Author:Pico Iyer

“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.”

World Feels Littles Ends Eye Today Faces Wind Office Observation Journalism Prose Copies Desks Reporters Telephones Wire Reduction Assignments

Author:H. L. Mencken

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

Marriage Modern Husband Posts Fence Wire

Author:Langdon Elwyn Mitchell

“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?”

“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.”

Born Cities New York Birth Train New York City Womb Wire Pipe Tunnels Born Again Canals

Author:Kurt Vonnegut

“Cellular phones will absolutely not replace local wire systems.”

Phones Locals Wire Cellular Cellular Phones

Author:Martin Cooper

“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.”

Whole Body Universe Force Personality Electric Wire Entry

Author:Krishnananda Saraswati