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“There are women who take it to the wire. That's what they are looking for, the ultimate confrontation. They want a smack.”

Want Ultimate Wire Confrontation Alaska Smack

Author:Sean Connery

“To be on the wire is life. The rest is waiting.”

Author:Roy Scheider

“I auditioned for Robert Redford once and I was so starstruck I couldn't even speak. I had a mic wire at a screen test clipped to me and then I got kind of nervous and I paced in a circle and then took a step and tripped and fell on my face. You just have to forgive yourself and keep going on.”

Kind Faces Speak Steps Tests Forgiving Screens Circles Nervous Keep Going Wire Forgive Yourself Mics

Author:Ethan Hawke

“I've been obsessed with Michael B. Jordan since The Wire. He's so charismatic and talented. It'd be even better—we'd have interracial bisexuality!”

Obsessed Wire Jordan Charismatic Bisexuality

Author:Andrew Garfield

“I devoted my career to building an affinity with my fans who have supported me unflinchingly and no barbed wire fence or prison wall will stop that.”

Careers Fans Building Wall Prison Devoted Fence Wire Affinity Barbed Wire Prison Walls

Author:Foxy Brown

“Asking the front wheels of a car to do their normal job of steering while handling more than 170 is like asking a man to wire a plug while juggling. Penguins. While making love. To a beautiful woman while on fire, on stage. In front of the Queen. It's all going to go wrong.”

Men Jobs Beautiful Fire Stage Car Fronts Normal Asking Queens Wheels Making Love Wire Beautiful Women Plugs Steering Juggling Penguins

Author:Jeremy Clarkson

“It’s what non-car people don’t get. They see all cars as just a ton and a half, two tons of wires, glass, metal, and rubber, and that’s all they see. People like you or I know we have an unshakable belief that cars are living entities… You can develop a relationship with a car and that’s what non-car people don’t get… When something has foibles and won’t handle properly, that gives it a particularly human quality because it makes mistakes, and that’s how you can build a relationship with a car that other people won’t get.”

People Knows Giving Humans Two Belief Mistake Half Quality Car Like You Glasses Handle Making Mistakes Metals Entity Wire Rubber Unshakable Human Qualities Foibles

Author:Jeremy Clarkson

“What is desire but the hard wire argument given to the mind's unstoppable mouth”

Mind Hard Desire Given Mouths Argument Wire Unstoppable

Author:Mary Jo Bang

“Just who has imposed on the suffering human race poison gas, barbed wire, high explosives, experiments in eugenics, the formula for zyklon b, heavy artillery, pseudo-scientific justifications for mass murder, cluster bombs, attack submarines, napalm, intercontinental missiles , military space platforms and nuclear weapons? If memory serves it was not the Vatican.”

Source: The Devil's Delusion: Atheism and Its Scientific Pretensions

“I believe a young player will run through a barbed wire fence for you. An older player looks for a hole in the fence, he’ll try and get his way through it some way, but the young player will fight for you.”

Way Trying Believe Looks Running Young Fighting I Believe Player Holes Fence Wire Barbed Wire

Author:Brendan Rodgers

“The only TV I would be interested in exploring would be live television. There's no substitute for a team of artists performing at their peak live when failure is possible. It's a high-wire act. That excites me.”

Would Be Artist Team Television Tvs Performing Substitutes Exploring Wire Live Television

Author:Francis Ford Coppola

“When your house contains such a complex of piping, flues, ducts, wires, lights, inlets, outlets, ovens, sinks, refuse disposers, hi-fi re-verberators, antennae, conduits, freezers, heaters -when it contains so many services that the hardware could stand up by itself without any assistance from the house, why have a house hold it up. When the cost of all this tackle is half of the total outlay (or more, as it often is) what is the house doing except concealing your mechanical pudenda from the stares of folks on the sidewalk?”

Light House Half Cost Complexes Folks Refuse Staring Assistance Wire Outlets Often Is Sidewalk Hardware Ovens Concealing Freezer

Author:Reyner Banham

“All anyone really needs to know about barbed wire is that it can tear the arse out of your trousers, give a cow a good fright, entangle a Yorkshire terrier for life, and is nasty stuff made by greedy men.”

Knows Men Needs Giving Made Humor Funny Stuff Tears Cows Nasty Greedy Wire Fright Trousers Arses Barbed Wire Yorkshire Terriers

Author:Billy Connolly

“Almost every song on OK Computer revolves around how I am afraid computers get up at night and attempt to choke me with their wires.*doesn't laugh*”

Night Song Laughing Computer Get Up Wire Choke

Author:Thom Yorke

“I read about a guy in Michigan this winter who was cruising along on his snow mobile. "Whoo hoo!" Didn't see a barbed wire fence. FOOM - cut his head right off. And I'll be honest with you, my first thought was... That's how I want to go. Having the time of your life, "whoo hoo!" FOOM. I want the last thought in my head to be, 'Hey, check out that headless snow mobile driver. He's got a jacket just like mine.'”

Want Firsts Lasts Guy Cutting Honest Mines Winter Checks Snow Hey Being Honest Drivers Fence Wire Mobile Jackets Michigan Time Of Your Life Barbed Wire Headless

Author:David Crowe

“My grandmother was a kind of Scarsdale, New York, society woman, best known in her day as the author of the 1959 book 'Growing Your Own Way: An Informal Guide for Teen-Agers' - this despite being a person whose parenting style made Joan Crawford's wire hangers look like pool noodles.”

Way Looks Kind Persons Made Book Known Growing Style New York Guides Despite Grandmother Pool My Grandmother Wire Noodles Hangers Parenting Styles

Author:Sloane Crosley

“The hair of his face, on the contrary, carroty and flaming, resembled a growth of copper wire clipped short to the line of the lip; while, no matter how close he shaved, fiery metallic gleams passed, when he moved his head, over the surface of his cheeks.”

Inspirational Matter Funny Faces Growth Lines Hair Moved Lips Surface Contrary Cheeks Sailing Wire Fiery Gleam Copper Metallic

Book:The Complete Works of Joseph Conrad: 20 Novels & 26 Short Stories (Including Memoirs, Essays & Letters in One Single Edition): Classics of World Literature from One of the Greatest English Novelists: Heart of Darkness, The Duel, Lord Jim, The Secret Agent, Nostromo, The Shadow-Line & Under Western Eyes

Source: The Complete Works of Joseph Conrad: 20 Novels & 26 Short Stories (Including Memoirs, Essays & Letters in One Single Edition): Classics of World Literature from One of the Greatest English Novelists: Heart of Darkness, The Duel, Lord Jim, The Secret Agent, Nostromo, The Shadow-Line & Under Western Eyes

“I've wanted to be a drummer since I was about five years old. I used to play on a bath salt container with wires on the bottom, and on a round coffee tin with a loose wire fixed to it to give a snare drum effect. Plus there were always my Mum's pots and pans. When I was ten, my Mum bought me a snare drum. My Dad bought me my first full drum kit when I was 15. It was almost prehistoric. Most of it was rust.”

“I am often on guard over the Russians. In the darkness one sees their forms move like stick storks, like great birds. They come close up to the wire fence and lean their faces against it. Their fingers hook round the mesh.”

Faces Moving Form Darkness Bird Sticks Fingers Rounds Fence Hook Wire Eyebrows Mesh Storks

Author:Erich Maria Remarque

“But now all the natural secrets have been exposed, and it is likely that the turtles have been sold to laboratory scientists who want to remove their shells so that they can wire electrodes to the turtles' skin in order to monitor their increasing terror at the loss of their shells.”

Want Has Beens Order Natural Loss Secret Skins Scientist Terror Remove Exposed Shells Wire Laboratory Turtles

Author:Mary Gaitskill

“Wired people should know something about wires.”

People Knows Should Wire

Author:Neal Stephenson

“Birds sat on the telegraph wires that spanned the river as the black notes sit on a staff of music.”

Black Bird Rivers Notes Sat Staff Wire Telegraph

Book:The Return of the Soldier

Source: The Return of the Soldier

“A mobile is an abstract sculpture made chiefly out of sheet metal, steel rods, wire and wood. Some or all of these elements move, propelled by electric motors, wind, water or by hand.”

Made Hands Moving Water Wind Elements Woods Abstract Metals Electric Steel Sheets Sculpture Wire Mobile Motor Electric Motors

Author:Alexander Calder

“The world was all mud and wire. The war in the heavens was only a faint imitation of the horror men had learned to make.”

Men World War Heaven Horror Imitation Mud Wire

Book:Otherland: City of Golden Shadow

Source: Otherland: City of Golden Shadow

“Back then, the entire Internet consisted of two slow, boxcar-sized UNIVAC computers about 50 feet apart, connected by a wire. It would take one of these computers an entire day to send an email to the other one, which would immediately delete it, because it was a Viagra ad.”

Two Feet Internet Computer Connected Ads Email Wire Viagra

Author:Dave Barry

“It's hard to say goodbye for good at any time or any place. It's harder still to say it through a meshed wire. It crisscrossed his face into little diagonals, gave me only little broken-up molecules of it at a time. It stenciled a cold, rigid frame around every kiss.”

Littles Stills Hard Faces Broken Cold Kissing Harder Goodbye Wire Saying Goodbye Molecules Broken Up Hard To Say Goodbye

Author:Cornell Woolrich

“Many of the younger generation know my name in a vague way and connect it with grotesque inventions, but don't believe that I ever existed as a person. They think I'm a nonperson, just a name that signifies a tangled web of pipes or wires or strings that suggest machinery. My name to them is like a spiral staircase, veal cutlets, barber's itch — terms that give you an immediate picture of what they mean.”

“You've got this piece of wood and some wires, pickups and some strings. How somebody uses that configuration to make something memorable, that's what's interesting to me.”

Use Interesting Music Pieces Guitar Woods Memorable Strings Wire Pickups Configuration

Author:Don Felder

“Possibly everyone will travel by air in another fifty years. I'm not sure I like the idea of millions of planes flying around overhead. I love the sky's unbroken solitude. I don't like to think of it cluttered up by aircraft, as roads are cluttered up by cars. I feel like the western pioneer when he saw barbed-wire fence lines encroaching on his open plains. The success of his venture brought the end of the life he loved.”

“If I'm successful in fooling a wire service, I don't really have to do anything else to promote the story.”

Ifs Stories Successful Wire

Author:Joey Skaggs

“However small your garden, you must provide for two of the serious gardener's necessities, a tool shed and a compost heap. A wire bin takes up negligible space and can be concealed by shrubs, or you can make a small pit into which you sweep leaves and clippings, but try not to fall into it.”

Trying Two Fall Space Serious Garden Tools Shed Wire Pits Gardener Concealed Fertilizer Compost Shrubs

Author:Ann Scott

“When you take the sires of the cage apart, you do not hurt the bird, but you help it. You let it out of its prison. How do you you know that death does not help me when it takes the wires of my cage down?-that it does not release me, and put me into some better place and better condition of life?”

Knows Life Doe Helping Hurt Conditions Bird Prison Release Help Me Cages Better Place Wire

Author:Randolph Sinks Foster

“You don't have to tell me how long I'm on the wire.”

Author:Nik Wallenda

“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.”

People Wanted Life Is Behinds Share Camps Fence Wire Boyhood Barbed Wire Internment Internment Camps

Author:George Takei

“Transmission of documents via telephone wires is possible in principle, but the apparatus required is so expensive that it will never become a practical proposition.”

Principles Practicals Expensive Documents Propositions Telephones Wire Transmission

Author:Dennis Gabor

“We can and should complain about certain horrors of the modern world, but when it comes to the treatment of mental illness, the advances made in the last hundred years have been far more significant than the space program, nuclear fission, or even The Wire, for so many fortunate people.”

Source: Rob Delaney: Mother. Wife. Sister. Human. Warrior. Falcon. Yardstick. Turban. Cabbage.

“Sometimes I think we're all tightrope walkers suspended on a wire two thousand feet in the air, and so long as we never look down we're okay, but some of us lose momentum and look down for a second and are never quite the same again: we know.”

Thinking Knows Looks Long Two Sometimes Loses Air Feet Thousand Okay Never Quit Wire Momentum Suspended Walkers

Author:Dorothy Gilman

“Love consists not in feeling great things but in having great detachment and in suffering for the Beloved. The soul that is attached to anything, however much good there may be in it, will not arrive at the liberty of Divine union. For whether it be a strong wire rope or a slender and delicate thread that holds the bird, it matters not, if it really holds it fast; for until the cord be broken, the bird cannot fly.”

Ifs May Soul Matter Feelings Suffering Strong Liberty Divine Broken Bird Unions Great Things Beloved Delicate Thread Rope Wire Detachment Cords Slender Feeling Great

Author:John of the Cross

“I looked upon a clock to find the truth. The hours were passing like ivory chess figures, striking piano notes, and the minutes raced on wires mounted like tin soldiers. Hours like tall ebony women with gongs between their legs, tolling continuously so that I could not count them. I heard the rolling of my heart-beats; I heard the footsteps of my dreams, and the beat of time was lost among them like the face of truth.”

Heart Dream Faces Lost Hours Heard Minutes Figures My Heart Quiet Beats Notes Soldier Legs Chess Passing Passings Clock Piano Tall Rolling Wire Footsteps Tin Ivory Heart Beat Gongs

Author:Anais Nin

“Once the concentration camps and the hell-holes of the world were in darkness. Now they are lit by the light of the Amnesty candle; the candle in barbed wire. When I first lit the Amnesty candle, I had in mind the old Chinese proverb: 'Better light a candle than curse the darkness.'”

World Mind Firsts Light Darkness Hell Prison Human Rights Holes Chinese Curse Torture Concentration Camps Candle Lit Wire Amnesty Concentration Camp Barbed Wire Chinese Proverb

Author:Peter Benenson

“The usual run of children's books left me cold, and at the age of six I decided to write a book of my own. I managed the first line, 'I am a swallow.' Then I looked up and asked, 'How do you spell telephone wires?”

Writing Firsts Children Book Running Age Left Lines My Own Cold Six Decided Spells Usual Telephones Wire Children's Books

Book:Anatomy of Restlessness: Selected Writings 1969-1989

Source: Anatomy of Restlessness: Selected Writings 1969-1989

“If we understand the mechanisms and motives of the group mind, it is now possible to control and regiment the masses according to our will without their knowing it In almost every act of our daily lives, whether in the sphere of politics or business, in our social conduct or our ethical thinking, we are dominated by the relatively small number of persons who understand the mental processes and social patterns of the masses. It is they who pull the wires which control the public mind.”

Ifs Thinking Mind Persons Social Process Numbers Knowing Groups Mass Patterns Propaganda Motive Daily Life Manipulation Ethical Spheres Mechanism Wire Mind Control Small Numbers

Author:Edward Bernays

“We are dominated by the relatively small number of persons who understand the mental processes and social patterns of the masses. It is they who pull the wires which control the public mind.”

Mind Persons Social Process Numbers Mass Patterns Propaganda Manipulation Wire Mind Control Small Numbers

Author:Edward Bernays

“Graphic Design is the communication framework through which these messages about what the world is now, and what we should aspire to. It's the way they reach us. The designer has an enormous responsibility. Those are the people, you know, putting their wires into our heads.”

People Knows World Way Should Responsibility Design Communication Messages Enormous Designer Aspire Wire Framework Graphic Graphic Design Helvetica

Author:Rick Poynor

“Avoiding risk is not much of a goal...whether you crawl into a hole or walk a high wire, nobody gets out of here alive. We cannot grow without challenge.”

Grows Goal Challenges Walks Alive Risk Holes Avoiding Wire

Author:Steven Callahan

“People want to talk to other people - not a house, or an office, or a car. Given a choice, people will demand the freedom to communicate wherever they are, unfettered by the infamous copper wire. It is that freedom we sought to vividly demonstrate in 1973.”

People Want Choices House Given Car Demand Office Communicate Wire Infamous Copper

Author:Martin Cooper

“I would rather play with forked lightning, or take in my hand living wires with their fiery current, than to speak a reckless word against any servant of Christ, or idly repeat the slanderous darts which thousands of Christians are hurling on others, to the hurt of their own souls and bodies.”

Soul Play Body Hands Christian Speak Christ Hurt Currents Servant Repeats Lightning Wire Reckless Fiery Darts Soul And Body Hurling

Book:The Holy Spirit, or, Power from on high

Source: The Holy Spirit, or, Power from on high

“Most folks are like a barb-wire fence. They have their good points.”

Folks Fence Wire Barbs

Author:Texas Bix Bender

“If one thinks about racism by examining only one wire of the cage, or one form of disadvantage, it is difficult to understand how and why the bird is trapped. Only a large number of wires arranged in a specific way, and connected to one another, serve to enclose the bird and to ensure that it cannot escape.”

Ifs Thinking Way Form Difficult Understanding Numbers Racism Bird Feminist Connected Trapped Cages Wire Disadvantages Large Numbers Examining Lack Of Understanding

Author:Iris Marion Young

“A photographer is an acrobat treading the high wire of chance, trying to capture shooting stars.”

Trying Stars Chance Photographer Shooting Capture Wire Treading Shooting Star

Author:Guy Le Querrec