Luck is a very thin wire between survival and disaster, and not many people can keep their balance on it. — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
Having wires strewn across your couch and across the floor is a big deal to a lot of people. — J Allard Copy Share Image
'The Wire' is my all-time favourite show. It takes its time, and it doesn't spoon-feed the viewer. — Ruth Bradley Copy Share Image
As a high wire walker, I do not allow myself to 'leave the wire' during a performance. — Philippe Petit Copy Share Image
I had an Indian Scout motorcycle during high school, but I never could take it to school. My dad would sneak out… — Burt Reynolds Copy Share Image
'Speed' and 'Point Break' were a lot of running and jumping, and then 'The Matrix Trilogy' had a lot of fights and… — Keanu Reeves Copy Share Image
I rendezvous with the long wire and perform the 'torero walk', gliding my feet, holding the pole away from my body, head… — Philippe Petit Copy Share Image
It is treacherous on a high wire to change your focus point and suddenly look down. — Philippe Petit Copy Share Image
The howling pariah dogs, the cocks that herald dawn all night, the drumming, the moaning that will be found later white plumage… — Malcolm Lowry Copy Share Image
I read rip-and-read news, but I wasn't a reporter. I was reading the wire, and the other thing was, I was reading… — Mike Wallace Copy Share Image
When you think of things like The Sopranos, The Wire, Damages, they are beating film on a regular basis. Most films are… — Ricky Gervais Copy Share Image
A very odd thing happened to my career when I got The Wire. My career was pretty much a steady climb; I… — Lance Reddick Copy Share Image
I went and I started teaching computers to young kids, to fifth graders at first, later to sixth, seventh, eighth and ninth… — Steve Wozniak Copy Share Image
“with real greatness, there’s a jolt at the end of the wire. It doesn’t matter how often you grab hold of the… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
I happened to fall into a job that wound up being a seminal piece of television history, which was a show I… — Deirdre Lovejoy Copy Share Image
We did some cool wire work in 'The Pact' - they had me strapped to a harness underneath my shirt so they… — Caity Lotz Copy Share Image
If you look at the Associated Press wires, there's a constant flow of information coming in. At that time I happened to… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
There will come soft rains and the smell of the ground, And swallows circling with their shimmering sound; And frogs in the… — Sara Teasdale Copy Share Image
There are no limitations set by this electric universe upon any man's multiplication power. Each man sets his own limitations in accordance… — Walter Russell Copy Share Image
You could not presume that people were healthy. You could not presume that they would welcome the little nudges and jostlings of… — Kevin Brockmeier Copy Share Image
When capitalists are thwarted, deflected, or dispossessed, the generals and politicians,... and socialist intellectuals, are always amazed at how quickly the great… — George Gilder Copy Share Image
A sea-green sky: lamps blossoming white. This is marginal land: fields of strung wire, of treadless tyres in ditches, fridges dead on… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
By leaning on companies, by leaning on infrastructure providers, by leaning on researchers, graduate students, post-docs, even undergrads, to look at the… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
The relative importance of the white and gray matter is often misunderstood. Were it not for the manifold connection of the nerve… — Edward Anthony Spitzka Copy Share Image
I started walking a wire when I was 2 years old, and this has been a dream of mine to recreate this walk. — Nik Wallenda Copy Share Image
I forget sometimes that I'm in the HBO stable because I am such a fan of so much of their programming. Like,… — John Gallagher, Jr Copy Share Image
You have to understand - I come from a neighborhood where 'The Wire' was filmed. — Elijah Cummings Copy Share Image
Cowards cannot pass beyond the walls or beyond the wire fences! For them, frontiers are always the end of the road! — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
I'm pretty sure the world is in solid agreement that "The Wire" is worth watching all the way through. — Hank Stuever Copy Share Image
Thought itself needs words. It runs on them like a long wire. And if it loses the habit of words, little by… — Ugo Betti Copy Share Image
I was supposed to be in 'The Wire' but I was getting in trouble in school and on the streets. — Gervonta Davis Copy Share Image
Novels are such mysterious and amorphous and tender things. And here we are with our crash helmets on, with concertina wire all… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
I've been arrested many times for illegal high wire walking and illegal street performing. — Philippe Petit Copy Share Image
Instead of having to program, to wire, to solder, littleBits allow you to program using very simple intuitive gestures. — Ayah Bdeir Copy Share Image
We were made to believe / our faces betrayed us. / Our bodies were loud / with yellow / screaming flesh /… — Janice Mirikitani Copy Share Image
Sometimes I think 'The Wire' said it all, and I might as well not write any more crime novels. — George Pelecanos Copy Share Image
In television, the 60-minute series, 'The Wire' and 'Mad Men' and so on, the writer is the primary creative artist. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Like a bird on a wire, like a drunk in a midnight choir, I have tried in my way to be free!! — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
All my wire sculptures come from the same loop. And there's only one way to do it. The idea is to do… — Ruth Asawa Copy Share Image
And I said to myself: That's true, hope needs to be like barbed wire to keep out despair, hope must be a… — Yehuda Amichai Copy Share Image