Most American homes have alternating current, which means that the electricty goes in one direction for a while, then goes in the… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
Asking the front wheels of a car to do their normal job of steering while handling more than 170hp is like asking… — Jeremy Clarkson Copy Share Image
The borderline between prose and poetry is one of those fog-shrouded literary minefields where the wary explorer gets blown to bits before… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
Yes, I remember the barbed wire and the guard towers and the machine guns, but they became part of my normal landscape.… — George Takei Copy Share Image
Three or four threads may be agitated, like telegraph wires, at the same time, and if I were to tap them all… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
There's a little wire work, which is so much fun. You can fly, it's amazing. But I've had to mostly just sort… — Mary Elizabeth Winstead Copy Share Image
Some teams have a nucleus to build around. The Falcons barely have an embryo. So if you see suspicious looking wires running… — Jeff Schultz Copy Share Image
As far as I'm concerned ... the Universe is a junk yard, with everything overpriced. I am through poking around in the… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
The information glut has become a ruling cliche. As all resources - from energy to information - become more abundant, the presure… — George Gilder Copy Share Image
Ambas and Bobia Islands are perfect gems of beauty. Mondoleh I cannot say I admire. It always looks to me exactly like… — Mary Kingsley Copy Share Image
I read about a guy in Michigan this winter who was cruising along on his snow mobile. "Whoo hoo!" Didn't see a… — David Crowe Copy Share Image
Gramophone and movies were merely the mechanization of speech and gesture. But the radio and TV were not just the electronification of… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
The use of electronics is a natural extension of the instrument - it is an electric guitar. So we guitarists have been… — Tim Brady Copy Share Image
I wanted to be an industrial designer, so I went to business school for that, and I then went on to marketing… — John Sculley Copy Share Image
I often accompanied my father. I really liked riding with him on his bicycle on Saturdays. He was very fond of fishing.… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
Love consists not in feeling great things but in having great detachment and in suffering for the Beloved. The soul that is… — John of the Cross Copy Share Image
I don't believe that in the name of the holiness of the city you have to put barbed wires, machine gun nests,… — Yitzhak Rabin Copy Share Image
All they expected me to do was rip and read the wire 'leads,' without doing any original reporting. It was pretty basic,… — Andrea Mitchell Copy Share Image
Transmission of documents via telephone wires is possible in principle, but the apparatus required is so expensive that it will never become… — Dennis Gabor Copy Share Image
If you see how carefully I prepare for any kind of walk, legal or illegal, small or big, you will see that,… — Philippe Petit Copy Share Image
All anyone really needs to know about barbed wire is that it can tear the arse out of your trousers, give a… — Billy Connolly Copy Share Image
People want to talk to other people - not a house, or an office, or a car. Given a choice, people will… — Martin Cooper Copy Share Image
I believe a young player will run through a barbed wire fence for you. An older player looks for a hole in… — Brendan Rodgers Copy Share Image
At 6 p.m. I stood in the doorway of my studio facing the Venice boardwalk. A few spectators watched as I pushed… — Chris Burden Copy Share Image
The play is the source, it is orchestrated with words. In a movie, you are not dealing with as much as that.… — Al Pacino Copy Share Image
I have been a journalist, off and on, since I was 17. I was a copy boy for the 'New York Times,'… — Michael Ignatieff Copy Share Image
We can and should complain about certain horrors of the modern world, but when it comes to the treatment of mental illness,… — Rob Delaney Copy Share Image
All this Americanising and mechanising has been for the purpose of overthrowing the past. And now look at America, tangled in her… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
When I was learning by myself, despite my parents, despite my teachers, despite society, when I was fighting for building my life… — Philippe Petit Copy Share Image
One of the reasons surgeons have so much trouble separating Siamese twins is that nobody gets to do many of them. On… — Benjamin Carson Copy Share Image
I could kill Vino for all this doping crap. Strangle him slowly with piano wire just like they do in the Italian… — Vincenzo Nibali Copy Share Image
I've realized that the world is, in essence, full of banana peels - loaded with things that may unwittingly trip an internal… — Amanda Lindhout Copy Share Image
I'm such a fan of Deadwood. I love the characters in that. They're such wonderful characters. I'm a fan of The Wire.… — Dustin Clare Copy Share Image
Contrary to popular opinion, the Constitution was not - and is not - a grant of rights to the citizenry. Instead, the… — Jacob G. Hornberger Copy Share Image
It's interesting because a lot of people that stop me on the street now, and they talk about 'The Wire,' and they… — Seth Gilliam Copy Share Image
The miracle has passed me by; it has touched but not changed me; I still have the same name and I know… — Erich Maria Remarque Copy Share Image
The hatchet must fall on the block; the oak must be cleft to the centre. The weight of the world is on… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
If I am practicing on the wire, and you pushed me, I would not move, and if you take a piece of… — Philippe Petit Copy Share Image
Human reason is beautiful and invincible. No bars, no barbed wire, no pulping of books, No sentence of banishment can prevail against… — Czeslaw Milosz Copy Share Image
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