Wire Quotes
337 quotes by 282 authors
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There will come soft rains and the smell of the ground, And swallows circling with their shimmering sound; And frogs in the pool singing at…
— Sara Teasdale
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You see, wire telegraph is a kind of a very, very long cat. You pull his tail in New York and his head is meowing…
— Albert Einstein
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She felt a board indifference toward the immediate world around her toward other children and adults alike. She took it as a regrettable accident to…
— Ayn Rand
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This could be a whole life," she thought. "You work eight hours a day covering wires to earn money to buy food and to pay…
— Betty Smith
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The only people who never tumble are those who never mount the high wire.
— Oprah Winfrey
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I had paid for my folly and, as a reward, was invited to take part in the nest builder’s performance piece. The script was great.…
— David Sedaris
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Battle with unconditioned breath the unconditioned air. Shun electric wire. Communicate slowly. Live a three-dimensional life; stay away from screens.
— Wendell Berry
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And the commercials would have sickened a goat raised on barbed wire and broken beer bottles.
— Raymond Chandler
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Clare, I want to tell you, again, I love you. Our love has been the thread through the labyrinth, the net under the high-wire walker,…
— Audrey Niffenegger
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You don't know me at all. You don't know the first thing about me. You don't know where I'm writing this from. You don't know…
— David Klass
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Lux’s frequent forged excuses from phys. Ed. She always used the same method, faking the rigid t’s and b’s of her mother’s signature and then,…
— Jeffrey Eugenides
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He was born in fury and he lived in lightning. Tom came headlong into life. He was a giant in joy and enthusiasms. He didn't…
— John Steinbeck
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Three or four threads may be agitated, like telegraph wires, at the same time, and if I were to tap them all I would reveal…
— Anais Nin
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I did not know whether I would ever speak to her or not or, if I spoke to her, how I could tell her of…
— James Joyce
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Go to Old Delhi,and look at the way they keep chickens there in the market. Hundred of pale hens and brightly colored roosters, stuffed tightly…
— Aravind Adiga
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When the green hills are covered with talking wires and the wolves no longer sing, what good will the money you paid for our land…
— Chief Seattle
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What are all these?" Clary asked. "Vials of holy water, blessed knives, steel and silver blades," Jace said, piling the weapons on the floor beside…
— Cassandra Clare
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Good fences make good neighbors, and these were apparently good enough that they had not felt the need for razor wire at the top. I…
— Dean Koontz
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I check the list. Rubber tubing, gas, saw, gloves, cuffs, razor wire, hatchet, Gladys, and my mitts.
— Frank Miller
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Books turn people into isolated individuals, and once that's happened, the road only grows rockier. Books wire you to want to be Steve McQueen, but…
— Douglas Coupland
Who Wrote These Wire Quotes
282 authors contributed a total of 337 Wire Quotes, led by these top contributors: