Wire Quotes
337 quotes by 287 authors
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When our new armies are ready it seems folly to send them to Flanders, where they will chew barbed wire, or be wasted in futile…
— H. H. Asquith
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Human material existence is limited by ideas, not stuff, people don't need copper wires they need ways to communicate, oil was a contaminant, then it…
— Paul Romer
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An extra pressure, a silent rebuke, an unseen praising, a firm correction: all these passed between us as through telegraph wires.
— Christilot Hanson-Boylen
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The airplane is just a bunch of sticks and wires and cloth, a tool for learning about the sky and about what kind of person…
— Richard Bach
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And in that narrow cockpit I wept, as I shall never weep again, when I felt the concrete brush against his wheels and, with a…
— Pierre Clostermann
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The relative importance of the white and gray matter is often misunderstood. Were it not for the manifold connection of the nerve cells in the…
— Edward Anthony Spitzka
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I saw a sign in Boulder. It said, 'Live Music and Darts.' Chicken wire isn't going to help at all.
— Tom Rush
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So I went ahead and made me a guitar. Igot me a cigar box, I cut me a round hole in the middle of it,…
— Lightnin' Hopkins
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Death frames the high wire. But I don’t see myself as taking risks. I do all of the preparations that a non-death seeker would do.
— Philippe Petit
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I'm only stopped by people in uniform, whether it's customs people, janitors, or the FBI - they all watch 'The Wire.' Sadly, beautiful, glamorous women…
— Dominic West
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If you want to learn about America, watch The Wire. Its a profound piece of entertainment.
— Sam Neill
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Life is on the wire. The rest is just waiting.
— Matt Damon
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To be on the wire is life - the rest - is waiting.
— Roy Scheider
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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…
— Ethan Hawke
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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!
— Andrew Garfield
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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…
— Foxy Brown
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Asking the front wheels of a car to do their normal job of steering while handling more than 170hp is like asking a man to…
— Jeremy Clarkson
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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,…
— Jeremy Clarkson
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What is desire but the hard wire argument given to the mind's unstoppable mouth
— Mary Jo Bang
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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,…
— David Berlinski
Who Wrote These Wire Quotes
287 authors contributed a total of 337 Wire Quotes, led by these top contributors: