Wire Quotes

337 quotes by 287 authors

I believe a young player will run through a barbed wire fence for you. An older player looks for a hole in the fence, heâ€™ll… — Brendan Rodgers
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… — 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… — 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… — 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.… — David Crowe
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;… — Joseph Conrad
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… — John Bonham
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… — 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… — Mary Gaitskill
Wired people should know something about wires. — Neal Stephenson
Birds sat on the telegraph wires that spanned the river as the black notes sit on a staff of music. — Rebecca West
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… — Alexander Calder
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… — Dave Barry
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. — Tad Williams
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… — 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… — Rube Goldberg
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… — 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… — Charles Lindbergh
Anything can become a musical sound. The wind on telegraph wires is a great sound; get it into your machine and play it and it… — Hans Zimmer
If I'm successful in fooling a wire service, I don't really have to do anything else to promote the story. — Joey Skaggs

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