Wires Quotes

82 quotes by 74 authors

God hangs the greatest weights upon the smallest wires. — Francis Bacon
We believe that electricity exists, because the electric company keeps sending us bills for it, but we cannot figure out how it travels inside wires. — Dave Barry
Next time y'all need to find me, just rub these two wires for the doorbell. — Redman
Ere long intelligence-transmitted without wires-will throb through the earth like a pulse through a living organism. The wonder is that, with the present state of… — Nikola Tesla
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
An extra pressure, a silent rebuke, an unseen praising, a firm correction: all these passed between us as through telegraph wires. — Christilot Hanson-Boylen
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
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
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
Itâ€™s what non-car people donâ€™t get. They see all cars as just a ton and a half, two tons of wires, glass, metal, and rubber,… — Jeremy Clarkson
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
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'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
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
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
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
When you take the sires of the cage apart, you do not hurt the bird, but you help it. You let it out of its… — Randolph Sinks Foster
Transmission of documents via telephone wires is possible in principle, but the apparatus required is so expensive that it will never become a practical proposition. — Dennis Gabor

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