Wires Quotes

82 Wires quotes by 71 unique authors

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
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
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
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
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
The great trains howling from track to track all night. The taut and telegraphic murmur of ten thousand city wires, drawn most cruelly against a… — Nelson Algren
So I went to New York City to be born again. It was and remains easy for most Americans to go somewhere else and start… — Kurt Vonnegut
I saw the years of my life spaced along a road in the form of telephone poles threaded together by wires. I counted one, two,… — Sylvia Plath
I've come to see our central nervous system as a kind of vintage switchboard, all thick foam wires and old-fashioned plugs. The circuitry isn't properly… — Darin Strauss
Hot weather opens the skull of a city, exposing its white brain, and its heart of nerves, which sizzle like the wires inside a lightbulb.… — Truman Capote
You've got to shake your fists at lightning now, you've got to roar like forest fire You've got to spread your light like blazes all… — Joni Mitchell
Darling Daddy, This is Rose. The shed needs new wires now it has blown up. Caddy is bringing home rock-bottom boyfriends to see if they… — Hilary McKay
He kissed back, all the pages spread out around us like riddles waiting to be solved. Let them wait. Let my genes unravel, my hinges… — Lauren DeStefano
Emergency Valve Regulators," she repeated. "So you do know what your doing? "Not really," he said yanking another wire. 'I made up that term to… — Derek Landy
I had never before thought of how awful the relationship must be between the musician and his instrument. He has to fill it, this instrument,… — James A. Baldwin
The miracle has passed me by; it has touched but not changed me; I still have the same name and I know I will probably… — Erich Maria Remarque
Time and tide wait for no man. A pompous and self-satisfied proverb, and was true for a billion years; but in our day of electric… — Mark Twain
As in any machine, all the wires must be connected to the mains through one main wire. In the same way, you all must be… — Nirmala Srivastava
A teacher's job is to take a bunch of live wires and see that they are well-grounded. — Unknown Author
You only need to look at Jane Austen to see how crossed wires can become a defining aspect of romantic life. Then again, if the… — Mariella Frostrup
Canceling my landline phone account, cutting off service to my home for good, and rendering the telephones that had long sat on tables in every… — Kara Swisher
Information is crucial to our biological substance - our genetic code is information. But before 1950, it was not obvious that inheritance had anything to… — James Gleick
For a brief time in the 1850s, the telegraph companies of England and the United States thought that they could (and should) preserve every message… — James Gleick
We started with the basics of kicking and punching, then we moved on once we got proficient in that, we moved on to working with… — Chiaki Kuriyama
A gold book, fastened together in the shape of a book by wires of the same metal, had been dug up in the northern part… — Charles Anthon

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