Wires Quotes

82 Wires quotes by 71 unique authors

I would rather play with forked lightning, or take in my hand living wires with their fiery current, than to speak a reckless word against… — A B Simpson
If one thinks about racism by examining only one wire of the cage, or one form of disadvantage, it is difficult to understand how and… — Iris Marion Young
Most American homes have alternating current, which means that the electricty goes in one direction for a while, then goes in the other direction. This… — Dave Barry
The lion in the jungle makes every other animal sit up and take notice as soon as he lets out a roar. He didn't get… — Charles Atlas
Danish studies of 10,000 birds killed revealed that almost all died in collisions with buildings, cars and wires; only 10 were killed by windmills. Alternative… — David Suzuki
The mountains and moors, the wild uplands, are to be staked out like vampires in the sun, their chests pierced with rows of five-hundred-foot wind… — Paul Kingsnorth
Here is the door of my mom's house, well-remembered childhood portal. Here is the yard, and a set of wires that runs from the house… — Dan Chaon
In her dance, she controlled the bright paper birds with invisible wires and threads. She played the human: heavy, tied to earth. Her dances weren't… — Katherine Catmull
The movements of some more little red birds in the garden, like animated rosebuds, appeared unbearably jittery and thievish. It was as though the creatures… — Malcolm Lowry
At 6 p.m. I stood in the doorway of my studio facing the Venice boardwalk. A few spectators watched as I pushed two live electric… — Chris Burden
Jazz presumes that it would be nice if the four of us-simpatico dudes that we are-while playing this complicated song together, might somehow be free… — Dave Hickey
We’re now recognizing that the mind, which is an energetic field of thought which you can read with EEG wires on your brain or with… — Bruce H. Lipton
Electricity, the peril the wind sings to in the wires on a gray day. — Janet Frame
The economic transmission of power without wires is of all-surpassing importance to man. By its means he will gain complete mastery of the air, the… — Nikola Tesla
There might've been wires, but I have this ability to make myself light. Well you know what, in ballet, when you kind of lift yourself… — Albert Finney
One substitute for the disappearing Evil Empire (The Soviet Union) has been the threat of drug traffickers from Latin America. In early September 1989, a… — Noam Chomsky
What happens when all the parts of childhood are soldered down, when the young no longer have the time or space to play in their… — Richard Louv
I have a lot of brothers. It's easy for me to do physical stuff. I had to survive. I really love it, and I'd love… — Stana Katic
Having wires strewn across your couch and across the floor is a big deal to a lot of people. — J Allard
As far as I'm concerned ... the Universe is a junk yard, with everything overpriced. I am through poking around in the junk heaps, looking… — Kurt Vonnegut
The family which takes it mauve and cerise, air conditioned, power-steered, and power braked automobile out for a tour passes through cities that are badly… — John Kenneth Galbraith
The difference between utility and utility plus beauty is the difference between telephone wires and the spider web. — Edwin Way Teale
When the wires are all down and your heart is covered with the snows of pessimism and the ice of cynicism, then, and only then,… — Samuel Ullman
The town has a sense, not of history, but of time, and the telephone poles seem to know this. If you lay your hand against… — Stephen King
But my body was like a harp and her words and gestures were like fingers running upon the wires. — James Joyce

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