Quotes of Wire - somelinesforyou

“ That's like asking you to pick your favorite child… I do however, think Bird on a Wire was one of my finest works. Oscar caliber. ”

- Mel Gibson

“ I remember my very first recording. It was on a wire recorder, as the tape recording was only just out but too expensive. ”

- Herbie Hancock

“ I just received the following wire from my generous Daddy - Dear Jack, Don't buy a single vote more than is necessary. I'll be damned if I'm going to pay for a landslide. ”

- John F. Kennedy

“ He believed that there had to be a message to start with, that in the beginning was the Word. Otherwise, he said, all you have is a lot of wires and lights in a box. ”

- Alexander Kendrick

“ A woman's dress should be like a barbed-wire fence: serving its purpose without obstructing the view. ”

- Sophia Loren

“ My brothers and my mother were all dancers, outside of whatever else they did, like acrobatics, high-wire, trapeze. I was born in a circus. ”

- Donald O’Connor

“ With electricity we were wired into a new world, for electricity brought the radio, a crystal set and with enough ingenuity, one could tickle the crystal with a cat's whisker and pick up anything. ”

- Theodore H. White

“ No cord or cable can draw so forcibly, or bind so fast, as love can do with a single thread. ”

- Robert Burton

“ No cord nor cable can so forcibly draw, or hold so fast, as love can do with a twined thread. ”

- Robert Burton

“ New York City is a great monument to the power of money and greed… a race for rent. ”

- Frank Lloyd Wright

“ Do the one thing you think you cannot do. Fail at it. Try again. Do better the second time. The only people who never tumble are those who never mount the high wire. This is your moment. Own it. ”

- Oprah Winfrey

“ A new idea is rarely born like Venus attended by graces. More commonly it's modeled of baling wire and acne. More commonly it wheezes and tips over. ”

- Marge Piercy

“ God hangs the greatest weights upon the smallest wires. ”

- Francis Bacon

“ I have just received the following wire from my generous Daddy. It says, "Dear Jack: Don't buy a single vote more than is necessary. I'll be damned if I am going to pay for a landslide.". ”

- John F. Kennedy

“ I sent the club a wire stating, PLEASE ACCEPT MY RESIGNATION. I DON'T WANT TO BELONG TO ANY CLUB THAT WILL ACCEPT ME AS A MEMBER. ”

- Groucho Marx

“ The difference between utility and utility plus beauty is the difference between telephone wires and the spider web. ”

- Edwin Way Teale

“ We are the wire, God is the current. Our only power is to let the current pass through us. ”

- Carlo Carretto

“ At Gatling-gun tempo word-perfect the first time out. the journalistic equivalent of a high-wire front somersault without a net. ”

- Shana Alexander

“ My parents both sang very casually around the house. My family bought a wire recorder in the forties when I grew up, and they would sing a little into the wire recorder. Not seriously but just to make music around the house, and I must have liked the pleasing sound and their harmony… ”

- Art Garfunkel

“ There's a whole army of people looking after you to make sure that you're not in any kind of danger. I mean, even when you're up swinging off a wire, there's people there checking everything. Everything is double checked and triple checked before you go anywhere near it… ”

- Alfred Molina

“ When Paul and I were first friends, starting in the sixth grade and seventh grade, we would sing a little together and we would make up radio shows and become disc jockeys on our home wire recorder. And then came rock and roll. ”

- Art Garfunkel

“ The professionalism of wire service reporters is constantly being tested because reporters know that if they're late or sloppy on a story, it will show up because the competition is likely to be not late and not sloppy. ”

- Bob Greene

“ I can see why many people would not want to wear the 'stereotypical' hearing aids of the bygone era, such as the hearing tube that looked like a trumpet coming out of your ear, or the wires and cords - but a lot of men nowadays have hearing loss. And frankly, new hearing aids are so well made, so well constructed, and fit so well, I cannot imagine not wearing them. ”

- George Kennedy

“ The day Nancy Hunger died must have been a very busy one for Al Gore, for at some point during the same day, July 11, 1984, he also found time to give a speech before the Kiwanis Club in Knoxville, across the state from his sister's deathbed. He also squeezed in an interview with a wire-service reporter… ”

- Tucker Carlson

“ There is a lull to the very air of the place, the creaking of the tall teak forests, the lapping of the canals, the gentle swaying of the little kingfishers who sit like neat blue idols on almost every telegraph wire. ”

- James Morris

“ I have been called a pioneer. In my book a pioneer is a man who comes to virgin country, traps off all the furs, kills off all the wild meat, cuts down all the trees, grazes down all the grass, plows the roots up, and string ten million miles of wire. ”

- Charles Marion Russell

“ In the central place of every heart there is a recording chamber; so long as it receives messages of beauty, hope, cheer, and courage, so long are you young. When the wires are all down and your heart is covered with the snows of pessimism and the ice of cynicism, and then only, are you grown old. ”

- General Douglas McArthur

“ So there he is at last. Man on the moon. The poor magnificent bungler! He can't even get to the office without undergoing the agonies of the damned, but give him a little metal, a few chemicals, some wire and twenty or thirty billion dollars and, vroom! there he is, up on a rock a quarter of a million miles up in the sky. ”

- Russell Wayne Baker

“ You see, wire telegraph is a kind of a very, very long cat. You pull his tail in New York and his head is meowing in Los Angeles. Do you understand this? And radio operates exactly the same way: you send signals here, they receive them there. The only difference is that there is no cat. ”

- Albert Einstein

“ Information is the oxygen of the modern age. It seeps through the walls topped by barbed wire, it wafts across the electrified borders. The Goliath of totalitarianism will be brought down by the David of the microchip. ”

- Ronald Reagan
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