The Wire Quotes
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A bikini is like a barbed-wire fence. It protects the property without obstructing the view.
— Joey Adams
![The Wire Quotes By Beryl Dov: Nietzsche [10w] Zarathustra's high-wire act is over;the circus](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/the-wire-quotes-by-beryl-dov-488935.jpg "The Wire Quotes By Beryl Dov: Nietzsche [10w] Zarathustra's high-wire act is over;the circus")
She had made these with scrap wire and tools from the craft supply depot, and called them Occupations of Uninhabited Space.
— Ursula K. Le Guin
What I'm doing is a natural wonder. If not, there'd be 150 people behind me on the wire.
— Nik Wallenda
My parents were intelligent and encouraging, but at the same time, they were displeased at me becoming a wandering troubadour and wire walker.
— Philippe Petit
'The Wire' is very realistic and based on real events.
— Michael K. Williams
Life is on the wire. The rest is just waiting.
— Matt Damon
The meat-and-potatoes work of world journalism is performed by the wire service reporters.
— Bob Greene
And you Mr. Ground-of-Wheat, Mr. Text, Mr. Is-Was, can you calculate the ratio between wire and window . . . — Michael Palmer
If you want to learn about America, watch 'The Wire.' It's a profound piece of entertainment.
— Sam Neill
I thought she was going to win it, she just got out-bobbed at the wire.
— Jerry Hollendorfer
guy trips over the age thirty wire, he realizes that certain things he wanted in his life just aren't going to happen.
— Don Winslow
At Gatling-gun tempo word-perfect the first time out. the journalistic equivalent of a high-wire front somersault without a net.
— Shana Alexander
For a business plan written when the hardware was a wire-wrapped board and the software was three demos on a graphics substrate, it was pretty close.
— Chris Espinosa
The world was a shitpot with a barbed-wire handle and the further he could kick it the better he liked it.
— Jim Thompson
On the high wire, within months, I'm able to master all the tricks they do in the circus, except I am not satisfied.
— Philippe Petit
The greatest thing about the call-in show is that you always felt like you were on a high wire without a net.
— Brian Lamb
'The Wire' is similar to 'The Walking Dead' in so far as everybody pulling for everybody else to get to the turning point of the story.
— Seth Gilliam
Some minds improve by travel, others, rather, resemble copper wire, or brass, which get the narrower by going farther.
— Thomas Hood
We were the first urban school system in the country to wire all of our schools for the Internet.
— Thomas Menino
The thing that's interesting about wire walking is that we never get to see it other than looking up. It's like a circus thing. It's a guy on a wire.
— Robert Zemeckis
If you've ever felt oppressed on any level, there's something from 'The Wire' that you can take and identify with.
— Michael K. Williams
No, I don't think 'The Wire' screwed up my career at all.
— Dominic West
My first stringed instrument was a cigar box banjo where I cut and turned the pegs and strung the wires myself.
— Carl Sandburg
A man got to have a code." --Omar Little, The Wire
— Chris Smith
It's even hard for people to imagine today that telephones were wired, and they certainly were and you went to the end of a wire to make a phone call.
— Nicholas Negroponte
My faithis a great weight
hung on a small wire,
as doth the spider
hang her baby on a thin web. — Anne Sexton
The instantaneous shift from calm to calamity. The slowing of time. Every sense suddenly wire-taut and screaming.
— Robert Galbraith
I wish the stage were as narrow as the wire of a tighrope dancer so that no incompetent would dare step upon it.
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
You don't have to tell me how long I'm on the wire,
— Nik Wallenda
A blank page of paper and a pen is the greatest invention its so exciting to be confronted by possibility.
— Nicky Wire
I'm a huge fan of things like The Wire and The Shield.
— Donal Logue
But I do, and the barbed wire tightens once more, until my heart is strangled and broken.
— A.G. Howard
prickly pears from behind a barbed-wire fence. Faded lettering on the sign, designed as a lasso that had at one
— John J. Asher
If I'm successful in fooling a wire service, I don't really have to do anything else to promote the story.
— Joey Skaggs
Everybody loves 'The Wire,' and I think it's okay, but in the end it's just a police series.
— Salman Rushdie
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
That win means so much. They got back into the game but I think we showed today that we want to go to the wire. We want to go all the way.
— Steven Gerrard
The poet like an acrobat climbs on rime to a high wire of his own making.
— Lawrence Ferlinghetti
A woman's dress should be like a barbed-wire fence: serving its purpose without obstructing the view.
— Sophia Loren
You don't have to be someone who likes walking a tightrope across the Twin Towers to watch 'Man On Wire.'
— Asif Kapadia
To be on the wire is life - the rest - is waiting.
— Roy Scheider
It was such a joy to be an actor on 'The Wire.'
— Tom McCarthy
What is the savior of the world doing among these wire fences, in all this broken glass?
— Janet McAdams
A woman of wire had laid herself down, her scream traveling the street, till it fell sideways like a rolling coin starved of momentum.
— Markus Zusak
Christ asked people who follow him to be the voice for the voiceless - not to wire their mouths shut.
— Christina Engela
My first book, 'The Age of Wire and String,' came out in 1995, and it was hardly reviewed at all.
— Ben Marcus
In TV, you can carve out a beautiful little niche like 'Breaking Bad' did. Like 'The Wire' did. Like 'Homeland' did.
— Joe Carnahan
A photographer is an acrobat treading the high wire of chance, trying to capture shooting stars.
— Guy Le Querrec
Usually, when I walk on a wire, I inspect the anchor point on both sides before crossing.
— Philippe Petit
If I could, I would work my way backward, paring away the years. I would reel my life arouond the wheel of this longing like so much loose wire.
— Kevin Brockmeier
Many people think the Cards at the end of the wire will cross the finish line first.
— Jerry Coleman
He'd wait. I turned to go into the house and he pulled me back. His hands slid under my shirt and my breath caught. The wire,
— Janet Evanovich
You Are Hard-Wired For The Kingdom
— Sunday Adelaja
But she was used to that by now, used to this kind of waiting, that was slack as worn elastic yet had the tautness of wire.
— Sarah Waters
Modern American marriage is like a wire fence. The woman's the wire -the posts are the husband's.
— Langdon Elwyn Mitchell
Death frames the high wire. But I don't see myself as taking risks. I do all of the preparations that a non-death seeker would do.
— Philippe Petit
Words from the past: It's a clever idea, Mr. Bell, but don't wire us, we'll wire you.
— Robert Breault
I was thrown out of different schools because I was practicing my arts - magic, juggling, and the high wire.
— Philippe Petit
Could Morgan Stanley please wire $1.2 billion to Deutsche Bank by the end of the day?
— Michael Lewis
In television, the 60-minute series, 'The Wire' and 'Mad Men' and so on, the writer is the primary creative artist.
— Salman Rushdie
I'm often very relaxed when I'm on the wire. There may be some tears because this is a dream of mine.
— Nik Wallenda
I rendezvous with the long wire and perform the 'torero walk', gliding my feet, holding the pole away from my body, head high.
— Philippe Petit
It's a singular sort of pain, watching the most beautiful creature self-destruct because you weren't able to find the red wire.
— Joyce Rachelle
In some circles, to not have seen The Wire had become a shocking breach of social protocol.
— Brett Martin
I'll wire the International Federation of American Homing Pigeon Fanciers and give them the number stamped on the bird's leg ring.
— Carolyn Keene
Never let anyone steal your power. If they try, you march right down to that junction box and cut the wire.
— Grea Alexander
I've been obsessed with Michael B. Jordan since The Wire. He's so charismatic and talented. It'd be even better - we'd have interracial bisexuality!
— Andrew Garfield
You just have to re-wire your brain when you're shifting from the stage to the screen or the silver screen or the HD flat screen.
— Beau Willimon
Cowards cannot pass beyond the walls or beyond the wire fences! For them, frontiers are always the end of the road!
— Mehmet Murat Ildan
Hungry for breathlike a kite falling stray,
the wire grows slack
the child within pulls at the empty air. — Jack Campbell
We all decided that from the start, me and Richey can't write music but we can write lyrics and look pretty tarty.
— Nicky Wire
Walking the wire is living. The rest is just waiting.
— Elissa Wald
I've fallen in love with shows like 'Homeland' and 'The Wire.' And I think 'The Office' is in a category like that.
— John Krasinski
The inside of his skull, it tasted like roses and barbed wire and butterflies. Switchblades and heroin and grassy green gardens.
— Mercedes M. Yardley
