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There is nothing like tasting the grit of fear for rediscovering that the umbilical cord is made of piano wire. — Moss Hart

A bikini is like a barbed-wire fence. It protects the property without obstructing the view. — Joey Adams

Nietzsche [10w]
Zarathustra's high-wire act is over;
the circus has left town. — Beryl Dov

'The Wire's definitely one of them. 'The Sopranos' is one of my all-time favorites. Those are two big ones for me. — Ben Bass

Nothing will ever top 'The Wire.' It was historical. It was black cinema. — Lance Reddick

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

It so often happens that somebody says 'change your life' and you repaint your car rather than re-wire the engine. — Pico Iyer

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

Political Wire is one of the absolute must-read sites in the blogosphere. — Glenn Reynolds

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

...life, like a wire, requires tension on both ends. You care to live and someone else cares that you live. What's the point of holding the slack end? — Melanie Finn

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

We're hardwired for connection. There's no arguing with the bioscience. But we can want it so badly we're trying to hot-wire it. — Brene Brown

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 faith
is a great weight
hung on a small wire,
as doth the spider
hang her baby on a thin web. — Anne Sexton

We're seeing TV series that are as good as movies were in the '70s and '80s - shows like 'The Wire,' 'The Sopranos' and 'Breaking Bad.' — Tahar Rahim

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

The only people who never tumble are those who never mount the high wire. — Oprah Winfrey

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

It doesn't do any good to wire the world if we short circuit the soul. — Tom Brokaw

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

I love 'The Wire;' that's my favorite show, so I'll watch that. — Adam McKay

What is desire but the hard wire argument given to the mind's unstoppable mouth — Mary Jo Bang

To be on the wire is life - the rest - is waiting. — Roy Scheider

I was never a Lime Wire guy because it's too much hassle to find the song. — Trent Reznor

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 closet full of wire hangers can be the most dangerous place in the world. — Paul Lynde

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

I believe a young player will run through a barbed wire fence for you. An older player looks for a hole in the fence. — Brendan

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

'The Wire' really drew on a lot of real-life situations and real-life organizations - it created fiction to make a social statement about reality. — Lance Reddick

A photographer is an acrobat treading the high wire of chance, trying to capture shooting stars. — Guy Le Querrec

This is my barbed wire dress. It protects the property but doesn't hide the view. — Candy Darling

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

I am the poet of the high wire - I never do stunts; I do theatrical performances. — Philippe Petit

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

Thought itself needs words. It runs on them like a long wire. And if it loses the habit of words, little by little it becomes shapeless, somber. — Ugo Betti

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

Line of control must be renamed as garden of love and the barbed wire fencing should be replaced by the garden of flowers. — Amit Ray

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

Next time y'all need to find me, just rub these two wires for the doorbell. — Redman

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 breath
like a kite falling stray,
the wire grows slack
the child within pulls at the empty air. — Jack Campbell

Battle with unconditioned breath the unconditioned air. Shun electric wire. Communicate slowly. Live a three-dimensional life; stay away from screens. — Wendell Berry

People say 'The Wire's bleak, y'know, but I see it as a love letter to Baltimore, and it's one written in a very strange and complex way. — Aidan Gillen

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

I am not up there by chance. I am there by choice. And I know the wire. And I know my limits. And I am a madman of details. — Philippe Petit

The only good thing about America is that you killed John Lennon. — Nicky Wire