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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

Cuba is just a slave-prison. Our only crime is brith, but our sentence is life behind barbed wire and prison bars. — Jaxy Mono

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

I can't tell if I'm feeling butterflies or barbed wire in my stomach. — Jessica Hawkins

'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

Leadership needs continuous learning from experience. Every time you learn something new, you re-wire your brain. — Amit Ray

What I'm doing is a natural wonder. If not, there'd be 150 people behind me on the wire. — Nik Wallenda

'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

Neurons that fire together wire together. — Steven Kotler

I will greet you with a mouth full of barbed wire until you learn to stop coming after me with your hands. — Trista Mateer

Instead of having to program, to wire, to solder, littleBits allow you to program using very simple intuitive gestures. — Ayah Bdeir

A goddess of dawn
scooted under a zing of barbed wire
to witness your birth. — Yusef Komunyakaa

...pride is a faulty wire that will ultimately burn you. — E.K. Blair

True Love Isn't Hearts & Flowers. It's Blood & Guts & Bouquets Of Barbed Wire — Dean Cavanagh

An extra pressure, a silent rebuke, an unseen praising, a firm correction: all these passed between us as through telegraph wires. — Christilot Hanson-Boylen

A single wire hanger on a nail by itself
Isn't bad though a stack of them on a floor
Is too gloomy for words. — Dara Weir

Most folks are like a barb-wire fence. They have their good points. — Texas Bix Bender

If I had to marry someone, it wouldn't be a bossy little gal with a tongue like barbed-wire and a mind about as narrow. — Jim Thompson

Luck is a very thin wire between survival and disaster, and not many people can keep their balance on it. — Hunter S. Thompson

If you want to learn about America, watch 'The Wire.' It's a profound piece of entertainment. — Sam Neill

Sir one more comment like that and I will strangle you with my microphone wire! — Adam Sandler

I thought she was going to win it, she just got out-bobbed at the wire. — Jerry Hollendorfer

val0 = Wire.read(); val1 = Wire.read(); channelReading = int(val0)*16 + int(val14); analogReadingArduino = channelReading * 1023 /4095; — Andrew K. Dennis

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

It's awesome to realize that if your greatest potential talent is for riding a bicycle upside down on a high wire, you will somehow discover it. — Mignon McLaughlin

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

Cowards cannot pass beyond the walls or beyond the wire fences! For them, frontiers are always the end of the road! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

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

Could Morgan Stanley please wire $1.2 billion to Deutsche Bank by the end of the day? — Michael Lewis

I quickly learned that motherhood was a high wire act sometimes performed without a net. — Marita Golden

Walking the wire is living. The rest is just waiting. — Elissa Wald

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

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

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

Never let anyone steal your power. If they try, you march right down to that junction box and cut the wire. — Grea Alexander

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

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'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 was thrown out of different schools because I was practicing my arts - magic, juggling, and the high wire. — Philippe Petit

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

I'd rather hug Magic Johnson after he rolled around in barbed wire. — Jim Norton

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

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

In television, the 60-minute series, 'The Wire' and 'Mad Men' and so on, the writer is the primary creative artist. — Salman Rushdie

I devoted my career to building an affinity with my fans who have supported me unflinchingly and no barbed wire fence or prison wall will stop that. — Foxy Brown

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 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

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

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

Basketball courts ringed with barbed-wire fence. — Donna Tartt

I was relatively technically adept. I can edit and wire up a light. — Ian Hart

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

I have never seen anything like it: two little discs of glass suspended in front of his eyes in loops of wire. Is he blind? — J.M. Coetzee

Usually, when I walk on a wire, I inspect the anchor point on both sides before crossing. — Philippe Petit

take it from an old man like me, life's too short to get hung up on a little bit of barbed wire — Theresa Shea

True Love Isn't Hearts & Flowers. It's Blood & Guts & Bouquets Of Barbed Wire — Dean Cavanagh

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

I am a wire-walker. I can walk any time, anywhere - I'm indestructible. — Philippe Petit

This is how your heart gets
snagged, like a balloon on a barbed-wire fence, this is where pieces of you get torn away. — Pete Wentz

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

Our money was stretched as tight as a high wire, — Kiera Cass

If you got to castrate your miser'ble self with a piece o' rusty barb wire, do it. — Fred Phelps

What is the savior of the world doing among these wire fences, in all this broken glass? — Janet McAdams

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

We train very hard under windy conditions. I've actually walked a wire in my backyard with 90-mile-an-hour winds. — Nik Wallenda

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

You Are Hard-Wired For The Kingdom — Sunday Adelaja

It is treacherous on a high wire to change your focus point and suddenly look down. — Philippe Petit

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

If you're one car accident away from poverty, you're on a high wire without a safety net. And that's a challenging proposition. — Thomas Perez

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 saw a sign in Boulder. It said, 'Live Music and Darts.' Chicken wire isn't going to help at all. — Tom Rush

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

Words from the past: It's a clever idea, Mr. Bell, but don't wire us, we'll wire you. — Robert Breault

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

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

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

An 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

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

We were made to believe / our faces betrayed us. / Our bodies were loud / with yellow / screaming flesh / needing to be silenced / behind barbed wire. — Janice Mirikitani

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

HER BARBED-WIRE SMILE
LIFTED YOU TO HEAVEN
BUT I HAVE TO ASK
DID GOD LOOK LIKE HER VOICE — Amy King

My first book, 'The Age of Wire and String,' came out in 1995, and it was hardly reviewed at all. — Ben Marcus

It's very easy to walk on a wire if you spend a whole lifetime practicing for it. — Philippe Petit

And I said to myself: That's true, hope needs to be
like barbed wire to keep out despair,
hope must be a mine field. — Yehuda Amichai