Quotes of: Barbed-wire Keyword

I forget sometimes that I'm in the HBO stable because I am such a fan of so much of their programming. Like, 'The Wire' is my favorite TV show of all time.

John Gallagher, Jr.

[Offering Mrs. Robinson a coat hanger] Benjamin: Wood? Mrs. Robinson: What? Benjamin: Wood or wire? They have both.

The Graduate

'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

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.

Love

You know, there was not much wire work for any of us actors to do because the extent of what they did was so huge. I mean, they wouldn't just throw you from this table to that wall.

Julian McMahon

Not only these were new kinds of stories, they were being told with a new kind of formal structure. [...] The result was a storytelling architecture you could picture as a colonnade - each episode a brick with its own solid, satisfying shape, but als...

Difficult Men: Behind the Scenes of a Creative Revolution: From The Sopranos and The Wire to Mad Men and Breaking Bad

Sitting cross-legged on her bed, I watch her take out her gear. She’s been smoking so much the room stinks of it. Over the last few weeks, I’ve seen her do it so often I’ve resisted the urge. It’s surreal, like I’m watching me from outside ...

Thin Wire: A mother's journey through her daughter's heroin addiction

Many people are seeking, at this very moment, to shelter themselves under the wing of the federal eagle; imagining, I presume, that her bosom has all the softness and snugness of an eider-down pillow. But she has no great tenderness, even in her best...

The Scarlet Letter

They are not brave, the days when we are twenty-one. They are full of little cowardices, little fears without foundation, and one is so easily bruised, so swiftly wounded, one falls to the first barbed word. To-day, wrapped in the complacent armour o...

Rebecca

...the strands that connect us are frail, so don't hang great weights on slender wires...

A Familiar Rain

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 and Me

Another thing to do with the blues is how they were recorded. They were done on the quick, and some of that stuff was made on wire, not even tape, let alone digital.

Keith Richards

We all came into this world wired to connect with all life.

Animal Wisdom: Learning from the Spiritual Lives of Animals

Our imperfections are what create authentic connections with one another.

Wired for Authenticity: Seven Practices to Inspire, Adapt, & Lead

My main thing is I'm gonna go out there every night and give it all I got and just try to put on the best show I can. That's just the way I'm programmed and wired.

Luke Bryan

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

Nik Wallenda

Millions of years ago, our brains became wired to remember about 150 people as 'close friends.'

Peter Diamandis

My wife and I don't have kids and people are down on us about it. But we're just not wired that way, so don't tell me I have to.

Paul Feig

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

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

Wire-walking in performance is one thing - I never fell, of course. If I had, I wouldn't be here talking about it.

Philippe Petit