I think one of the best jobs in the universe must be being the editor of 'The New Yorker', but there are a number of magazines that I'd be excited to be the editor of. They would be 'Wired', 'The New Yorker' and probably, 'Vogue'.
I started walking a wire when I was 2 years old, and this has been a dream of mine to recreate this walk.
Usually, when I walk on a wire, I inspect the anchor point on both sides before crossing.
Everybody loves 'The Wire,' and I think it's okay, but in the end it's just a police series.
'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.
What is desire but the hard wire argument given to the mind's unstoppable mouth
I can install toilets. I know all about the wax ring. I can tile floors. I'm learning how to do basic wiring.
I was training to be an electrician. I suppose I got wired the wrong way round somewhere along the line.
Religious belief itself is an adaptation that has evolved because we're hard-wired to form tribalistic religions.
We started with the basics of kicking and punching, then we moved on once we got proficient in that, we moved on to working with the weapons, and from then on working with the wires.
The average investor does significantly worse than a simple index... It's literally because of the way our brains are wired.
I used to practice cello while watching TV and films. I watched several complete TV series this way, including 'Lost' and 'The Wire.' As a kid, I'd read books while playing.
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.
[Offering Mrs. Robinson a coat hanger] Benjamin: Wood? Mrs. Robinson: What? Benjamin: Wood or wire? They have both.
'The Wire's definitely one of them. 'The Sopranos' is one of my all-time favorites. Those are two big ones for me.
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.
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.
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...
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 ...
Getting through high school and college was one of my greatest achievements.
She walked with measured steps, draped in striped and fringed cloths, treading the earth proudly, with a slight jingle and flash of barbarous ornaments. She carried her head high; her hair was done in the shape of a helmet; she had brass leggings to ...
