The difference between utility and utility plus beauty is the difference between telephone wires and the spider web.
I am strongly of the opinion that chronology is very important. The great arc of time is what children are wired for.
I had a very good job in corporate America, but I quickly knew that was not how I was wired.
I spent my boyhood behind the barbed wire fences of American internment camps and that part of my life is something that I wanted to share with more people.
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.
I think I'm better wired for television. I love variety as far as a project. I'm easily bored and the schedule of a television show, it just keeps you going.
Designing is a lot like a high-wire act - if the tightrope walker is only six inches off the ground, where's the excitement?
Both 'The Wire' and 'Queer as Folk' had a big scope. They were panoramas, telling ambitious stories about two cities, Baltimore and Manchester, for the first time.
My parents were intelligent and encouraging, but at the same time, they were displeased at me becoming a wandering troubadour and wire walker.
I am a wire-walker. I can walk any time, anywhere - I'm indestructible.
In general, men are wired to notice obvious signs that convey interest in mating - a warm smile, for example - and ignore other subtleties, like if your lipstick is faded.
I'm only stopped by people in uniform, whether it's customs people, janitors, or the FBI - they all watch 'The Wire.' Sadly, beautiful, glamorous women don't know anything about it.
My first book, 'The Age of Wire and String,' came out in 1995, and it was hardly reviewed at all.
The best of American television is thought-provoking, original, brilliant, exciting - from 'The Sopranos' on, whether it's 'The Wire' or 'Breaking Bad' or 'House of Cards,' they're fantastic pieces of art.
When they say whatever you say may be used against you, they mean it!
Your Honor, if giving the finger is a motive for murder, then most everyone in this courtroom would be on trial
Your presence resembles a dirty martini, she only drinks it when she’s thirsty.
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.
I am the poet of the high wire - I never do stunts; I do theatrical performances.
