Mcnichols Wire Quotes

When your ship comes in, don't be in the bathroom with your pants around your ankles."

quoted by Frank McNichols, father of Rose McNichols in A Nose for Hanky Panky, a Granite Cove Mystery ~ Sharon Love Cook

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

I do consider myself to be something of a pretentious wanker. ~ Nicky Wire

It would be very, very dangerous for a wire walker to experience fear while he is balancing on the wire. Fear has its place on earth, before and maybe after a high-wire walk, but not during for me. ~ Philippe Petit

You don't have to tell me how long I'm on the wire, ~ Nik Wallenda

It was such a joy to be an actor on 'The Wire.' ~ Tom McCarthy

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

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

The poet like an acrobat climbs on rime to a high wire of his own making. ~ Lawrence Ferlinghetti

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

There are many wire services where you can publish your news releases. Some of the recommendable ones are Business Wire, Marketwire, PR Newswire and PRWeb. ~ Ashley Schweigert

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

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

'The Wire' really is an American classic, and I think that's something to be very proud of. ~ Wendell Pierce

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

I'm a live wire in a dead world, ~ Eyedea

A blank page of paper and a pen is the greatest invention its so exciting to be confronted by possibility. ~ Nicky Wire

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

Modern American marriage is like a wire fence. The woman's the wire -the posts are the husband's. ~ Langdon Elwyn Mitchell

A collection of huts surrounded by a barbed wire fence, and in the huts lived 500 of the original inhabitants of our area. And so it went with many country towns around Australia. ~ Phillip Noyce

Cellular phones will absolutely not replace local wire systems. ~ Martin Cooper

I walk on the wire; it's my profession, and there are no two high wire walks alike. ~ Philippe Petit

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

I have been making wire jewelry - and think I'll really do something with it, eventually. ~ Alexander Calder

Is our time up and on to the next fire / Got my fingers burnt and cut into the wire. ~ Kim Wilde

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

All this Americanising and mechanising has been for the purpose of overthrowing the past. And now look at America, tangled in her own barbed wire, and mastered by her own machines. ~ D.H. Lawrence

When our new armies are ready it seems folly to send them to Flanders, where they will chew barbed wire, or be wasted in futile frontal attacks. ~ H. H. Asquith

I love HBO productions, actually, like 'The Wire.' ~ David Mitchell

The very first thing I ever did, I was doing some work for the French Cultural Center. They wanted a little recording set up. And I got wire. A wire recorder. The wire came off spools, and to cut and edit, you tied it together in little square knots. Can you imagine? ~ D. A. Pennebaker

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

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

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

At Gatling-gun tempo word-perfect the first time out. the journalistic equivalent of a high-wire front somersault without a net. ~ Shana Alexander

Those who take refuge behind theological barbed wire fences, quite often wish they could have more freedom of thought, but fear the change to the great ocean of truth as they would a cold bath. ~ Luther Burbank

As a high wire walker, I do not allow myself to 'leave the wire' during a performance. ~ Philippe Petit

Life can be like walking on a high wire. Falling seems a tiny misstep away. ~ James Patterson

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

Carter is doing a high-wire act over a cesspool, preaching all the way. Sinclair Lewis, thou shouldst be living in this hour. We have a Warren Harding impersonating Elmer Gantry. ~ Jimmy Carter

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

'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

I stopped watching TV because of 'The Wire.' Like, 'The Wire' ruined everything for me because I don't even want to watch anything else now. ~ Eminem

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

If I'm successful in fooling a wire service, I don't really have to do anything else to promote the story. ~ Joey Skaggs

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

I'm no mechanic but I can change my oil and I know what to do when I get a flat tire and I can hot-wire it in an emergency. ~ Amber Heard

I'm pretty sure the world is in solid agreement that "The Wire" is worth watching all the way through. ~ Hank Stuever

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

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 remember watching 'The Wire,' because I absolutely adored 'The Wire,' and there were so many secret layers within that drama, and it was just fantastic. ~ Michelle Fairley

As long as I can walk and talk, I'll try almost anything. I say "almost" because the high wire is definitely out. ~ Lauren Bacall

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

Some minds improve by travel, others, rather, resemble copper wire, or brass, which get the narrower by going farther. ~ Thomas Hood

I rely on Taegan Goddard's Political Wire for straight, fair political news, he gets right to the point. It's an eagerly anticipated part of my news reading. ~ Craig Newmark

Yes, I remember the barbed wire and the guard towers and the machine guns, but they became part of my normal landscape. What would be abnormal in normal times became my normality in camp. ~ George Takei

I was born in a world of opera, theatre, films, poetry, art, and therefore, out of the wire, I made a stage. That's why they call me a high wire artist. ~ Philippe Petit

I was in The Wire for three years, and I left at the highlight of that. ~ Idris Elba

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 need someone to come out of the sewer with a wire you don't hire someone who needs laborious collective instruction. You let someone do his job, whether he's a focus puller or a surgeon. ~ William Monahan

It's good to know the guy who's holding onto your wire is someone you trust and you know he's not going to let you fall. ~ Jack Reynor

You never know where you're going to find the same thoughts in another brain, but when it happens you know it right off, just like you were connected by a small electrical wire that suddenly glows red hot and sparks. ~ Louise Erdrich

Human reason is beautiful and invincible.
No bars, no barbed wire, no pulping of books,
No sentence of banishment can prevail against it.
It puts what should be above things as they are.
It does not know Jew from Greek nor slave from master. ~ Czeslaw Milosz

Neurons that fire together wire together. ~ Steven Kotler

Life is like defusing a bomb, once you cut the wrong wire your whole life is ruined. ~ Mohamed Zahy Hussain

Life is horrible, but it is not relentlessly black from wire to wire. You can sit down and hear a Mozart symphony, or you can watch the Marx Brothers, and this will give you a pleasant escape for a while. And that is about the best that you can do. ~ Woody Allen

I'm an Internet expert too. It's all right to wire the industrial zone only, but there are many problems if other regions of the North are wired. ~ Kim Jong Il

Lux's frequent forged excuses from phys. ed. She always used the same method, faking the rigid t's and b's of her mother's signature and then, to distinguish her own handwriting, penning her signature, Lux Lisbon, below, the two beseeching L's reaching out for each other over the ditch of the u and barbed-wire x. ~ Jeffrey Eugenides

The world was a shitpot with a barbed-wire handle and the further he could kick it the better he liked it. ~ Jim Thompson

Jerusalem will remain the capital of Israel and it must remain undivided."
Truth: Obama later said, "This was an example where we had some poor phrasing in the speech and we immediately tried to correct the interpretation that was given. The point we were simply making was, is that we don't want barbed wire running through Jerusalem. ~ Barack Obama

Everybody loves 'The Wire,' and I think it's okay, but in the end it's just a police series. ~ Salman Rushdie

'The Wire,' I was such a fan of that show the first season - I think that's the best-written show on TV. ~ Amy Ryan

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

To become conscious of this power is to become a 'live wire.' The universe is the live wire. It carries power sufficient to meet every situation in the life of every individual. When the individual mind touches the universal mind, it receives all its power. ~ Charles F. Haanel

val0 = Wire.read(); val1 = Wire.read(); channelReading = int(val0)*16 + int(val1>>4); analogReadingArduino = channelReading * 1023 /4095; ~ Andrew K. Dennis

When capitalists are thwarted, deflected, or dispossessed, the generals and politicians, ... and socialist intellectuals, are always amazed at how quickly the great physical means of production - the contested tokens of wealth and resources of nature - dissolve into so much scrap, ruined concrete, snarled wire, and wilderness. ~ George Gilder

Television has - particularly at the HBO level in the United States - become a completely new genre. Something like Deadwood or The Wire is a whole new thing - there was no equivalent to that medium before. It's like a new way of telling stories. ~ William Gibson

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'm such a fan of Deadwood. I love the characters in that. They're such wonderful characters. I'm a fan of The Wire. Those are all heavily character-based shows. ~ Dustin Clare

Just as it's unfair to review a taco stand for not being a four-star restaurant, I also have to be mindful that not every drama on TV is trying to be "The Wire." ~ Hank Stuever

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. ~ Dominic West

There are no limitations set by this electric universe upon any man's multiplication power. Each man sets his own limitations in accordance with his desires. He be a thin wire which gathers little energy and carries a weak current, or he may be a heavy one. That is true of all energy borrowed from the universe by all of us. It is there in unlimited quantities, but the gauge of the kind of wire each of us is set by ourselves. ~ Walter Russell

I used to say, for me, writing was like walking a high wire, and heroin made me forget there was no net. Which is a fancy way of saying dope made me forget how shitty I felt for being on dope. ~ Jerry Stahl

Ambas and Bobia Islands are perfect gems of beauty. Mondoleh I cannot say I admire. It always looks to me exactly like one of those flower-stands full of ferns and plants - the sort you come across in drawing rooms at home, with wire-work legs. I do not mean that Mondoleh has wire-work legs under water, but it looks as if it might have. ~ Mary Kingsley

If literature or music can make you think or become aware, then it's done something. That's what we've always wanted to do, just ignite sparks in people's minds. We can't offer a manifesto of how to make your life better. ~ Nicky Wire

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 borderline between prose and poetry is one of those fog-shrouded literary minefields where the wary explorer gets blown to bits before ever seeing anything clearly. It is full of barbed wire and the stumps of dead opinions. ~ Ursula K. Le Guin

De Selby likens the position of a human on the earth to that of a man on a tight-wire who must continue walking along the wire or perish, being, however, free in all other respects. Movement in this restricted orbit results in the permanent hallucination known conventionally as 'life' with its innumerable concomitant limitations, afflictions and anomalies. ~ Flann O'Brien

It is not enough to wire the world if you short-circuit the soul. Technology without heart is not enough. ~ Tom Brokaw

As I've reflected back on both, I realize that my neighborhood was just like The Wire. We had the drug dealing, the police brutality, the murders. Well, it was /almost/ a perfect match. We had everything The Wire had except for universal critical acclaim and the undying love of white people who saw it. ~ Baratunde R. Thurston

To me, words are like stickpins. I can throw a word at you and it will bounce right off your body. But if I take that little stickpin and wire it to the back of an iron bar called human emotion, I can put that thing right through your heart. ~ Tony Robbins

I am fascinated by the engineering. The science of constructing and understanding why it stands. And I am drawn by the madness, the beauty, the theatricality, the poetry and soul of the wire. And you cannot be a wire-walker without mingling those two ways of seeing life. ~ Philippe Petit

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

I'm friends with a lot of Brits, and they tell me when they're over here what a huge phenomenon 'The Wire' has become. Some things just attain critical mass after they're already dead and buried, and I don't know why it was the case with 'The Wire'. ~ James Ransone

I don't think anyone takes the deaths in Midsomer as seriously as in say Wire In The Blood or Silent Witness. We're part of the old British 'whodunnit'. We're much more gentle and the deaths are sanitised, in a sense. ~ John Nettles

I would be so curious to wire my brain up and see what's occurring when I act, because a performance is such a heightened state. I've always found that with doing theatre especially. It's so hard to come down. ~ Luke Kirby

If you're just starting out as a writer, you could do worse than strip your television's electric plug-wire, wrap a spike around it, and then stick it back into the wall. See what blows, and how far. Just an idea. ~ Stephen King

Back then, the entire Internet consisted of two slow, boxcar-sized UNIVAC computers about 50 feet apart, connected by a wire. It would take one of these computers an entire day to send an email to the other one, which would immediately delete it, because it was a Viagra ad. ~ Dave Barry

A mobile is an abstract sculpture made chiefly out of sheet metal, steel rods, wire and wood. Some or all of these elements move, propelled by electric motors, wind, water or by hand. ~ Alexander Calder

The only TV I would be interested in exploring would be live television. There's no substitute for a team of artists performing at their peak live when failure is possible. It's a high-wire act. That excites me. ~ Francis Ford Coppola

You love the way it makes me feel when I can't catch my breath Like walkin' on a high wire, Lord, it scares me half to death You're always high above me and I'm always fallin' down Our loves just a circus baby, and I'm just the clown ~ Conway Twitty