Quotes About Telephone Wires

#1. The difference between utility and utility plus beauty is the difference between telephone wires and the spider web.

Edwin Way Teale

#2. My words travelled through my veins which hung in the sky like telephone wires.

Annabel Pitcher

#3. The usual run of children's books left me cold, and at the age of six I decided to write a book of my own. I managed the first line, 'I am a swallow.' Then I looked up and asked, 'How do you spell telephone wires?

Bruce Chatwin

#4. Transmission of documents via telephone wires is possible in principle, but the apparatus required is so expensive that it will never become a practical proposition.

Dennis Gabor

#5. There are smiles that actually travel along telephone wires, although no engineer at Bell Laboratories could explain how it works.

Tom Robbins

#6. I was trying to remember what birds did before there were telephone wires. It would have been much harder for them to roost in the sunlight, which is a thing they clearly enjoy doing.

Marilynne Robinson

#7. I saw the years of my life spaced along a road in the form of telephone poles threaded together by wires. I counted one, two, three ... nineteen telephone poles, and then the wires dangled into space, and try as I would, I couldn't see a single pole beyond the nineteenth.

Sylvia Plath

#8. We all know the future is mobile, right? And the iPhone and iPad are Perfect Expressions of Beauty, Ideal Combinations of Form and Function. Except they're Not.

John Battelle

#9. They fancied
themselves free, and no one will ever be free so long as there are pestilences.

Albert Camus

#10. There is no place so dangerous as a world without magic.

Terry Goodkind

#11. One day, Lorna, I will dance this waltz with you again.

Caroline Leech

#12. As long as people overlook matters, then inferiors can, without any fear, lead an easy and peaceful life.

Yamamoto Tsunetomo

#13. I love you more than words. And I am a big fan of words.

Joe Dunthorne

#14. Now on to politics. What's the deal, guys? Seriously. I mean, come on. Get it together. It's like, when are we going to wake up? It's all crazy. Who's with me. Thanks for letting me get that off my chest.

Amy Poehler

#15. We're a telephone family, strung out along the wires, sharing our news in loops and daisy chains. We don't meet face-to-face much, and when we do there's a dematerialized feeling, as though only half of our molecules are present.

Walter Kirn

#16. The General was using the telephone, forcing his fierce personality along the wires to bully disbelieving clerks at the far end.

Peter Dickinson

#17. The town has a sense, not of history, but of time, and the telephone poles seem to know this. If you lay your hand against one, you can feel the vibration from the wires deep within the wood, as if souls had been imprisoned in there and were struggling to get out.

Stephen King

#18. I like to dance, but I'm not a dancer.

Jon M. Chu

#19. Thus it happens that your true dull minds are generally preferred for public employ, and especially promoted to city honors; your keen intellects, like razors, being considered too sharp for common service. I

Washington Irving

#20. We have a definite but unknown quantity of experience at our disposal. As soon as the hourglass is turned, the sand will begin to run out and once it starts, it cannot stop until it's all gone.

Pablo Picasso

#21. Evil is not an abstract concept. It lives. It has a form. It stalks. It is too real.

Dr. Tom Dooley

#22. Multiple networks run through the same wires, even though they are owned and operated by independent organizations - perhaps a university and a telephone carrier, say, or a telephone carrier contracted to a university. The networks carry networks. One

Andrew Blum

#23. There are different types of art, and you just have to follow where things take you. It helps me with my desire to perform live. That's something that a lot of actors and actresses don't get to experience on a regular basis.

Natasha Leggero

#24. Needed the very famous actor to know that you could be ordinary and attempt something extraordinary, without being able to explain it in a logical way. But

Rachel Joyce

#25. A novel has to entertain
that's the contract with the reader: you give me ten hours and I'll give you a reason to turn every page.

Barbara Kingsolver

#26. I wanted to write a story about a future where everyone has a secret identity, in part because the Internet no longer exists.

Brian K. Vaughan