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«Careful as a naked man climbin' a barbed wire fence»
«That's like asking you to pick your favorite child... I do however, think Bird on a Wire was one of my finest works. Oscar caliber.»
«A woman's dress should be like a barbed-wire fence: serving its purpose without obstructing the view.»
Author: Sophia Loren
(Actress)
| About:
Men and Women,
Women
| Keywords:
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«Some minds improve by travel, others, rather, resemble copper wire, or brass, which get the narrower by going farther.»
«Do the one thing you think you cannot do. Fail at it. Try again. Do better the second time. The only people who never tumble are those who never mount the high wire. This is your moment. Own it.»
Author: Oprah Winfrey
(Actress, Producer)
| Keywords:
again, fail, high, High Ones, high time, high wire, in good time, moment, mount, mounting, mounts, mount up, second, second thought, second time, The One, The Second, This Is, time and again, time and time again, try, try again, tumble, tumbled, tumbles, tumbling, wire, wired, wires, wiring
«So there he is at last. Man on the moon. The poor magnificent bungler! He can't even get to the office without undergoing the agonies of the damned, but give him a little metal, a few chemicals, some wire and twenty or thirty billion dollars and, vroom!»
Author: Russell Baker
(Columnist, Journalist)
| Keywords:
agonies, bungler, bunglers, chemicals, magnificent, metal, The Office, undergoing, wire
«At Gatling-gun tempo word-perfect the first time out. the journalistic equivalent of a high-wire front somersault without a net.»
Author: Shana Alexander
(Editor, Host, Journalist, Teacher)
| Keywords:
Gatling, Gatling gun, high wire, journalistic, somersault, tempo, time out, wire, word-perfect
«Many a live wire would be a dead one except for his connections»
«LYRE, n. An ancient instrument of torture. The word is now used in a figurative sense to denote the poetic faculty, as in the following fiery lines of our great poet, Ella Wheeler Wilcox:I sit astride Parnassus with my lyre, And pick with care the disobedient wire. That stupid shepherd lolling on his crook With deaf attention scarcely deigns to look. I bide my time, and it shall come at length, When, with a Titan's energy and strength, I'll grab a fistful of the strings, and O, The word shall suffer when I let them go! --Farquharson Harris»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
bide, biding, deign, deigns, denote, denotes, Ella Wheeler Wilcox, faculty, fiery, figurative, fistful, grab, Harris, instrument of torture, lyre, Parnassus, poetic, strings, Titan, wheeler, wire
«Information is the oxygen of the modern age. It seeps through the walls topped by barbed wire, it wafts across the electrified borders.»
Author: Ronald Reagan
(President)
| About:
Information
| Keywords:
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