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.
But my body was like a harp and her words and gestures were like fingers running upon the wires.
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.
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.
Streets teemed with hell's wretched souls. New dead with their gadgets and old dead from antiquity. Demons roamed the avenues and alleyways, tormenting hapless damned at random with branding irons, flaming pitchforks, and razor-wire whips. -From the story Remember, Remember, Hell in November, in the anthology, Lawyers in Hell.
When you think of things like The Sopranos, The Wire, Damages, they are beating film on a regular basis. Most films are terrible. It's only the 2% that are good. There's things you can do on TV which you can't do on film. There is something about those episodic, serialisations that are grand and operatic.
Modern American marriage is like a wire fence. The woman's the wire -the posts are the husband's.
My first stringed instrument was a cigar box banjo where I cut and turned the pegs and strung the wires myself.
Luck is a very thin wire between survival and disaster, and not many people can keep their balance on it.
dont be afraid", i murmured. "We belong together. " I was abruptly overwhelmed by th truth of my own words. This moment was so perfect, there was no way to boubt it. His arms wrapped around me, holding me against him. . . It felt like every nerve ending in my body was a live wire. "Forever," he agreed.
With film, oftentimes you work in a vacuum and then you get on a high wire and then you try it and then the day's over and that piece of film exists somewhere in a vault for 1000,000 years and that's it.
I use non-fiction work written by Whites in my research. It's indispensable. That wasn't the problem. I said that "The Wire" was a cliché! It's like my writing a series about Jewish life and casting all of the characters as inside traders.
Like a bird on a wire, like a drunk in a midnight choir, I have tried in my way to be free!!
As far as I'm concerned. . . the Universe is a junk yard, with everything overpriced. I am through poking around in the junk heaps, looking for bargains. Every so-called bargain. . . has been connected by fine wires to a dynamite bouquet.
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.
It is not enough to wire the world if you short-circuit the soul. Technology without heart is not enough.
I cannot walk under the wires. The sparrows scatter like handfuls of gravel. Really, wires are voices in thin strips. They are words wound in cables. Bars of connection.
If you got to castrate your miser'ble self with a piece o' rusty barb wire, do it.
And the commercials would have sickened a goat raised on barbed wire and broken beer bottles.
We did some cool wire work in 'The Pact' - they had me strapped to a harness underneath my shirt so they could fling me around the house and slam me into doors. I definitely got some bruises even with all the padding!