#wire

The meat-and-potatoes work of world journalism is performed by the wire service reporters. ↗

— Bob Greene

#meat-and-potatoes #performed #reporters #service #wire

We changed every lead in our whole system, and to this day we still don't really know why it did it. We think wires were touching and faulting. That was it really, but it didn't make it any easier. ↗

— Kelly Jones

#changed #day #did #easier #every

Life is very good. I'm the president and Chief Executive Officer of the Wireless trade association, the CTIA. ↗

— Steve Largent

#chief #chief executive #executive #good #i

When McGwire started the home run mania, attendance came back. The owners understood that the sudden spike in homers wasn't accidental. All baseball knew it. But baseball is run on money, and home runs meant money. Baseball turned a blind eye. ↗

— Gary Sheffield

#attendance #back #baseball #blind #blind eye

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

— Joey Skaggs

#else #fooling #i #promote #really

All anyone really needs to know about barbed wire is that it can tear the arse out of your trousers, give a cow a good fright, entangle a Yorkshire terrier for life, and is nasty stuff made by greedy men. ↗

— Billy Connolly

#humor #route- #humor

We played one warm-up gig at this bar that was kinda like that bar in 'The Blues Brothers' with the chicken wire. This place called The Brick House, in Housatonic. I really can't believe we're going to play for people in New York City. I'm terrified, but it's a small enough room. But it's really just supposed to be for the fun of it. ↗

— Lauren Ambrose

#believe #blues #blues brothers #brick #brothers

God hangs the greatest weights upon the smallest wires. ↗

— Francis Bacon

#greatest #hangs #smallest #upon #weights

In this movie they took them up in space. They're floating around and doing zero gravity stuff. Well, they had to do it all on wires. All the wires had to be painted black against this black background. If you didn't light it properly you could see the wires. Drove them crazy! ↗

— John Badham

#around #background #black #could #crazy

Acting is like a high wire act. Your margin for error is very slim. ↗

— Christine Baranski

#acting #error #high #high wire #like