Famous Quotes & Sayings

Isambard K. Brunel

I am opposed to the laying down of rules or conditions to be observed in the construction of bridges lest the progress of improvement tomorrow might be embarrassed or shackled by recording or registering as law the prejudices or errors of today.

Ellen Key

On the question of marriage, as in all other respects, Lutheranism is a compromise, a bridge between two logical views of the universe: the Catholic-Christian and the Individualistic Monist. And bridges are made to go over, not to stand upon.

Anthony Storr

Some split between the inner world and outer world is common to all behaviour, and the need to bridge the gap is the source of creative behaviour.

Shannon Staub

My business New Year's resolution is to work as hard as I can to build bridges and better relationships with our municipalities. I figure that one is big enough to take the whole year.

Ernesto Butcher

When the bridge first opened, October 25, 1931, that first year, 5.5 million vehicles used the bridge. Last year 110 million vehicles used the bridge.

Anquan Boldin

We haven't really talked about it right now. There were a couple of suggestions thrown out, but I guess we'll cross that bridge when we get to it.

Rick Mason

Just because a bridge has structural deficiencies doesn't mean it's unsafe. It merely means it's deteriorating.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

In giving you are throwing a bridge across the chasm of your solitude.

Dan DiDio

We got the opportunity to work with Bryan Singer and they wanted to create a bridge between the original movie and this new one.

Lynn Ford

The outlook is good because Texas fires start quickly and end quickly. Texas is flatter, with not much rugged terrain.

Bette Davis

I wouldnt piss on Joan Crawford if she were on fire

Antoine Rivarol

The woman who too easily and ardently yielded her devotion will find that its vitality, like a bright fire, soon consumes itself.

Bertrand Russell

Dread of disaster makes everybody act in the very way that increases the disaster. Psychologically the situation is analogous to that of people trampled to death when there is a panic in a theatre caused by a cry of `Fire!'.

Dave Bailey

That was unprecedented. Nobody has ever gotten Fire Officer of the Year two times.

Tom Tylutki

That weapon was fired at least 20 times.

Matt Sylvester

We could hear Davidson down the hall partying and yelling and screaming. I think he wanted it to light a fire under us. ... The seniors just wanted to make sure this wasn't the last time we all played together, the last time this team was going to be together. And we made that point to each other.

Rick Ruffin

We just didn't play with the fire this team usually plays with ... I am a little disappointed with that.

Malala Yousafzai

A talib fires three shots at point-blank range at three girls in a van and doesn't kill any of them. This seems an unlikely story.

Bill Parsons

You just can't watch it on TV and get a feel for the devastation that I've seen down here on the Gulf Coast. It's just unbelievable,

J. Taylor

If all the steel is heading to the Gulf for rebuilding because of (Hurricane) Katrina, it could increase our costs.

Bill Maher

There is good news. Scientists sent a probe down there in the Gulf of Mexico today and they found traces of seawater.

Richard LaBounty

We bounced back after a tough loss to Gulf Breeze. I'm very proud of our approach.

John Herrlin

Unless the winter is polar, Gulf of Mexico natural-gas output will be back.

Diana Nyad

The highs were high, the awe, I'm not a religious person, but I'll tell you, to be in the azure blue of the Gulf Stream as if, as you're breathing, you're looking down miles and miles and miles, to feel the majesty of this blue planet we live on, it's awe-inspiring.

Norman Schwarzkopf

This gulf war syndrome thing is truly unfortunate, and I've met some of the vets who have this. These are my guys, and I feel terrible about it.

Richard Pasch

Right now what we're forecasting is for it to become a tropical storm and move into the northern Gulf of Mexico.

Sophie B. Hawkins

I am so proud to be partnering with Waterkeepers, who are the voice for the Gulf Coast's waters.

Katrina Kaif

Learning what all you can overcome as a person, as a human being, is very important. It's very important to understand your strength. Which is not to say you become hardened or bitter.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

Sin leads to wickedness and to hearts that become hardened to things of the Spirit.

Steven Forester

The notion of equating students with hardened inmates is troubling, and it doesn't paint a pretty picture of how schools feel about their kids.

Chris Swecker

They are a hardened group, operating with reckless abandon.

Bill Bryson

We forget just how painfully dim the world was before electricity. A candle, a good candle, provides barely a hundredth of the illumination of a single 100 watt light bulb.

Roxanne Taylor

The Andersen Worldwide counterclaim is as illogical today as when it was originally filed 19 months ago.

Roger Wicker

The issues surrounding illegal immigration are wide-ranging and complex, but there is no question about the need to secure our borders.

Mel Gibson

I'm not under the illusion that everything's just going to be hunky-dory work wise forever. I've never been under that illusion. Things could go away tomorrow.

Graffiti Graffiti

Time is an illusion perpetrated by the manufacturers of space.

Peter Sis

When I do my own books, I take it as more of my own confessional, but when I illustrate for other people, it is intriguing because I feel like I shouldn't be stepping too much into the limelight. It's like playing the piano while someone else is singing.

Brian Goldberg

Junior has no illusions that he's 25, but he'll go at it and work hard. If everything is working out, he'll play.

B. F. Skinner

If freedom is a requisite for human happiness, then all that’s necessary is to provide the illusion of freedom.

David Dye

We can all take a moment to congratulate ourselves here today, but only a moment. One mining fatality, one mining injury, one occupational illness is one too many, and you know we still have work to do.

Barry Ritholtz

Keynes vs Hayek? Friedman vs Krugman? Those are the wrong intellectual debates. Its you vs. Tony Hayward, BP CEO, You vs. Lloyd Blankfein, Goldman Sachs CEO. And you are losing ...

William Shakespeare

He was not so much brain as earwax

Rig Veda

For the successful accomplishment of any work one needs sharp intellect and the will to perform relentless Karma.

Cary Elwes

Truly, you have a dizzying intellect.

Camille Paglia

The North American intellectual tradition began, I maintain, in the encounter of British Romanticism with assertive, pragmatic North American English - the Protestant plain style in both the U.S. and Canada, with its no-nonsense Scottish immigrants.

Charles Caleb Colton

Precisely in proportion to our own intellectual weakness will be our credulity as to those mysterious powers assumed by others.

Chris Christie

These esoteric, intellectual debates-I want them to come to New Jersey and sit across from the widows and the orphans and have that conversation,

Edward Gibbon

In a distant age and climate, the tragic scene of the death of Hosein will awaken the sympathy of the coldest reader.

Frederic Bastiat

We hold from God the gift which includes all others. This gift is life - physical, intellectual, and moral life.

David Nabarro

And then there will be an interval of perhaps six months until we have a reasonable quantity of vaccine.

William Cowper

How soft the music of those village bellsFalling at intervals upon the earIn cadence sweet!

Rick Moranis

The only type of music I don't like is Dixieland jazz. It's just a little too happy and noisy for me. I like intervals and spaces in my music. There's just something about Dixieland.

Nicholas Winton

Everyone thinks my story should be marked by heroism, but there was no risk to myself. You see, no-one in Prague at that time thought they were going to be at war with England.

Gabe Whittaker

We marked up better in the midfield today.

Jennifer Black

Much of the stores were actually marked down by a hefty 50%.

Richard Thompson

They've got it marked where the rock piles are, where you're not supposed to get in with a boat. Otherwise, it's a real nice place to come.

Julian Callow

They are marked by different traditions and they have a stronger Anglo-Saxon background.

Edgar Bronfman, Sr.

My childhood was marked by a tension between privilege on the one hand and emotional dysfunction on the other.

Ryan Lawrence

That's his role. He makes sure we keep our shape and people stay marked up.

Dan Popowics

They have marked time by working off the (buyout price) premium and some of the uncertainty.

Van Allen

The meet this past weekend really marked a point where we set new standards for our team at Hopkins.

Armand Salmon

Tolerance for pain and suffering is no measure of strength.

Chris Gibson

We have a lot of safety measures in place already, so I feel pretty comfortable with those,

Li Yizhong

We've met unprecedented safety pressures and all in all, all the iron-handed measures should be implemented thoroughly.

Thomas Flynn

It'd be that much more if we didn't have some of the conservation measures we have here,

Robert Green Ingersoll

No writer must be measured by a word or paragraph. He is to be measured by his work - by the tendency, not of one line, but by the tendency of all.

Ed Loyd

I think overall there has been a very measured reaction to the announcement.

Sudhir Kumar

We have taken all measures to see that passengers are not affected. Security has also been tightened.

Mike Helton

We don't want to react just for the sake of reacting. We want to measure all of the possible ramifications before we make a decision.

Xu Shiquan

Personally I think the mainland's reaction this time has been very measured and moderate.

Todd Rundgren

You do have a modicum of peace of mind here, but it's as unsettled as any other place.

Ian Mckellen

I can't make up my mind whether I want to dance like Josef Brown or dance with Josef Brown.

Gail Carson Levine

I loved fairy tales as a kid, so that's where my mind gravitates.

Zoe Sugg

I know that I do have influence over the people who watch me, and it's quite a pressure. I have to stay positive, and while I would never use the words 'role model', I am mindful of the responsibilities that come with a substantial viewership.

Zadie Smith

I don't take notes. I don't have any notebooks. I keep on trying to do that because it seems like a very writerly thing to do, but my mind doesn't work that way. I tend to get the idea for a novel in a big splash.

Webb Simpson

To be honest, I never really wrapped my mind around winning.

Wynton Marsalis

Generally, when I wake up in the morning I set out a series of problems for myself and I write them down, and when I'm sleeping, my mind solves the problems. When I wake up in the morning, I have more clarity on the issue.

Emma Roberts

I read a book a week. I try to keep my mind working.

David Byrne

The city is a body and a mind - a physical structure as well as a repository of ideas and information.

Willie Randolph

I don't think you can look at one leader, ... You narrow yourself and get into trouble when it's only one guy. Because if he isn't always there, what are you going to do?

Frederick Pollock

Crabbed and obscure definitions are of no use beyond a narrow circle of students, of whom probably every one has a pet one of his own.

Patrick Cunningham

It is a very narrow population and this is pretty much unique,

Malik Peiris

One can narrow potential culprits and be prepared with vaccines.

Waris Ahluwalia

My go-to jeans are a straight, narrow cut from A.P.C. or BLK DNM.

Ernest Hemingway

Oak Park is a neighborhood of wide lawns and narrow minds.

Cassie Desmone

The fairways are so narrow and everything slopes toward the mountain.

Andrew DiDonato

I'm going to start visiting some of those schools and narrow it down. I'm still up in the air.

Alan Curbishley

Once they have got preliminary discussions out of the way they will narrow it down because they want to do it before the World Cup.

Webb Simpson

One of my thoughts on the back nine was 'I don't know how Tiger has won 14 of these things,' I couldn't feel my legs on the back nine.

Constance Marie

I'm no stranger to weight issues. I've had cellulite since I was about nine years old. I have enjoyed the uber support of Spanx many times.

Gordon B. Hinckley

The Savior of all mankind left the ninety and nine to find the one lost. That one who was lost need not have become lost.

Dan Fulscher

We haven't had nine tornadoes that I can ever remember by the 19th of April.

Victor LaValle

I weighed 25 stone, and I didn't stand nine feet tall, so the weight didn't sit well on me. As big as a house? No. I was as big as an estate.

Rod Barnes

I won't have to pick up the paper and read that it's nine in a row.

Eddie Johnson

I was told if you make a run, nine times out of 10 you will get the ball. It's true.

John O'Connor

My understanding was that he was one of the nine hostages, not that he took nine hostages.

Mike Richards

Nine doesn't sound like a lot (of turnovers) but there weren't that many possessions in the game.

Christine Gregoire

We can seize this time and do it our way and in the process be proud of ourselves and prosper as well.

Noreena Hertz

We need to know how we are feeling. Mindfully acknowledging our feelings serves as an 'emotional thermostat' that recalibrates our decision making. It's not that we can't be anxious, it's that we need to acknowledge to ourselves that we are.

Martin Parr

The ability for us to laugh at ourselves is Britain's saving grace.

Tracy Morgan

We need to learn to laugh at ourselves because when you don't laugh, you cry. And I don't feel like crying.

Saundra Hess

We could never get a run going. We shot ourselves in the foot.

Mike Glumac

We were going pretty well there for a bit. And all of a sudden, we've been sliding. We just have to find a way to get ourselves out of it.

Ken Lee

We have come a long way since we established ourselves here in May 2003.

Darren Alexander

We?re still trying to find ourselves on the mound.

Al Johnson

You know if you don't do something in a big hurry, it's all going to slip away. We need to do something about it to make it stop. We got ourselves in it. We've got to get ourselves out of it.

Xavi

You pressure, you want possession, you want to attack. Some teams can't or don't pass the ball. What are you playing for? What's the point? That's not football. Combine, pass, play. That's football - for me, at least.

Thomas Bailey Aldrich

What is lovely never dies, But passes into other loveliness.

Neon Hitch

Yes, it's my real name. I had to pull out my passport twice today to prove it.

C. S. Lewis

And there’s also ‘To him that hath shall be given.’ After all, you must have a capacity to receive, or even omnipotence can’t give. Perhaps your own passion temporarily destroys the capacity.

Carrie Brownstein

What I value most in new music is strangeness, oddity. Passion. And humor. I listen to a lot of hip-hop because it combines so many things like that.

Carrie Fisher

I rarely cry. I save my feelings up inside me like I have something more specific in mind for them. I am waiting for the exact perfect situationand then BOOM! I'll explode in a light show of feeling and emotion - a pinata stuffed with tender nuances and pent-up passions

Carl Sagan

My deeply held belief is that if a god of anything like the traditional sort exists, our curiosity and intelligence are provided by such a god. We would be unappreciative of those gifts (as well as unable to take such a course of action) if we suppressed our passion to explore the universe and ourselves. On the other hand, if such a traditional god does not exist, our curiosity and our intelligence are the essential tools for managing our survival. In either case, the enterprise of knowledge is consistent with both science and religion, and is essential for the welfare of the human species.

Bethany Hamilton

Surfing for me is more than my lifestyle; it’s my passion, my love and it’s a part of me,

Bethany Hamilton

Both of my parents are surfers, of course, so they understood where my passion for surfing was at and I guess they saw the talent that I had.

Yotam Ottolenghi

Normally, when congee is served, the different condiments and garnishes are placed in little bowls on the side so diners can make their own personal creations.

Austin Boyce

We didn't think it would end like this. We thought we would have placed for sure this year.

Mark Rosenbaum

Thousands of students are placed on uneven playing fields,

Bill Steele

Unlike soap or deodorant, which can be placed by marketing, shaving is very much performance.

Robert A. Schuller

I think family-run ministries are fabulous, but they have to be placed in proper governance.

Jannie Brenner

We placed second. This is the first year of the team, and today, we've got first- to eighth-graders here.

Adam Rita

We slapped him on (the list) when he was placed on suspension. But we understand he's going to the NFL.

David Brady

It has revenues and profits and a very strong pipeline,

Jim Cavanaugh

The profits there are going to be huge.

Peter Greene

I think traders are quick to take profits right now, because what else is there that stocks can do for an encore in the short term? We're still in an uptrend, but the probability right now, from a technical standpoint, is that we're going to have a little more selling.

Howard Schultz

Profitability is a shallow goal if it doesn't have a real purpose, and the purpose has to be share the profits with others.

Sam Bodman

There's no way that we would support a windfall profits tax,

Russ Miller

Profits are up 15%, but are premiums going down?

David Nicholson

The merchandising is where the real profits are made,

Petrarch

If a hundred or a thousand people, all of the same age, of the same constitution and habits, were suddenly seized by the same illness, and one half of them were to place themselves under the care of doctors, such as they are in our time, whilst the other half entrusted themselves to Nature and to their own discretion, I have not the slightest doubt that there would be more cases of death amongst the former, and more cases of recovery among the latter.

Matthew Dobson

I thought I would be able recover enough to go (Sunday), but I just can't do it. It's disappointing.

Harvinder Kalirai

Manufacturing is recovering -- and the recovery, in fact, is accelerating.

Fadel Gheit

We have not even recovered from Katrina, so it would be another big blow.

Mike Trewick

We have to recover from this and go on the road Wednesday.

Tomas Taterka

We recovered on the back of the American recovery.

David Woodruff

Having seen him, we think he's going to recover eventually. It's going to be a long road.

Carlos Parreira

He will stop for two or three weeks, can recover and return in even better condition.

Dianne Feinstein

After a disaster such as Hurricane Katrina, the federal government has a profound obligation to help those in need, .. Right now, the victims of Hurricane Katrina need our help. Entire communities have been destroyed. Families have been torn apart. Many are still missing. Tens of thousands remain homeless. As the recovery proceeds, we in the Senate pledge to do everything in our power to help rebuild the shattered lives across the Gulf Coast.

John Beilein

Today's win was much-needed before the road trip. I can't really say I am comfortable now. I think our schedule has helped.

Willie McGinest

We have a long road to go. We are not worried about any records. Right now we are just worried about getting better.

George Philpott

We got off to a rough start. In the first event, the medley relay, we were disqualified, and with that long day on the road we just didn't get some of the times we wanted.

Ron Gettelfinger

We have not got down the road that far,

Jason Forte

We haven't had a road win in a while.

Steve Haag

We put 58 units on the road before it even started and we'll keep them going all day.

Jerry Stackhouse

We can't be satisfied with just tying up the series with this win. We're going to probably see this team somewhere down the road in the playoffs.

Harry Reid

Two years ago, when we went into Afghanistan, there wasn't' even a working road grader in the whole country.

Steve Davies

I wouldn't want to be out on the rural roads tonight up there.

Bill Clinton

In our interdependent world, we have to suffer the sorrows of each other.

Idina Menzel

I tend to have a pattern of playing misunderstood characters.

Bryan Cogman

I tend to work in coffee shops. I need to get out of the house, and, well, I need the coffee.

Nikolaj Coster-Waldau

All actors tend to be the same messed-up people.

Colin Mochrie

The American audiences are more vocal and enthusiastic. British audiences tend to sit back a little more.

Peter R. Grant

Exchange of breeding individuals between two populations tends to homogenize their gene pools.

Debbie Ryan

We just went cold. We have a tendency to do that.

B. F. Skinner

The extent to which human aggression exemplifies innate tendencies is not clear.

Beth Walters

We made it interesting. That's what we have a tendency to do, whether we need to or not.

Lleyton Hewitt

I won't be watching the women's final, that's for sure. I'm not into women's tennis any more.

Bruce Eric Kaplan

No, I never - no one ever - I never learned anything when I was a kid. Honestly, my parents had nothing to tell me - like, no wisdom, nothing.

Confucius

To know that you know, and to know that you don't know - that is the real wisdom.

Maurice Maeterlinck

The true sage is not he who sees, but he who, seeing the furthest, has the deepest love for mankind.

Maurice Maeterlinck

Wisdom requires no form; her beauty must vary, as varies the beauty of flame. She is no motionless goddess, for ever couched on her throne.

Theodore Roosevelt

The one thing I want to leave my children is an honorable name.

William Shakespeare

Wisdom and goodness to the vile seem vile; Filths savour but themselves.

William Shakespeare

To wilful men, the injuries that they themselves procure must be their schoolmasters.

Chanakya

Even if a snake is not poisonous, it should pretend to be venomous.

Euripides

He is wise that is wise to himself.

Bo Bice

My lifes a wreck, and I love it.

Edward Everett

You shall not pile, with servile toil, Your monuments upon my breast, Nor yet within the common soil Lay down the wreck of power to rest . . .

Adrienne Rich

I came to explore the wreck.

Donald Trump

[Ted] Cruz is going down. He looks like a nervous wreck.

David Bowie

It's a compulsive need to wreck everything. You might notice there's a pattern of stripping down and building back up again throughout my life. But I guess that's how some of us conduct our lives.

Matt Barr

'The Notebook' wrecks me! I cry like a 6-year-old girl at the end.

Corey Haim

I started on the downers which were a hell of a lot better than the uppers because I was a nervous wreck.

Kevin Costner

If it's going to be wrecked, I want to make sure I wreck it.

Isaac Marion

It's not like I'm such a shiny happy person either, you know? I'm a wreck too, I'm just... still alive.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

It is the failing of youth not to be able to restrain its own violence.

David Rakoff

Youth is not wasted on the young, it is perpetrated on the young.

Agnes Repplier

the most charming thing about youth is the tenacity of its impressions.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

In [my] youth I was smacked around.

William Shakespeare

For though the camomile, the more it is trodden on the faster it grows, yet youth, the more it is wasted, the sooner it wears.

Charles Fourier

Certainly in each social period, youth must be made to venerate the dominant absurdities.

Jamie Redknapp

In his youth Michael Owen was literally a greyhound.

Bruce Catton

Early youth is a baffling time

Baz Luhrmann

Enjoy the power and beauty of your youth.