Famous Quotes & Sayings

Robert Anderson

Harry Bridges was very famous in his day. And Connie had given him favorable coverage.

William J. Clinton

The stimulus is our bridge over troubled waters. And if it's invested well, it'll generate a lot of economic growth, and we'll get quite a bit of the revenues back.

William J. Clinton

It's important that the American people understand that President has proposed and passed this stimulus plan not as the end-all and be-all to our economic woes but as our bridge over troubled water until we get the finance system, the banking system working again.

Warren Buffett

If you understood a business perfectly and the future of the business, you would need very little in the way of a margin of safety. So, the more vulnerable the business is, assuming you still want to invest in it, the larger margin of safety you'd need. If you're driving a truck across a bridge that says it holds 10,000 pounds and you've got a 9,800 pound vehicle, if the bridge is 6 inches above the crevice it covers, you may feel okay, but if it's over the Grand Canyon, you may feel you want a little larger margin of safety...

Warren Buffett

In an inflationary world, a toll bridge (like company) would be a great thing to own because you've laid out the capital costs. You built it in old dollars and you don't have to keep replacing it.

Warren Buffett

When you build a bridge, you insist that it can carry 30,000 pounds, but you only drive 10,000-pound trucks across it. And that same principle works in investing.

Warren Rudman

If there were a major earthquake in Los Angeles, with bridges and highways and railroads and airports all shut down and huge buildings collapsing, I don't care how much planning you do, the first 72 hours is going to be chaotic.

Neal Shusterman

Then she offers him a slim but sincere smile, and he reluctantly returns it. It doesn't bridge the gap between them, but at least it marks the spot where the bridge might be built.

Narendra Modi

The India-Nepal border should not be a barrier but a bridge which helps bring prosperity to both sides.

Arthur Schwartz

What I love about Brooklyn is there are more wonderful little joints than anywhere.

Rae Rosen

If you walk around the area, you'll see tourists with the Michelin Green Guide walking through Park Slope and Brooklyn Heights. It seems to me there's a market there.

Janel Patterson

The city is committed to expanding maritime cargo uses on the Brooklyn waterfront.

Abel Ferrara

This is New York seen from the point of view of an outsider. The TV journalist is so famous that he's no longer part of the world. A limo takes him from his house in Brooklyn Heights to his job in mid-Manhattan, and he doesn't see anything outside the car until a rock smashes his window. I wondered about famous journalists: Who these guys are? What do they really feel and how much can they show their feelings?

Norman Mailer

I've had an exciting relation to France all my life, from my young years in Brooklyn when I thought that Paris was the place to be.

Mark Twain

Brooklyn praise is half slander.

Breckin Meyer

There's a scene at the end of the movie where I tell her, 'You know you've got to jump off the Brooklyn Bridge,

Tim White

We estimate that the ... remediation at our property at Third St. and Third Ave. in Brooklyn is about 75%-80% completed at this point.

Wynter Gordon

My style is cinematic; it is a touch of French woman of the '60s and American hippie with a Brooklyn edge. I love wearing wide-brim hats, newsboy caps, mini dresses and sheer blouses with details.