Famous Quotes & Sayings

The history of the wagon wheel bridges is tumultuous at best.

The Flagler bridge was built in 1938. Bridges then were built for a 50-year life. We certainly got a lot out of it.

You've got five-mile stretches to the freeways in either direction, and the bridge (would rival) the Mackinac (Bridge). C'mon, let's look at what's obviously practical.

Jo Brand

In the end, punk inevitably burned itself out and acted as a bridge across which the New Romantics could sashay in their chiffon and glossy hair.

Friedrich Nietzsche

What is great in man is that he is a bridge and not a goal.

The introduction of Jessup and its development in China will help build a new bridge linking the Chinese and overseas law circles, and will also help display achievements made by China over the years in law education and teaching.

Rick Riordan

The bridge fell away into the chasm, and the Cyclops howled ... with delight, because he was standing right next to us.

Rem Koolhaas

Lagos was a city that had been turned against itself. There was a bridge that became the perfect trap for crimes, which began with nails being scattered to cause flat tyres. If the driver stopped, the car would be dismantled in 20 minutes and the parts thrown overboard [to people waiting below]. The system had turned into a kind of destructive device that could be used against people. That was the narrative.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

By the rude bridge that arched the flood, Their flag to April's breeze unfurled, Here once the embattled farmers stood, And fired the shot heard round the world.

Scott McCloud

A medium is a bridge between two minds.

Terry Gilliam

You know the hardest thing to do in Hollywood is burn bridges. There is usually some sucker who still likes me. There is usually some sucker who will still work with me.

Lawrence Ferlinghetti

I once started out to walk around the world but ended up in Brooklyn, that Bridge was too much for me.

Peter James

Drafting is like painting the Golden Gate Bridge.The closer you get to the end, the more you start to worry about the beginning.

Jacque Fresco

Instead of a pentagon, you have a lot of people that are trained in bridging the difference between nations. The pentagon would serve as an intermediate organization to bridge the difference between cultures.

Henry A. Kissinger

The statesman's duty is to bridge the gap between his nation's experience and his vision.

Hazrat Inayat Khan

Music seems to be the bridge over the gulf between form and the formless.

Kevin Rudd

John Howard has gone a bridge too far by not going far enough

The Kentucky Transportation Cabinet understands how important the Goddard Bridge project is to the public. We are working closely with the contractor to ensure this project is a success.

Laini Taylor

Icon of Prague, the medieval bridge crossed the Vltava between Old Town and the Little Quarter. Gothic bridge towers rose on both sides, and the whole span — pedestrian-only — was lined by monumental statues of saints.

Shel Silverstein

This bridge will take you halfway there - the last few steps you will have to take yourself.

Swizz Beatz

My idea to bridge the world together with music starting in Asia and going to the West is something that is new, untapped and leading to the future of bringing the worlds together.

Max Muller

Without a belief in personal immortality, religion surely is like an arch resting on one pillar, like a bridge ending in an abyss.

Max Lucado

When you teach on a familiar text, you're capitalizing on common knowledge. When you teach on an unfamiliar text, you're having to build a bridge of understanding, and we need to do that as well.

The fuel obviously escaped from the vessel when it collided and was burning not only in the vessel itself, the tractor-trailer, but on the bridge, on the concrete. The bridge is made of concrete, so a lot of scalding occurred from it. There's a lot of superficial damage right now,

The curves on each side of the bridge were steep.

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.

John Goodman

George Washington Bridge? You throw yourself off the Brooklyn Bridge, traditionally. George Washington Bridge, who does that?

Julie Burchill

Amsterdam has more than 150 canals and 1,250 bridges, but it never seems crowded, nor bent and bitter from fleecing the tourist.

Paulo Coelho

Love creates bridges where it would seem they were impossible.

Paulo Coelho

Don’t bother trying to explain your emotions. Live everything as intensely as you can and keep whatever you felt as a gift from God. The best way to destroy the bridge between the visible and invisible is by trying to explain your emotions.

Paulo Coelho

The power of storytelling is exactly this: to bridge the gaps where everything else has crumbled.

Peter Marshall

If you hug to yourself any resentment against anybody else, you destroy the bridge by which God would come to you.

Paul Tillich

The courage to be as oneself within the atmosphere of Enlightenment is the courage to affirm oneself as a bridge from a lower to a higher state of rationality. It is obvious that this kind of courage to be must become conformist the moment its revolutionary attack on that which contradicts reason has ceased, namely in the victorious bourgeoisie.