Famous Quotes & Sayings

Kurt Vonnegut

I consider anybody a twerp who hasn't read the greatest American short story, which is 'Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge,' by Ambrose Bierce.

What they're going to do is get the southbound ramp done first, then move to the northbound and do the other half of the ramp over the railroad bridge. They're going to be working on half the bridge while they're doing southbound and then the other half doing northbound.

We've got a unique celebrity lineup that will bridge generations and keep people on the edge of their seats, wondering what will happen next.

Bernard Baruch

We can't cross that bridge until we come to it, but I always like to lay down a pontoon ahead of time.

Bill Lipinski

Beyond highways and roads, we need more money for mass transit, intercity passenger rail and freight rail. We have a long way to go to bridge the funding gaps.

Bo Jackson

I'm the type of person, I cross the bridges once I get to 'em. I don't try to plan my life three, four months in advance, because you don't know if tomorrow's promised to you.

We're going to continue to put in new bridges and new roads and asphalt and concrete, ... But we can do so much more.

We're expecting a lot of road damage. I don't know about bridge damage.

John Powell

Growth is always a gradual process, a bridge slowly crossed and not a corner sharply turned.

Ai Weiwei

Whenever there is injustice, there is tension. But in China it is very hard to release your anger unless you burn yourself or you jump from a bridge. In a society where there is no freedom of the press, it is difficult for victims to be noticed.

Bob Menendez

By failing to keep their end of the bargain, the Bush administration would allow New Jersey projects to deteriorate and make New Jersey highways and bridges less safe.

We determined that the safest thing to do was to stop all freight and passenger train traffic over the bridge until it could be repaired.

Jane Bryant Quinn

Auto insurance is a toll bridge, over which every honest driver has to pass.

Bryant H. McGill

Hope meets you halfway on a bridge called faith.

Bobby Darin

I don't know what it is to love the way they love-they would jump off a bridge for me. I can't do that. I can only say, I owe you.

Elif Safak

Yeah, we should all line up along the Bosphorus Bridge and puff as hard as we can to shove this city in the direction of the West. If that doesn't work, we'll try the other way, see if we can veer to the East. It's no good to be in between. International politics does not appreciate ambiguity.

Bruce Catton

Even the most painstaking history is a bridge across an eternal mystery.

Brian May

The biggest emotion in creation is the bridge to optimism.

We're here to bridge the gap between medical professionals and the family.

Bruce Springsteen

Your spoken voice is a part of it - not a big part of it, but it's something. It puts people at ease, and once again kind of reaches out and makes a bridge for what's otherwise difficult music.

Charles Bukowski

I can almost understand why people leap from bridges.

Ben Barnes

Jeff Bridges is one of my favorite actors in the history of ever.

Aung San Suu Kyi

A lot of the roads, bridges, railways, and such are built through the use of forced labor, and that is causing the people great suffering. What we put into this in the form of human suffering is not worth what comes out of it.

Perfection is crucial in building an aircraft, a bridge, or a high-speed train. The code and mathematics residing just below the surface of the Internet is also this way. Things are either perfectly right or they will not work. So much of the world we work and live in is based upon being correct, being perfect.

B. C. Forbes

Whenever calamity howlers shake their heads and impress upon you that this, that, and the next dire catastrophe is to befall this nation or the nations of the world-such as, for example, that exhaustion of the world's oil supply will bring all transportation and machinery to a standstill through lack of lubrication, or that exhaustion of the earth's stores of coal will make life unlivable in these cold climates-just smile and reply that the worst troubles of all are those that never happen [and] that you prefer not to cross shaky bridges until you come to them....

We plan to start with one program, Bridges for Newborns, and develop others as we go. We're depending on the generosity of the community for initial support.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

I waited for the train at Coventry; I hung with grooms and porters on the bridge, To watch the three tall spires; and there I shaped The city's ancient legend into this.

Dick Durbin

When will this bridge be completed ... we don't know, ... But we have to take this step to make sure we are moving in that direction quickly.

Terry Farrell

My eyes are different sizes, my nose is too broad at the bridge and squishes up when I laugh, and my lips are sorta funny when I smile.

We do everything we can to bridge the remaining differences, and try to find a solution to this. And we are very much getting the ending.

There are a variety of methods by which bridge loans are made.

Tires were a constant problem, which was a direct result of the roads, ... They spent a lot of time trying to pull themselves out of what they called 'buffalo wallows,' soft patches of ground that turned into bogs when it was wet. ... They spent some time getting stuck in streams they tried to ford, there not being many bridges to use ... and they spent a lot of time in blacksmith's shops to get them fixed, or waiting for replacement parts from the Winton factory in Cleveland.

Adam Carolla

If women built the bridges or were meant to build the bridges, then they would have done it.