Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

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.

Joy Harjo

At least I've had to come to that in my life, to realize that this stuff called failure, this stuff, this debris of historical trauma, family trauma, you know, stuff that can kill your spirit, is actually raw material to make things with and to build a bridge. You can use those materials to build a bridge over that which would destroy you.

Joseph Goebbels

Devotion, fervor, longing! Those are my pillars. We have to be the bridge to the future.

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.

Paul Krugman

There's nothing magic about spending on tanks and bombs rather than roads and bridges.

Patrick Stewart

During my time we had two chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, at different times of course, on the bridge, both of whom asked my permission to sit on the captain's chair.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

In the firm expectation that when London shall be a habitation of bitterns, when St. Paul and Westminster Abbey shall stand shapeless and nameless ruins in the midst of an unpeopled marsh, when the piers of Waterloo Bridge shall become the nuclei of islets of reeds and osiers, and cast the jagged shadows of their broken arches on the solitary stream, some Transatlantic commentator will be weighing in the scales of some new and now unimagined system of criticism the respective merits of the Bells and the Fudges and their historians.

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.

John Howe

Dragons and bridges are very much something out of fairy tales and fantasy.

Johan Huizinga

William James once said: "Progress is a terrible thing." It is more than that: it is also a highly ambiguous notion. For who knowsbut that a little further on the way a bridge may not have collapsed or a crevice split the earth?

Frank Lloyd Wright

I'll bridge these hills with graceful arches

George Clarke

Our houses are at least 12 feet under water. All you can see on TV are rooftops. And the bridge we came across, the I-10 twin span, is now split.

Fred Thompson

Hopefully, we can build bridges, but we also have to draw lines.

Fred Thompson

Sometimes you have to, as I say, build bridges where you can - but draw lines where you must.

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.

And at the foot of our new bridge is a place that makes Cuban sandwiches,

Eddie Griffin

I remember riding across the Brooklyn Bridge about 12 times because they wanted me to keep up with the helicopter, and I said, "Can you have the helicopter keep up with me, my calves are burning!"

Henri Nouwen

What is Hope?Hope is that inner dynamic that compels us to explore and pursue the expectations built into the human condition. Hope was born the day the first human beings discovered the first bridge and decided not to jump off the bridge in despair, but to cross it

Henri Nouwen

In a world so torn apart by rivalry, anger, and hatred, we have the privileged vocation to be living signs of a love that can bridge all divisions and heal all wounds.

Hilaire Belloc

The accursed power which stands on privilege( and goes with women, champagne and bridge) Broke - and democracy resumed her reign ( which goes with bridge and women and champagne.

Jim Rohn

Language designed to impress builds a gulf. Language to express builds a bridge.

A cable-stayed bridge is the more economical option for these long spans.

Alan Belcher

It's kind of cruel for us to go out there and search these sites under bridges because if we find somebody we can't serve them.

It's a slippery slope. I'm not willing to jump off the bridge unless the veterinarians are willing to jump off the bridge.

They should be opening the westbound section next month. They're doing some touch-up work on the bridge and still have to do the paving.

This is a natural extension of location services we've seen serving the business market to track workers and employees. Sprint has built a bridge to the consumer world and to families. Sprint has done a good job ensuring that privacy concerns are kept to a minimum.... Kids can always turn the phone off if they don't want to be tracked.

This is a fantastic bridge between aeronautics and space. That's very appropriate for us.

It's only been open about eight months. There's going to be a new bridge open in the southern part of the county in the future.