Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ann Brashares

Lena was an introvert. She knew she had trouble connecting with people. She always felt like her looks were fake bait, seeming to offer a bridge to people, which she couldn't easily cross.

Ann Coulter

Ted Kennedy says that our policy in Iraq is adrift. Hmmm. Maybe like a car adrift in the water after its has gone over a bridge?

Amy Waldman

Jealousy clings to love's underside like bats to a bridge.

The darkest night is often the bridge to the brightest tomorrow.

When the weather was over 90 (degrees) for several days in a row, the bridge deck expands to the point that it can't operate. It's been stuck in the near-closed position. We've been called to cool it down. I won't miss that.

When we put the new (Sagadahoc) bridge in, it limited what types of ships could come up the river to Bath. We've got an opportunity here. Let's get something done. If we don't do something, we are sending a message to other developers . . . don't come to Bath.

We need to find natural gas and oil in order to bridge the gap between now and the commercial development of renewable energy sources.

Our goal was to go 5-0 and get to play Rock Bridge again. We've accomplished that goal.

Over the course of the weekend with all the rain that we had the section of asphalt between the bridge on 150 and the bridge over Sulfur Springs Road on 459 just came all to pieces.

Our youth group at the high school level (Pilgrim Fellowship) went over (to Israel and Palestine). With Bridges of Hope, we bring kids from Palestine over here.

My persistent message is that Canada is the bridge to the world's richest market.

large highway bridges completely snapped off and pushed to the side as if they simply got in the way of Katrina.

I thought the bridge looked very nice but I'm especially concerned with the noise.

I think this will serve as a bridge so more high school students will get a taste of college, ... It's our shared goal to increase the post-secondary education rate in Fayette County.

Other students studied piano or violin, but I switched from flutes to drums. Music is a bridge between cultures.

Dan Johnson

Right now the bridge catches debris even in low flow situations.

Chris Sanders

Right up here at the top of this bridge is where the guy flagged me down.

Past successes are bridges that lead us to our next victory.

Chris Norman

Our offensive line did a good job and we had Mitch Bridges back this week. I also thought our defensive front seven did the job. Our linebackers played a lot better this week than they did in the second half and were able to hold a good running back like (Darryl) Vereen down (to 49 yards).

But even if we would execute perfectly on our corporate strategy, unless we have the right channels to the market to bridge the last few meters to the consumer, it's all in vain.

But by March we expect to have a system of boardwalks and bridges completed so most hikers can keep their feet dry.

Charles Williams

We have to be competing with other sports like golf, tennis, table tennis, football but bridge has its attractions. It stimulates the mind and facilitates a great deal of social interaction. We want to go into the schools and say to the principals 'bridge is a game just like chess' that can stimulate students to think analytically and to develop his or her mental skills. We will send bridge teachers into schools.

Robert T. Bakker

Land bridges were everywhere during the extinction, many species were spreading, and there were many diseases.

Annie Lennox

If you come face to face with some really challenging situations and tragic circumstances - you are going in there with a purpose. You are not going in there as a tourist. You're not going there just to merely observe. You have a purpose, and your purpose is to tell that story, to share that story for the bigger benefit of millions of other people. Your purpose is to create that bridge so you can give that story the dignity and the focus that it deserves, and you can become a part of the amplification that needs to be there.

Czeslaw Milosz

Vulgarized knowledge characteristically gives birth to a feeling that everything is understandable and explained. It is like a system of bridges built over chasms. One can travel boldly ahead over these bridges, ignoring the chasms. It is forbidden to look down into them; but that, alas, does not alter the fact that they exist.

The contractors working on the bridge will coordinate with the other work going on so we don't have a lot of backups.

What we're talking about are interoperable security credentials, ... You need to create a bridge to support a heterogeneous environment, and that's something Microsoft doesn't do.

Dinah Shore

I never wanted to set the world on fire. So I never had to burn any bridges behind me.

Dinesh D'Souza

C.S. Lewis said that conscience is nothing more than the voice of God within our souls; the bridge that links the creature to the creator

Anatole France

What we call strategy is mainly just crossing rivers on bridges and passing mountains though cols.

Dale Carnegie

Listen first. Give your opponents a chance to talk. Let them finish. Do not resist, defend or debate. This only raises barriers. Try to build bridges of understanding.

Cory Booker

For an economy built to last we must invest in what will fuel us for generations to come. This is our history - from the Transcontinental Railroad to the Hoover Dam, to the dredging of our ports and building of our most historic bridges - our American ancestors prioritized growth and investment in our nation's infrastructure.

Dylan Moran

I don't have lungs anymore! Just two spare bags that flew in under a bridge one day.