Famous Quotes & Sayings

Humphrey Bogart

I don't approve of the John Waynes and the Gary Coopers saying "Shucks, I ain't no actor - I'm just a bridge builder or a gas station attendant." If they aren't actors, what the hell are they getting paid for? I have respect for my profession. I worked hard at it.

He came by and said, 'Yeah, I heard you stood Les up,' ... I said, 'I didn't stand him up, he stood me up. I was there, I was just late.' So that kind of helped bridge the gap.

Jay Carney

Congress passes bills that appropriate money. Congress says, 'We're building this bridge or funding that defense project, and they cost this much.'

Janet Evanovich

No one expected a first year engineering student to build the perfect bridge.

Our alternative is to build a bridge but we don't think that's necessary at this point.

Iris Chang

Often when times are good and when the US is on good diplomatic terms with China, the Chinese are viewed as a bridge between the two countries.

Now everybody will understand that we were not joking. The bridge is a great work which will unite Sicily and its six million inhabitants with the continent and for this reason it has enormous value socially, and for the urban and transport development.

Tom DeLay

Now more than ever you're going to need ... that infrastructure, those highway trust funds, to rebuild the bridges that were destroyed, rebuild the railroads that were destroyed. You have to have the infrastructure or you can't have a recovery,

J. J. Johnson

During the first two weekends of October each year, Fulton County, Illinois, welcomes the world to the villages, parks, and bridges of Spoon River Valley Scenic Drive.

I've always viewed her as a good bridge builder.

I used to drive the Twin Span Bridge three or four times a day, ... Now its destroyed.

Steve Spurrier

So six guys got letters, two have been renewed. They stayed here, remained quiet, didn't burn any bridges and did what they were supposed to do. As it turned out, we ended up not renewing four.

Ross managed to bridge the gaps on some issues.

Barry Bonds

I've played a long time. I've had a lot of fun doing it. We'll tackle that bridge when it happens. I'll sit back and talk with my family and take a long, long vacation and see how I feel. I could do that and get in the wintertime and say, ?That's enough,' and somewhere in January wake up and say, ?That's not enough.

Frank Robinson

It would be water under the bridge as far as I'm concerned.

It was an unfortunate situation. And after the dust settled, she did a very good job of building bridges back to the clients.

These bridges are all going so fast and I missed them. They are soon going to be gone and they are a part of our history.

These scientists are the bridges between research institutes and local governments, and their work helps millions of people shake off poverty.

Jim Burns

The (state) highway department, county and city (of Arkadelphia) did a great job getting sand and salt out on our bridges and roadways.

The staff from DOT met with the governor today to lay out some details on the decision of an operating bridge as opposed to a fixed span.

That's going to really bridge a gap for us right now as far as cash flow is concerned.

That gap that used to be there between making it from high school to college and college to NFL -- the bridge is starting to be there for a lot of young talent and they're starting to see that. By seeing players like myself, players that have gone before me, and are still here as well ... for my high school, when kids see that, they see that there's a possible bridge they can cross because they see us on the other side.

You're talking different engineering for a raised bridge ... you're also projecting construction costs into the future, which has historically proven to be futile,

You're talking about a 40-year-old bridge. The bridge has outlasted its life expectancy and needs to be replaced.

This is one of the largest mangrove stands in the county. To put a bridge through there doesn't make any sense.

There were people that had been under the bridge there at Interstate 10 for two days, since Monday and they were just dehydrating, there were serious people they were evacuating from the hospitals.

Robin Taylor

Any idiot who looks at a map knows you can't build bridges to every single island in Southeast. These are huge distances ... so we need roads and ferries both.

As far as I have been able to find out, this is part of a scheduled bridge maintenance project that does not involve closing the bridge, but flagging will be off and on for the next 10 days, weather permitting.

The bridges you cross before you come to them are over rivers that aren't there.

The bridge replacement really is one of the first things being done.

The bridge probably will not be opening before the overall project is completed.

The bridge is not the essential limiting factor of the port. It?s not ?take down the bridge and cruise ships will come,? but finding out whether or not they want to come to Portsmouth at all.

John Milton

The bridge is getting old and it is an indication it is continuing to weaken. So that type of storm we saw (Wednesday) is something we expect to see in the future.