Famous Quotes & Sayings

Janet Evanovich

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

Eugene Delacroix

I have told myself a hundred times that painting - that is, the material thing called a painting - is no more than a pretext, the bridge between the mind of the painter and the mind of the spectator.

Ernst Junger

Freedom is based on the anarch’s awareness that he can kill himself. He carries this awareness around; it accompanies him like a shadow that he can conjure up. “A leap from this bridge will set me free.

Henry Louis Gates

It is the black poet who bridges the gap in tradition, who modifies tradition when experience demands it, who translates experience into meaning and meaning into belief.

James A. Baldwin

After my best friend jumped off the bridge, I knew that I was next. So-Paris. With forty dollars and a one-way ticket.

Christopher Isherwood

Berlin is a skeleton which aches in the cold: it is my own skeleton aching. I feel in my bones the sharp ache of the frost in the girders of the overhead railway, in the iron-work of balconies, in bridges, tramlines, lamp-standards, latrines. The iron throbs and shrinks, the stone and the bricks ache dully, the plaster is numb.

Christopher Dodd

America's highways, roads, bridges, are an indispensable part of our lives. They link one end of our nation to the other. We use them each and every day, for every conceivable purpose.

Christina Aguilera

I thought I knew who you were, but I see now you were a lesson to learn, and all I am to you now is a bridge that’s been burned.

George Herbert

February makes a bridge and March breakes it. [February makes a bridge, and March breaks it.]

Friedrich Nietzsche

Nobody can build the bridge for you to walk across the river of life, no one but you yourself alone. There are, to be sure, countless paths and bridges and demi-gods which would carry you across this river; but only at the cost of yourself; you would pawn yourself and lose. There is in the world only one way, on which nobody can go, except you: where does it lead? Do not ask, go along with it.

Friedrich Nietzsche

No one can construct for you the bridge upon which precisely you must cross the stream of life, no one but you yourself alone.

Frantz Fanon

If the building of a bridge does not enrich the awareness of those who work on it, then the bridge ought not to be built.

Jeanette Winterson

A bridge is a meeting place . . . a possibility, a metaphor.

Jim Capaldi

Everything that Traffic ever did, I'd give Steve a complete lyric, titled, written out with the verse, the bridge, the shape and rhyme and then Steve had to figure out how the meter of the words would fit musically.

Gregory David Roberts

A politician is someone who promises a bridge even when there's no water

Holly Near

All my life I have gone out on a limb, but I have turned the limb into a bridge, and there is cool, clear water flowing under.

Gene Roddenberry

There was much to put out of his mind. Why was it difficult to forget Chekov's astonished delight which greeted him at the command airlock when he boarded. And on the bridge - Kirk! The mere name made Spock groan inwardly as he remembered what it had cost him to turn away from that welcome. T'hy'la!

Frederick Buechner

To confess your sins to God is not to tell [God] anything [God] doesn't already know. Until you confess them, however, they are the abyss between you. When you confess them, they become the bridge.

Fannie Lou Hamer

Never to forget where we came from and always praise the bridges that carried us over.

I don't think that when we have congressmen making decisions on rainforests and bridges to nowhere that represents Iowa values.

Oprah Winfrey

I am where I am because of the bridges that I crossed. Sojourner Truth was a bridge. Harriet Tubman was a bridge. Ida B. Wells was a bridge. Madame C. J. Walker was a bridge. Fannie Lou Hamer was a bridge.

Jim Henson

You're assisting the audience to understand; you're giving them a bridge or an access. And if you don't give them that, if you keep it more abstract, it's almost more pure. It's a cooler thing.

I started Bridges High School 10 years ago, and Judy, if she wasn't working hard, it never would have happened. This is pretty difficult for me. I had utmost respect for Judy over the years.

Paula Wagner

is like that middle, neutral ground, between the East Coast and the West Coast, not the States, but close, not all indie movies, some Hollywood stuff, not just fall movies, but some holiday things. It bridges a lot of gaps for movie people.