Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Cassandra Clare

Far below ran the silver ribbon of the East River, braceleted by shining bridges, flecked by boats as small as flyspecks, splitting the shining banks of light that were Manhattan and Brooklyn on either side.

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.

People who have lost relationships often wonder why they can't just let it be "water under the bridge." It is water under the bridge - the trouble is we do not live on the bridge but in the river of life with its many twists and turns.

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.

Somebody who can bridge the sort of BEE-related divide, that would clearly be very good.

Sovereign has a lot of bridges to build with institutional investors. It's going to take time to repair their image.

So, we're hoping that the reward will actually build bridges between us and them,

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.

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

James Valentine

This durable, patented low-cost filter design bridges the gap between low-efficiency diesel-oxidation catalysts and expensive, heavily catalyzed particulate filters. The wire-mesh filter system is designed to work synergistically with a fuel-borne catalyst (FBC) for reliable performance. This combined FBC/CWMF technology is especially suited to solving the challenging problem of delivering a reliable pollution control solution which can be easily retrofitted for the older, higher-emission diesel engines expected to be in service for years to come. CDT will be offering licensing opportunities and technology transfer programs for the CWMF technology to establish manufacturing and distribution partnerships that meet worldwide retrofit and original equipment manufacturer needs.

This car came up the ramp on 29th Street, hit the mound of dirt just before the bridge, went airborne and came through the bridge under construction.

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.

Jim Jones

It really makes me feel sad because this bridge is the only post-truss in the world.

Martin Jol

It's more about Wayne Bridge than us. He wants to play and we never guarantee players they'll play.

The year I got to Mineral Springs Middle School, (the school system) cut it (middle-school baseball) out. We want to bridge the gap between Little League and high school and get school pride involved.

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.

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.

Janet Evanovich

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

Moby

Somehow, magically, I've become an electronic musician, and I have a recording studio that looks like the bridge of the Enterprise.

Kublai Khan

But which is the stone that supports the bridge?

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.'

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.

Jack Paar

Doing the show was like painting the George Washington Bridge. As soon as you finished one end, you started right in on the other.

I love to shop vintage clothes; in London, I usually go to Relic and Alfie's Market. I usually brunch around London Bridge, where I live.

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Don't burn bridges. You'll be surprised how many times you have to cross the same river.

Friedrich Nietzsche

How lovely it is that there are words and sounds. Are not words and sounds rainbows and illusive bridges between things which are eternally apart?