Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mick Jagger

I'd done a very long project on Bridges To Babylon. I was on the road for ages with that. When I came off the road, I thought, the next thing I want to do on my own.

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.

John Goodman

George Washington Bridge? You throw yourself off the Brooklyn Bridge, traditionally. George Washington Bridge, who does that?

Jim Rohn

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

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.

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.

Marina Abramovic

I made a tape recording of a bridge collapsing and I wanted to play it suddenly and very loudly when people were walking over a big bridge in Belgrade. The council forbid it. Their imagination is tiny; mine is big. I want always to shake everything up.

Judi Dench

It is not good to cross the bridge before you get to it.

They like to put their toe on the bridge before they put their foot on the bridge.

Michael Hayes

They like to have good communication with parents. This is a good bridge for them.

Ross managed to bridge the gaps on some issues.

Marilyn Ferguson

If we are to find our way across troubled waters, we are better served by the company of those who have built bridges, who have moved beyond despair and inertia.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

We must work passionately and indefatigably to bridge the gulf between our scientific progress and our moral progress. One of the great problems of mankind is that we suffer from a poverty of the spirit which stands in glaring contrast to our scientific and technological abundance. The richer we have become materially, the poorer we have become morally and spiritually.

Mike Parry

Stamford Bridge holds 42,000. So ten per cent of that would be about 4.1 thousand

Omari Hardwick

Poetry has, in a way, been my bridge to my acting career.

Omari Hardwick

Poetry has in a way been my bridge to my acting career. I had so many questions about my life, so I took to poetry to express my questions. I had questions about politics, family relationships, and more.

Oprah Winfrey

I am where I am because of the bridges I have crossed.

Marcel Marceau

Life is a cycle, and mime is particularly suitable for showing fluidity, transformation, metamorphosis. Words can keep people apart; mime can be a bridge between them.

Kenny Rogers

If I could undo what's been done, But I guess everyone is living, With water and bridges.

Michael Jordan

I want to be the bridge to the next generation.

Mehmet Oz

I used to bicycle to work across the George Washington Bridge, but my wife told me it wasn't professional.

Michael Rady

I just like to talk to people. I don't know how to bridge the gap between getting to know someone and then schmoozing and sort of working contacts and business connections.

Mark Twain

Crowds stand around all day long and criticise that bridge, and find fault with it, and tell with unlimited frankness how it ought to have been planned, and how they would have built it had the city granted them the $14,000 it cost. It is really refreshing to hang around these and listen to them. A foreigner would come to the conclusion that all America was composed of inspired professional bridge builders.

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.

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.