Famous Quotes & Sayings

Scott McCloud

A medium is a bridge between two minds.

Terry Gilliam

You know the hardest thing to do in Hollywood is burn bridges. There is usually some sucker who still likes me. There is usually some sucker who will still work with me.

Rick Riordan

The bridge fell away into the chasm, and the Cyclops howled ... with delight, because he was standing right next to us.

Rem Koolhaas

Lagos was a city that had been turned against itself. There was a bridge that became the perfect trap for crimes, which began with nails being scattered to cause flat tyres. If the driver stopped, the car would be dismantled in 20 minutes and the parts thrown overboard [to people waiting below]. The system had turned into a kind of destructive device that could be used against people. That was the narrative.

Steven Wright

George is a radio announcer, and when he walks under a bridge... you can't hear him talk.

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.

Robert Henri

Good composition is like a suspension bridge - each line adds strength and takes none away.

Sylvia Plath

I must bridge the gap between adolescent glitter and mature glow.

Russell Baker

The charm of television entertainment is its ability to bridge the chasm between dinner and bedtime without mental distraction.

I am still suffering from my experience in Rwanda, I never know when I'm going to drive my car off a bridge, or just decide to take my life.

Thomas B. Macaulay

How well Horatius kept the bridge In the brave days of old.

Susan Vreeland

He and I had a bridge that no one else traveled that made us artistic lovers, passionate without a touch of the flesh. He made me thrive, and valuing that, I could do nothing that would endanger it.

Stephen King

I didn't want to even stand next to any high rise building as long as I lived... I didn't even want to go over a bridge.

Steven Pinker

I try to jog in every city I visit, and I particularly enjoy harbour-front paths that let me ogle big ships, railroad bridges and the ruins of factories and warehouses.

Sun Ra

Music can be the bridge to understanding, but people have to get some knowledge.

T. D. Jakes

Faith becomes a bridge between where I am and where I want to go- it is a substance.

T. S. Eliot

A crowd flowed over London Bridge, so many, I had not thought death had undone so many.

Robert Benchley

It has always seemed to me that the most difficult part of building a bridge would be the start.

Robert Musil

... the structure of a page of good prose is, analyzed logically, not something frozen but the vibrating of a bridge, which changes with every step one takes on it.

Ricky Martin

I am convinced that music, like philanthropy, bridges hope.

Richard M. Nixon

Let us build bridges, my friends, build bridges to human dignity across that gulf that separates black America from white America.

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.

Lawrence Ferlinghetti

I once started out to walk around the world but ended up in Brooklyn, that Bridge was too much for me.

Ron White

There are two kinds of comics; there are the ones who build bridges, and then there are the people who walk across the bridges as though they built them. The bridge builders are few and far between.

Rumi

All loves are a bridge to Divine love. Yet, those who have not had a taste of it do not know!

Steve Kroft

Stretch of I-95 has already had one brush with disaster. In 2008 two contractors from the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation stopped to get a sausage sandwich, and parked their cars under this bridge. And fortunately they wanted that sausage sandwich because they saw one of these piers with an eight foot gash in it about five inches wide. And oh, they knew automatically that this bridge was in deep trouble.

Steve Kroft

Every day in Pittsburgh five million people travel across bridges that either need to be replaced or undergo major repairs.

Paulo Coelho

Don’t bother trying to explain your emotions. Live everything as intensely as you can and keep whatever you felt as a gift from God. The best way to destroy the bridge between the visible and invisible is by trying to explain your emotions.

Paulo Coelho

The power of storytelling is exactly this: to bridge the gaps where everything else has crumbled.

Peter Marshall

If you hug to yourself any resentment against anybody else, you destroy the bridge by which God would come to you.