Famous Quotes & Sayings

Thomas B. Macaulay

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

William J. Clinton

My fellow Americans, we can only build our bridge to the 21st century if we build it together, and if we're willing to walk arm-in-arm across that bridge together.

William J. Clinton

The stimulus is our bridge over troubled waters. And if it's invested well, it'll generate a lot of economic growth, and we'll get quite a bit of the revenues back.

William J. Clinton

I want to build a bridge to the 21st century that ends the permanent underclass, that lifts up the poor and ends their isolation, their exile, and they are not forgotten anymore.

Sarah Palin

I told the Congress, 'Thanks, but no thanks,' on that Bridge to Nowhere.

William F. Buckley, Jr.

Scientists are people who build the Brooklyn Bridge and then buy it.

Willem Dafoe

I'm one of those people who when I go over a bridge, I want to jump. It's just this intense tickle in the back of my throat. It's like I'm on the verge the whole time I'm walking over that bridge, and I'm not going to get a release until I jump.

Warren Rudman

If there were a major earthquake in Los Angeles, with bridges and highways and railroads and airports all shut down and huge buildings collapsing, I don't care how much planning you do, the first 72 hours is going to be chaotic.

Russell Baker

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

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.

Warren Buffett

If you understood a business perfectly and the future of the business, you would need very little in the way of a margin of safety. So, the more vulnerable the business is, assuming you still want to invest in it, the larger margin of safety you'd need. If you're driving a truck across a bridge that says it holds 10,000 pounds and you've got a 9,800 pound vehicle, if the bridge is 6 inches above the crevice it covers, you may feel okay, but if it's over the Grand Canyon, you may feel you want a little larger margin of safety...

Warren Buffett

In an inflationary world, a toll bridge (like company) would be a great thing to own because you've laid out the capital costs. You built it in old dollars and you don't have to keep replacing it.

Warren Buffett

The approach and strategies are very similar in that you gather all the information you can and then keep adding to that base of information as things develop. You do whatever the probabilities indicated based on the knowledge that you have at that time, but you are always willing to modify your behaviour or your approach as you get new information. In bridge, you behave in a way that gets the best from your partner. And in business, you behave in the way that gets the best from your managers and your employees.

Warren Buffett

When you build a bridge, you insist that it can carry 30,000 pounds, but you only drive 10,000-pound trucks across it. And that same principle works in investing.

Ward Churchill

A random group of homeless people under a bridge would be far more intellectually sound and principled than anything I've encountered at the university so far.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

By the rude bridge that arched the flood, Their flag to April's breeze unfurled, Here once the embattled farmers stood, And fired the shot heard round the world.

Scott McCloud

A medium is a bridge between two minds.

Lawrence Ferlinghetti

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

Robert Jordan

Should and would build no bridges. -Lini

Robert Englund

Jeff Bridges taught me a lot about how to keep a scene fresh.

Salli Richardson

When youre in N.Y.C. and they shut down one of the bridges, this is a movie!

Roy H. Williams

A portal is a transitionary device of sight or sound that functions as a sort of third gravitating body between the this and the that, pulling us toward itself, allowing us to bridge into the unknown from the known.

Shel Silverstein

This bridge will take you halfway there - the last few steps you will have to take yourself.

Swizz Beatz

My idea to bridge the world together with music starting in Asia and going to the West is something that is new, untapped and leading to the future of bringing the worlds together.

Rick Riordan

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

Steven Erikson

When you've burned the bridges behind you, don't go starting a fire on the one in front of you.

Shirley Jackson

Bridge is a game for the undivided intellect.

Shelley Moore Capito

My solution would be to bridge the skills gap, such as coal to gas training, you have to give people a sense of hope that they have the tools to be able to diversify and stay in the community where they wish to live.

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.

Robert Benchley

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