Famous Quotes & Sayings

She was the bridge that helped us carry on. She stood up with such strength and grace and kept the movement in the forefront of America's mind. She institutionalized the efforts and philosophies of Dr. King.

Dave Mustaine

Mogami cable is durable and flexible enough to practically build a suspension bridge with but I'll settle for using it for my guitars and amps!

Robert Horry

When you burn a bridge sometimes -- it doesn't matter if it's a significant player on a team, especially a significant player like Kobe -- you might say let bygones be bygones, (but) there's always that underlying, 'Oh, you talked about me,' Me personally, I don't think it'll work out. But who knows? Crazier things have happened.

We're constantly making sure every bridge in the state is structurally sound. It's one of our priorities.

Old Bridge is a very, very good team, but we gave them a fight, just like every team we played.

Should we play bridge until it's time for the end?

Mark Dayton

Minnesotans voted their preference today for leaders who will build bridges rather than moats.

B. C. Forbes

Whenever calamity howlers shake their heads and impress upon you that this, that, and the next dire catastrophe is to befall this nation or the nations of the world-such as, for example, that exhaustion of the world's oil supply will bring all transportation and machinery to a standstill through lack of lubrication, or that exhaustion of the earth's stores of coal will make life unlivable in these cold climates-just smile and reply that the worst troubles of all are those that never happen [and] that you prefer not to cross shaky bridges until you come to them....

Bruce Springsteen

Your spoken voice is a part of it - not a big part of it, but it's something. It puts people at ease, and once again kind of reaches out and makes a bridge for what's otherwise difficult music.

What we're going to have until mid-2008 is a six-lane bridge, just like we have a six-lane bridge now.

There is a sense of urgency because of the possibility of another similar (weather) system starting next Wednesday. They'll focus on getting culverts, bridges and so forth cleaned.

Charles Bukowski

I can almost understand why people leap from bridges.

I can't see us leaving Stamford Bridge in the near future.

Four bridges might not seem like a lot, but two of them are complete replacements.

Four thousand deaths is too many. Building walls is not the solution, but building bridges of communication is.

Yitzhak Rabin

I don't think he would have been able to bridge the great differences between the Palestinians and Israel.

I would say that whatever our numbers are, they're probably pretty much league-wide and probably pretty much society-wide. I don't think our team is any different from any other team or society as a whole. I don't think those numbers are out of whack. The hard thing is we hold these players to different standards. That's going to be the difficult part, figuring out how we are going to bridge that gap if these guys can't be within these normal societal numbers.

I wrapped the world around my fingers, taking control through the electron and the baud, burned your bridges and the protocols. So why you turning back? I'm still the same talent and watching as well.

Rudyard Kipling

Keep ye the Law - be swift in all obedience -/ Clear the land of evil, drive the road and bridge the ford.

Bob McKenzie

Just the traffic volumes. It's something our bridge inspectors are taking a look at.

large highway bridges completely snapped off and pushed to the side as if they simply got in the way of Katrina.

Robert T. Bakker

Land bridges were everywhere during the extinction, many species were spreading, and there were many diseases.

I thought the bridge looked very nice but I'm especially concerned with the noise.

The purpose is to facilitate right turns off the Memorial Bridge for people heading to the downtown area. The work done for the cut-through had a specific purpose, and it was done by the state. This is a city project that will enhance the work done by the state.

The people we have in charge of the (county's) Road and Bridge Department are doing an outstanding job. But I remember when commissioners used to go out and drive through their county roads, instead of waiting on a disgruntled resident to call in and complain. That hasn't happened in Precinct 2 in many, many years.

The people responsible for this incident have caused thousands of pounds worth of damage and left a bridge dangerous and in need of rebuilding.

We've been waiting for the bridge to be built over County Line Road.

We're open May through October, and we've just renovated the towpath trail. We've made some new pathways, and there's a new bridge over one of the locks. We're also completely handicapped-accessible, now.

If it had jumped the road, it might have burned up to the bridge or even farther,

If that truck had rolled off the bridge and into the creek, it's heavy enough that it would have crushed them both. They were in shock, there's no doubt about it.

Charles Williams

We have to be competing with other sports like golf, tennis, table tennis, football but bridge has its attractions. It stimulates the mind and facilitates a great deal of social interaction. We want to go into the schools and say to the principals 'bridge is a game just like chess' that can stimulate students to think analytically and to develop his or her mental skills. We will send bridge teachers into schools.

I actually played my first game in the Navy in 1944. They needed a fourth (player) for bridge and I knew how to play whist, so I sat in.

It had been lingering for years. It needed to be done, and everyone around the state was wondering for years when we'd get around to taking the bridge down.