Famous Quotes & Sayings

Paul Simon

When I first heard Elvis perform "Bridge Over Trouble Water" it was unbelivable,and I thought to myself, how the hell can I compete with that?

We were yelling at them from the bridge to get back,

Colin Firth

Bridget Jones is part of literary lore now and actually to be a part of it is enormously flattering.

Claude Monet

I want to paint the air in which the bridge, the house and the boat are to be found - the beauty of the air around them, and that is nothing less than the impossible.

Daphne du Maurier

The trouble is, walking in Venice becomes compulsive once you start. Just over the next bridge, you say, and then the next one beckons.

Billy Graham

When you follow Christ, it must be a total burning of all your bridges behind you.

Billy Beane

We offered a three-year deal with a club option and they countered with a three-year deal without a club option. I don't think we were ever going to be able to bridge the gap. It was a significant gap.

We'll just cross that bridge when we come to it.

but Seattle is growing fast and we're going to need a lot more than roads and bridges to handle the population that's already there.

We need to find natural gas and oil in order to bridge the gap between now and the commercial development of renewable energy sources.

My business New Year's resolution is to work as hard as I can to build bridges and better relationships with our municipalities. I figure that one is big enough to take the whole year.

When the bridge first opened, October 25, 1931, that first year, 5.5 million vehicles used the bridge. Last year 110 million vehicles used the bridge.

Anquan Boldin

We haven't really talked about it right now. There were a couple of suggestions thrown out, but I guess we'll cross that bridge when we get to it.

We hope it will be the case that tax cuts will bridge the gap until hiring picks up, but that seems like a pretty precarious plan. But it's the only plan we've got.

We're always dealing with the administration, and the typical student really isn't, so we're trying to bridge the gap and explain to them in more, I guess, casual terms the reasons for some of the rules that are in place.

We really want it to be something every person who visits Crystal Bridges finds engaging. We want it to be a community gathering place.

We got the opportunity to work with Bryan Singer and they wanted to create a bridge between the original movie and this new one.

William Shakespeare

What need the bridge much broader than the flood?

The preservation of the rebate program should always be a priority until there is a stable form of property-tax relief and reform. It is the only lifeline and the only bridge until real reform is enacted. To take that away, which is meaningful property-tax relief, would be wrong in my mind.

Right now, being in a shelter, or being in a hotel, is somewhat a bridge to nowhere.

Riding on them is like a bridge to Old Florida. It makes you feel in touch with nature and history.

Bryant McGill

Poetry can bridge that gap between what is solid and what is suggested; poetry can pull cogent meaning from the vaporous illusions of the esoteric.

Poll workers are a crucial element of the election process. You can buy new machines, you can educate voters, but really the poll workers are the bridge between the polling place and the voter.

Nine times out of ten it is over the Bridge of Sighs that we pass the narrow gulf from youth to manhood. That interval is usually marked by an ill placed or disappointed affection. We recover and we find ourselves a new being. The intellect has become hardened by the fire through which it has passed. The mind profits by the wrecks of every passion, and we may measure our road to wisdom by the sorrows we have undergone.

One of the first things we will do is offer our downtown lights to be sponsored by people. Marilyn Mathews will be heading that up. We will get that information out later. Hopefully next spring Charlie Hartley will be successful with her bridge lighting grant.

One of the most important priorities for me is to make sure all rails, roadways and bridges are secure.

John Hendricks

We didn't see any immediate impact that could bridge the funding problem, ... We tried as a last resort to look around the country to see if there were any markets or alliances that we could make. That was just too challenging.

Our goal was to go 5-0 and get to play Rock Bridge again. We've accomplished that goal.

Over the course of the weekend with all the rain that we had the section of asphalt between the bridge on 150 and the bridge over Sulfur Springs Road on 459 just came all to pieces.

My persistent message is that Canada is the bridge to the world's richest market.

Look, I'm still living under a bridge by Del Taco, I can't worry about what I'm going to wear to a job interview.

Annie Lennox

If you come face to face with some really challenging situations and tragic circumstances - you are going in there with a purpose. You are not going in there as a tourist. You're not going there just to merely observe. You have a purpose, and your purpose is to tell that story, to share that story for the bigger benefit of millions of other people. Your purpose is to create that bridge so you can give that story the dignity and the focus that it deserves, and you can become a part of the amplification that needs to be there.

Czeslaw Milosz

Vulgarized knowledge characteristically gives birth to a feeling that everything is understandable and explained. It is like a system of bridges built over chasms. One can travel boldly ahead over these bridges, ignoring the chasms. It is forbidden to look down into them; but that, alas, does not alter the fact that they exist.