Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Bukowski

I can almost understand why people leap from bridges.

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.

Steve Kean

Wayne Bridge has got a good chance which is great news. When he first got injured in the England game we thought it would be a number of weeks but he's progressed and pushed himself really hard. He's got a good chance.

Alan Watts

To go out of your mind once a day is tremendously important, because by going out of your mind you come to your senses. And if you stay in your mind all of the time, you are over rational, in other words you are like a very rigid bridge which because it has no give; no craziness in it, is going to be blown down by the first hurricane.

Al Smith

The Brooklyn Bridge and I grew up together,

David McCullough

People are so helpful. People will stop what they're doing to show you something, to walk with you through a section of the town, or explain how a suspension bridge really works.

David Guetta

I've created a bridge between European electronic culture and urban American culture, and I've worked with established brands.

Bruce Vento

We need to bridge the gap between the medical libraries and the hospital rooms; take the information out there already, add to it, focus it, harness it - and bring it to the patient who was just diagnosed today.

Catherine Helen Spence

I had learned what wealth was, and a great deal about production and exchange for myself in the early history of South Australia - of the value of machinery, of roads and bridges, and of ports for transport and export.

Cher

I'm learning English at the moment. I can say 'Big Ben', 'Hello Rodney', 'Tower Bridge' and 'Loo'.

Bill Lipinski

Beyond highways and roads, we need more money for mass transit, intercity passenger rail and freight rail. We have a long way to go to bridge the funding gaps.

Kurt Vonnegut

I consider anybody a twerp who hasn't read the greatest American short story, which is 'Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge,' by Ambrose Bierce.

Bo Jackson

I'm the type of person, I cross the bridges once I get to 'em. I don't try to plan my life three, four months in advance, because you don't know if tomorrow's promised to you.

Ai Weiwei

Whenever there is injustice, there is tension. But in China it is very hard to release your anger unless you burn yourself or you jump from a bridge. In a society where there is no freedom of the press, it is difficult for victims to be noticed.

We're going to continue to put in new bridges and new roads and asphalt and concrete, ... But we can do so much more.

We're expecting a lot of road damage. I don't know about bridge damage.

John Powell

Growth is always a gradual process, a bridge slowly crossed and not a corner sharply turned.

Bernard Baruch

We can't cross that bridge until we come to it, but I always like to lay down a pontoon ahead of time.

Kerry Collins

We've all got to be good at moving on in this business. I've moved on. Sure, I was disappointed with the way things went. But I came out here and shifted my thoughts and concentrated on doing well out here. That's all gone under the bridge as far as I'm concerned.

There are bridge nuts, people who 'collect' bridges.

We've got a unique celebrity lineup that will bridge generations and keep people on the edge of their seats, wondering what will happen next.

What they're going to do is get the southbound ramp done first, then move to the northbound and do the other half of the ramp over the railroad bridge. They're going to be working on half the bridge while they're doing southbound and then the other half doing northbound.

Anthony Foxx

The I-495 bridge over the Christina River in Wilmington, Delaware, is tilting.

The government didn't live up to its side of the agreement. And since 2000, the government hasn't done anything to improve the bridge or highway.

You are permitted, in time of great danger, to walk with the devil until you have crossed the bridge

At 100, to still be playing competitive bridge to win - that is just a marvel.

The judge found that any view that the bridge was not part of the United States ... was just flat out wrong.

The feel is completely different because this year is about trying to build bridges and heal the community.

Jonathan Tucker

This island is definitely a potential time bomb, because the shrinking of the sea and the likely emergence within a few years of a land bridge to the mainland and the possibility that insects and rodents, carrying deadly diseases, could cross over and infect the local population.

Anders Hejlsberg

Not only does this scenario require familiarity with several programming languages, but it also requires a mastery of the application programming interfaces that bridge the different domains, such as ADO.NET or Open DataBase Connectivity (ODBC).

The neighbors would rather that the concrete bridge not be built,

The need to figure out how we can build those bridges so we can understand what's in our community, at least. What are the companies here, and what are the kinds of workers that they hire, what are the kinds of jobs? These are living-wage jobs, not just service-oriented jobs.

After the new bridge opened up...there wasn't any reason to hang on to (the 1927 bridge).