Famous Quotes & Sayings

Perfection is crucial in building an aircraft, a bridge, or a high-speed train. The code and mathematics residing just below the surface of the Internet is also this way. Things are either perfectly right or they will not work. So much of the world we work and live in is based upon being correct, being perfect.

Elif Safak

Yeah, we should all line up along the Bosphorus Bridge and puff as hard as we can to shove this city in the direction of the West. If that doesn't work, we'll try the other way, see if we can veer to the East. It's no good to be in between. International politics does not appreciate ambiguity.

Brent Weeks

Remember that time you tried to hump the bridge?

Bruce Catton

Even the most painstaking history is a bridge across an eternal mystery.

Brian May

The biggest emotion in creation is the bridge to optimism.

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.

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 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.

Robert T. Bakker

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

Robert Anderson

Harry Bridges was very famous in his day. And Connie had given him favorable coverage.

But by March we expect to have a system of boardwalks and bridges completed so most hikers can keep their feet dry.

Adam Carolla

If women built the bridges or were meant to build the bridges, then they would have done it.

Ann Brashares

Lena was an introvert. She knew she had trouble connecting with people. She always felt like her looks were fake bait, seeming to offer a bridge to people, which she couldn't easily cross.

Ann Coulter

Ted Kennedy says that our policy in Iraq is adrift. Hmmm. Maybe like a car adrift in the water after its has gone over a bridge?

Amy Waldman

Jealousy clings to love's underside like bats to a bridge.

Dale Carnegie

Listen first. Give your opponents a chance to talk. Let them finish. Do not resist, defend or debate. This only raises barriers. Try to build bridges of understanding.

Cory Booker

For an economy built to last we must invest in what will fuel us for generations to come. This is our history - from the Transcontinental Railroad to the Hoover Dam, to the dredging of our ports and building of our most historic bridges - our American ancestors prioritized growth and investment in our nation's infrastructure.

Dylan Moran

I don't have lungs anymore! Just two spare bags that flew in under a bridge one day.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

I waited for the train at Coventry; I hung with grooms and porters on the bridge, To watch the three tall spires; and there I shaped The city's ancient legend into this.

Amelia Warner

The views from Waterloo Bridge are amazing - you can see so much of London.

Dinah Shore

I never wanted to set the world on fire. So I never had to burn any bridges behind me.

Dinesh D'Souza

C.S. Lewis said that conscience is nothing more than the voice of God within our souls; the bridge that links the creature to the creator

Anatole France

What we call strategy is mainly just crossing rivers on bridges and passing mountains though cols.

Our youth group at the high school level (Pilgrim Fellowship) went over (to Israel and Palestine). With Bridges of Hope, we bring kids from Palestine over here.

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

Shia LaBeouf

Like, what do you say? Do you say 'Hey man!' Or would you say 'Hey peng?' Like, to be with Jeff Bridges, first of all, is a trip. Sitting with Jeff Bridges talking about how to be a penguin, it's like insane.

Past successes are bridges that lead us to our next victory.

Chris Norman

Our offensive line did a good job and we had Mitch Bridges back this week. I also thought our defensive front seven did the job. Our linebackers played a lot better this week than they did in the second half and were able to hold a good running back like (Darryl) Vereen down (to 49 yards).

Billy Graham

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

Bitsie Tulloch

When I was a little girl, I wanted to be a civil engineer. No joke. I would come home from school and build bridges out of toothpicks and see how much weight they would hold before falling.

Tom McCarthy

We will be working with Metra on getting those bridges replaced, too, ... But the bridges in the worst shape are on the southern end, which we own.