Famous Quotes & Sayings

The reason they'd be moving is ownership has burned its bridges in Charlotte. Wherever they go will not be as good as staying in Charlotte.

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've had aluminum railings from bridges and manhole covers taken for scrap, but we've never seen anything of this magnitude before.

Tony and I have made a lot of progress in getting to know each other and understanding each other's viewpoints. We're trying to build bridges for the future.

There's so much negative information in the media. If the building of bridges and roads and schools and power plants was portrayed in the media, it would make a huge difference. We need to stand by our men and women so they can keep their morale up.

Amr Khaled

Dialogue and many practical common projects are more important. We came here to build bridges but it must be two-way bridges.

Cornel West bridges another gap between the intellectual elite and the masses of people that are struggling every day to sometimes get a job or get the kind of education that he got. He comes from the grassroots and relates back to that.

Do we have other bridges like this in this area? Yes. We know this is a critical situation. This is a dramatic situation. We don't want this to happen again.

Phil Garner

There's several great points from our standpoint in that game. It was Backe's first time back, and he kept us in the ballgame. And Wandy Rodriguez, who has been a starter, he goes out and gives us one inning and kind of bridges our bullpen.

I started Bridges High School 10 years ago, and Judy, if she wasn't working hard, it never would have happened. This is pretty difficult for me. I had utmost respect for Judy over the years.

Paula Wagner

is like that middle, neutral ground, between the East Coast and the West Coast, not the States, but close, not all indie movies, some Hollywood stuff, not just fall movies, but some holiday things. It bridges a lot of gaps for movie people.

We literally have homeless people dying under bridges and in wooded areas.

Bridges TV isn't being a shill for the FBI, and the FBI isn't being a shill of Bridges TV.

Bridges made some great saves. He's a great goalie, everyone knows that. He just came out and had another great performance tonight. We had lots of chances.

Bridges kept us in it. He gave us a chance by being strong early.

David Levithan

I never felt the urge to jump off a bridge, but there are times I have wanted to jump out of my life, out of my skin.

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.

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?

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.

William Shakespeare

What need the bridge much broader than the flood?

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.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

In giving you are throwing a bridge across the chasm of your solitude.

Anthony Storr

Some split between the inner world and outer world is common to all behaviour, and the need to bridge the gap is the source of creative behaviour.

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

James Valentine

This durable, patented low-cost filter design bridges the gap between low-efficiency diesel-oxidation catalysts and expensive, heavily catalyzed particulate filters. The wire-mesh filter system is designed to work synergistically with a fuel-borne catalyst (FBC) for reliable performance. This combined FBC/CWMF technology is especially suited to solving the challenging problem of delivering a reliable pollution control solution which can be easily retrofitted for the older, higher-emission diesel engines expected to be in service for years to come. CDT will be offering licensing opportunities and technology transfer programs for the CWMF technology to establish manufacturing and distribution partnerships that meet worldwide retrofit and original equipment manufacturer needs.

Robin Taylor

Any idiot who looks at a map knows you can't build bridges to every single island in Southeast. These are huge distances ... so we need roads and ferries both.

The bridges you cross before you come to them are over rivers that aren't there.

If safety were a paramount concern those two other bridges would've been down by now. You can't build this bridge without doing something to everybody in this room.

If people were jumping off bridges we wouldn't give them a push, we'd try to stop them.

Dennis Ross

I really feel there's a need much more for a third party to build bridges between the two sides before it's too late,

Jack Zipes

In 1995, I founded a storytelling program for children called Neighborhood Bridges in collaboration with the Children's Theatre Company of Minneapolis, which is 15 elementary schools in the Twin Cities.