Famous Quotes & Sayings

Oprah Winfrey

I am where I am because of the bridges I have crossed.

Marcel Marceau

Life is a cycle, and mime is particularly suitable for showing fluidity, transformation, metamorphosis. Words can keep people apart; mime can be a bridge between them.

Kenny Rogers

If I could undo what's been done, But I guess everyone is living, With water and bridges.

Friedrich Nietzsche

How lovely it is that there are words and sounds. Are not words and sounds rainbows and illusive bridges between things which are eternally apart?

Jerry Bridges

Our worst days are never so bad that you are beyond the reach of God's grace. And your best days are never so good that you are beyond the need of God's grace.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

We must work passionately and indefatigably to bridge the gulf between our scientific progress and our moral progress. One of the great problems of mankind is that we suffer from a poverty of the spirit which stands in glaring contrast to our scientific and technological abundance. The richer we have become materially, the poorer we have become morally and spiritually.

Mike Parry

Stamford Bridge holds 42,000. So ten per cent of that would be about 4.1 thousand

Gregory David Roberts

A politician is someone who promises a bridge even when there's no water

Holly Near

All my life I have gone out on a limb, but I have turned the limb into a bridge, and there is cool, clear water flowing under.

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

The beauty, amenities and services at The Bridges of Saint Paul will be an ideal environment for Westin. This partnership will enable Westin to offer guests staying with us in St. Paul the services, products and amenities that provides them a sense of rejuvenation, so that they may feel better when they leave than when they arrived.

Taxes, well laid and well spent, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, and promote the general welfare. Taxes protect property and the environment; taxes make business possible. Taxes pay for roads and schools and bridges and police and teachers. Taxes pay for doctors and nursing homes and medicine.

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.

It will be one of the largest bascule lift bridges in the country.

It's frustrating any time you lose, it doesn't matter how or where. It's extra frustrating when you get that many shots, but Bridges is a good goalie and he got the job done.

Mick Jagger

I'd done a very long project on Bridges To Babylon. I was on the road for ages with that. When I came off the road, I thought, the next thing I want to do on my own.

Thelonious Monk

The inside of the tune [the bridge] is the part that makes the outside sound good.

Michael Bloomberg

You know, if you look back in the 1930s, the money went to infrastructure. The bridges, the municipal buildings, the roads, those were all built with stimulus money spent on infrastructure. This stimulus bill has fundamentally gone, started out with a $500 rebate check, remember. That went to buy flat-screen TVs made in China.

Michael Storm

Also, if I did join another show, I'd end up burning my bridges to the show I love most.

Michael Jordan

I want to be the bridge to the next generation.

Mehmet Oz

I used to bicycle to work across the George Washington Bridge, but my wife told me it wasn't professional.

Michael Rady

I just like to talk to people. I don't know how to bridge the gap between getting to know someone and then schmoozing and sort of working contacts and business connections.

Mark Twain

Crowds stand around all day long and criticise that bridge, and find fault with it, and tell with unlimited frankness how it ought to have been planned, and how they would have built it had the city granted them the $14,000 it cost. It is really refreshing to hang around these and listen to them. A foreigner would come to the conclusion that all America was composed of inspired professional bridge builders.

Mason Cooley

Technique bridges among ideas, and sometimes generates them.

Kit Bond

Investing in our rural roadways and bridges is more than just investing in concrete and steel; it is also an investment in our future.

Judi Dench

It is not good to cross the bridge before you get to it.

Fannie Lou Hamer

Never to forget where we came from and always praise the bridges that carried us over.

Jim Henson

You're assisting the audience to understand; you're giving them a bridge or an access. And if you don't give them that, if you keep it more abstract, it's almost more pure. It's a cooler thing.

James A. Baldwin

After my best friend jumped off the bridge, I knew that I was next. So-Paris. With forty dollars and a one-way ticket.

George Herbert

February makes a bridge and March breakes it. [February makes a bridge, and March breaks it.]

Hunter S. Thompson

Fiction is a bridge to the truth that journalism can't reach.

Humphrey Bogart

I don't approve of the John Waynes and the Gary Coopers saying "Shucks, I ain't no actor - I'm just a bridge builder or a gas station attendant." If they aren't actors, what the hell are they getting paid for? I have respect for my profession. I worked hard at it.

I don't think that when we have congressmen making decisions on rainforests and bridges to nowhere that represents Iowa values.