Famous Quotes & Sayings

Steven Wright

George is a radio announcer, and when he walks under a bridge... you can't hear him talk.

Lawrence Ferlinghetti

I once started out to walk around the world but ended up in Brooklyn, that Bridge was too much for me.

Shel Silverstein

This bridge will take you halfway there - the last few steps you will have to take yourself.

Shirley Jackson

Bridge is a game for the undivided intellect.

Shelley Moore Capito

My solution would be to bridge the skills gap, such as coal to gas training, you have to give people a sense of hope that they have the tools to be able to diversify and stay in the community where they wish to live.

Steven Pinker

I try to jog in every city I visit, and I particularly enjoy harbour-front paths that let me ogle big ships, railroad bridges and the ruins of factories and warehouses.

Sun Ra

Music can be the bridge to understanding, but people have to get some knowledge.

T. D. Jakes

Faith becomes a bridge between where I am and where I want to go- it is a substance.

Joy Harjo

At least I've had to come to that in my life, to realize that this stuff called failure, this stuff, this debris of historical trauma, family trauma, you know, stuff that can kill your spirit, is actually raw material to make things with and to build a bridge. You can use those materials to build a bridge over that which would destroy you.

Joseph Goebbels

Devotion, fervor, longing! Those are my pillars. We have to be the bridge to the future.

Paul Tillich

The courage to be as oneself within the atmosphere of Enlightenment is the courage to affirm oneself as a bridge from a lower to a higher state of rationality. It is obvious that this kind of courage to be must become conformist the moment its revolutionary attack on that which contradicts reason has ceased, namely in the victorious bourgeoisie.

Paul Krugman

There's nothing magic about spending on tanks and bombs rather than roads and bridges.

Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum

There is a wide knowledge gap between us and the developed world in the West and in Asia. Our only choice is to bridge this gap as quickly as possible, because our age is defined by knowledge.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

By the rude bridge that arched the flood, Their flag to April's breeze unfurled, Here once the embattled farmers stood, And fired the shot heard round the world.

Scott McCloud

A medium is a bridge between two minds.

Swizz Beatz

My idea to bridge the world together with music starting in Asia and going to the West is something that is new, untapped and leading to the future of bringing the worlds together.

Roy H. Williams

A portal is a transitionary device of sight or sound that functions as a sort of third gravitating body between the this and the that, pulling us toward itself, allowing us to bridge into the unknown from the known.

Stevie Wonder

We're stuck in fear and in not wanting to cross that most important bridge of understanding that we're more alike or not. We all cry, we all laugh.

Rudolf Carnap

If one is interested in the relations between fields which, according to customary academic divisions, belong to different departments, then he will not be welcomed as a builder of bridges, as he might have expected, but will rather be regarded by both sides as an outsider and troublesome intruder.

T. S. Eliot

A crowd flowed over London Bridge, so many, I had not thought death had undone so many.

Robert Henri

Good composition is like a suspension bridge - each line adds strength and takes none away.

Sylvia Plath

I must bridge the gap between adolescent glitter and mature glow.

Ron White

There are two kinds of comics; there are the ones who build bridges, and then there are the people who walk across the bridges as though they built them. The bridge builders are few and far between.

Rumi

All loves are a bridge to Divine love. Yet, those who have not had a taste of it do not know!

Steve Kroft

Stretch of I-95 has already had one brush with disaster. In 2008 two contractors from the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation stopped to get a sausage sandwich, and parked their cars under this bridge. And fortunately they wanted that sausage sandwich because they saw one of these piers with an eight foot gash in it about five inches wide. And oh, they knew automatically that this bridge was in deep trouble.

Steve Kroft

Every day in Pittsburgh five million people travel across bridges that either need to be replaced or undergo major repairs.

Susan Vreeland

He and I had a bridge that no one else traveled that made us artistic lovers, passionate without a touch of the flesh. He made me thrive, and valuing that, I could do nothing that would endanger it.

Stephen King

I didn't want to even stand next to any high rise building as long as I lived... I didn't even want to go over a bridge.

Thomas B. Macaulay

How well Horatius kept the bridge In the brave days of old.

Robert Benchley

It has always seemed to me that the most difficult part of building a bridge would be the start.

Robert Musil

... the structure of a page of good prose is, analyzed logically, not something frozen but the vibrating of a bridge, which changes with every step one takes on it.

Ricky Martin

I am convinced that music, like philanthropy, bridges hope.

Richard M. Nixon

Let us build bridges, my friends, build bridges to human dignity across that gulf that separates black America from white America.