Bridges Quotes - Page 15

• I fall in love with Britain every day, with bridges, buses, blue skies... but it’s a brutal world, man.

  Pete Doherty

  Falling In Love, Men, Blue

  Metro, August 25, 2006.

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• But I will not tell you how long or short the way will be; only that it lies across a river. But do not fear that, for I am the great Bridge Builder.

  C. S. Lewis

  Lying, Rivers, Long

  C.S.Lewis (2016). “The Chronicles of Narnia Vol III: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader”, p.183, ENRICH CULTURE GROUP LIMITED

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• The bridge fell away into the chasm, and the Cyclops howled ... with delight, because he was standing right next to us.

  Rick Riordan

  Delight, Next, Percy Jackson And The Olympians

  Rick Riordan (2013). “Percy Jackson: The Complete Series”, p.421, Penguin UK

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• A map does not just chart, it unlocks and formulates meaning; it forms bridges between here and there, between disparate ideas that we did not know were previously connected.

  Reif Larsen

  Ideas, Here And There, Doe

  Reif Larsen (2010). “The Selected Works of T. S. Spivet: A Novel”, p.151, Penguin

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• I am the bridge between the bleeding edge and the dead center. I stand between the Wizard of Oz and the man behind the curtain. I am the curtain.

  Peter Watts

  Men, Wizards, Bleeding

  Peter Watts (2014). “Firefall”, p.31, Head of Zeus

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• The word connects the visible trace with the invisible thing, the absent thing, the thing that is desired or feared, like a frail emergency bridge flung over an abyss.

  Italo Calvino

  Emergencies, Invisible, Frail

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• To say I’m an overrated troll, when you have never even seen me guard a bridge, is patently unfair.

  Tina Fey

  Witty, Troll, Unfair

  "Tina Fey: 'Ugly, pear-shaped and bitchy? I prefer offbeat, business class-assed and exhausted'" by Tina Fey, www.theguardian.com. April 18, 2011.

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• Lou's such an old punk he was around when the Ramones were junkie hustlers first and musicians second, when punk meant something other than a mass-marketing concept designed to help the bridge-and-tunnel crowd feel cool.

  Rachel Cohn

  Tunnels, Marketing, Musician

  Rachel Cohn, David Levithan (2014). “Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist”, p.12, Egmont UK

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• Danger comes in many forms, I suppose. For some people, it might be jumping off a bridge or climbing impossible moutains. For others, it could be a tawdry love affair or telling off a mean-looking bus driver because he doesn't like to stop for noisy teenagers. It could be cheating at cards or eating a peanut even though you're allergic. For me, danger might be getting out from the protective cloak of my family and venturing into the world more of my own, even though I don't know what- or who- awaits me.

  David Levithan

  Cheating, Teenager, Mean

  Rachel Cohn, David Levithan (2010). “Dash & Lily's Book of Dares”, p.145, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• My older sister has entire kingdoms inside of her, and some of them are only accessible at certain seasons, in certain kinds of weather. One such melting occurs in summer rain, at midnight, during the vine-green breathing time right before sleep. You have to ask the right question, throw the right rope bridge, to get there-and then bolt across the chasm between you, before your bridge collapses.

  Karen Russell

  Summer, Rain, Sleep

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• Everything had felt so precarious since her mother's death, like she was walking on a bridge made of paper.

  Sarah Addison Allen

  Mother, Paper, Made

  Sarah Addison Allen (2010). “The Girl Who Chased the Moon: A Novel”, p.10, Bantam

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• A man with a talent does what is expected of him, makes his way, constructs, is an engineer, a composer, a builder of bridges. It's the natural order of things that he construct objects outside himself and his family. The woman who does so is aberrant. We have to expiate for this cursed talent someone handed out to us, by mistake, in the black mystery of genetics.

  May Sarton

  Mistake, Men, Order

  May Sarton (2014). “Mrs. Stevens Hears the Mermaids Singing: A Novel”, p.96, Open Road Media

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• So I went ahead and made me a guitar. Igot me a cigar box, I cut me a round hole in the middle of it, takeme a little piece of plank, nailed it onto that cigar box, and I gotme some screen wire and I made me a bridge back there and raised itup high enough that it would sound inside that little box, and got mea tune out of it. I kept my tune and I played from then on.

  Lightnin' Hopkins

  Cutting, Guitar, Wire

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• We have as Americans a right to be here, and we also have a responsibility to build bridges of reconciliation with the families of those who died on 11 September.

  Sharif El-Gamal

  Responsibility, September, Died

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• I got everything I need right here with me. I got air in my lungs, a few blank sheets of paper. I mean, I love waking up in the morning not knowing what's gonna happen or, who I'm gonna meet, where I'm gonna wind up. Just the other night I was sleeping under a bridge and now here I am on the grandest ship in the world having champagne with you fine people. I figure life's a gift and I don't intend on wasting it. You don't know what hand you're gonna get dealt next. You learn to take life as it comes at you... to make each day count.

  Leonardo DiCaprio

  Morning, Mean, Sleep

  "Fictional character: Jack Dawson". "Titanic", www.imdb.com. November 18, 1997.

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• SodaStream is a company that is not only committed to the environment, but to building a bridge to peace between Israel and Palestine, supporting neighbors working alongside each other, receiving equal pay, equal benefits and equal rights. That is what is happening in their Ma'ale Adumim factory every working day.

  Scarlett Johansson

  Rights, Israel, Equal Pay

  "Oxfam under pressure to cut ties with Scarlett Johansson over SodaStream ad" by Matthew Kalman, www.theguardian.com. January 29, 2014.

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• George Washington Bridge? You throw yourself off the Brooklyn Bridge, traditionally. George Washington Bridge, who does that?

  John Goodman

  Brooklyn Bridge, Doe, Brooklyn

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• I'm going to have cute boobs 'til I'm 90, so there's that. I'll have the best boobs in the nursing home. I'll be the envy of all the ladies around the bridge table.

  Christina Applegate

  Cute, Home, Nursing

  "Good Morning America" Interview, August 19, 2008.

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• I'm one of those people who when I go over a bridge, I want to jump. It's just this intense tickle in the back of my throat. It's like I'm on the verge the whole time I'm walking over that bridge, and I'm not going to get a release until I jump.

  Willem Dafoe

  People, Want, Intense

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The whole point of art, aside from the aesthetic pleasure it yields, is that it provides a bridge to the past; that seductive land where we all find certainty and consolation. Nothing quite spans this gulf with such immediacy as the art of popular song.

  Barry Humphries

  Song, Art, Past

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• My favourite shows of the year are House of Cards, the Scandinavian versions of The Killing and The Bridge, and my guilty pleasure is everything MMA. Ultimate Fighter is amazing.

  Ricky Gervais

  Years, Mma, House Of Cards

  Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com. September 4, 2013.

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• Nine times out of ten it is over the Bridge of Sighs that we pass the narrow gulf from youth to manhood. That interval is usually marked by an ill placed or disappointed affection. We recover and we find ourselves a new being. The intellect has become hardened by the fire through which it has passed. The mind profits by the wrecks of every passion, and we may measure our road to wisdom by the sorrows we have undergone.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Wisdom, Passion, Fire

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• Your mouth on mine our bridge to cross and serve where we would go. Utopia of sensations the flesh could never know.

  Vanna Bonta

  Love, Sex, Mouths

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• In engineering, as in other creative arts, we must learn to do analysis to support our efforts in synthesis. One cannot build a beautiful and functional bridge without a knowledge of steel and dirt, and a considerable mathematical technique for using this knowledge to compute the properties of structures. Similarly, one cannot build a beautiful computer system without a deep understanding of how to "previsualize" the process generated by the code one writes.

  Gerald Jay Sussman

  Beautiful, Art, Writing

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• The first eight years of schooling was with all white people. So that helped me to understand how white people think. I think that transition is what helped me bridge the gap, because that's what my success has really been about: bridging the gap between the black community and the white community.

  Will Smith

  Thinking, Years, White

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