Bridges Quotes - Page 19

• 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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• There is a gap between the knowledge, skills, or state of mind of the learner and what he is to learn, which it seems to me any teaching activity must seek to bridge if it is to deserve that label. Teaching activities must therefore take place at a level where the pupil can take on what it is intended he should learn.

  Paul Q. Hirst

  Teaching, Skills, Mind

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• Why should a financial engineer be paid four, four times... to a hundred times more than the, uh... real engineer? A real engineer build bridges, a financial engineer build, build dreams. And when those dream turn out to be nightmares, other people pay for it.

  Andrew Sheng

  Dream, Philosophy, Real

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

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Fiction, Journalism

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• Good communication is the bridge between confusion and clarity.

  Nat Turner

  Communication, Confusion, Clarity

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• It would be nice to abandon the verse-chorus-bridge structure completely, and make it so none of these things are definable...Make up new names for them. Instead of a bridge, you can call it a highway, or an overpass...Music should never be harmless.

  Robbie Robertson

  Nice, Names, Would Be

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• Everyone needs a coach. It doesn't matter whether you're a basketball player, a tennis player, a gymnast or a bridge player.

  Bill Gates

  Success, Basketball, Player

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• In the early days, Porter Wagoner would not exactly scold me, but he's say, 'You're writing too many damn verses. You're makin' these songs too damn long.' And I'd say, 'Yeah, but I'm tellin' a story. I have a story to tell.' And he'd say, 'Well, you're not going to get it on the radio.' If I start writing a song, I'm writing it for a reason. People would say that I had to have two verses, and a chorus, and a bridge. I tried to learn that formula.

  Dolly Parton

  Song, Writing, Two

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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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• More than any single action by the government since the end of the war, this one would change the face of America with straightaways, cloverleaf turns, bridges, and elongated parkways. Its impact on the American economy-the jobs it would produce in manufacturing and construction, the rural areas it would open up-was beyond calculation.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Jobs, War, Impact

  "'One big pothole': will Trump fix America's decaying infrastructure?" by David Smith, www.theguardian.com. January 30, 2018.

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• Everyone should walk across the Brooklyn Bridge. I did it three days in a row because it was one of the most exhilarating experiences I've ever had. The view is breathtaking.

  Sean William Scott

  Views, Brooklyn Bridge, Three

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• It's that time of year again, April 15, taxes. I know it's depressing, but just remember, you're paying for roads, bridges, hospitals, and an army to keep the nation free. Unfortunately that nation is Afghanistan.

  Bill Maher

  Depressing, Army, Remember You

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• Who else but the maestro of mathematical creativity, Clifford Pickover, to curate a museum of Strange Brains and write biographies of the scientific geniuses who formerly owned them? I'll never look at a pigeon, a pearl, or a Wheatstone bridge the same way again.

  Mark Frauenfelder

  Writing, Creativity, Museums

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