Bridges Quotes - Page 35

• Sport is a universal language, building more bridges between people than anything else I can think of.

  Sebastian Coe

  Sports, Thinking, People

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• I could never write about strange kingdoms. I could never do Harry Potter or anything like that. Even when I did science-fiction, I didnt write about foreign planets and distant futures. I certainly never did fantasies about trolls living under bridges.

  Richard Matheson

  Writing, Fiction, Potters

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• We need to build bridges between the LGBT community and the larger immigrant community. In the end, the bigger the tent we build, the more successful we'll be.

  Luis Gutierrez

  Successful, Lgbt Community, Tents

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• My parents played bridge, and I remember being fascinated watching them. I sometimes got a chance to sit in on a hand, which I loved. But then I didn't actually play on my own for about 30 years.

  Louis Sachar

  Hands, Years, Play

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• I write in the mornings, two or three hours every day, and then at least four times a week I play in a duplicate game at a bridge club. I try to go to tournaments three, four, or five times a year.

  Louis Sachar

  Morning, Writing, Years

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• The wanting was a wilderness and I had to find my own way out of the woods. It took me four years, seven months, and three days to do it. I didn't know where I was going until I got there.It was a place called the Bridge of the Gods.

  Cheryl Strayed

  Years, Seven Months, Three

  Cheryl Strayed (2012). “Wild: A Journey from Lost to Found”, p.30, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• I hear it still. As I lay down my pen and take to my bed, I am aware of the bow being drawn across the bridge and the music rises into the night sky. It is far away and barely audible - but there it is! A pizzicato. Then a tremelo. The style is unmistakable. It is Sherlock Holmes who is playing. It must be. I hope with all my heart that he is playing for me . . .

  Anthony Horowitz

  Heart, Night, Sky

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• I was the bridge between the Michael Jordan era and LeBron James era.

  Allen Iverson

  Basketball, Nba, Eras

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• Thus you see, most noble Sir, how this type of solution to the Königsberg bridge problem bears little relationship to mathematics, and I do not understand why you expect a mathematician to produce it, rather than anyone else, for the solution is based on reason alone, and its discovery does not depend on any mathematical principle.

  Leonhard Euler

  Discovery, Principles, Doe

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• I remember riding across the Brooklyn Bridge about 12 times because they wanted me to keep up with the helicopter, and I said, "Can you have the helicopter keep up with me, my calves are burning!"

  Eddie Griffin

  Brooklyn Bridge, Riding, Burning

  Interview with Nathan Rabin, www.avclub.com. February 22, 2011.

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• 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.

  Stevie Wonder

  Laughing, Understanding, Important

  Source: www.usatoday.com

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• Movie acting, I later realized, reminds me of contract bridge. Each requires the same concentration, intense short-term memory, and obliviousness to everything else until the last trump is called - or whatever it is they do.

  Gore Vidal

  Memories, Acting, Lasts

  Source: articles.latimes.com

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• Men are shallow - we don't remember things like women do. Or we don't bring it up and blurt it out at inappropriate moments. When bridges are trying to be built, we don't detonate them.

  Steve Lillywhite

  Men, Trying, Remember

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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• I always wanted to experience the street life because my teenage life in Aberdeen was so boring. But I was never really independent enough to do it. I applied for food stamps, lived under the bridge, and built a fort at the cedar mill.

  Kurt Cobain

  Teenage, Independent, Cedars

  "Our December 1992 Cover Story: 'Family Values'" by Jonathan Poneman, www.spin.com. December 12, 2017.

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• Just be careful. Passion is a bridge that connects love and hate. When you're standing in the middle of that bridge, don't let yourself get turned around. You've got to make sure you know which direction you're heading. Watch yourself.

  Jay Bell

  Hate, Passion, Watches

  Jay Bell (2012). “Kamikaze Boys (gay young adult)”, p.221, Jay Bell

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

  Mike Parry

  Would Be, Thousand, Cents

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• Everybody sees a difficulty in the question of relations between Arabs and Jews. But not everybody sees that there is no solution to this question. No solution! There is a gulf, and nothing can bridge it... We, as a nation, want this country to be ours; the Arabs, as a nation, want this country to be theirs.

  David Ben-Gurion

  Country, Want, Relation

  TIME Magazine, July 24, 2006.

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• I come from nowhere Brooklyn, New York. Williamsburg, Brooklyn. These days Williamsburg is kind of a hip area, but when I grew up there, the taxi drivers wouldn't even go over the bridge, it was so dangerous.

  Barry Manilow

  New York, Hips, Brooklyn

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

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• So, Im thinking of a name for a villain that has a sense of humor. I thought of The Joker as a name, and as soon as I thought that, I associate it with the playing card, as my family had a tradition of champion playing; my brother was a contract champion bridge player. There were always cards around the house.

  Jerry Robinson

  Brother, Player, Thinking

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• We of the modern age are a bridge between the old human and the new one. We still have the mentality of the old human - a slave mentality, like the Children of Israel in Egypt: too controlled, full of fear.

  Bernard Werber

  Children, Israel, Egypt

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• Nothing teaches great writing like the very best books do. Yet, good teachers often help students cross that bridge, and I have to say that I had a few extraordinary English teachers in high school whom I still credit for their guidance.

  Julia Glass

  Teacher, Book, School

  "Washington Post Magazine: Real Life". Online chat, www.washingtonpost.com. July 14, 2008.

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• Trees and bones are constantly reforming themselves along lines of stress. This algorithm has been put into a software program that's now being used to make bridges lightweight, to make building beams lightweight.

  Janine Benyus

  Stress, Tree, Algorithms

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• In education, technology can be a life-changer, a game changer, for kids who are both in school and out of school. Technology can bring textbooks to life. The Internet can connect students to their peers in other parts of the world. It can bridge the quality gaps.

  Queen Rania of Jordan

  School, Kids, Technology

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• We must also promote global access to the Internet. We need to bridge the digital divide not just within our country. But among countries. Only by giving people around the world access to this technology can they tap into the potential. Of the information age.

  Al Gore

  Country, Technology, People

  Al Gor's Foreign Policy Speech to the International Press Institute in Boston, Massachusetts, www.c-span.org. May 1, 2000.

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• We need to stop thinking about infrastructure as an economic stimulant and start thinking about it as a strategy. Economic stimulants produce Bridges to Nowhere. Strategic investment in infrastructure produces a foundation for long-term growth.

  Roger McNamee

  Thinking, Long, Growth

  "Obama Needs to Think Bigger About Infrastructure" by Roger McNamee, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 7, 2009.

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