Bridges Quotes - Page 36

• Bridge is a game for the undivided intellect.

  Shirley Jackson

  Games, Intellect

  Shirley Jackson (1966). “The Magic of Shirley Jackson”, p.512, Macmillan

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• Golf is a particularly severe strain upon the amiability of the average person's temper, and in no other game, except bridge, is serenity of disposition so essential.

  Emily Post

  Golf, Average, Games

  Emily Post (2007). “Etiquette: In Society, in Business, in Politics and at Home”, p.527, Cosimo, Inc.

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• writing is the loneliest job in the world. There's always that frustrating chasm to bridge between the concept and the writing of it. We're a harassed tribe, we writers.

  Fannie Hurst

  Jobs, Writing, World

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

  George Herbert

  March, February, Break

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• we'll have to reclaim the ward 'taxes.' Why has it become a synonym for 'evil'? I understand that no one likes to pay good money for nothing. But fire and police protection aren't nothing. ... Roads, bridges, airports, and mass transit systems aren't nothing. National parks, clean air, and clear water aren't nothing. A safe food supply, functioning schools with well-trained teachers, and well-equipped hospitals aren't vaporous apparitions either.

  Arianna Huffington

  Teacher, School, Fire

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• The trouble is, walking in Venice becomes compulsive once you start. Just over the next bridge, you say, and then the next one beckons.

  Daphne du Maurier

  Venice, Next, Trouble

  Daphne Du Maurier (Dame), Daphne Du Maurier (1971). “Don't look now”

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• I couldn't ever boil potatoes over the heat of your affection. Your love would never bridge a gap; it wouldn't even fill up the hole that the mice came through.

  Djuna Barnes

  Gaps, Potatoes, Heat

  Djuna Barnes (1996). “Collected Stories”, Sun and Moon Press

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• Rouen shone in dark sunlight and a storm swept it away from my eyes and churned up the broad river with waves which pounced up like cats as our train drew out of the arches of the bridge.

  Sylvia Townsend Warner

  Cat, Eye, Dark

  Sylvia Townsend Warner, Valentine Ackland, Susanna Pinney (1998). “I'll stand by you: selected letters of Sylvia Townsend Warner and Valentine Ackland : with narrative by Sylvia Townsend Warner”, Random House (UK)

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• The cause of freedom, in music as elsewhere, is now very nearly triumphant; but at a time when its adversaries were many and powerful, we can hardly imagine the sacred bridge of liberty kept by a more stalwart trio than Schubert the Armorer, Chopin the Refiner, and Liszt the Thunderer.

  Hugh Reginald Haweis

  Music, Powerful, Liberty

  Hugh Reginald Haweis (1873). “Music and Morals”, p.298, London : Strahan

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• Auto insurance is a toll bridge, over which every honest driver has to pass.

  Jane Bryant Quinn

  Tolls, Driving, Honest

  Jane Bryant Quinn (2009). “Making the Most of Your Money Now: The Classic Bestseller Completely Revised for the New Economy”, p.505, Simon and Schuster

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• Grudges are bridges with faulty spans. Falling off one is a lot more rewarding than getting stuck on the other side.

  Nora Roberts

  Fall, Sides, Resentment

  Nora Roberts (2011). “The Novels of Nora Roberts”, p.581, Penguin

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• The fame of a battlefield grows with its years; Napoleon storming the Bridge of Lodi, and Wellington surveying the towers of Salamanca, affect us with fainter emotions than Brutus reading in his tent at Philippi, or Richard bearing down with the English chivalry upon the white armies of Saladin.

  Robert Aris Willmott

  Reading, Army, Years

  Robert Aris WILLMOTT (1851). “Pleasures,objects and advantages of literature”, p.12

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• The wicked will run to the iron bridge, but it will collapse under their weight. The righteous will cross the paper bridge, and it will support them all. Paper is the only eternal bridge. Your purpose as a writer is to achieve one task, and one task only: to build a paper bridge to the world to come.

  Dara Horn

  Running, Iron, Support

  Dara Horn (2006). “The World to Come: A Novel”, p.84, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Musically I try to connect a common bridge between such exhilarating feelings as performing at the Acropolis, to the emotions each and every one of us feel everyday. In the end, a good melody will always stand the test of time.

  Bradley Joseph

  Exhilarating Feeling, Feelings, Everyday

  Interview with Fred Wheeler, Indie Journal, 2002.

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• I reckon that the Bailey Bridge and the bulldozer were the greatest advances in military engineering in the years between World War I and World War II.

  Christopher Vokes

  Military, War, Engineering

  "Vokes - My Story" by Chris Vokes, John Philip Maclean, (p. 56), 1985.

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• That's all that death is ... Just a going away into another country ... Only the separation is harder to bear because there can be no letters to bridge the silence.

  Annie Fellows Johnston

  Death, Country, Silence

  Annie Fellows Johnston (1912). “Mary Ware's Promised Land”, p.133, Pelican Publishing

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• Natural gas is not a bridge - it's a gangplank.

  Michael Brune

  Natural, Gas, Natural Gas

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• I believe in the power of journalism. To make informed decisions, you have to have an understanding of the dynamics of a situation. And journalism does bridge gaps and creates dialogue.

  Brad Pitt

  Believe, Decision, Understanding

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• Every other civilized country has determined when life begins and it's something that eludes us. We've got things that have to be done! "We didn't fix that bridge because you are all down at the meeting house discussing abortion again."

  Lewis Black

  Country, Elude Us, House

  Interview with Tom Lewis, www.scpr.org. September 7, 2012.

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• I have laid the stick that connects people together. Now it is up to you, your generation and the generations to come, to build upon that stick a bridge that will ensure the free sharing of information and teaching between the two peoples until the day we become united again as a single people, as we were once before; before men separated us with their imaginary political boundaries of today's Polynesia and Micronesia.

  Mau Piailug

  Teaching, Men, Two

  "Piailug's greatest lesson is that we are a single people". "Honolulu Star-Advertiser" Newspaper, July 29, 2010.

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• The secret studies of an author are the sunken piers upon which is to rest the bridge of his fame, spanning the dark waters of oblivion. They are out of sight, but without them no superstructure can stand secure.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Dark, Sight, Water

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2012). “Hyperion”, p.185, Jazzybee Verlag

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• What Strauss is going through drives you nuts. If you care about your batting - which I'm sure he does - he will feel like jumping off a bridge and committing suicide

  Bill Vaughan

  Suicide, Nuts, Jumping

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• Im very excited to work with everybody on The Bridge - the cast, the writing staff, the executive producers - the show is really good. Im very lucky to be a part of it.

  Brian Van Holt

  Writing, Lucky, Excited

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• The views from Waterloo Bridge are amazing - you can see so much of London.

  Amelia Warner

  Views, London, Waterloo

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• If women built the bridges or were meant to build the bridges, then they would have done it.

  Adam Carolla

  Done, Built, Ifs

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