Bridges Quotes
860 quotes by 679 authors
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My land is bare of chattering folk; / the clouds are low along the ridges, / and sweet's the air with curly smoke / from…
— Dorothy Parker
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And inasmuch as the bridge is a symbol of all such poetry as I am interested in writing it is my present fancy that a…
— Hart Crane
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The fact that The Bridge contains folk lore and other material suitable to the epic form need not therefore prove its failure as a long…
— Hart Crane
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AÂ form of intellectual productiveness, therein lies its peculiar charm. Intellectual productiveness is one of the greatest joys - if not the greatest one -…
— Siegbert Tarrasch
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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,…
— Joy Harjo
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Looking out at that crowd, I imagined those who had not yet arrived, minority students who, in years to come, would make this multitude of…
— Sonia Sotomayor
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I have not taken a position on that nuclear option. My view is I'm not going to do anything until I come to that bridge.…
— Arlen Specter
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The inside of the tune [the bridge] is the part that makes the outside sound good.
— Thelonious Monk
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Steal from anywhere that resonates with inspiration or fuels your imagination. Devour old films, new films, music, books, paintings, photographs, poems, dreams, random conversations, architecture,…
— Jim Jarmusch
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The time for the healing of the wounds has come. The moment to bridge the chasms that divide us has come. The time to build…
— Nelson Mandela
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Bridges would not be safer if only people who knew the proper definition of a real number were allowed to design them.
— H. L. Mencken
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Walls don't work. ... Instead of building walls to create security, we need to build bridges.
— James G. Stavridis
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People who inspire others are those who see invisible bridges at the end of dead-end streets
— Charles R. Swindoll
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Philosophy can't build bridges, but can encourage people to cross them.
— Paulo Coelho
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Pride builds walls between people, humility builds bridges.
— Rick Warren
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Love, he told himself, was open to interpretation like any other abstract indulgence but followed the same principles everywhere, irrespective of everything else. One, either…
— Faraaz Kazi
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Having sex is like playing bridge. If you don't have a good partner, you'd better have a good hand.
— Woody Allen
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A baby's a full time job for three adults. Nobody tells you that when you're pregnant, or you'd probably jump off a bridge. Nobody tells…
— Erica Jong
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Mistakes are the usual bridge between inexperience and wisdom.
— Phyllis Grissim-Theroux
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Race is the great taboo in our society. We are afraid to talk about it. White folks fear their unspoken views will be deemed racist.…
— Eva Paterson
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