Quotes of: Bridges Keyword

Venice appeared to me as in a recurring dream, a place once visited and now fixed in memory like images on a photographer’s plates so that my return was akin to turning the leaves of a portfolio: a scene of the gondolas moored by the railway statio...

The Flower to the Painter

The desire for sudden change and the thought of their realization by force often appears among men like a disease and gains ground mainly in young brains; only these brains do not think as they should, do not amount to anything in the end and the hea...

The Bridge on the Drina

It required all his delicate Epicurean education to prevent his doing something about it; he had to repeat over to himself his favorite notions: that the injustice and unhappiness in the world is a constant; that the theory of progress is a delusion;...

The Bridge of San Luis Rey

By the rude bridge that arched the flood, Their flag to April's breeze unfurled, Here once the embattled farmers stood, And fired the shot heard round the world. The foe long since in silence slept; Alike the conqueror silent sleeps; And Time the rui...

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Dan Carlin: He can ride double with me 'til we come across some body else. Likely we'll all need fresh mounts anyway. They probably found those bodies by now and they'll be hot on our trail. We need to keep moving. Stacey Bridges, Outlaw: I just want...

High Plains Drifter

Field Marshal Model's aide: Field Marshall, thousands of paratroops have landed in this area, three kilometres from here. Field Marshall Walther Model: What? Why? There is nothing important here... me! I'm important! They must've landed here just to ...

A Bridge Too Far

Maj. General Roy Urqhart: When you first named me to this command, I told you I had never jumped before, but I felt I should at least give it a go. You told me, 'Roy, you're much too old and far too large for that sort of thing.' Well, I didn't tell ...

A Bridge Too Far

Colonel Nicholson: It is quite understandable; it's a very natural reaction. But one day - in a week, a month, a year - on that day when, God willing, we all return to our homes again, you're going to feel very proud of what you have achieved here in...

The Bridge on the River Kwai

Colonel Green: You were an accountant in Montreal? Lieutenant Joyce: Yes, sir. Uh, not really an accountant, sir. That is, I didn't have my charter. Colonel Green: Exactly what did you do? Lieutenant Joyce: Well, sir, I just checked columns and colum...

The Bridge on the River Kwai

Water. Like a blanket. Dark. Intoxicating. Cold.

Driving Off Bridges

If music were wind, I would live in a hurricane.

String Bridge

A girl without braids is like a city without bridges.

The Wanderess

I did a walk in 1973 illegally in the northern side of the Sydney Harbor Bridge.

Philippe Petit

I like songs that have lots of different parts in them, an intro, an outro and a bridge.

Sean Lennon

Gratitude is the bridge that merges your love with longevity. It is the vital ingredient for a lasting relationship.

Steve Maraboli

George is a radio announcer, and when he walks under a bridge... you can't hear him talk.

Steven Wright

You can't build another bridge that's so close to ours. It's stupid.

Manuel Moroun

The only way you can write is by the light of the bridges burning behind you.

Richard Peck

Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build a bridge even where there is no river.

Nikita Khrushchev

The biology of mind bridges the sciences - concerned with the natural world - and the humanities - concerned with the meaning of human experience.

Eric Kandel

My relationship to food is that of an acrophobe to a bridge. Unease masks a desire to jump.

Dana Goodyear