Bridge Quotations

My eyes are different sizes, my nose is too broad at the bridge and squishes up when I laugh, and my lips are sorta funny when I smile.

Technology is neutral and sterile. Now, technology is the nature of modern man; it is our environment and our horizon. Of course, every work of man is a negation of nature, but at the same time, it is a bridge between nature and us. Technology changes nature in a more radical and decisive manner: it throws it out.

I grew up in Queens, and on Sunday evenings, my parents would drive my brother and me past the factory. We could smell the week's supply of bread baking. I always connected the 59th Street Bridge with that scent. Who woulda thunk, years later, I'd be there, directing and producing a hit TV show?

I was bullied and picked on because I was so different to everyone else, and I definitely didn't believe or even know I was fabulous back then. But those hard times made me everything I am today. It's all water under the bridge now, but being bullied and going through adversity definitely made me stronger.

I'm happy to see the United States and China cooperating more and more with movies. The entertainment industry in China is developing very fast. I hope there can be a bridge for actors to work in both places.

What is great in man is that he is a bridge and not a goal.

I am the bridge between the East and the West. I don't want to abandon one for the other.

I believe that as we face unparalleled prosperity in some quarters and deep impoverishment in others, it is the willingness of the next generation to bridge the gap between the two that will return us to our sense of purpose and focus.

The I-495 bridge over the Christina River in Wilmington, Delaware, is tilting.

Malaysians talk with Mauritians, Arabs with Australians, South Africans with Sri Lankans, and Iranians with Indonesians. The Indian Ocean serves as both a sea separating them and a bridge linking them together.

This whole phenomenon of the diversion of organizations from their purposes and ideals does not seem very serious when the scum rise to the top in the bridge club or the offices of a small magazine publisher.

We've all got to be good at moving on in this business. I've moved on. Sure, I was disappointed with the way things went. But I came out here and shifted my thoughts and concentrated on doing well out here. That's all gone under the bridge as far as I'm concerned.

There are bridge nuts, people who 'collect' bridges.

We're starting at the Bay Bridge and will be airing travel advisories on the radio.

What they're going to do is get the southbound ramp done first, then move to the northbound and do the other half of the ramp over the railroad bridge. They're going to be working on half the bridge while they're doing southbound and then the other half doing northbound.

When we come across the bridge there was a van parked in the left lane.

We're expecting a lot of road damage. I don't know about bridge damage.

Working at the George Washington Bridge was probably the best job I ever had.

We've got a unique celebrity lineup that will bridge generations and keep people on the edge of their seats, wondering what will happen next.

We want people to hold hands and create a bridge of support for the basic human rights, dignity and equal respect of immigrants in this country.

Wayne Bridge is a world class player and even though he is only just returning from injury, we are more than delighted to have him on board for the remainder of the season. Obviously with the World Cup around the corner Wayne is keen to play regular football and given that some big clubs were interested in signing him this window, we are delighted that he has chosen Fulham above everyone else.

Wayne Bridge has got a good chance which is great news. When he first got injured in the England game we thought it would be a number of weeks but he's progressed and pushed himself really hard. He's got a good chance.

We want to build an air bridge to Key West should the roads be compromised.

We determined that the safest thing to do was to stop all freight and passenger train traffic over the bridge until it could be repaired.

What we're going to have until mid-2008 is a six-lane bridge, just like we have a six-lane bridge now.

There is a program called Keeper of the Bridge; in the old days there was a keeper of the bridge who cared for the bridges, fixed things and watched over it. Keeper of the Bridge program encourages students to learn about and adopt covered bridges. It seems to help cut down on the vandalism because the students take a moral ownership of the bridge.

We've been hitting our foul shots the last few weeks. That came in handy today because Old Bridge kept coming at us. We could never put the hammer down on them because Bennett and the other guys kept knocking down shots.

We have plans for other weekends to set bridge beams. We anticipate following the same type of format with the overnight closures.

The fact of the matter is that Hong Kong is going back to China and C.H. has the ability to work with China as well as the Hong Kong people. Tung's approach is by building a bridge to get to know China better, have a better relationship with China, so that China will let us have our way of life long into the future.

What we do know is that the Muslim press heard and reported him saying that he looks forward to normalized relations, that Jews and Muslims need to bridge the gap between them, and that Jews suffered from the Holocaust. That to me is a key victory for us.

We're here today just like we gathered 41 years ago in Selma. We are here preparing to go across another bridge, a bridge that they stopped us on the night Katrina hit. But we come today to tell them that nobody is going to stop us from going across any bridge in America.

We're here to bridge the gap between medical professionals and the family.

This program of actions is a last resort forced upon us by the continuing failure of the Swiss government to participate in the negotiations or even support an agreement, and by the inability of the Swiss banks to bridge the small gap between them and the class-action plaintiffs,

When I looked at the logo, I thought the cat coming across the bridge was very kid friendly. I laid out three or four of them. I had kids of my own who were 10 and 11 at the time and asked them. That was the one that jumped out. It was cool.

We met up with a good Rock Bridge team whose pressure defense forced us to make a lot of turnovers. We had a strong fourth quarter, but were unable to make up the deficit in points.

When you burn a bridge sometimes -- it doesn't matter if it's a significant player on a team, especially a significant player like Kobe -- you might say let bygones be bygones, (but) there's always that underlying, 'Oh, you talked about me,' Me personally, I don't think it'll work out. But who knows? Crazier things have happened.

When this project comes in, Western Avenue will go back to what it was before (the opening of the Route 3 bridge in north Augusta) and Capital Street will become another Western Avenue. If you have the power, deny them the use of Capitol Street.

We're constantly making sure every bridge in the state is structurally sound. It's one of our priorities.

We're not caught up in rumors. We don't know what the plan is. We'll cross that bridge if it comes. Obviously, his grades are good enough for him to go on to college.

Life is a bridge over the sea of changes. Do not build a house on it.

Let every man praise the bridge that carries him over

Librarians are an essential and vital bridge to the reader, ... As book lovers, librarians introduce readers to books every day. I think it's essential that librarians accentuate reading for pleasure and have a solid understanding, respect, even affection for popular fiction.

Love in a shower safe shelter took, In a rosy bower beside a brook, And winked and nodded with conscious pride, To his votaries drenched on the other side. Come hither, sweet maids, there's a bridge below, The toll-keeper, Hymen, will let you through. Come over the stream to me.

So, I'm 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.

She was the bridge that helped us carry on. She stood up with such strength and grace and kept the movement in the forefront of America's mind. She institutionalized the efforts and philosophies of Dr. King.

Old Bridge is a very, very good team, but we gave them a fight, just like every team we played.

Should we play bridge until it's time for the end?

One reason coral is so pleasing is that it's a nice bridge between orange and red. It's a softer alternative for people who appreciate the energy of vivid colors.

One of my goals was to bridge the gap between students and athletes. My dad has been really involved with the ACS; I have a couple cancer survivors in my family, and I lost my grandpa to leukemia. I thought starting the relays would be a really bring a cool thing to do and bring students together.

One of my fondest goals is to try to bridge the gap between urban and rural Oregon. Democrats identify with urban people, Republicans with rural people. We need to get rid of partisanship.

Of all the needs we face, none is greater than our bridges. You can have a road failure; that's not catastrophic. A bridge failure is.

My agenda has always been to bridge the gap between the two groups,

Now we turn to a new task: to implement what has been agreed, and keep working to bridge differences that remain,

Now these cities are getting into the game, because they want to bridge their digital divide.

Now who will stand on either hand / And keep the bridge with me?

Right now, being in a shelter, or being in a hotel, is somewhat a bridge to nowhere.

Riding on them is like a bridge to Old Florida. It makes you feel in touch with nature and history.

Poetry can bridge that gap between what is solid and what is suggested; poetry can pull cogent meaning from the vaporous illusions of the esoteric.

Poll workers are a crucial element of the election process. You can buy new machines, you can educate voters, but really the poll workers are the bridge between the polling place and the voter.

Only for the phony is commercialism-the bending of creativity to common utility-a naughty word. To the truly creative, it is a bridge to the great audience, a means of sharing rather than debasing.

Nine times out of ten it is over the Bridge of Sighs that we pass the narrow gulf from youth to manhood. That interval is usually marked by an ill placed or disappointed affection. We recover and we find ourselves a new being. The intellect has become hardened by the fire through which it has passed. The mind profits by the wrecks of every passion, and we may measure our road to wisdom by the sorrows we have undergone.

On that bridge it hit me that I had, unquestionably, walked every step across my first state. I got all emotional.

One of the reasons we wanted to get the Lamoille done was to be further up the learning curve going into a tougher project. Hopefully the Lamoille Bridge will act as a concrete example of what we can do.

One of the floods we had washed the bridge out. It can be almost dry as a bone or it can be impossible to cross.

One of the first things we will do is offer our downtown lights to be sponsored by people. Marilyn Mathews will be heading that up. We will get that information out later. Hopefully next spring Charlie Hartley will be successful with her bridge lighting grant.

I got to this bridge and obviously can't go any further.

I didn't get hit in my nose, more around my eye, and across the bridge of my nose. I didn't feel it in my nose, I felt it in my forehead.

I am excited to bring someone of Brian's personal and professional caliber to this new position. His commitment to this organization, to this sport, and to this community is special. As our Director of Soccer Development, Brian's responsibilities range from coaching and scouting, to competitive analysis, to serving as our bridge between the team and the front office.

I believe the truancy reduction project has potential as a bridge between the juvenile justice system and prevention. I don't question the immediate impact of the program.

But we expressed our concerns, because he brought it up, that he's allowing people to camp on the island, and he's built a makeshift bridge with no engineering standards to get to that island. He volunteered that information and we certainly asked staff to follow up on that, because it seems like he's putting people in harm's way by allowing them to camp there at night.

But even if we would execute perfectly on our corporate strategy, unless we have the right channels to the market to bridge the last few meters to the consumer, it's all in vain.

Bay Bridge isn't aware of any changes in the governor's position on ship recycling in Oregon. We would welcome the opportunity to meet with him to discuss this essential industry and the most responsible and sustainable way to invest and do this work in Oregon.

China sincerely hopes the boundary question be settled in a fair and reasonable way at an early date so that the border areas would become a bridge for eternal peace and friendly cooperation between our two countries.

I have been in discussions with PennDOT and will do what we need to get the bridge replaced as quickly as possible,

I feel that people who would think it goes too far don't understand what the intent is. One has to build a bridge to the present.

I can't see us leaving Stamford Bridge in the near future.

I don't think he would have been able to bridge the great differences between the Palestinians and Israel.

If Bill Clinton could have taken care of this a long time ago with a quiet apology, it would have been all water under the bridge ... He alone is responsible for the route it has taken.

For me, we're taking something that's essentially trash and trying to make something beautiful with it. It's about taking the world's refuse and shaping it into musical patterns. At home, I listen to everything, from harsh noise that sounds like a jet crashing to Simon and Garfunkel, and we try to bridge that gap in our own way. We're definitely not an alienating band.

If it had jumped the road, it might have burned up to the bridge or even farther,

If we were just song in and song out, we'd go bananas, ... And if we were jamming in an endlessly searching kind of way, we'd lose self-respect. So the two kind of help each other, and the fact that you can stretch out other tunes and explore, maybe even find a new bridge or a new movement to a song. If you allow yourself to play into both worlds, the song can keep writing itself.

If that truck had rolled off the bridge and into the creek, it's heavy enough that it would have crushed them both. They were in shock, there's no doubt about it.

Greg was the bridge in the program. He was a bridge to the past from our state championship years to now. He's a warrior. He makes mistakes sometimes, but that's because he's always going 100 percent and doing whatever he can to help his team win.

Help bridge people out of currency exchanges and used car dealerships and payroll lenders and auto lenders and check cashers,

The purpose is to facilitate right turns off the Memorial Bridge for people heading to the downtown area. The work done for the cut-through had a specific purpose, and it was done by the state. This is a city project that will enhance the work done by the state.

The people we have in charge of the (county's) Road and Bridge Department are doing an outstanding job. But I remember when commissioners used to go out and drive through their county roads, instead of waiting on a disgruntled resident to call in and complain. That hasn't happened in Precinct 2 in many, many years.

The people responsible for this incident have caused thousands of pounds worth of damage and left a bridge dangerous and in need of rebuilding.

We've been waiting for the bridge to be built over County Line Road.

We're open May through October, and we've just renovated the towpath trail. We've made some new pathways, and there's a new bridge over one of the locks. We're also completely handicapped-accessible, now.

We are extremely pleased to partner with ETV Capital and Bridge Bank. Together with the support and backing of our other financial investors, 3i and Scottish Equity Partners, this facility gives us the flexibility and financial resources we need to take advantage of the ever increasing demand for high-performance FPGA computing solutions in the U.S. military and aerospace sector.

Her story will bridge the gap that people feel exists between the cultures she has lived in.

He's always been an oriental garden admirer. We used part of the money then to replace the old bridge that used to be there.

His name hasn't surfaced so often and he wasn't a finalist as a vice presidential candidate because he isn't up to the task. But I think that it's a bridge too far. There's too much to do. It's too early.

We have to be competing with other sports like golf, tennis, table tennis, football but bridge has its attractions. It stimulates the mind and facilitates a great deal of social interaction. We want to go into the schools and say to the principals 'bridge is a game just like chess' that can stimulate students to think analytically and to develop his or her mental skills. We will send bridge teachers into schools.

I actually played my first game in the Navy in 1944. They needed a fourth (player) for bridge and I knew how to play whist, so I sat in.

He didn't say he would stop the bridge or anything.

Greener Miles is just one piece of our comprehensive strategy on climate change. It is not a substitute for our continuing work on vehicle fuel efficiency. It does provide an incremental, short term action to help bridge the gap until we are able to implement longer term solutions. And it allows individuals to take positive, direct action now to share in the solution.

Hanalei Bridge is always a major concern during heavy rains. Whenever the water reaches a certain level there, it needs to be closed.

I would say that whatever our numbers are, they're probably pretty much league-wide and probably pretty much society-wide. I don't think our team is any different from any other team or society as a whole. I don't think those numbers are out of whack. The hard thing is we hold these players to different standards. That's going to be the difficult part, figuring out how we are going to bridge that gap if these guys can't be within these normal societal numbers.

Just the traffic volumes. It's something our bridge inspectors are taking a look at.