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Bridges Quotes

I could never write about strange kingdoms. I could never do 'Harry Potter' or anything like that. Even when I did science-fiction, I didn't write about foreign planets and distant futures. I certainly never did fantasies about trolls living under bridges.

Richard Matheson

Bridges Living Strange Never Write

What I loved about my partnership with 'Quarterly' was the fact that it bridges the online world with the real world. Sometimes we see these two worlds as separate entities, and to be able to establish a bridge is very exciting.

Bridge World Loved Bridges Sometimes

Amsterdam has more than 150 canals and 1,250 bridges, but it never seems crowded, nor bent and bitter from fleecing the tourist.

Bridges More Never Tourist Amsterdam

My first book, 'To Engineer Is Human,' was prompted by nonengineer friends asking me why so many technological accidents and failures were occurring. If engineers knew what they were doing, why did bridges and buildings fall down? It was a question that I had often asked myself, and I had no easy answer.

Myself Me Book Bridges Doing Fall

Sometimes you have to, as I say, build bridges where you can - but draw lines where you must.

Bridges You Sometimes Say Build

When one burns one's bridges, what a very nice fire it makes.

Fire Anger Bridges Nice Very Makes

When I was a little girl, I wanted to be a civil engineer. No joke. I would come home from school and build bridges out of toothpicks and see how much weight they would hold before falling.

Home Girl School Bridges Build See

Being in the European Union, we would be building bridges between the 1.5 bn people of Muslim world to the non-Muslim world. They have to see this. If they ignore it, it brings weakness to the E.U.

Recep Tayyip Erdogan

People World Building Bridges Ignore

The traveller who aspires to reach the highlands of Tibet from Kashmir cannot be borne along in a carriage or hill-cart. For much of the way, he is limited to a foot pace, and if he has regard to his horse, he walks down all rugged and steep descents, which are many, and dismounts at most bridges.

Bridges Reach Horse Down Way Foot

We like to be the people who go - can go out into the world and say we're the people seeking places that need bridges built and need the kind of energy that we bring, and then actively doing the show. We will pay for it ourselves. We just want to bring the kind of enjoyment that we know we can bring.

People World Energy Bridges Doing

I'm a writer. My job is to speak what - that which I think is true. If that bridges the gap, that's good. If it doesn't, that's too bad.

Ta-Nehisi Coates

Good Job Speak Think Bridges Bad

We believe more in bridges and making the border better.

Ildefonso Guajardo Villarreal

Believe Border Bridges Better More

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

Women Bridges Done Build Would Then

Dragons and bridges are very much something out of fairy tales and fantasy.

Bridges Fantasy Fairy Out Something

We have managed to acquire $13 trillion of debt on our balance sheet. In my view we have nothing to show for it. We haven't invested in our roads, our bridges, our waste-water systems, our sewer systems. We haven't even maintained the assets that our parents and grandparents built for us.

Roads Balance Parents Bridges View

I've done my share of period stuff. I'm not sure why, but people say I have a period face. The bread and butter of British TV is Jane Austen adaptations and bridges and bonnets and boats and horses.

People Face Bridges Done Say Why

Songs are here to help us: they build bridges from heart to heart.

Heart Bridges Help Build Here Us

I used to take my car and go down to the South Island for five or six days and climb glaciers and jump out of planes and jump off bridges and go white water rafting - a bit of thrill-seeking.

Car Water Climb Bridges White Down

President Obama has almost doubled our national debt to more than $19 trillion, and growing. And yet, what do we have to show for it? Our roads and bridges are falling apart, our airports are in Third World condition, and forty-three million Americans are on food stamps.

Food Roads World Bridges Growing

Guys like Todd Bridges never overcame being a child star. You can't have any big failures. I've always felt regular. I played organized ball at the rec league. At 13, they told me I sold 3 million copies. I didn't know what that meant.

Child Me Bridges You Know Never

What mothers need, as well as fathers, spouses, and the children of aging parents, is an entire national infrastructure of care, every bit as important as the physical infrastructure of roads, bridges, tunnels, broadband, parks and public works.

Anne-Marie Slaughter

Children Roads Aging Parents Bridges

Secretary Clinton, right from day one, wants to do real investment in public works and infrastructure, building highways and bridges, building airports, to doing what we need to do that way which lifts the economy up, undoubtedly.

Day Building Bridges Doing Way Need

The Reagan Administration, generally regarded as having conducted the most successful Transition of modern times, had managed during the election campaign to build bridges to the Democrats in some areas, notably foreign and national security policy.

Richard V. Allen

Bridges Security Election Transition

Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build bridges even when there are no rivers.

Nikita Khrushchev

Bridges Build Same Over Politicians

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