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Letter "B" » Bridges
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«The bridges that you cross before you come to them are over rivers that aren't there.»
«We build too many walls and not enough bridges.»
«The wise man bridges the gap by laying out the path by means of which he can get from where he is to where he wants to go.»
«Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build bridges even when there are no rivers.»
Author: Nikita Khrushchev
| About:
Funny,
Politicians
| Keywords:
all over, Bridges, Politicians, rivers
«We cross our bridges when we come to them and burn them behind us, with nothing to show for our progress except a memory of the smell of smoke, and a presumption that once our eyes watered.»
Author: Tom Stoppard
(Playwright)
| Keywords:
Bridges, burn, cross, presumption, presumptions, smell, smoke, watered
«There is nothing in machinery, there is nothing in embankments and railways and iron bridges and engineering devices to oblige them to be ugly. Ugliness is the measure of imperfection.»
Author: H. G. Wells
(Historian, Journalist, Novelist, Sociologist)
| Keywords:
Bridges, devices, imperfection, machinery, oblige, railway, railways, ugliness
«The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread»
Author: Anatole France
(Writer)
| About:
Equality,
Law and lawyers
| Keywords:
beg, begged, Beg to, bread, Bridges, equality, equality before the law, forbids, majestic, steal, The Majestic, the poor, The Streets
«The clear layer is glycerin. You can mix glycerin back in when you make soap. Or You can skim the glycerin off. You can mix the glycerin with nitric acid to make nitroglycerin. You can mix nitroglycerin with sodium nitrate and sawdust to make dynamite. You can blow up bridges. You can mix nitroglycerin with more nitric acid and parafin and make gelatin explosives. You can blow up a building, easy. With enough soap, you can blow up the whole world.»
«The new media are not bridges between man and nature; they are nature.»
«This is going to be like the 'Bridges of Madison Avenue', a very brief affair I'll write about in sappy letters to my grandchildren.»
Author: Sarah Jessica Parker
(Actress)
| Keywords:
avenue, avenues, Avenue of, Bridges, grandchildren, Madison, sappy, The Avenue, write about
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