A Disappointed Bridge Quotes & Sayings

Darwin is my copilot. — T. Rafael Cimino

A pier is a disappointed bridge; yet stare at it for long enough and you can dream it to the other side of the Channel. — Julian Barnes

For if we take the ages into our account, may there not be a civilization going on among brutes as well as men? — Henry David Thoreau

I come from making money in the streets. The streets all I know. All my family is still in the streets. So, it's going to be hard to pull me right back into that. When I ain't doing no shows four days out of the week, I may be in my hood or at my grandma's house in the hood. But yes, I got a kid. I got to get more serious about the music so he don't get dragged into that life. — Shy Glizzy

Alain will do everything in his power to win, he doesn't like getting beaten by anyone and least of all me. — Nigel Mansell

A pier is a disappointed bridge. — Julian Barnes

And let's say that I know it will take you forty-seven situations and events before you actually hear me-that is, before you will hear clearly enough to agree with me and change. So when you don't hear me the first time, I'm not frustrated or disappointed, I'm thrilled. Only forty-six more times to go! And that first time will be a building block to construct a bridge of healing that one day-that today-you will walk across. - Papa — William Paul Young

I see the level of sophistication and knowledge about business growing dramatically. Several decades ago, only a few companies thought about international business. — Rosabeth Moss Kanter

The pearl is the queen of gems and the gem of queens. — Grace Kelly

A man who embarks on a journey must know when to end it. — Tahir Shah

Stephen picks up on Armstrong's pier, and calls Kingstown pier "a disappointed bridge" (2.22). He's joking about the fact that Ireland wanted to be connected to continental Europe but ended up being extremely isolated. — James Joyce

I suppose that there is no point wasting time being lazy, though of course indolence in a divine way, actually has its advantages. — Stephen Fry

That's one of the most bewitching things about romance for me, as a reader and writer. Romances harbor hope for the reader. They create a direct emotional experience of certainty and potential to bridge the dark moments and help lead us into the light. No small wonder that romance is the source of all fictional genres and that romance continues to outsell every other form of human literary output. Hope is a magical thing, hard-won and easily snuffed. Anyone can point out ways for us to stay disappointed, compromised, and anxious, but opening anyone's eyes to possibilities helps them dream harder and reach further. Any book that can do that deserves a place on my shelves. — Damon Suede

Marco Polo had been to China; Vasco de Gama had discovered the route to the Cape. The continent was in ferment, in movement, whereas the Mexican world was ... absolutely hermetically closed. The arrival of the Spaniards must have been like the arrival of people from Mars ... totally unsuspected aliens. The shock must have been profound ... I think it's one of the reasons behind the downfall of the Aztec Empire. In a sense, I think the Aztec Empire died of astonishment, more than anything else. — Carlos Fuentes

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. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

Don't make me flip you off"
"Why would I deprive you of a favourite hobby?"
"Because my finger's getting sore. — J.R. Ward

From age eleven to age sixteen I lived a spartan life without the usual adolescent uncertainty. I wanted to be the best swimmer in the world, and there was nothing else. — Diana Nyad

The organ of perception acts more readily than judgment. — Leonardo Da Vinci

I threw all my pitches over the top which was important for me because my slider was hard to tell from my fastball at release. — Steve Carlton

I am aware of the words 'national treasure' being attached to me occasionally. It just makes me feel old. — Paul Weller