Bridgeable Gap Quotes & Sayings

I do not believe the expenditure of $2.50 for a book entitles the purchaser to the personal friendship of the author. — Evelyn Waugh

The poor are too busy working to need justice. — Ted Danson

A pure soul must never grow attached to any one thing. — Orson Scott Card

Most days go
nowhere
but the avoidance
of pain and
dissolution are
lovely. — Charles Bukowski

. . . Mrs. Arcanum considered foreign parts only marginally less unspeakable than private parts. . . — Terry Pratchett

Hamas married the Iranians. It was their choice. They are the same family. — Shimon Peres

He who is active in politics strives for power, either as a means in serving other ends, ideal or egoistic, or as 'power for power's sake,' that is, in order to enjoy the prestige-feeling that power gives. — Moises Naim

A real love story has to finish bad. That is what I think. — Marjane Satrapi

Addiction is a bargain with the cosmos: only stay time, and I'll remain in this holding pattern, too. The uncrossable gap between now and the past is given tangible form and conquered, daily, in the real but bridgeable gap between what I need and what I can get. Addiction creates a god so that time will stop
why all gods are created. God might be another story. — Ann Marlowe

We may yet work up to some serious shooting war, or maybe some acts of urban genocide committed with rogue nuclear weapons. But if that were the case, why would we call that '9/11'? If Washington disappeared in a mushroom cloud, we'd give that huge event a different name. — Bruce Sterling

A fellow will remember a lot of things you wouldn't think he'd remember. You take me. One day, back in 1896, I was crossing over to Jersey on the ferry, and as we pulled out, there was another ferry pulling in, and on it there was a girl waiting to get off. A white dress she had on. She was carrying a white parasol. I only saw her for one second. She didn't see me at all, but I'll bet a month hasn't gone by since that I haven't thought of that girl. — Herman J. Mankiewicz

Always expect that something beautiful and wonderful will happen to fill life with beauty. — Debasish Mridha

I think being a mother helps keep your feet on the ground. There's very little dignity in parenthood. It's a great leveller. — Frances O'Grady

In Ethiopia, where I was born, all the cooks are women. When I grew up in Sweden, my mom and my grandmother did predominantly all the cooking. Then I changed to restaurant kitchens, where all of a sudden there were just more men than women, and I always thought that was weird. — Marcus Samuelsson

Life is like a race, whenever I found a finish line, I lose, bcoz I'm last.. :( — Rahul R Singh

Ultimately the product that any writer has to sell is not the subject being written about, but who he or she is. — William Zinsser