Bridgewell Quotes & Sayings

as Aristotle said, "The soul never thinks without a picture. — John Ortberg

Those who sit at the feast will continue to enjoy themselves even though the veil that separates them from the world of toiling reality below has been lifted by mass revolts and critics. — Mary Ritter Beard

We're on a planet. At the same time. In the Universe ... Let's do something Great Together! — Jeff Byington

I can't wait to be seen as a woman. But I know I probably have to contribute to that with behaviour. — Sienna Miller

Amedeo loved thick tomes, and in tackling them he felt the physical pleasure of undertaking a great task. Weighing them in his hand, thick, closely printed, squat, he would consider with some apprehension the number of pages, the length of the chapters, then venture into them, a bit reluctant at the beginning, without any desire to perform the initial chore of remembering the names, catching the drift of the story; then he would entrust himself to it, running along the lines, crossing the grid of the uniform page, and beyond the leaden print the flame and fire of battle appeared, the cannonball that, whistling through the sky, fell at the feet of Prince Andrei, and the shop filled with engravings and statues where Frederic Moreau, his heart in his mouth, was to meet the Arnoux family. Beyond the surface of the page you entered a world where life was more alive than here on this side ... — Italo Calvino

It was heartbreaking when you recognized that moment when pieces of your reality turned into memories. — J. Sterling

GEOGRAPHER, n. A chap who can tell you offhand the difference between the outside of the world and the inside. — Ambrose Bierce

There are people who think that things that happen in fiction do not really happen. These people are wrong. — Neil Gaiman

If I weren't so depressed, I'd kill myself. — Steve Kluger

Each society is a hero system which promises victory over evil and death. — Ernest Becker

I was not a natural ... This is the story of becoming ... the Hard Way. — Cressida Cowell

The only promise life fulfills is its end. — Jennifer Ellision

I have found it to be the most serious objection to coarse labors long continued, that they compelled me to eat and drink coarsely also. — Henry David Thoreau

[Writing about her address to a ladies club]: The heart of my message to them was that they would all fry in Hell if they didn't quit reading trash. — Flannery O'Connor

That's what you do when the curtain is falling
you give the line that the audience wants to hear. — Rick Yancey