Top 34 A Bridge Too Far Book Quotes
#1. I like actors very much, but to marry one would be like marrying your brother. You look too much alike in the mirror.
Marilyn Monroe
#2. Down the blue night the unending columns press
In noiseless tumult, break and wave and flow
Rupert Brooke
#3. Take a look at anyone's life. Take a look at your own. In the long fold catastrophe that makes up your three-score years and ten you will encounter many cusp catastrophes along the way.
William Boyd
#4. In an infinite universe, all things are possible
within physical limits, that is
and any book that can be written does physically exist. Somewhere. The book is the bridge between the words and the physical actuality.
Rand Miller
#5. Learning to learn is to know how to navigate in a forest of facts, ideas and theories, a proliferation of constantly changing items of knowledge. Learning to learn is to know what to ignore but at the same time not rejecting innovation and research.
Raymond Queneau
#6. At times when you're adapting a book into a movie, you have to take certain creative liberties to bridge the gap between the two forms of media.
Josh Hutcherson
#8. Nikolas was his Morning Star and nothing Nikolas now said or did could lessen the brilliance of his fallen grace.
John Wiltshire
#9. And then I just started muttering stupid stupid stupid stupid stupid stupid over and over again until the sound unhinged from its meaning.
John Green
#10. All who have travelled through the delicious scenery of North Devon must needs know the little white town of Bideford, which slopes upwards from its broad tide-river paved with yellow sands, and many-arched old bridge, where salmon wait for Autumn floods, toward the pleasant upland on the west.
Charles Kingsley
#11. True love always makes a man better, no matter what woman inspires it.
Alexandre Dumas
#12. A book is not an end in itself; it is only a way to touch someone - a bridge extended across a space of loneliness and obscurity - and sometimes it is a way of winning other people to our causes.
Isabel Allende
#14. But preserve your mistrust of the page, for a book is a fortress, a place of weeping, the key to a desert, a river that has no bridge, a garden of spears.
Sofia Samatar
#15. Do something that will last and be beautiful. It doesn't have to be a bridge-or a symphony or book or a business. It could be the look in the eye of a child you raise or a simple garden you tend. Do something that will last and be beautiful.
Ken Burns
#16. A: The soul wanders in the dark, until it finds love. And so, wherever our love goes, there we find our soul.
Q: It always happens?
A: If we're lucky. And if we let ourselves be blind.
Q: Instead of watching out?
A: Instead of always watching out.
Mary Zimmerman
#17. I understand that what I am to do is to be a bridge between the people who would never set foot in a church in their entire lives and people who would like to get them there. So I write books that Christians can give to their non-Christian friends that they will actually read.
Andy Andrews
#18. Don't wait for anything; simply because what you are waiting for may never come!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#19. ... She was, obviously, one of those women whose polished words may reflect a book club or bridge club, or any other deadly conventionality, but never her soul.
Vladimir Nabokov
#20. Saying of the Prophet
Understanding
Speak to everyone in accordance with his degree of understanding.
Idries Shah
#21. How many people could say truthfully their god was a few feet away from them, made flesh, and that heaven was to be by his side?
John Wiltshire
#22. She'd been to Narnia, Wonderland, Hogwarts, Dictionopolis. She had tessered, fallen through the rabbit hole, crossed the ice bridge into the unknown world beyond.
Anne Ursu
#23. I create a playlist for each and every character that I play.
Adhir Kalyan
#24. Good gardening is very simple, really. You just have to learn to think like a plant.
Barbara Damrosch
#25. The more he saw of this life the more he realised he just wanted what he'd always wanted: Nikolas bloody Mikkelsen.
John Wiltshire
#26. I was resting in the shadow of that ideal happiness as in the shade of the poisonous manchineel tree, without foreseeing the consequences.
Gustave Flaubert
#27. I have a very strong, very proven record that I am not a compromiser. I have a spine made out of titanium.
Michele Bachmann
#28. A material thing is first of all "the only bridge of communication between two minds." The bridge is a passage, but it is also distance maintained. The materiality of the book keeps two minds at an equal distance, whereas explication is the annihilation of one mind by another.
Jacques Ranciere
#29. I think bridges have a special meaning in our life. I think a book is a bridge. Any type of art is a bridge that allows different cultures to connect. You may not understand your neighbour's way of seeing life, but you sure understand your neighbour's joy in painting or dancing.
Paulo Coelho
#30. An intelligent man will use a book to settle an argument. Preferably a hardback with a thick spine, flat across the bridge of the nose.
Shatrujeet Nath
#32. 'The Cardturner,' while it has bridge in it, you certainly don't need to know how to play bridge to read it. It's basically a book about relationships - between Alton and his great-uncle, and Alton and his friends, and how it changes his life.
Louis Sachar
#33. We're in a strange situation where people either don't read at all or they read a lot. There's a huge gap in between. That's something that would be good to bridge so it doesn't have to be one thing or the other. Books could be part of life in a more relaxed way. I'd like to see that.
Jeanette Winterson
#34. Sunday is the only day you have to push like a handcart,' Thomas wrote in The Book Of Everything. ' The other days roll down the bridge by themselves.
Guus Kuijer
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