Bridgeport Quotes

#1. A Bridgeport, Connecticut, man presented his girlfriend with an engagement ring and handed her one end of a ribbon; the other end disappeared into his pocket. "A surprise," he said, and urged her to pull it. She obliged. The ribbon was attached to the trigger of a revolver. The man died instantly.

Erik Larson

#2. And therefore wishing to break a habit I was getting into of prattling, punning, and joking, which only made me acceptable to trifling company,

Benjamin Franklin

#3. The further jazz moves away from the stark blue continuum and the collective realities of Afro-American and American life, the more it moves into academic concert-hall lifelessness, which can be replicated by any middle class showing off its music lessons.

Amiri Baraka

#4. And when you spoke to me, I did not know
That to my life's high altar came its priest.

Sara Teasdale

#5. I come from Bridgeport, Connecticut and have friends I grew up with there.

John Ratzenberger

#6. Everywhere outside New York City is Bridgeport, Connecticut.

Fred Allen

#7. I've been way too blessed. Had too much fun, too many rewards.

Ato Boldon

#8. Bridgeport?" Said I.
"Camelot," Said he.

Mark Twain

#9. Special?" "No, just

Brian L. Weiss

#10. There is a ray within each life,
which radiated through the eyes.

Toba Beta

#11. I think she was from Connecticut, but not fancy Connecticut, with the money and the Kennedy cousins and the Lyme disease. I think she was from New Haven, or Bridgeport.

Lev Grossman

#12. I think meditation helps greatly with creativity. If it's a pure expression of yourself no matter what it is or what medium, it's going to shine. It's going to resonate.

Rainn Wilson

#13. My grandfather was a really, really tough no-nonsense factory worker who emigrated from Ireland in about 1900 to Bridgeport, Conn. He had a big effect on me. Those guys who took a great leap out into what they knew not were the ones who were the real stars, the real heroes.

Brian Dennehy

#14. If you have team spirit you can even beat better teams. As far as team sport is concerned China might need a change in attitude in comparison to the one in table tennis.

Berti Vogts

#15. Even when I was a grown woman, he [Father] would leave me on the edge of hysteria in all our arguments: though I married and lived as far as I could spiritually from Bridgeport, he reduced me in a matter of hours to a wriggling child, pleading to go free.

Maureen Howard

#16. I do what I do merrily out of curiosity because I want to know how the brain works. That will get me up early in the morning and keep me going all day long.

John O'Keefe