Quotes About Charles Bridge

#1. I was right." She dropped the sword and grabbed Helen in a hug. Then she started jumping up and down, making Helen jump with her. "You're not dead! This is ... You have no idea how happy I am I didn't just kill you!" she squealed.

Josephine Angelini

#2. Zuniga Hides the Evidence ... Like the craven coward he is, Markos Zuniga, rising young star of the Democrats, has now removed the page at Daily Kos where he wrote "Screw them" about the four Americans torn apart and hung from a bridge in Fallujah.

Charles Foster Johnson

#3. I can never drive my car over a bridge without thinking of suicide.
I can never look at a lake or an ocean without thinking of suicide.

Charles Bukowski

#4. We can arrive at a point of view where the preservation of the individual activities is no longer inconsistent with our comprehension of the cosmic consciousness or our attainment to the transcendent and supracosmic.

Sri Aurobindo

#5. When I was young, there weren't any teenage girls I could relate to in film. They were all put in boxes: the virginal good girl, the really sarcastic asexual one. I wanted to do something that represented how I felt then.

Bel Powley

#6. Your letters got sadder. your lovers betrayed you. kid, I wrote back, all lovers betray. it didn't help. you said you had a crying bench and it was by a bridge and the bridge was over the river and you sat on the crying bench every night and wept for the lovers who had hurt and forgotten you.

Charles Bukowski

#7. All parents damage their children. It cannot be helped. Youth, like pristine glass, absorbs the prints of its handlers. Some parents smudge, others crack, a few shatter childhoods completely into jagged little pieces, beyond repair.

Mitch Albom

#8. Prejudice begets prejudice, you see. Knowledge does not always evolve into wisdom.

Nnedi Okorafor

#9. Man got into difficulty when he lifted his will against God's. He gets out of trouble when he bows to the divine superiority, when he repents and says humbly: "God be merciful to me a sinner." Man's extremity then becomes God's opportunity.

Billy Graham

#10. He asked, "What makes a man a writer?" "Well," I said, "it's simple. You either get it down on paper, or jump off a bridge.

Charles Bukowski

#11. Art is the bridge across the gap between peoples and cultures. Writing is one of the arts that can help link people.

Charles Ray

#12. In the Old Testament, it says that if you have the power to do something good, then you have to do it. You're not to avoid helping somebody in their time of need.

Rick Warren

#13. When Charles first saw our child Mary, he said all the proper things for a new father. He looked upon the poor little red thing and blurted, "She's more beautiful than the Brooklyn Bridge."

Helen Hayes

#14. The writing of some
men
is like a vast bridge
that carries you
over
the many things
that claw and tear.
The Wine of Forever

Charles Bukowski

#15. 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

#16. I wanted this world to still. I wanted to fix it and be fixed within it. But everything was on the move, the clouds, the wind ...

Hisham Matar

#17. Once I lived in time as a fish in water, breathing it, drinking it, sustained by it. Now I kill time and time kills me.

J.M. Coetzee

#18. An eating disorder epidemic suggests that love and disgust are being jointly marketed, as it were; that wherever the proposition might first have come from, the unacceptability of the female body has been disseminated culturally.

Rachel Cusk

#19. In Hollywood if you're good looking, tall, have okay teeth and nice skin, the odds of being successful are great. If you're short and fat, it's a different story. But as long as you look like a leading man type, half your job is done already.

John Corbett

#20. You can get really far by putting your ideas out there and letting other people build on them.

Bre Pettis

#21. Many a good man has been put under the bridge by a woman.

Charles Bukowski