Quotes About Contract Bridge

#1. The reason I'm in San Diego is not because I want distance from South Africa but because I want proximity to the people I love. But I don't envy growing up in America. As ugly as aspects of it were, my biggest blessing was to be born a South African.

Athol Fugard

#2. Mum, at Sam's funeral, I didn't cry ... is that
is that normal?"
"Lauren, write in your journal and you'll feel better.

Amelia Mysko

#3. When one does not love too much, one does not love enough.

Blaise Pascal

#4. When I learned of Aunt Dimity's death, I was stunned. Not because she was dead, but because I had never known she'd been alive.

Nancy Atherton

#5. To be aflame with silence, with joy, is wisdom. It is not through logic but through love. It is not through words but through a wordless state called meditation or a state of no-mind, satori, samadhi.

Rajneesh

#6. Young man, if God had wanted you to see me that way, he would have put your eyes in your bellybutton.

Lillian Gish

#7. Movie acting, I later realized, reminds me of contract bridge. Each requires the same concentration, intense short-term memory, and obliviousness to everything else until the last trump is called - or whatever it is they do.

Gore Vidal

#8. People under siege turn to us in complete frustration and I get a chance to go in when it's do or die.

Curtis Sliwa

#9. You signed no contract to become a parent, but the responsibilities were written in invisible ink. There was a point when you had to support your child, even if no one else would. It was your job to rebuild the bridge, even if your child was the one who burned it in the first place.

Jodi Picoult

#10. It's an amazing luxury to say I'm 31 years old and I'm gonna take a year off. That's pretty amazing.

Sarah McLachlan

#11. Writing a class without its contract would be similar to producing an engineering component (electrical circuit, VLSI (Very Large Scale Integration) chip, bridge, engine ... ) without a spec. No professional engineer would even consider the idea.

Bertrand Meyer

#12. If you've ever wondered what you would have done in 1930s Germany well then my friend here is your fucking chance to find out.

Colin Dickey