Language designed to impress builds a gulf. Language to express builds a bridge.
A medium is a bridge between two minds.
The bridge fell away into the chasm, and the Cyclops howled. . . with delight, because he was standing right next to us.
I fell for her like a suicide from a bridge.
Nicholas Temelcoff is famous on the bridge, a daredevil. He is given all the difficult jobs and he takes them. He descends into the air with no fear. He is a solitary. He assembles ropes, brushes the tackle and pulley at his waist, and falls off the bridge like a diver over the edge of a boat.
Your problem is to bridge the gap which exists between where you are now and the goal you intend to reach.
Writing is like building a bridge while you're on it. If you step forward you fall off and there's nothing in front of you.
Bridge is one of the last games in which the computer is not better.
When an engineer has built a bridge, the fact that a cat can pass over the bridge is no proof that the bridge is good. A train must pass over it to prove its strength.
Bridge is nowhere; over the bridge, you feel an emptiness inside you. Bridge is nowhere.
My mother and I were like two continents moving slowly but inexorably apart; my father, the bridge builder, constantly extending the fragile edifice he had constructed to connect us.
The bottom line for mathematicians is that the architecture has to be right. In all the mathematics that I did, the essential point was to find the right architecture. It's like building a bridge. Once the main lines of the structure are right, then the details miraculously fit. The problem is the overall design.
Nine times out of ten it is over the Bridge of Sighs that we pass the narrow gulf from youth to manhood. That interval is usually marked by an ill placed or disappointed affection. We recover and we find ourselves a new being. The intellect has become hardened by the fire through which it has passed. The mind profits by the wrecks of every passion, and we may measure our road to wisdom by the sorrows we have undergone.
May I be like a guard for those who are protectorless, A guide for those who journey on the road. For those who wish to go across the water, May I be a boat, a raft, a bridge.
Imagination has to do with one's awareness of the reality of other people as well as of one's own reality. Imagination is a bridge between the provincialism of the self and the great world.
I thought I knew who you were, but I see now you were a lesson to learn, and all I am to you now is a bridge that’s been burned.
I cannot forget my mother, She is my bridge.
Many a good man has been put under the bridge by a woman.
I want to paint the air in which the bridge, the house and the boat are to be found - the beauty of the air around them, and that is nothing less than the impossible.
Man, like the bridge, was designed to carry the load of the moment, not the combined weight of a year at once.