Steven Erikson Quotes

When you've burned the bridges behind you, don't go starting a fire on the one in front of you.

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• Music history has flowed under the bridges for many years.

  

  Gavin Bryars
  • Music
  • History
  • Bridges

• When I was 16, I definitely burned a couple of bridges by saying, 'I won't do this!' I was not diplomatic about it. I came to a fitting and was like, 'I don't wear fur; cancel this show!'

  

  Cameron Russell
  • Couple
  • Saying
  • Bridges

• Every burned book enlightens the world.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • World
  • Book
  • Burned

• I used to stand in front of the mic and cry.

  

  Isaac Hayes
  • Cry
  • Stand
  • Front

• I've made it very clear that building, maintaining, and fixing Maryland's roads and bridges is our top transportation priority, and it is a top priority of our administration.

  

  Larry Hogan
  • Building
  • Priority
  • Bridges

• I love Jidenna and Leon Bridges.

  

  Tamron Hall
  • Love
  • I Love
  • Bridges

• I am where I am because of the bridges I have crossed.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Bridges
  • Cross

• Let's take the money that we've been spending on war over the last decade to rebuild America, roads, bridges schools. We do those things, not only is your future going to be bright but America's future is going to bright as well.

  

  Barack Obama
  • School
  • Money
  • America

• We have to create that bridge for the future. And that means making sure we're paying attention to the wages of workers in countries, making sure that we're investing in their education and their skills.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Country
  • Future
  • Education

• Imagine if your business burned down and you had to walk across the street and start again, what would you do differently?

  

  Brian Tracy
  • Business
  • Imagine
  • Streets

• [Short Talk on Sylvia Plath] Did you see her mother on television? She said plain, burned things. She said I thought it an excellent poem but it hurt me. She did not say jungle fear. She did not say jungle hatred wild jungle weeping chop it back chop it. She said self-government she said end of the road. She did not say humming in the middle of the air what you came for chop.

  

  Anne Carson
  • She
  • Mother
  • Fear

• I've lived long enough to have learned, the closer you get to the fire, the more you get burned.

  

  Billy Joel
  • Long
  • Fire
  • Enough

• What Strauss is going through drives you nuts. If you care about your batting - which I'm sure he does - he will feel like jumping off a bridge and committing suicide

  

  Bill Vaughan
  • Feels
  • Doe
  • Suicide

• I'm the type of person, I cross the bridges once I get to 'em. I don't try to plan my life three, four months in advance, because you don't know if tomorrow's promised to you.

  

  Bo Jackson
  • Life
  • Trying
  • Tomorrow

• Taken up with Hugh and Clark swapping baseball trivia. Clark often detailed yet another financial reversal. On the day he told us his house had burned down, we all, I think, accepted the news as somehow unexciting and inevitable.

  

  John Metcalf
  • Baseball
  • Accepted
  • Burned

• It was hot, the night we burned Chrome.

  

  William Gibson
  • Night
  • Hot
  • Burned

• The days, the weeks, the years out here shall come back again, and our dead comrades shall then stand up again and march with us, our heads shall be clear, we shall have a purpose, and so we shall march, our dead comrades beside us, the years at the Front behind us:—against whom, against whom?

  

  Erich Maria Remarque
  • Purpose
  • Days
  • Front

• We love touring. We love being in front of the fans.

  

  Jay DeMarcus Rascal Flatts
  • Fans
  • Being
  • Touring

• I didn’t realize it then, you know, but knowing what I know now, he must have been abused physically.” It makes my skin hurt to think of it, of his small gentle self, so heartbreakingly beautiful, being punched or cut or burned.

  

  Barbara O'Neal
  • Hurt
  • Self
  • Realize

• You don't play around with a good song. You try to just say it right in the proper place, and if you get the music and voice in tune, you'll be all right. That's always worked for me.

  

  Glen Campbell
  • Good
  • Music
  • Song

• You have to identify what you care about and why you care about it. It has to be personal. It has to be something that fires you up or means something to you, or it's not going to drive you.

  

  Alicia Keys
  • Up
  • Why
  • Care

• In a normal movie, you'd never see one guy talk for an entire page, whether good or bad.

  

  Patrick Wilson
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Movie

• O tiger's heart wrapped in a woman's hide!

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Women
  • Heart
  • Tigers

• When you've burned the bridges behind you, don't go starting a fire on the one in front of you.

  

  Steven Erikson
  • Bridges
  • Burned
  • Front