Famous Quotes & Sayings

Adam Savage

I arrived at ILM during the final push to finish Episode I, and it was like going to heaven. A shop full of some of the best people I've ever had the honor to work with. I was lucky enough to spend a few weeks at Skywalker Ranch working on pre-production models for Episode II. Given that it was one of the first jobs I ever wanted to have, it was pretty cool to get a chance to participate.

Charles Dickens

I am one by myself, one, said Mortimer, "high up an awful staircase commanding a burial-ground, and I have a whole clerk to myself, and he has nothing to do but look at the burial-ground, and what he will turn out when arrived at maturity, I cannot conceive. Whether, in that shabby rook's nest, he is always plotting wisdom, or plotting murder; whether he will grow up, after so much solitary brooding, to enlighten his fellow-creatures, or to poison them; is the only speck of interest that presents itself to my professional view.

Cultural synthesis is how a compromise between various opinions is worked out. But truth does not change, and truth is not arrived at by some sort of compromise.

Peter Clarke

Everything that happens to these men from the moment they arrived on UK soil will be entirely in accordance with the United Kingdom law and the normal procedures in these cases will be followed.

Judith Butler

Events that get covered in the U.S. one way are not very important elsewhere or are given a completely different slant, and one needs to have a kind of comparative way of thinking in order to arrive at a judgment that is not completely provincial, that doesn't end up ratifying one's own national perspective and hence, one's own national agendas.

Mike Quigley

Ever since I arrived in Washington in April 2009, I have been fighting for more transparency and accountability in government.

Simon Newcomb

In October, 1865, occurred what was, in my eyes, the greatest event in the history of the observatory. The new transit circle arrived from Berlin in its boxes.

Simon Schama

The British who arrived in the United States in the eighteen-thirties and forties had imagined the young republic as a wide-eyed adolescent, socially ungainly and politically gauche, but with some hint of promise.

Jason Robinson

The time has arrived to put my family and my wife before the England team,

Sam Rainsy

The time has arrived for us to put an end to personal issues.

The U.N. is sending a team that's supposed to arrive tomorrow (Wednesday), to evaluate the situation and then return to New York, I believe, on Friday to report their findings. And depending on what they report, then the U.N. will decide what to do next.

Viggo Mortensen

I've been told that I've arrived many times over the years so I take it with a grain of salt. It's a relatively new situation obviously, but if it all went up in smoke tomorrow, I wouldn't really care that much. There are a lot of things that interest me. As for my fortunes, it's really a crap shoot.

The woman said she arrived in Cancun on December 27 and that day met a man named Brad staying at a Cancun youth hostel. He later told her his name was Mike.

Sophie Hannah

What surprised me most while writing 'The Monogram Murders' was that everything I needed seemed to arrive in my head exactly when I needed it.

We typically arrive at the track on the Thursday before the race and leave on the following Monday. The race weekend does, though, effectively start long before that.

We are sending a letter right now that will arrive on Monday to request a meeting. We'll probably have meetings with them next week to explain the damage being done to the U.S. economy.

Imre Kertesz

What I discovered in Auschwitz is the human condition, the end point of a great adventure, where the European traveler arrived after his two-thousand-year-old moral and cultural history.

We are trying to learn more about comets to see what the first materials were like or how water arrived on Earth. It's important because all the atoms in our bodies were formed from the stars.

Alan Stern

We're going to be like kids in a candy shop when we arrive at a system like this.

We know that many of our customers enjoy the convenience of their mobile phones when they're out and about -- but switch to using a landline phone when they arrive back home to save money or because they have little or no mobile coverage.

Lars Lagerback

We don't want to set a time when he has to arrive (in Budapest). We'll wait and see.

At the appropriate time, Elvis' pink Cadillac arrived on the football field and made a slow trip in front of everyone in the bleachers. The top was down, and he was sitting on the top of the back seat waving at us as he went by.

At 5:30 the morning shift of commissary workers arrive to stock the coffee urns, bring in fresh food and prepare for the daylong job of feeding the humans.

Direct deposit gives you far greater control over your money and time than waiting for a paper check to arrive each month. Come payment day, you know your money will be safely in your account--on time, every time.

Don't take it personally. The nation's Guardian readers all just arrived at our incredibly right-on jobs and are wondering if drinking seven fair trade coffees in a row will make us feel better about third world debt. It's hard to get involved in a game between a porcine American and small, dull looking Belgian.

Don't expect a new government to arrive and somebody to flip a switch to make everything look just fine again. We're at a painful threshold that we need to cross in order to see an improvement later. In the short run, the measures will burden private households.

The residents were unhappy with the conditions for trade. The distance from the factories made the fruit arrive at its destination in bad condition and the buyers said they had to reduce the price. Conclusion: some people lost the whole of their production or sold the tin - 14 kilograms of the fruit - for R$ 0.50 (approximately US$ 0.24 at current exchange rates).

There's no humane way of bile extraction, and there never will be. These bears are literally at death's door when they arrive with us.

There's no way of telling if (the response) will arrive at 11:59.

Warren Moon

I don't want to make this a racial thing, but I think it is significant. It shows that we have arrived at the pinnacle of our sport.

Tim O'Brien

In February 1969, 25 years ago, I arrived as a young, terrified PFC on this lonely little hill in Quang Ngai Province. Back then, the place seemed huge and imposing and permanent.

Julia Glass

In my head, at least, the business of spinning stories has no closing time. Twists in my characters' lives, glimpses of their secrets, obstacles to their dreams... all arrive unbidden when I'm getting cash at the ATM, walking my son to camp, singing a hymn at a wedding.

David Bergen

In my brief writing life, it means I am still lucky that I have at least one more novel to complete. I do not expect that a story will arrive just because it is time to write another novel. It doesn't happen that way.