Famous Quotes & Sayings

I knew I had arrived when taxi drivers would say, 'You're that twit on the Billy Cotton Show, aren't you?'

I knew nothing about him before he arrived but I have been very impressed so far,

I'm confident that this event can help us move forward. Italian baseball has arrived at a point where it must either take a step forward and become truly professional, or take two steps back and become a recreational sport. I think this experience will serve to demonstrate to our Italian players the need for their teams to become fully professional and for them to take their play to a higher level.

I had a dream that I would arrive in this country.

If you can't show through an audit trail how you arrived at the numbers on your balance sheet, that is a significant internal control failure,

If the virus does arrive in the U.S., we think we'll find it quickly. We don't think that it would ever make it into the food chain.

I'm just trying to emphasize the fundamentals of gap control. Take care of your assignment and then run to the football. Bottom line is you want to take the shortest route to the ball carrier and arrive there in a bad mood.

Caron Butler

I'm just happy because this is such a great situation for me and my family, ... I know a good fit when I see one and from the time I arrived here in Washington, the organization has made me and my family feel so welcome. I'm excited about knowing that my future will be with this team.

I haven't checked with Juan. I don't know why he wouldn't arrive tomorrow.

David Brooks

It was kind of a spark, a spark that we needed at that point. He was so effective, we just said going into the next game, he's got to get the football. So that's kind of how we got headed in the direction that we've arrived at now was just that second half and his performance then.

It was like, pack and go, quick. We arrived at 3:40 a.m., had a three-hour nap and our last showers for several days, if not weeks.

I've got to say it's been a lot of fun to do, and in a way it really has been a protection. Honestly, I think otherwise I'd have stopped reading newspapers, magazines, books and would have had to go and hide on a remote island until December 1999. When, of course, the jumbo jets would have arrived and I'd have had to flee.

David Greene

It was a very nice ceremony down in Annapolis, but this time of year we try to stay around here because you never know what will happen with the lambs. We had one new lamb when we left for Annapolis. By the time we got back, we had four more. That makes 105 lambs so far, and we'll probably get up to about 160. Luckily, most of them arrive without any help from us.

It's a good thing that the president didn't arrive for his ride after 4 o'clock, because that's when they have to close now. National parks are seeing significant increases in funding, while the refuges are cut year after year, making it harder for millions of Americans to use them for fishing, hunting and bird-watching.

It's fundamentally essential to bring Mexico to the discussion and arrive at a balanced solution.

Gabriel Marquez

It should make then ashamed if they don't arrive at anything this time.

It's a very important hall. All the great musicians of the first half of the century have played there. You knew you had arrived when you had done that.

It makes sense that search engine users, who arrive at sites they may not be familiar with, are much less likely to purchase a big-ticket item, such as a computer or television, than they are for a toy.

It may be possible that if some students arrived there early in the morning, say 7 in the morning, then that is possible, but I can't say.

In the 1980s prices came crashing down to 10,000 rupees, a plethora of cable networks arrived with channels in local languages -- that's been put to use in the information technology revolution now.

Thom Mayne

In architecture, you arrive so late. I look at doctors, lawyers I know, and they're all buying boats and bailing out at 62. My career is just getting started.

Sasha Roiz

I'm of Russian-Jewish background. Like many Soviet Jews, my parents were engineers. My family migrated from Ukraine to Israel when I was six. They arrived in Israel with very little... Within a year of arriving in Israel, the Yom Kippur War happened.

In Time mind is fixed, in Time breath (is fixed), in Time names (are fixed); when Time has arrived all these creatures rejoice.

Richard Phillips

'Interview' created indelible images of Pop Art that arrived on people's doorsteps every month.

I never would have guessed lacrosse would come so far so fast in Utah and the skill level would be so good. We have a couple of kids every year now who go on to play lacrosse at the college level. Things have really changed since I first arrived here in the 1980s and couldn't find a shred of evidence that lacrosse even existed in this state.

I guess we thought we'd arrived a little bit and got a little big-headed (after being ranked). But everything's back in perspective now; we know what we've got to do - that's win games to get to the tournament.

Venus Williams

I just tried to stay positive and not float away mentally, ... I'm at the end of the line, I've arrived in the finals. It's good for me. Got to see what's left tomorrow. And even if there's nothing left like today, I'll still find something. I just wanted to win.

C2 will be the biggest thing to arrive since Diet Coke's debut over 20 years ago.

Campus police arrived and noticed this nitwit in the room, ... He was not a resident of the room.

Clifford D. Simak

By the time it was able to go into deep space, it must have arrived at an energy source which would not be based on planetary natural resources.

By the time he arrived at the hospital at 3:30 (Friday), he converted to a normal rhythm, and therefore no therapeutic interventions were necessary.

He took the players he found when he arrived and ran roughshod over the competition.

He's a player on the rise. And I guess you could say he arrived today.