Famous Quotes & Sayings

Yael Naim

I had arrived years ago in Paris and just wanted to be famous, fast. When you're pretentious like that, and you think you've planned everything perfectly, it's then that everything goes in the opposite way.

Zlatan Ibrahimovic

When I arrived at Barcelona, I was following a dream, but I now realize sometimes it's better to be content with what you have rather than follow a dream which nearly kills you.

Zadie Smith

A lot of people seem to feel that joy is only the most intense version of pleasure, arrived at by the same road - you simply have to go a little further down the track. That has not been my experience.

Christo

In 1964, when we first arrived in New York City, I remember vividly seeing the skyline of Manhattan, and our first proposal of 1964 was to wrap two lower Manhattan buildings. We never got permission.

Natalie Imbruglia

I'm a fan of homeopathy, acupuncture and spiritual healing. In Australia, this is not weird, but when I arrived in the U.K., everyone thought I was a freak.

Natalie Massenet

I envision a day when a businesswoman will be having lunch, and then her phone will ring. When she opens it up, she will see an image of the latest Marc Jacobs coat that just arrived in stock. With a click of a button, she can purchase it and then find it waiting for her when she gets back to her office.

The allocation that you've arrived at is what you felt was your best chance (to make money), ... If the market is not doing well, that's part of the normal stock pattern. ... Focus on the long term.

Michael (Hyman) arrived with a true understanding of how a children's department should function in a JCC, based on his experience in Buffalo.

When the bus arrived at the school, children were telling administrators that a student on the bus was showing a weapon.

We received a call of a lightning strike, fire units responded to the scene. When we arrived on the scene, there was heavy fire in the attic. There were two occupants who were home at the time. They were able to escape unharmed.

We recruited him late in the summer (of 2002). We thought he had some tools and when he arrived he had more tools than we realized.

Myself and Officer Gibbs arrived on scene and observed a subject identified as Jeffrey Dudley holding another subject's head up as he was laying on the ground. The victim, James Jenkins, was bleeding profusely from his nose and mouth area.

Bob Beauprez

Nearly 300,000 more people are forced to accept part-time employment because of this rotten non-recovery recovery than when Obama arrived at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.

One of the motivations for doing this was to have a positive effect in getting the kind of people we want to have as customers downtown, in coming here. It's hard to measure that and to know if the tourists who arrived came because of the Art Market, but we do see people walking around with the brochures.

I would be reasonably confident that it will go through over a six-month period. They have arrived at some sort of an understanding.

I don't think you can look at this as just a man-woman thing. You take someone like Chandra. We were talking about her winning in 2010. She just arrived four years early. You have to celebrate that.

I expected her to be pleased and excited. Sadly, she was no such thing. When it arrived my mother burst into tears because she didn't want that much change in her life,

Dan Byrd

I ended up driving 38 hours non-stop and arrived just six hours before the sale. It was hard, but we had phenomenal success.

James Gleick

For much of the twentieth century, 1984 was a year that belonged to the future - a strange, gray future at that. Then it slid painlessly into the past, like any other year. Big Brother arrived and settled in, though not at all in the way George Orwell had imagined.

Her growth in maturity has been tremendous. You know when she first arrived in the fall she was like a little girl but she was like a grown woman out there today. A couple of times she made those big plays that just showed how big and strong she is. Its been tremendous when she's playing well we're pretty good.

Just within the few seconds we had arrived and carried Taylor to the car, he had deteriorated rapidly. By the time we had arrived at the hospital, Taylor had completely lost his vision and was choking and unable to breathe on his own. I was pounding on his chest to help keep him breathing.

Juan loved flying more than any man I know. He was an accomplished pilot, but he spoke only a few words of English when he arrived here with an Argentinean commercial and instrument rating in 2002.

Robert Parker

Joan and I separated in 1982 and reunited in 1984, at which time we had arrived at the conclusion that it probably wasn't a good idea for us to share the same living space twenty-four hours a day.

Mitch Daniels

I-69, on the plans we found when we arrived here, wouldn't happen until the mid-2030s and that's just simply unacceptable, ... It's clear to us that it can only happen if it is partially defrayed through tolls.

Johnny Depp

Grilling Tim on the set was how I prepared for the part of Victor, ... I feel lucky that these parts arrived in front of me.

Silvio Berlusconi

He is already in Italy. I think he arrived overnight.

He has shown vast improvement since he has arrived at Monmouth and I think we are starting to see the benefits.

Phil Davis

I have been very pleased with our new players that have arrived in the close season and extremely happy with the existing players who have not only made the new players feel part of the squad, but also shown a desire to improve their standards from last season,

I don't know what it is. Ever since I arrived in San Francisco, it's kind of been like that. I guess it's become a little more of a motivation for me to shake off whatever nicks I might pick up, because I'm really just trying to be there for the guys.

J. Taylor

I don't blame them for organizing. If I was a newly arrived immigrant in this country, because we are all at one point or another immigrants, I would be upset with the rhetoric being thrown around in response to their hard work and efforts in this country.

Candace Bushnell

I first arrived in New York in 1979. I was 19 and I was going to University in Houston, Texas, and I decided that I knew what I wanted to do and it was time to go and do it. I literally ran away from college.

Fran and I spent a lot of nights watching summer league games throughout the D.C. area. I've got a lot of respect for him. You've got to marvel at the job he's done once he arrived there. His teams are very intelligent. They're not going to beat themselves. They're going to play extremely hard. They're probably more athletic than people think.

Allan Sherman

Four times I looked for psychiatric help, and each time I arrived at the inescapable conclusion that the psychiatrist was crazier than I was.