Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

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.

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,

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.

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

Helen Fielding

I recently bought a house in L.A., and I was so pleased with myself. I thought I had arrived and I was going to be glamorous and live in Hollywood and it was going to be marvelous. Cut to six weeks later. The first time it rained the ceiling collapsed,

Ben Allen

I have received so much support since I've arrived here from the fans and the coaches.

I don't know if this program has arrived yet, but it's very close. We've had at least six wins the last three seasons, and that hasn't been done around here since the 1930s. The seniors feel like we have given this program a good foundation to build on.

But I'm not really sure I've arrived yet, ... I think I'll always have the mentality of the club pro. I'll always carry that banner.

Tom Stoppard

He's someone who flies around from hotel to hotel and thinks the most interesting thing about any story is the fact that he has arrived to cover it

He started breathing after about five or six breaths. He was slowly coming to when the EMS arrived and took over.

The message is loud and clear. West Nile virus has arrived in Toronto and it's important to take precautions.

The Mexican who arrived last month is more often in direct competition with a Mexican who's been here five years than with an African-American who was born here.

Jose Antonio Vargas

After I arrived in Mountain View, California, in the San Francisco Bay Area, I entered sixth grade and quickly grew to love my new home, family and culture. I discovered a passion for language, though it was hard to learn the difference between formal English and American slang.

Gurinder Chadha

Southall Broadway, in west London, has been a constant part of my life from the day I arrived in England as a baby from Kenya in 1962. My parents rented a room in one of the terraces off the Broadway, and I've seen it change from an ordinary English high street to what is now 'Little India.' with a confident Asian community.