Famous Quotes & Sayings

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 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.

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.

Nick Ferguson

I mean, yeah, I had a great tackle on him. It just seems like so long ago. But it was one of those things where you arrive at the right place at the right time and the ball pops out. But to me, that's the past. It's a new day.

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.

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,

Ehud Barak

I knew King Hussein, and I know King Abdullah, ... When the king was on his way to die, he chose Abdullah to succeed him not because he was more intelligent than the other princes but because he knew Prince Abdullah would be the toughest of them all if the moment arrived when the Hashemite Kingdom was in danger.

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.

Davis, through hard work, has improved his play from the first day he arrived with the Texans, and we feel confident he will continue to flourish in the years to come.

Consumers are far more sensitive with buying gifts than they are with buying personal items. They're more concerned in making sure items arrive on time, if they're damaged, those kinds of issues.

Douglas Brinkley

Theodore Roosevelt had been enthralled with the idea of Texas since 1883, when he arrived in the Dakota Territory to ranch cattle.

The bird flu virus has arrived in Italy.

The best strategy is to arrive at the very beginning so you have all day. There's only 360 minutes in the show.

Students were a little apprehensive signing up (for the class) because they didn't know what they were getting into. Whenever the drums arrived and they got their hands on them, they were hooked.

Tim Henman

It's ironic, ... In 2003 I had been ill and arrived here Sunday and won the tournament. This year I had 2 1/2 weeks of great training, doing a lot of physical work. I didn't play badly and lost.

It's intruding on the local collective bargaining process by enforcing a base salary that wasn't arrived at locally.

Daniel Boulud

I was 25 years old when I arrived in D.C. It was just myself and two people who worked and helped me in the kitchen. I was only cooking for three people most of the time.

George Catlin

No tragedian ever trod the stage, nor gladiator ever entered the Roman Forum, with more grace and manly dignity, than did Four Bears as he arrived for his sitting.

Evan Lysacek

After the pairs short program (Saturday), I have adrenaline. I came back like I had just arrived and I'm in competition mode. I've had four clean run-throughs in the last four days.

John Edwards

It's an honor to be here in New York. My staff tells me that the whole town is excited about the fresh new face who just arrived from the South to compete in the Big Apple. I told them I was flattered. They told me they meant A-Rod.

Jerry Stackhouse

It's all positive. It's getting there. I don't look at it as if I've arrived and it's all behind me. I'm still cognizant of it.

Michael Freeman

It's very challenging work because of the level of contamination in the water. There were several toxins, ... They were also very early to arrive on the scene, and though they are equipped to sustain themselves, they really had to rough it.

I just want to go and practice and make sure that I'm ready when I arrive there, ... It's the last Major of the year and I just want to do well in it.

I kept asking when the elephants were gonna arrive and the tents were gonna raise, cause it was kind of a circus." ()

Sydney Brenner

I immediately began to read about bacterial viruses and in October 1952 I arrived in Oxford to do a Ph.D. in the Physical Chemistry Laboratory.

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.

It's still early, but we're exceeding all of the important targets for our new full-size SUVs, particularly the Tahoe, which is the first one to arrive in dealerships.

It's significant because it's from the guys who really pay attention to the details. It's significant as far as the turnaround in the perception of the Brewers, when we arrived here, that they couldn't keep players on the field. We've gotten to the point where we're proactive, rather than reactive.