Famous Quotes & Sayings

It would be pointless. We have only three trains (between 6 a.m. and 7:30 a.m.), and they arrive roughly every 30 minutes. If PATH ran every six minutes, nobody from Metro-North would be getting on them.

These student athletes arrive on a pedestal with these seemingly perfect lives.

The storm was so intense and arrived so quickly that people were unprepared to protect their assets. But there won't be any negative effect on the quality or quantity of next year's grapes or wines.

The storm could have gotten here a little later than predicted. If it arrived during the morning, when the school buses were on the road, we would have jeopardized students' safety.

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.

Robert M. Pirsig

The solutions all are simple -- after you have arrived at them. But they're simple only when you know already what they are.

Tony Perkins

The students are filling and organizing hundreds of these boxes and they should arrive for the troops just in time for the holiday season.

The three team leaders will have the same chances. It depends on how the race unfolds. If it's a hard race and riders arrive one by one, that's better for us. We're hoping for a difficult and chaotic race.

The soul that is attached to anything however much good there may be in it, will not arrive at the liberty of divine union. For whether it be a strong wire rope or a slender and delicate thread that holds the bird, it matters not, if it really holds it fast; for, until the cord be broken the bird cannot fly.

Robert Zubrin

The testing of life support systems will certainly be useful, ... But on the psychological side, the real human factor is not whether people go crazy living in a tin: they don't. It's whether they can put up with the overwork once they arrive on Mars and start a rigorous programme of field exploration.

Gale Gordon

I've never been bored in my life working. A lot of people get bored after five minutes. They want to go home and pick up their check. That's never been the case for me. I'm always the first to arrive and the last to leave because I truly enjoy what I'm doing. That's why I've been in show business for so long-I love it!

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

Generally speaking, it's the wave of the future. But the future will not arrive on November 7. This is a stepping stone for the future.

Amity Gaige

I wanted - and still want - to tell my mother's story. She fled Stalin's army in 1944, leaving Latvia, which was to be occupied by the Soviets for the next 50 years, and arrived to the U.S. when she was 11.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

It's just great to see him reach this level. He is a tireless worker who has continued to do whatever it takes to become a better wrestler. We knew from the moment he arrived at our program that he was a special kind of kid.

It sets the stage for you to arrive at the campus. When you reach Neely and Petty it gives you that transition to campus and then you feel like you have arrived in the heart of campus.

Carson Palmer

It seems like we're on top of the world right now. But I don't think guys in this locker room really feel like that. I think they feel we haven't arrived yet.