Famous Quotes & Sayings

Monica Bellucci

Truly, I am a woman of the last minute. When I was pregnant, I organised three different hospitals because I couldn't decide where I wanted to have my baby: London, Rome or Paris. In the end, I decided to go to Rome, arrived on the Monday and gave birth on the Saturday.

Olivia Newton-John

When I first arrived in America, the very first place I came was California, and I rented a house in Trance, which is about half an hour from Malibu.

George Cukor

When one deals with stars, he is dealing with intelligent people. If they weren't intelligent, they wouldn't have arrived at the star pinnacle.

Tom Corbett

The defendants failed to make good on many of the sales incentives. Consumers arrived at the dealerships expecting to receive the free gifts or deals, only to be told that they had to meet a host of conditions to qualify for the offers.

Orville Wright

We left Dayton, September 23, and arrived at our camp at Kill Devil Hill on Friday, the 25th.

Kabir Bedi

I have the greatest love for the rituals of organised religion - the sense of community and belonging it can confer to people. But me, I'm more a questioner than a follower; not by whim or fashion, but as a decision painfully arrived at after much, much thought.

Nydia Velazquez

Of course, preserving the American dream has always meant creating opportunity for the most recently arrived Americans - those who have come here from other parts of the globe to work hard and build a new, better life.

Rachel Nichols

Short boots are cool, in my humble opinion. They say, 'Hey! Winter is over, but summer hasn't yet arrived - so enjoy this halfway point!'

Drummond Money-Coutts

I arrived at school pensive, introverted, and not very sporty, so magic became a place of mystery and intrigue, an escape for my boyish mind.

Douglas Conant

When I arrived at Campbell on January 8, 2001, the company had lost half its market value in the prior year. They had to cut costs to the point where they were literally taking the chicken out of chicken noodle soup and the product was no longer competitive.

Christine Sinclair

I think a lot of people thought women's soccer had arrived and it was here to stay and it was going to be huge, but that wasn't realistic. It has progressed slowly.

Warren Moon

I think all the guys that have played in the game before me as African- Americans have to share in this a little bit. We've made tremendous strides over the years and I really don't want to make this a racial thing because it shouldn't be. But it is significant because it is the first and I think whenever there is a first it is significant. When Doug Williams was the first African-American quarterback to win a Super Bowl, I think that helped a lot of things as far as young black quarterbacks getting more opportunities. I think this will be significant also. It shows we have arrived at the pinnacle of our sport.

We set a standard in the second half and that is us arrived on the scene.

Georges Pompidou

When I first arrived at the Matignon, my desire was to reconcile Parliament and De Gaulle. I had forgotten only two things. Parliament and De Gaulle.

I suppose I arrived at my charitable commitment largely through guilt. I recognized early on that my good fortune was not due to superior personal character or initiative so much as it was to dumb luck.

We've got them from Michigan and Missouri already. Some of them arrived last Sunday.

When the female resident arrived home, she found the male on the living room floor.

When the evacuees arrived here from New Orleans and other Katrina ravished areas, they had nothing.

When we walked out of the tent we were right in front of the house. We waited there for about two more hours until the family finally arrived home and the house was revealed.

Tom Sullivan

We are excited to have Nicole as part of our team. With the growth we are experiencing in our chemical and litigation practices, Nicole has arrived at a great time for LL&A and its clients, and she will be a terrific asset to both.

Romesh Gunesekera

Two of the first plays I saw after I arrived in Britain were 'King Lear' in Liverpool, and 'Antony and Cleopatra' at Stratford. One was produced with hardly a backdrop and the other with gigantic scene changes. I was impressed by what connected the two: the words and their life beyond the stage.

There have been a lot of changes and there were a lot of players I felt it was time to move on. There was a lot of discontent in the squad when I arrived and we had to start afresh. We need to work hard and stick together. When I came here I felt there was an unhealthy size of squad, if you get maybe a dozen players not playing games it's too many.

Jack Ma

Before I left China, I was educated that China was the richest, happiest country in the world. So when I arrived Australia, I thought, 'Oh my God, everything is different from what I was told.' Since then, I started to think differently.

Laura Bush

Welcome to this happiest of traditions at the White House. In Washington, we know that spring has arrived when the White House lawn is filled with children for the Easter egg hunt.

Arjun Rampal

I would be lying if I said I'm not flattered being voted as the 'Time's' Most Desirable Man of 2012. Frankly, I have no idea how the desirability quotient is arrived at. If it is just drop dead good looks, then I have to thank God and my parents for it.

The parties have to stand pat. You need a court order that hasn't arrived yet.

Matthew Pearl

When Charles Dickens arrived in Boston Harbor, where he started, they had to keep it secret because there was such a mob of people expecting him, and they actually chased down his carriage at the hotel, the Parker House Hotel.

We thought maybe it was just a domestic thing and then when more officers arrived and they found out that both owners are dead.

We thought it was a domestic thing and more officers arrived and said both of the owners were dead.

Johnny Nelson

We were reflecting on the highlights of our trip, and she told me to see whether the train had arrived to start boarding. I returned to the table and beckoned for her to come on.

Jacques Kallis

We arrived this morning really believing we could win it, obviously we needed a few things to go our way.

Chang-Rae Lee

We arrived the way most emigrant families did. My father came first, and the rest of us - my mother, my sister and me - followed a year later.

Andrew Miller

We arrived in rescue mode, not recovery mode,