Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

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.

The day we arrived here for the first time, it was raining like heck. It cleared a little, and we went walking on the boardwalk and there was the shot. When I printed it out, it just jumped off the page.

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.

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.

Thomas Keneally

My brother arrived some months after my father left. Um, and he ah, was thus eight years younger than me and it was um, you know, it was such a time that my mother probably had people wondering was it his.

Susumu Tonegawa

After I arrived in Basel, I initially attempted to continue the project of my days in Dulbecco's laboratory, namely, the transcriptional control of the simian virus 40 genes.

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.

When we first arrived at the Neighborhood House we were led on a tour and given some background on the kids that were there. The children came from a far different world than most of us could imagine.

Franklin Graham

When we first arrived and saw the overwhelming destruction, many people asked where you even begin to respond? It starts with helping just one person, one family at a time, and doing what we can to give people relief and a sense of hope.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

Chelsea Cain

I felt like I'd culturally arrived when a character on the HBO show 'True Blood' was reading a hardback of 'Heartsick' at Sookie's kitchen table.

When my father died in Greece, leaving my mother strapped, a cheque arrived next day from my Greek publishers who'd just bought two of my books for pounds 500.

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.

Alex Shoumatoff

Elephants are not human, of course. They are something much more ancient and primordial, living on a different plane of existence. Long before we arrived on the scene, they worked out a way of being in the world that has not fundamentally changed and is sustainable, and not predatory or destructive.

Sarah Clarke

The government did not challenge the manner in which we disposed of hazardous-waste material once it arrived in the return center, but rather the transport of the material to the return center.

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.

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.