Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

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.

The building has had a lot of usage by the university. The decision (to implode it) wasn't easily arrived at.

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.

Jason Robinson

The time has arrived to put my family and my wife before the England team,

Sam Rainsy

The time has arrived for us to put an end to personal issues.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 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.

Everyone needs some time to get used to the rule changes. We arrived late today so we didn't get briefed. The officials came in after the second period and discussed it with us; it was supposed to be before. You can't clutch and grab anymore.

Wayne King

Everyone has arrived healthy and unharmed. There were some minor inconveniences, but everyone for the most part is happy.

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.

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,