Arriving Quotations

If China was like the moon, then arriving in Saudi Arabia was Mars. At least you can see the moon from Earth.

I had a rule that I had to go to bed before the sun came up. So I used to look up the sunrise times because I thought it would be bad karma to be going to bed as dawn was arriving.

The truth is of course is that there is no journey. We are arriving and departing all at the same time.

Growing up in Seattle, I had the opportunity to take classes since I was 7 years old. I did theatre. I auditioned for film, television, commercials, and built up not just a resume but also some confidence. I learned how to master my craft before arriving in Los Angeles.

I remember the first pangs of stress arriving at the end of school. Once I graduated I had to get a full-time job, worry about health insurance, saving money, paying rent - things I'd never thought about before.

I would obviously like to have been arriving in Valencia with the title still up for grabs, let's not kid ourselves, but even though Valentino has won, the season is not over for me.

What impresses me is the young actors with terrific talent arriving on the scene. They'd have blown us all away in the old days. Guys like Brad Pitt.

One of the first things I did on arriving at school was to break my left arm falling into a bomb crater.

It is a changing world because of the newcomers who keep arriving and who leave us behind. Trying to keep pace with them is doomed to inglorious failure, especially as the pace has quickened so much.

A whole film is just about arriving at a moment where you hopefully transfer some feeling to the audience.

We do not mind our not arriving anywhere nearly so much as our not having any company on the way.

One must pass through the circumference of time before arriving at the center of opportunity.

We've got ballots flying around, being counted by hand, arriving by truck and in God knows whose custody.

It is not meant that the artist, in arriving at truth, must follow the way of the scientist, or, in stating it, the way of the philosopher.

The bottom line is: We must be working on arriving at the destination for which we were put on this planet.

Do not calculate what I have done, for I shall accept no recompense. Calculate the public advantage, the welfare and liberty of my country, and believe that I shall refuse no burden, no danger, provided that, at the hour of tranquillity, I may return to private life, for there now remains but one step for my ambition - that of arriving at zero.

If we are always arriving and departing, it is also true that we are eternally anchored. One's destination is never a place but rather a new way of looking at things.

Where I once constantly lost my temper, I found myself arriving at a crisis and experiencing peace.

It's not like I have boxes of scripts arriving at my door.

It is impossible to reason without arriving at a Supreme Being.

The single biggest surprise about arriving to the Senate is the defeatist attitude here.

Raising ambition in 2014 is crucial for arriving at a meaningful climate agreement in 2015.

More and more people are arriving to work earlier and earlier. Given the ever-growing use of cell phones, the Internet, and other communications options, many businesses operate 24 hours a day today. There is a growing necessity to get to work earlier.

I was at the school this morning when the buses were arriving and I saw .(the buses) had two to three kids on them and that was sad to know that one person could almost shut down a whole school.

I grew up in the suburbs, so I remember arriving at Waterloo and seeing Big Ben and the coloured lights on top of the Southbank Centre and thinking, 'Wow!'

Let us go and talk with the poets. (on arriving in San Francisco)

Memory runs by its own itinerary, departing and arriving at stations of the past on its own schedule.

Last year we think we did suffer a little bit because we had people coming in every two or three days. People were not arriving until the last two or three days of training camp. To really have all but one player here from the beginning, we think is going to be very, very valuable to any success we have this season.

When you consider that our technology has advanced from the first telephones to smart phones in roughly a century, it's easy to understand why it seems like tomorrow is arriving faster than it ever did.

Many northerners just arriving here have not even unpacked choosing to turn around and head north by northeast back toward Jacksonville, into Georgia, etc.,

I see the shape of the poem before I start writing, and the writing is just the process of arriving at the shape.

Arriving at an acceptance of one's mortality is a process, not an epiphany.

I am so psyched because we are on the verge of arriving at Home Plate very, very soon we may arrive by week?s end if all goes well.

I can't say we are arriving in Syria optimistic that we will get the answers that are necessary.

We're pleased that the Senate and House have responded to the governor's call for an increase, and we're looking forward to that bill arriving on the governor's desk.

There is no bilingual child care, and these children are arriving to kindergarten without the same early childhood experiences to help them succeed.

Just when we thought we were making progress getting the Katrina evacuees placed, along comes Rita. They started arriving today trying to get out of the path of Rita.

Our newest and best products carried the day for us in February. The LX platform posted sales of 30,241 units this month, our best ever. Overall, our car business is up 19 percent, and we have the all-new Dodge Caliber arriving at dealerships this month and attracting a new group of customers to our showrooms.

Justin has fitted in really well since arriving and he has really benefited from the time off last week,

It didn't take me very long (after arriving on campus) because they talk to us about it. Well, they didn't talk to us about it, but I asked around. But it's an interesting mascot, and it's one people don't always understand.

Replacement voter registration certificates are arriving this week at absolutely no cost to Harris County taxpayers. Because this was the printer's error, the printer agreed to pay all printing and postage costs to correct it.

I think it was the first chance for them after arriving in America where they weren't just learning.

Italian writer-director Paolo Sorrentino makes zombie movies, which probably comes as a surprise to him. At the center of his best and most recent pictures are the walking dead, characters in a race with themselves across mortality's finish line, their spirits arriving before the rest of them.

We need more pain at the contact area. There were times when we were going to ground too easily, arriving in ones rather than twos or threes. Matt is our best prop as far as his overall game is concerned. He's there for his mobility and work around the field.

We have therefore decided that affected South Africans departing or arriving through our ports of entry, attempting to use a foreign passport, will be issued with a warning giving them three months to obtain a South African passport. They will be allowed to depart or enter South Africa.

Unfortunately, we're still in the process of figuring out the logistics. Our first priority was taking care of these kids who've been through such a traumatic event. I think it's no question that districts are aware. These kids are now arriving on their doorsteps. We're figuring out the answers as we go.

Two weeks ago, an employee with the governor's office called me at my office and said several evacuees would be arriving here on buses and that the sheriff is usually the person put in charge of operations, ... I agreed to do it.

The assessors in the P4D and P4P were officials from the Manpower Ministry. They lacked expertise, took too long in arriving at decisions and frequently handed down irrational rulings.

We have a team arriving in Moscow at the end of next week that will have to look at the situation. Given what we know now about the changes in the exchange rate, the difficulties in the banking system and possible problems with the budget, it's clear the Russians will have to do quite a lot before that money can be released,

We doubled our attendance yesterday from Christmas Day. I think people are still arriving and that it is going to keep getting busier.

Well, it is a bit different arriving at 4:30 in the morning.

We envisage flights arriving in Perth around 9.30 on each of those six nights, and then the eastern-bound service departing at 11.30 for an overnight flight.

The process of arriving at the tuition was different this year.... The conclusion was that ... there wasn't a good way to avoid getting near the tuition cap this year.

This will not cause confusion for the traveling public. This is going to be very easy for the customer arriving at the checkpoint to figure what they're supposed to do. We'll make that very, very clear.

We have anywhere from six to 12 families arriving each day. More than 500 campers were set up by FEMA for the displaced families so there is still plenty of room.

That’s the funny thing about arriving somewhere, Vin,” he said with a wink. “Once you’re there, the only thing you can really do is leave again.

[To audience members who were arriving late] You haven't missed a thing, I was just killing time 'til you got here

Knowledge is only one ingredient on arriving at a stock's proper price. The other ingredient, fully as important as information, is sound judgment.

The evenings grew longer; kitchen windows stayed open after dinner and peepers could be heard in the marsh. Isabelle, stepping out to sweep her porch steps, felt absolutely certain that some wonderful change was arriving in her life. The strength of this belief was puzzling; what she was feeling, she decided, was really the presence of God.

The people arriving on this side of the building are expected to fend for themselves. We have some water.

We are adding parking and a signal at the south entrance of the campus, but as we've seen with the new Kenilworth Junior High School, increased traffic will have an impact. Fortunately, unlike Kenilworth students, our students will not all be arriving and departing at the same time. And we'll be encouraging everyone to take mass transit and carpool.

The deleted scenes include one that fans have been waiting a long time to see, one that shows Yoda arriving on the swamp-planet of Dagobah, where Luke Skywalker meets him in 'The Empire Strikes Back,' ... George worked with Industrial Light & Magic and Episode III Producer Rick McCallum to finish most of these scenes with complete visual effects and sound design, and they bring a new perspective to the movie.

The fact that we are able to show solidarity among developing countries all across the issues despite difficulties ... was absolutely fundamental to arriving to an agreement on the development package.

I never deny poems when they come; whatever I am doing, whatever I am writing, I lay it aside and attend to the arriving poem.

There are a million ways of arriving at a performance, any number of them solid.

You Nazis! I pity the devil when you boys start arriving in bunches.

We knew we could not raise our son, John, under this repressive regime. So it was just a question of when we were going to leave Cuba. And we couldn't tell anyone because that would expose others to danger. So we left through Mexico in 1964, arriving in the United States soon after. Right before we left, however, there were terrible scenes with Margarita's family and our colleagues in the dance world, who saw us as traitors. It was an incredibly difficult time for us.

We would like to see humanitarian aid arriving without difficulty from the European Union ... the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe should be able to enter and play their role.

We need to be agnostics first and then there is some chance at arriving at a sensible system of belief.

With wintry conditions arriving in the higher elevations, children are facing a potentially deadly combination of cold, malnutrition, and disease,

Now to escape involves not just running away, but arriving somewhere.

It's not a question of arriving and putting in a whole new administration, but instead, arriving and "compacting" things as much as possible, reducing management layers. We want as few management layers as possible, so that executives are very close to the operations. We also don't believe in having big corporate infrastructures.

Sorrow is better than fear. Fear is a journey, a terrible journey. But, sorrow is at least an arriving.

There is nothing more thrilling than arriving in a new place on your own and feeling the sense of possibility and excitement that brings with it.

We are arriving at a new frontier in our pursuit of ever-smaller structures.

The wind pattern is almost identical to the one we had when we broke the record on Lakota. We should have a fast run up the north sea to coincide with a low pressure arriving in the Shetland Islands.

The state ... said those resources would be here at noon. That did not happen. They began arriving late this afternoon. ... We're not quite sure why. We would like to know why they were late.

(The women living here) always have dreams and wishes ... so there's always a wish list of things that need to be done (at the house). One of the needs that kept arriving was about the piano.

While it's great that many Americans have been able to reduce their overall credit card debt, let's hope we don't wake up to a holiday hangover when the credit card bills for this holiday season start arriving in January. If consumers used credit for their holiday purchases this year, they might erase any progress they have made toward paying down their debt.

We've never seen anything like this. The devastation is overwhelming, ... We're arriving at flooded areas, where we see handkerchiefs waving from roofs.

Even though we are not getting a large, specific influx of people on buses and airplanes, a lot of people are getting here themselves, arriving at the door of the Red Cross.

We are very happy to have the expansion of this procedure into this area. It's exciting to see a new technology in blood collections arriving here.

With supply just not arriving quickly enough, it is increasingly looking as though it will take a severe downturn in economic growth and copper demand growth to tip the market into surplus.

So this is America. They must be out of their minds."" -Ringo Starr circa 1964, arriving in America for the first time.

So this is America. They must be out of their minds." -Ringo Starr circa 1964, arriving in America for the first time.

Ambassador Jimenez has already assured me that the Cuban Sports Ministry has allowed Raul to come back. He's arriving this month.

Sausalito is the gateway to Marin, with people arriving by car, by ferry and they hang out in parks where trash cans are ugly, weather-beaten with peeling paint. If we make them look like works of art, people will treat them as such. People would be encouraged to observe them as art that is also utilitarian.

This estuary was a 40-foot-deep holding area for arriving salmon, and for juveniles heading out to sea, ... Now a wedge of sand and rock extends all the way upstream to Honeydew. Some estimate that area holds 80 million cubic yards of fill.

I'll be arriving at the last possible minute and walking on stage raging and pillaging and then disappearing immediately afterwards.

I lived in Cuba - I was there for one year in the 1950s. We built the famous nightclub, which is still there, Tropicana, and a restaurant, Montecatini, that I opened is still there. I was there when the U.S. ambassador said everyone must leave because Castro was arriving the next morning.

I'm trying to get in touch with him but he should be arriving by Friday.

I'm of Russian-Jewish background. Like many Soviet Jews, my parents were engineers. My family migrated from Ukraine to Israel when I was six. They arrived in Israel with very little... Within a year of arriving in Israel, the Yom Kippur War happened.

In the very early days, we rehearsed and wrote songs?;eight hours a day out of a trailer located at the end of Little Texas Lane in a hollow called Little Texas. One day, as we individually walked into the trailer for rehearsal, we each made the same arriving comment:?;'What about calling our band?;Little Texas?' And we've been Little Texas ever since.

I intend to honor its great traditions and its loyal audience while hopefully arriving at the right formula of exciting new artistic initiative that will fill its seats well into the future.

I'm not even sure where home is. Probably Terminal 5. There is a strange sense of calm about arriving back at Heathrow.

Once I accidentally left my passport in Nice, France, when I was on my way to Prague. Upon arriving in Vienna, after taking an overnight, and being asked to present my travel documents and realizing I forgot them at the hotel, they kicked me off the train and sent me back!

Arriving 15 minutes early does nothing but guarantee a 30-minute wait

The instruments that are arriving (in 2003) have influenced our selections. We're trying to complement, not duplicate them.

It will probably come into the hemisphere by way of migrating birds. People are going to get really nervous when the birds start arriving here.

The hardest part of the software task is arriving at a complete and consistent specification, and much of the essence of building a program is in fact the debugging of the specification.