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Quotes About Arrivals

Someone who loved night arrivals and dark departures, for the hell, the fun, the death of it?
~ Ray Bradbury
Even traveling despondently is better than arriving here." To welcome visitors the arrivals hall featured a picture of the president of NowWhat, smiling. It was the only picture anybody could find of him, and it had been taken shortly after he had shot himself, so although the photo had been retouched as well as could be managed, the smile it wore was rather a ghastly one.
~ Douglas Adams
Life is all arrivals and departures.
~ Karen Joy Fowler
In life there is nothing more unexpected and surprising than the arrivals and departures of pleasure. If we find it in one place today, it is vain to seek it there tomorrow. You can not lay a trap for it.
~ Alexander Smith
I have specific playlists for arrivals in different cities. Tokyo skews new wave, Paris more jazz, and New York is Top 40.
~ Chris Benz
The landing pads and stevedore platforms spread to either side behind the arrivals center, punctuated by drab warehouses and a squat control tower painted so dull a beige it was insulting.
~ Kate Elliott
where he talked with railroad staff about their methods of scheduling arrivals and departures until Edison finally was ready to return to San Francisco on the 5:42 p.m. train.
~ Jeff Guinn
But I think 'Love, Actually' has a very realistic view of human nature in line with the latest scientific evidence. The opening scene, where Hugh Grant's character talks about the arrivals gate at Heathrow, is about friendship and connection, it's about who we really are as a species.
~ Rutger Bregman
using the works to balance his way into the arrivals wing so he could check in.
~ Amy Lane
In twenty-four years of proofreading, flocks of words flew into my head through the windows of my soul. Some of them stayed on and built nests in there. Why should I not speak like a poet, with a commonwealth of language at my disposal, constantly invigorated by new arrivals?
~ Rohinton Mistry
Our house is so difficult to find that people always arrive late, which means that by the time we go into dinner, I've had so many dry Martinis I'm practically under the piano, and it no longer seems to matter that I haven't put the potatoes on.
~ Jilly Cooper
All around the Lady Jessica—piled in corners of the Arrakeen great hall, mounded in the open spaces—stood the packaged freight of their lives: boxes, trunks, cartons, cases—some partly unpacked.
~ Frank Herbert
The history of Hawaii may be seen as a story of arrivals.
~ Susanna Moore
I took the book and placed it in the section for "new arrivals" and just looked at it there. Nothing I had ever done as a writer made me prouder than seeing my novel on a shelf in my childhood library.
~ Avery Corman
Everyone makes me happy some people when they come into my life, others when they go.
~ kambiz shabankareh
I'm sure the music at Boy would have sounded as wonderful as ever, but there does come a point where, in that environment, you start to feel like the dowager duchess at the debutantes' ball, peering down your pince-nez at the latest arrivals.
~ Elton John
Nicholas Nabokov's first wife did all in her power to make the new arrivals comfortable, arranging for them to occupy the flat across the hall in her East Sixty-first Street brownstone until the Tolstoy Foundation located a summer sublet on upper Madison Avenue.
~ Stacy Schiff
about 40 percent of America's unauthorized immigrants arrived through airports or other legal ports of entry and then overstayed their visas.
~ Barack Obama
Lawler discovered—and could not quite believe—that the CDC didn't plan to test any of the new arrivals unless they had a fever.
~ Michael Lewis
There is truly no other place bearing so much love as airports.
~ Ioana-Cristina Casapu
How many kids are in the Graveyard? A bunch. Who sends your supplies? George Washington. Or is it Abraham Lincoln? I forget. How often do you receive new arrivals? About as often as you beat your wife.
~ Neal Shusterman
Here is where they send in interrogators to ask her questions. "How many kids are in the Graveyard?" "A bunch." "Who sends your supplies?" "George Washington. Or is it Abraham Lincoln? I forget." "How often do you receive new arrivals?" "About as often as you beat your wife.
~ Neal Shusterman
Los príncipes nunca llegan tarde. Si otros están antes que ellos, es porque han llegado demasiado pronto.
~ George R.R. Martin
T]he best, truest popular music is one born of journeys and arrivals, of long odysseys and lightning epiphanies.
~ Gerri Hirshey