Quotes About Arrival

'Close Encounters of the Third Kind' ends with the spaceship lands and Richard Dreyfuss' character best on, but a bunch of pilots and sailors from the 1940s get off. You kind of wanted to know what happened next.

To fly as fast as thought, you must begin by knowing that you have already arrived.

Ever since the arrival of printing - thought to be the invention of the devil because it would put false opinions into people's minds - people have been arguing that new technology would have disastrous consequences for language.

The Black Death was a faithful visitor to Florence. It arrived, on average, once every ten years, always in the summer.

chapter 5   I pressed the bell, and in a minute a rich female voice gurgled in the speaking-tube. "Who is it, please?" "Lew Archer. Is Morris home?

could they get to the river in time?

Sometimes I arrive too early. I rush, and some people cling longer to life than expected.

A bathrobe answered the door.

WhenIWasYourAge: We had to open all doors by ourselves. None of them knew we were coming.

By the time we arrived, as evening was approaching, I felt as sore as a rock must feel when the waterfall has pounded on it all day long.

There's only one moment in which you can arrive in time. If you're not there, you're either too early or too late.

The best things arrive on time.

Don't forget, I'm a dragon, I can fly, in the shortest amount of time, I'll bring all my members with me and we'll come to your side.

Why do I regret Chelsea? I'm the boss of the richest club in the world. I have not had much time to adjust myself, but I've found a great restaurant! That is the first thing I did when I arrived!

Death in Somalia seldom bothers to announce its arrival. In fact, death calls with the arrogance of a guest confident on receiving a warm welcome at any time, no question asked.

The gospel is good news only if it arrives in time.

I was born in the back seat of a Yellow Cab in a hospital loading zone and with the meter still running. I emerged needing a shave and shouted 'Time Square, and step on it!'

A man moves through time. It means nothing except that, like a harpoon, once thrown he will arrive.

How we come into this world, how we are ushered in, met, and hopefully embraced upon arrival, impacts the whole of our time on earth.

In England I am always madam; I arrived too late to ever be a miss. In New York I have only been madamed once, by the doorman at the Carlyle Hotel.

kitchen with the window means we have finally arrived at some precarious level of prosperity.

B]oth my husband and I are the eldest in largish families and both of us had childhoods punctuated by pregnancies, the weeklong disappearance of our mothers, and the arrival of yet another lozenge of a receiving blanket with a red face and a querulous cry. But being supplanted by babies was quite different from being in thrall to them.

We went into the yard through a stone gateway, and John asked for Mr. York.

governess was not in yet; then