Quotes About Arrival

That's the thing about your destiny how are you supposed to know when it arrives? How are you supposed to recognise it from random life?

When Sting arrived on Tyneside in November 1992, to receive his degree, he informed me that it was no longer me who was the skint one.

If you are as happy, my dear sir, on entering this house as I am in leaving it and returning home, you are the happiest man in this country.

First the priests arrive. Then the conquistadores.

Nice to meet you, shank. Welcome to the glade.

Pretty sure we just arrived in bloody hell. Always thought you'd end up here, Minho, but not me.

Nice to meet ya, shank," the boy said. "Welcome to the Glade.

Even before he got there, he could read the words printed on the ribbon, black on orange. THE SAFE HAVEN

But no one ever is allowed in Sleepytown, unless He goes to bed in time to take the Sleepytown Express!

Therefore, the importance of reducing time in travel: by arriving as quickly as possible we need not feel as though we had left at all, that neither space nor time can affect us-as though they belong to us, and not we to them.

We do not go somewhere in a car, but arrive somewhere in a car. Automobiles do not make travel possible, but make it possible for us to move locations without traveling.

identified this visitor as Doane, the man who had

x. IT WAS EIGHT-THIRTY IN the morning by the time I got to storage, with a sore jaw from grinding

Look, here comes Twinkletoes, said Bunny, busying himself with the menu.

looks like trouble coming in on greased skids

I know. Aha, Oho, and every other bloody ejaculation. Let's take it as read. You're delirious at the idea of manhandling me and can't wait to start. I in turn may say I find your arrival offensive and your presence blasphemous, thus concluding the exchange of civilities and letting us get out of here. If there's anything novel or extra you want to add, you can think of it on the way home.

I don't like to see things done badly on either. At the moment, I am tired of journeys. It is time I arrived somewhere.

Lymond is back.

Within, a cheerful bustle in the bar announced the near arrival of opening time. Eight ducks crossed the road in Indian file. A cat sprang up upon the bench, stretched herself, tucked her hind legs under her and coiled her tail tightly round them as though to prevent them from accidentally working loose. A groom passed, riding a tall bay horse and leading a chestnut with a hogged mane; a spaniel followed them, running ridiculously, with one ear flopped inside-out over his foolish head.

Rather than arriving five hours late and flustered, it would be better all around if he were to arrive five hours and a few extra minutes late, but triumphantly in command.

This friend of his had first arrived on the planet Earth some fifteen Earth years previously, and he had worked hard to blend himself into Earth society—with, it must be said, some success. For instance, he had spent those fifteen years pretending to be an out-of-work actor, which was plausible enough.

Your arrival on the planet has caused considerable excitement. It has already been hailed, so I gather, as the third most improbable event in the history of the Universe." "What were the first two?" "Oh, probably just coincidences

So what we have arrived at here—and although the first shock wave of this arrival was in 1859, it's really the arrival of the computer that demonstrates it unarguably to us—is "Is there really a universe that is not designed from the top downward, but from the bottom upward? Can complexity emerge from lower levels of simplicity?

Well, the story so far certainly is strange enough; the robot stood here for three days and nights after its arrival, we think now waiting for a deputation of lizards. Several politicians thought to have lizard-like characteristics were sent to parley with the robot but were fried by the flying arc-welding kits which defend this area. That resulted in the almost complete annihilation of the Cabinet and many Opposition MPs.