Arriving Quotes - Page 9

• But Geology carries the day: it is like the pleasure of gambling, speculating, on first arriving, what the rocks may be; I often mentally cry out 3 to 1 Tertiary against primitive; but the latter have hitherto won all the bets.

  Charles Darwin

  Gambling, Rocks, May

  Charles Darwin, Frederick Burkhardt, Sydney Smith (1985). “The Correspondence of Charles Darwin: 1821-1836”, p.232, Cambridge University Press

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• Most inspiration still comes from bicycling around San Francisco. This city never fails to inspire me. It is one of the most vibrant cities - especially visually - with a constant influx of young energy arriving daily. I love it.

  Barry McGee

  Inspiration, San Francisco, Cities

  "'It Is Ultimately About Freedom': Barry McGee on His Prism Gallery Show and Berkeley Museum Retrospective". ARTINFO Interview, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 26, 2012.

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• She saw every personal religion as a pair of intersecting circles. . . . Probably perfection is reached when the area of the two outer crescents, added together, is exactly equal to that of the leaf-shaped piece in the middle. On paper there must be some neat mathematical formula for arriving at this; in life, none.

  Jan Struther

  Women, Circles, Two

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• Success is not arriving at the summit of a mountain as a final destination.  It is a continuing upward spiral of progress.  It is perpetual growth.

  Wilferd Peterson

  Motivational, Success, Journey

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

  Curt Siodmak

  Boys, Devil, Hell

  "Fictional character: Frank Raymond". "Invisible Agent", www.imdb.com. 1942.

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• The American West is just arriving at the threshold of its greatness and growth. Where the West of yesterday is glamorized in our fiction, the future of the American West now is both fabulous and factual.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Future, Greatness, Yesterday

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• 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.

  Diane von Furstenberg

  Feelings, Excitement, Possibility

  "I'm not at my desk now: what makes the perfect summer getaway" by Imogen West-Knights and Grace Cook, www.ft.com. August 7, 2015.

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• [Ideas] may not arrive exactly on time, it may not be the most convenient thing for you. For me that happens a very small amount, but if for whatever reason it's not arriving at the moment, it may last forever. Thinking about it won't change any of that.

  Jon Fratelli

  Thinking, Ideas, Forever

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I often need a limited space. It's like having a house to roam around in and reinvent and have things to happen in, kind of like a French farce. Doors opening, doors closing, new people arriving, and disappearing, and so forth.

  Michael Ondaatje

  Doors, Space, People

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• Arriving to class late is disruptive of the learning process. I think that it is disrespectful to both the instructor and the students. I generally find a problem with students being tardy to my 9:10 a.m. class, in which students would come in thirty minutes late to this fifty minute class. I started locking my door at 9:15 second semester.

  Patricia McCormick

  Thinking, Doors, Class

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• There are days when I don't want to go to the gym or find myself not super motivated upon arriving. I would visualize myself playing at the Olympics.

  Kim Smith

  Want, Olympics, Motivated

  Source: www.ptmollie.com

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• Well I remember the first thing that from coming from New York that just stunned me and I couldn't understand was that you valet park for everything. Even - you valet park to go to the dry cleaner. And that, you know, that just blew my mind. I was like, okay, you have to pay $5 to a guy to just drop off your dry cleaning. And so that, to me, was nuts - the fact you're always arriving.

  Debra Messing

  New York, Nuts, Dry Cleaning

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• Scientists must use the simplest means of arriving at their results and exclude everything not perceived by the senses.

  Ernst Mach

  Mean, Use, Scientist

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• Now the darkness only stays at night time In the morning it will fade away Daylight is good at arriving at the right time No it's not always going to be this grey.

  George Harrison

  Morning, Night, Darkness

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• A follower of the Way (Tao) loses something each day. Loss after loss until arriving at Non Action (Wu Wei).

  Laozi

  Loss, Followers, Each Day

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• That is the American experiment. An ethnic group arriving on America's shores, to be reviled and hazed, living in squalor, or if they are lucky Squalor Heights, working hard to give their children or grandchildren the opportunity to sh*t on the next group landing on our shores.

  Jon Stewart

  Children, Opportunity, America

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• Those who become enamoured of the art, without having previously applied to the diligent study of the scientific part of it, may be compared to mariners who put to the sea in a ship without rudder or compass and therefore cannot be certain of arriving at the wished for port.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Art, Sea, May

  Leonardo Da Vinci (2015). “A Treatise on Painting: "Translated from the Original Italian"”, p.216, eKitap Projesi via PublishDrive

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• It's a constant process of bouncing ideas off of one another and intuitively arriving at the right decision in the moment.

  Ted Alexandro

  Ideas, Decision, Moments

  "Laughing at something is a form of accepting it, or at least making peace with it". Interview with Chris Cobb, logger.believermag.com. September 19, 2014.

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

  Ali Farahnakian

  Numbers, Way, Performances

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• It is impossible to reason without arriving at a Supreme Being. Religion is as necessary to reason, as reason is to religion.

  George Washington

  Impossible, Reason, Without God

  George Washington (1855). “Maxims of Washington: Political, Social, Moral, and Religious”, p.342

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• We were working from very exact models and dimensions and weights of clay to make these pots which had been designed some 10 or 12 years previous to our arriving [at Bernard's Leach studio]. And we, being, I guess you would say young, arrogant Americans, thought that we ought to be able to somehow express ourselves a little bit more in the daily work of the pottery.

  Warren MacKenzie

  Years, Clay, Arrogant

  Source: www.aaa.si.edu

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