Order Arrived Quotes

#1. Obinze's burger was served in four pieces, arranged in a large martini glass. When Georgina's order arrived, a pile of red raw beef, an egg sunnily splayed on top of it, Obinze tried not to look at it as he ate, otherwise he might be tempted to vomit.

Anonymous

#2. I grew up with four T.V. channels. If you missed a show, you missed it. You gotta wait a week for the next one. I'd mail-order books: take a quarter, get an envelope, send off for it and wait until it arrived. I grew up waiting for things.

George R R Martin

#3. Transhumanists are not fond of death. We would stop it if we could. To this end, we support research that holds out hope of a future in which humanity has defeated death.

Eliezer Yudkowsky

#4. I often wonder, with my hand on my heart, if 'The Dying Hours' was made into the biggest movie franchise in history, would I pick up my pen again? Wouldn't I be happier spending the rest of my life travelling around with my wife?

Mark Billingham

#5. We can take some gratification at having come a certain distance in just a few thousand years of our existence as language users, but it should be a deeper satisfaction, even an exhilaration, to recognize that we have such a distance still to go.

Lewis Thomas

#6. We seem to be heading for a state of affairs in which the determination of whether or not Doomsday has arrived will be made either by an automatic device ... or by a pre-programmed president who, whether he knows it or not, will be carrying out orders written years before by some operations analyst.

Herbert York

#7. Despicable rabble," however, pretty much summed up George Washington's opinion of the troops when he arrived in Cambridge in July. In a letter to his brother John, the new commander in chief grumbled, "I found a mixed multitude of People here, under very little discipline, order, or Government.

Sarah Vowell

#8. I'm the ultimate record fan. I still go out and buy records.

Elton John

#9. No matter what your family happens to be like, it affects you, affects who you are. It matters.

Faith McKay

#10. Leopard is an animal design, and my designs come from nature.

Roberto Cavalli

#11. The cat came first, in order to be absolute first. It arrived when all the cribs and closets and cellar bins and attic hang-spaces still needed October wings, autumn breathings, and fiery eyes.

Ray Bradbury

#12. Anybody who's ever dealt with me knows not to mess with me.

Nancy Pelosi

#13. Each note is inscribed on a sugar
cube lodged in the hoof of a rabid pig.

Lara Glenum

#14. Cinema is capitalism in its purest form ... There is only one solution - turn one's back on American cinema.

Jean-Luc Godard

#15. When you don't know what you believe, everything becomes an argument. Everything is debatable. But when you stand for something, decisions are obvious.

Jason Fried

#16. When you finally go back to your old home, you find it wasn't the old home you missed but your childhood.

Sam Ewing

#17. That's the problem with life. Things seldom stay the same do they? And the future rarely turns out quite the way we expect.

Cash Peters

#18. I haven't been very active in politics.

Clint Eastwood

#19. The notion that not only the biopolymer but the operating program of a living cell could be arrived at by chance in a primordial organic soup here on the Earth is evidently nonsense of a high order.

Fred Hoyle

#20. I grew up in a country where advertising doesn't exist.

Jan Koum

#21. Genealogists live in the past lane.

Jimi Hendrix