„I came here on Concorde today… and I arrived before I fucking left!“

„Where did you live before you came here?" I asked.
"The moon," he said smoothly. "We left because the place had no atmosphere.“

—  Laurie Halse Anderson American children's writer 1961

Forrás: The Impossible Knife of Memory

„I expected you on every hour, and was impatient to get forward that I might be able to give some account of the country when you came up. Before I left Crompond, I desired Mr. Pettit to wait upon you at your arrival, and take your orders, and if there was any thing special to forward it by express.“

—  Nathanael Greene American general in the American Revolutionary War 1742 - 1786

Letter to George Washington (July 1778)

„There is a reason why I came back to this place—came back here instead of to Canelli, Barbaresco or Alba. It is almost certain that I was not born here; where I was born I don't know. There is not a house or a bit of ground or a handful of dust hereabouts of which I can say: "This was me before I was born."“

—  Cesare Pavese Italian poet, novelist, literary critic, and translator 1908 - 1950

Incipit
The moon and the bonfire (1950)

„Before I came here, I was confused about this subject. Having listened to your lecture, I am still confused -- but on a higher level.“

—  Enrico Fermi Italian physicist 1901 - 1954

„I leave before being left. I decide.“

—  Brigitte Bardot French model, actor, singer and animal rights activist 1934

„I came like a king, left like a legend.“

—  Zlatan Ibrahimović Swedish association football player 1981

Before playing his last game in Parc des Princes, Paris. https://twitter.com/Ibra_official/status/731025180777172992
Attributed

„Autumn finally arrived. And when it did, I came to a decision. Something had to give: I couldn't keep on living like this.“

—  Haruki Murakami, könyv South of the Border, West of the Sun

Forrás: South of the Border, West of the Sun

„Anyhow, I arrived, and I did feel pretty weird, actually, as if I’d left something behind. My head or something.“

—  Tanith Lee, könyv Don't Bite the Sun

Part 1, Chapter 4 (p. 28)
Don't Bite the Sun (1976)

„I never fucked a 10, but one night I fucked 5 twos!“

—  George Carlin American stand-up comedian 1937 - 2008

Playing With Your Head (1986)

„Today I must be very careful, today I have left my armor at home.“

—  Jean Rhys, könyv Good Morning, Midnight

Forrás: Good Morning, Midnight

„If I arrived in Hollywood today, I would keep reminding myself not to try to make a big impression.“

—  Irene Dunne American actress 1898 - 1990

If You Want Success (Screenland Interview) (1961)

„I left him in his wheelchair, staring sadly into the fireplace. I wondered how many times he’d sat here, waiting for heroes that never came back.“

—  Rick Riordan, könyv The Battle of the Labyrinth

Forrás: The Battle of the Labyrinth

„I think it is insane that people are gathered here to talk about the climate and they arrive here in private jets.“

—  Greta Thunberg Swedish climate change activist 2003

Time to 'get angry', teen climate activist says in Davos https://news.yahoo.com/time-angry-teen-climate-activist-says-davos-015904861.html, World Economic Forum, Davos (January 2019)...
2019, World Economic Forum (January 2019)

„Hello everybody! Hey hey hey! Okay! Do you know it's not... it's not very often that we do shows in daylight. And I fucking wish we'd done before, I can see you all now. And there's some beauties here tonight, I can tell you!“

—  Freddie Mercury British singer, songwriter and record producer 1946 - 1991

Live at Milton Keynes Bowl (5 June 1982) http://www.ultimatequeen.co.uk/Songs/queenonfire.htm.

„I believe Al-Qaeda today resembles the Leninist, or Communist, movement, before it came to power in 1917, or the Zionist movement of Herzl, before Ben-Gurion brought it to power in Israel.“

—  Mullah Krekar Islamic scholar 1956

Mullah Krekar, Leader of the Al-Qaeda Affiliated "Ansar Al-Islam": Al-Qaeds Resembles the Zionist Movement before the Establishment of the State of Israel http://www.memritv.org/clip_transcript/en/1511.htm, video clip http://switch5.castup.net/frames/20041020_MemriTV_Popup/video_480x360.asp?ai=214&ar=1511wmv&ak=null, 8th of July 2007

„Well I’m here, you know? Your house is a medley of disgusting smells, there’s nothing to eat, everybody’s wearing bathrobes, there’s no bar, I can’t fuck anybody. Why am I here?“

—  Dylan Moran Irish actor and comedian 1971

On young male single friends attending baby shower.
Like, Totally (2006)

„Cuba came from a dictatorship, and I arrived at the presidency after being senator for 25 years.“

—  Salvador Allende Chilean physician and politician 1908 - 1973

Interview with Saul Landau (1971)
Kontextus: I have been to Cuba many times. I have spoken many times with Fidel Castro and got to know Commander Ernesto Guevara well enough. I know Cuba's leaders and their struggle. It has been difficult to overcome the blockade. But the reality in Cuba is very different from that in Chile. Cuba came from a dictatorship, and I arrived at the presidency after being senator for 25 years.

„And you and got nothin' on but the t-shirt I left over at your house the last time I came and put it on ya.“

—  Wiz Khalifa American rapper and actor 1987

5 O' Clock, by T-Pain featuring Wiz Khalifa and Lily Allen, from the album Revolver
Studio Albums, Guest Appearances

„My phrase is a moment, the moment of fixity in the monologue of Zeno the Eleatic and Huí Shih (“I leave today for Yüeh and I arrive yesterday”).“

—  Octavio Paz Mexican writer laureated with the 1990 Nobel Prize for Literature 1914 - 1998

Forrás: The Monkey Grammarian (1974), Ch. 4
Kontextus: My phrase is a moment, the moment of fixity in the monologue of Zeno the Eleatic and Huí Shih (“I leave today for Yüeh and I arrive yesterday”). In this monologue one of the terms finally devours the other: either motionlessness is merely a state of movement (as in my phrase), or else movement is only an illusion of motionlessness (as among the Hindus). Therefore we ought not to say either always or never, but almost always or almost never, merely from time to time or more than is generally supposed and less than this expression might indicate, frequently or seldom, consistently or occasionally, we don’t have at our disposal sufficient data to state with certainty whether it is periodic or irregular: fixity (always, never, almost always, almost never, etc.) is momentary (always, never, almost always, almost never, etc.) fixity (always, never, almost always, almost never, etc.) is momentary (always, never, almost always, almost never, etc.) fixity…. All this means that fixity never is entirely fixity and that it is always a moment of change. Fixity is always momentary.