Famous Quotes & Sayings

Fred Allen

Committee - a group of men who individually can do nothing but as a group decide that nothing can be done.

Fiona Gubelmann

I went to UCLA as pre-med. When I was there my freshman year, I auditioned for a play and got it, and I was so passionate. I just loved acting so much that I decided to switch majors and pursue acting.

Clarence Thomas

My grandfather, as I said, was industrious. He'd had a variety of jobs and decided sometime in the 1940s that he would never work for anyone. He was also a very independent man.

Gina Rodriguez

I've specifically decided to say no to projects that weren't advancing Latinos, that weren't showing us in a positive light, roles that were gratuitous and spreading untruths.

Geoffrey Canada

The system decides you can't run schools in the summer.

Willie Mays

We knew we had to keep playing until the game was decided one way or the other. We played 10, 15 innings sometimes. The All-Star Game was important to us. We weren't worried about setting records. We were worried about winning.

We're trying to give people the information they need to decide their approach; we're not telling them what to do, we're not being prescriptive.

Alan Hansen

Playing for 14 years definitely took its toll mentally. I decided when I was playing my last season that when I retired from football I would never go back into it, and I've never regretted that decision.

Jean Alesi

I decided to do the maximum to hold onto the lead for as long as possible. That is why I pushed so hard from the beginning. I was at 100 percent concentration.

John Madden

Some day we're gonna have interactive television where you can pick the shot that you want. You can watch defense, or you can watch the end-zone shot, or you can watch an isolated shot of Terance Mathis or whoever you want to. Because right now, the only thing that you watch is what the producer or director decides to show you.

J. G. Ballard

I've decided to recast myself as Utopian. I like this landscape of the M25 and Heathrow. I like airfreight offices and rent-a-car bureaus. I like dual carriageways. When I see a CCTV camera, I know I'm safe.

I have a problem with fashion magazines sometimes - they seem to have these dogmas or uniforms. 'This is the way you must look; this is this season's must-have.' I really resent the phrase 'must-have.' I prefer to decide for myself what I think is beautiful or fashionable.

Don Johnson

I was a little, skinny, runt kid, and I decided that bowling was what I was going to do in life.

What the UN inspectors can do is demonstrate to the world, help the Iraqi government demonstrate to the world that the Iraqis are cooperatively disarming if that is in fact what the Iraqi government decides to do.

Benigno Aquino III

The focus of my administration is, if somebody decides to work abroad, then it has to be from choice as opposed to necessity.

Burt Shavitz

If I decide I want to go canoeing, I've got a canoe. If I want to take my dog with me, nobody tells me I can't do it. If I want to go skinny dipping and wash my body, I can take my clothes off.

Barbara Park

My senior year of high school, I was voted 'Wittiest.' So, several years later, I decided to try my hand at writing humor to see if I could be witty enough to make some money.

Daryl Hall

In the early '70s, I started to feel like Philadelphia soul was the black-sheep brother of rock and roll. I decided to try to get away from it.

Barbara Lynn

You'd always see a lady or a little girl sitting at a piano. I decided I wanted to play something more unexpected, so that's when I got interested in learning to play the guitar.

Helplessness induces hopelessness, and history attests that loss of hope and not loss of lives is what decides the issue of war

There is room (for investment in another bank), and we will have to decide going forward what to do in this regard.

There is plenty of good in there. But it's been quite watered down, and many things have been left to be decided later.

The parliament wants the member states themselves to decide whether sunlight is a risk or not. That's totally unacceptable for the Commission.

The philosophy of being able as a woman to decide what you want and being unashamed about making it happen was new. Most successful businessmen are in that role. 'No' is never perceived as the end of the line. 'No' just means picking a new avenue.

Richard Myers

There are a lot of ways to go before you get to the point where you ... decide you want to give active-duty forces law enforcement authority,

When did you decide you didn't want any more publicity? I'm looking for a date.

Paul Rusesabagina

We sat down in the ruins and we cried. The trip opened my eyes, it was very influential, ... Since then I've decided never to fight with a gun but with my mouth.

We knew that we had to play hard and had to turn it up and at that point, we decided we got to put up a fight. We can't just relax and let them run all over us.

We knew that types of medications being dispensed in schools were increasing and we had no information about them, so we decided we needed to get a handle on what was going on.

We thought of it as our last and we skated like it was our last but it might not be. We'll decide that after Calgary.

Roger Miller

We think what she has decided to do is very heart-warming. It's nice that she wants to help others who don't have very much.

Antonin Scalia

Why not decide in advance? Why not take a run and see,

We've decided we're going to start a medical evacuation of patients who need to be treated, ... The doctors told us better treatment could be obtained outside of the community.