Famous Quotes & Sayings

Erik Morales

With all due respect to Mr. Gomez, he is not my promoter. My promoter is Top Rank and they are the ones who decide my bouts.

Who you decide to be today will determine your tomorrow.

Who's going to decide that they know enough to get their kids back? There's no way that you can translate the love that a parent has for their child.

Richard Ford

I decided early on that I wanted to participate in the greater American experience, rather than the parochial one in Mississippi. But I have an urge as a writer to meld the Southern experience into the larger American one.

Firms decide what to bill, and no one is looking over their shoulders.

Finally, it will be up to the policymakers to decide on the matter.

Finally I decided to be honest. I went on and on.

Shaun Alexander

Fair is fair. I know what fair is. Other teams don't decide what fair is. I think the Seahawks definitely know.

Jason Biggs

But then, I just decided to get off my lazy butt and take advantage of the L.A. weather.

Todd White

But once I was able to work out again, I decided to give it another shot and train really hard.

Alana Stewart

One of the commitments I made to myself when I decided to write a book was to be brutally honest, particularly about myself.

Per Petterson

I decided if I couldn't be a writer, my life would be miserable. I had this imaginary room of references to all the books I had read, a kind of bubble, in which I lived.

David Bowie

As an adolescent, I was painfully shy, withdrawn. I didn't really have the nerve to sing my songs on stage, and nobody else was doing them. I decided to do them in disguise so that I didn't have to actually go through the humiliation of going on stage and being myself.

The government will not interfere in setting the price, and the price will be decided by the market.

Jason Kenney

The government has not decided whether there will be or not be direct compensation to descendants.

Patti Stanger

A ring means a commitment. But more than that, it means that you've talked about your shared future and have decided together on a shared vision of it.

Rainbow Rowell

When I watch a romantic comedy, I feel like they're selling something that doesn't exist. Two beautiful, but extremely unpleasant, people are terrible to each other for an hour, accidentally kiss, then decide to like each other during an extremely vague montage. That isn't how people fall in love.

We have the impression the government has decided to respond to the student movement with truncheons and repression.

Jackie Mason

We were going to do it before the hurricane, but decided to wait,

We were still good enough that we decided let's give it another shot. But we got to this year and said it's time. Rather than try to tippy-toe our way through it, we just took it all in one big shot.

We were sitting there waiting and finally decided it was time to go back to the Health Department.

Today was getting through easier routines. The thought was to see where I'm at, then decide what I'm going to do Friday.

Thousands of men and women have done just that have decided to come to terms with what lies at the roots of their same-sex attractions and work diligently toward overcoming them.

Transparency is vitally important in what can be a very opaque process in Brussels. We've decided to open this up so people can understand the issues.

Bob Edwards

You know what the compensation is before you decide to run.

When I first saw what happened on the news I was devastated and decided to do something.

David Byrne

We need to find out more about the source of the disease before we can decide when to lift the ban,

Paul Scott

While we have some promising signs, we need to see the proposal still. We're pleased that Mills has decided to step away from direct involvement of the project.

Honeysuckle Weeks

My parents wanted to be actors. They tried for years but didn't get anywhere. Then Mum got pregnant with me and they decided to make actors out of their children. You need your parents' support if you're going to do it. Otherwise who's going to ferry you to castings?

Chang-Rae Lee

Unlike F. Scott Fitzgerald and Tom Wolfe, I don't like proper dress while working. I like writing in pajama-like clothing, which eases and relaxes me and allows me to connect with the decidedly improper.

I was mixed on what I wanted to do. After riding with him a few times, I decided I wanted to be a state trooper.

I wasn't sure what I wanted to do for college, but when I decided to go to the University of New Hampshire I didn't have enough money to pay for it.

Lindsay Davenport

I would never make a rash decision over one match. I'll decide how much I'll play for the rest of the year and hopefully I'll feel ready to go and start training for Australia,