Famous Quotes & Sayings

Peter Mayhew

I got married to a Texan lady. That more or less decided it,

Troy Murphy

If they decide that this team can't get to the playoffs, then hopefully they'll do something.

Charlie Hunter

If they decide not to operate the airfield, then we (only) wasted a lot of paper.

If they decide it's not good enough, then there will be a strike.

If we decide we want 100%, then all public places, that includes restaurants, will be no smoking.

If we decided a new front is the top priority, we could get things in motion for that within a year.

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.

Debi Mazar

I was born and raised in Queens and moved into the city as a young adult. Then I ended up acting and decided to run off to California.

Ernie Wise

In 1958, we decided to go to Australia. We were there for six months, and all the shows went well.

Ilana Glazer

I decided I would go to NYU so I could get into the comedy world and have legit housing, and my parents would not have trusted investing in a straight-up comedy career.

In 1955, I got my degree in electrical-mechanical engineering. I realised, however, that my interest was less in practical applications than in the understanding of the underlying theoretical structure, and I decided to learn physics.

Mike Gundy

With a player that has done as much for the program as he has, we are obligated to him to let him decide what he wants to do,

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.

The government decided that confrontation was not a good solution, and to let it evolve politically.