Famous Quotes & Sayings

Albert Murray

Effective stream-of-consciousness narration is the product of verbal precision, not just of literal documentation. It is decidedly not a matter of unedited free-association.

Andie MacDowell

Every woman goes through a lot of agony before she decides in favour of her own happiness or that of her children.

Bre Pettis

While at The Evergreen State College, I met Doranne Crable, and she was so dynamic and adventurous that I decided on the spot to take whatever she taught.

Yes, you know, I decided, I think it was '58, to go to the Karolinska Institute - in the medical school here. And I had decided it, me and my family.

Sharad Pawar

Yes we have decided to organize Test matches between India and Pakistan after every two years on the lines of Ashes.

John Sherman

We were fortunate to just be down by two at half. The game was being played at their tempo. We decided to make some adjustments and quicken the game up.

We were down 4-0 before we decided to pick it up and play with a little feeling.

We'd been watching the storm over the weekend and our feeling was that if there was a direct hit on New Orleans, we'd go to special coverage. When it took that slight veer, we decided New Yorkers would still want the other things we'd planned for today.

We are evaluating our options We haven't decided what to do yet. We take the privacy of our customers' information very seriously.

Charles Schumer

The president needs to decide whether he wants to take the lead in fixing Social Security or whether he wants to take the lead in, in fact, destroying the most successful social program in history.

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.

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,

Jeff Smith

When you get two top-notch teams in here playing like that, to end up having the game being decided like that is a tragedy.

DeLoss Dodds

We've got to decide what we're going to do, so they can decide.

Caroline Leavitt

By the time I was 5, I was already an outcast. It was the early 1960s, and I was part of the only Jewish family in a decidedly Christian suburb of Waltham, Mass.

Joe Trippi

With each year, it's going to become more and more important, and 2006 is going to be a watershed year at the congressional and gubernatorial level. You're going to see races decided by a flood of online money.

We need to decide if it is just an elementary school, a K-8 or two schools on one campus.

David Allen

Well, yeah, I get to decide what I publish, which is nice.

We will look at new alternative ways to improve our wastewater system. But nothing has been decided on because we want the public to have a say in what types of upgrades the project should encompass.

Zalmay Khalilzad

We will help them if our help is needed. They will have to decide if they need help or not.

When I went to university, I decided that I would like to do something related to plant ecology, because I felt that plants were so beautiful. When I am studying plants, I feel like I am talking with some kind of supernatural life, like I am talking with someone who does not speak.

Jack Ma

We welcome her and the eBay team to China, and with this Yahoo! deal, we decided to give them a nice big welcome gift,

Sam Anderson

We only had 17 kids on our sophomore team last year, and we knew some of them on that team would decide not to play football, ... For a lot of kids, football just isn't for them. It is frustrating in a lot of regards. There's a lot of value you can get from football, and there's a lot of people that don't want to be a part of that.