Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bob Ainsworth

It's true that people were told facial hair was not appreciated by the British public, but I just decided to keep the moustache.

We still haven't made a solid determination on exactly what happened, and we decided to err on the side of safety and take the ride out.

The question is: Can Ciro turn out the vote on the South Side? That will decide the election.

Roseanne Barr

I'm tired of watching as men destroy all the world. Everything used to be beautiful when women were in charge, and now I, working as the physical manifestation of the goddess Isis and the reincarnation of Cleopatra, have decided to save the world.

Martha Beck

If you're feeling intransigently ambivalent, it might pay to formally accept what's already happening - that is, decide not to decide.

Marlon Wayans

If I read something great and I want to go after it, I go after it. You don't wait to see what Hollywood wants to do with you. You decide what you want to do. I don't mind fighting when I really want something.

I worked a little as a messenger on a bicycle and then decided to study photography and film.

Warren Rudman

We have to make a determination of what the minimum standards are for police, fire and emergency services in all of America's major cities. Once we determine that, then we can decide what the funding is.

Ayumi Hamasaki

I don't set goals. Like, that's what I want to be doing however many years from now. I do what I love to do at the moment. If I wake up tomorrow and decide I want to dance, that's what I'd do. Or design clothes.

Ben Carson

I first wanted to be a psychiatrist. I decided against that in medical school when I discovered that psychiatrists didn't, in reality, do what they did on TV.

Ben Carson

I could easily have decided that life was cruel, that being black meant everything was stacked against me.

Ben Affleck

My kids aren't celebrities. They never made that bargain. We were offered a lot of money to sell pictures of our kids when they were born. You'll notice there aren't any. I make no judgment about people who decide differently; a lot of them give the money to charity. For me, it was a matter of principle.

Michael Vaughan

We want to be sure that if we decide to play with one spinner then Giles is feeling good about himself.

We want the students to be able to decide which to purchase and also save money.

We are not keen to punish people, we are keen to solve the situation and we need to get the elections in place so that people can decide on who runs the country, ... If we find that we have sanctions in place, then we would see this as a failure.

Charles Bronson

We are not going to tolerate this, ... If they decide they're going to violate the law, we are going to come after them.

We are not going to pick a linebacker just to pick a linebacker. That is just not going to happen. We are going to pick a player that is decidedly higher rated. We have options.

Katrina Law

'Mafiosa' was written by Veronica Russo. It's her first time making a film, and I'm really proud of her because this woman has a full-time job, and she decided one day, 'You know, I want to write a film, and I want to make it.'

Twitter didn't make up the hashtag. Twitter didn't make up the retweet. It's our users. And people started using them so much that we decided to weave them into the product. I can't think of another company that has taken its users' actions and said, 'We're going to make them useful to everybody.'

Lauren Weisberger

I got an offer at 'Vogue.' And I desperately wanted to work in magazines. My interest wasn't in fashion, but when you get an offer right out of college for a magazine that big - I decided that it was probably better to start at a big name magazine, even if I wasn't necessarily fascinated with the subject.

Lapo Elkann

The value of 'Made in Italy' must necessarily be up-to-date. This is the philosophy that Italia Independent has embraced. We decided from the outset to do away with stereotypes and attune ourselves to the extreme pace, to the incessant metamorphoses of the globalized world.

Lakhdar Brahimi

But you've got to understand what the other guy is about, even if at the end of the process you decide that there is no ground with this man or woman except to fight them.

Jess Glynne

When the world decides to stop being greedy... there will be a harvest for the world! Amen.

Rich Robinson

When we recorded the two shows in L.A., we thought it went so well, we decided to work on this, ... So we contacted different labels to see what we could do.

When we realized that we had land that we didn't want to utilize in other crops, we just decided that we would start setting pines.

When Grant decides to play and really go after it, he can do anything. He can score, he can rebound and he can do a lot of little things that help us win.

N. R. Narayana Murthy

I think, my own personal view is there should be higher and higher levels of autonomy; government should not interfere in setting up colleges, in running colleges. The market, the society will decide which is a good university, which is not a good university, rather than government mandating.

Nanci Griffith

I decided it was time to pay tribute to my own songs, to give them the opportunity to mature and be adult.

Nancy Pelosi

A successful marriage is a decision. You decide it's going to work. You can't always be there, but you have to be there enough. And you have to make sure you are where you're needed most.

Lauren Bacall

When a person who is very ill decides to treat it like a slight virus, you play that game. If you make a big scene, I think it is yourself you are doing it for, not the person who's ill.

Mike Wallace

I went to work when I was a young fellow and I loved what I did. And I just kept working. And when I decided that maybe the time had come for me to quit, I got depressed. What could I do if I didn't work?

Novala Takemoto

I know that many people kill off their real personality just to fit into this society, but why do we have to compromise? I never understood that. I decided to try to be myself and to live by my own values rather than those of others.

Ezra Miller

My mother took me to a lot of operas and when I was eight I got the opportunity to be in one and I realized that transformation into these make-believe situations was possible. I decided that was essentially what I wanted to do with my life.