Famous Quotes & Sayings

Vanessa Ray

I visualized high school as being like 'Saved By the Bell.' I decided I would do all the things they did on that show.

I thought their shot was pretty well defended. We had a hand in his face, and the kid made a tough shot. Then we decided to go for the win, and we got a good shot. It just didn't go in.

I thought they had made a decision. We don't know if they have decided to retract their decision.

I thought this weekend our kids played extremely hard. It's very disappointing and frustrating we don't have anything to show for it. They gave us everything they had. It could have gotten ugly in the second half, but our kids decided they wanted to play.

Michael Giles

I think we were just coming out and being ourselves, instead of operating within boundaries that other people had created. We decided to do away with those boundaries.

Dusty Rhodes

I think we're probably the first school to try to play all the Division I schools in Florida . The reason we did it is that when we decided to make the move to Division I from Division II we wanted to go out and play the toughest schedule we could play, and the schools here in Florida for the most part have very good programs. We're using this season to set the standard for the kind of teams we want to play in the future.

I think we've decided that that is who we are. And that's who we need to be.

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.

Gary Ross

Despite recent speculation in the media, and after difficult but sincere consideration, I have decided not to direct 'Catching Fire.' As a writer and a director, I simply don't have the time I need to write and prep the movie I would have wanted to make, because of the fixed and tight production schedule.

Boutros Boutros-Ghali

We got involved in the Rwanda peace process for the simple reason that there was a decision which was taken by the Security Council, because the troops were in Uganda, and we decided to have a military presence.

Gary Wright

I went to Berlin to study psychology but decided that I was more interested in music and started an R and B band.

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.

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 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.

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,

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.

Elmore Leonard

I decided to write Westerns because there was a terrific market for Westerns in the '50s. There were a lot of pulp magazines, like 'Dime Western' and '10 Story Western' that were still being published. The better ones paid two cents a word. And I thought, 'I like Westerns.'

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.

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.

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.

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.

Don Johnson

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

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.

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