Famous Quotes & Sayings

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As an adolescent, I was painfully shy, withdrawn.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.

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.

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.

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

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.

Most of it was cash, and we couldn't return it to anybody. We decided to set up this fund and use it toward those pets that needed us.

Mike has had trouble maintaining his weight all season, so he decided to move up for the section tournament. He feels stronger and more comfortable at 152.

We intentionally decided not to pursue this within a standards group first because we wanted to make some quick progress.

We just decided to slow things down and be more solid with our passing. We were trying to make too much happen in the first half instead of just waiting for things come to us.

Joel Silver

We just decided to pick the date 'The Matrix' opened in most of the world. At the end of the day, it worked out really great because the world seems to have got to a place where I think the movie is even more relevant now than it was several months ago.

We just decided to go back to our horse and ride him. For an inside run, he's as good as there is around here.

We just decided to do anything to help. We knew the people needed help in New Orleans.

We just decided since it would be only a few games left, it wasn't worth it, ... and we will revisit his situation with the Orioles in the off-season.

We just decided not to move it, just put everything in storage, rent furniture here and live in a hotel.

We just decided it wasn't worth taking the heat to try to protect donors.

We just decided it's a good time for us to come up and stand up for Harriet,

Rita Ora

When you're involved with someone for a while, and they decided to express their feelings to the public - that's not my personal way of therapy, but I guess everyone takes split-ups differently.

We had heard about it and decided to make the trip.

We had a lot of options open to us and we decided to go with alternative sources of money.

We had a look at it and decided it wasn't something we wanted to be involved in.

We had all this stuff -- it's from years past -- and we decided I needed to raise some money so I could move on and open up a new store.