Famous Quotes & Sayings

Marilyn Nelson

Our family foundation decided we'd make a significant contribution and be a co-founder.

Glynis Johns

Originally my father was a medical student. He suddenly gave up his studies and walked out to become an actor. I thought perhaps I ought to make a decision like that, too, and so I decided to plump for being a film actress. I have not given up the stage, but I am concentrating on the screen until I reach the top.

Chauncey Billups

Once we got to that fourth quarter, we just decided we were going to have to grind it out. We've been through this before, man. We know how to handle these situations.

Saul Levine

decided to fight back to protect the radio industry.

Venkaiah Naidu

Despite opposition from several BJP leaders, Joshi decided to resign.

Kate Warne

Depending on what the CPI shows and what Greenspan says, the market has pretty much decided that we won't see a rate hike at the end of the month or through the rest of the summer and, therefore, there might be a quarter point (hike) some place but the Fed's pretty much done,

Dick Skrinjar

Denise Speaks has decided to pursue other opportunities.

Philip Tympanick

A number of people with whom we spoke are feeling a sense of outrage. My wife and I decided to take some action. It may or may not result in anything.

Emilio Butragueno

The situation of the team was such that it was decided we needed a change. The performance wasn't up to expectations. It was worrying for us and Madrid supporters.

Scott Harris

Another thing that went into the decision to come up here was it wasn't as hectic. And we kind of felt more comfortable in the small-town setting.

Jon Tester

As a policymaker, as a public servant, I come to Washington, D.C., and I make difficult decisions and I make difficult decisions every day. And sometimes those decisions upset people.

Stewart Tuttle

Our evaluation of all of our programs is ongoing and decisions on which programs will go forward -- and how -- will move on its own timetable.

Rick Carlisle

Our decision making and turnovers were our undoing in the fourth quarter. We were forcing them to take tough shots, and then we just made terrible errors down the stretch.

Rosevelt Colvin

People tend to talk about the 3-4 and 4-3 like it's two totally different entities, and it's not, ... A defense is a defense, no matter if this guy has that gap and that guy has this gap. Somebody's an end, and somebody's a linebacker, regardless who you put in there. I'll be dropping and rushing, whether we're in a 3-4 defense or a 4-3. That's one thing that factored in my decision to come here. I'm going to get the opportunity to rush the passer, because that's what I love to do.

James Cobb

People die in the buses. If you make the decision to voluntary evacuate, folks are going to die.

Frank Robinson

On Tuesday, I'll make a decision on that,

Larry Coker

Normally, I try not to make a decision like that in the heat of the emotion. You have no sleep, those kind of things. So I'll give that some thought and analysis.

Tracy Bunge

After the Fall season, we made some decisions about some players and positions in particular in order to help stabilize our lineup early.

Kazuo Ishiguro

I used to think when I was in my teens I was very different from my father, but now I see that what we do is probably quite similar.

Edythe Bagley

It was about 1951. She had written me and said he was very special and he thought she was very special, and I knew it was serious. She said he reminded her of her father and there was no more to say. I looked upon him favorably and was impressed.

Irving Garcia

I used to watch my father play with his friends in Mexico. I loved watching him play.

Ben Okri

One of the greatest gifts my father gave me - unintentionally - was witnessing the courage with which he bore adversity. We had a bit of a rollercoaster life with some really challenging financial periods. He was always unshaken, completely tranquil, the same ebullient, laughing, jovial man.

Barbara Kingsolver

Once the rains abated, my father's garden thrived in the heat like an unleashed temper.

Barbara Kingsolver

Respecting the dignity of a spectacular food means enjoying it at its best. Europeans celebrate the short season of abundant asparagus as a form of holiday. In the Netherlands the first cutting coincides with Father's Day, on which restaurants may feature all-asparagus menus and hand out neckties decorated with asparagus spears.

Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.

In view of the tide of religiosity engulfing a once secular republic it is refreshing to be reminded by Freethinkers that free thought and skepticism are robustly in the American tradition. After all the Founding Fathers began by omitting God from the American Constitution.

Ayelet Waldman

I was born in Israel, to Canadian parents. My father immigrated in 1948, part of a wave of young men and women who came as pioneers, to fight for a Jewish homeland. Their motive was in large part a reaction to the Holocaust, and their slogan was 'Never Again.'

Brad Meltzer

She wasn't tracking down her father to learn more about him. She was tracking him down to learn more about herself.

Roger Clemens

So they gave me some medication and I'm going to treat it and that's all I can tell you from there.

Jose Vivas

The way I see it, God gave us life for some reason and took away life from others for some other reason. It's a mystery. Only God knows why.

Laura Wade

I'm not very good at sticking at things if I can't be successful at them. I gave up on sport a long time ago.

Andy Reid

There are plenty of things to work on, but they gave a great effort.

Daryl Patton

We're a pressure team. We're going to give up some big plays at time but overall ... we gave up some big plays but the kids responded usually with something positive right after that.

Robert Atkins

When I meet vegetarians who might have diabetes, pre-diabetes or massive obesity, I tell them they would be better off if they gave up their Vegetarianism.

Flip Saunders

The only negative was I wanted to play Carlos (Delfino) and I didn't. I think he could have probably helped us. We went with Mo, and Mo gave us energy.

Caitlyn Jenner

'Esquire Magazine' just gave me 'Father of the Year'. I'll put it right up there with my gold medal. I survived; that's why they gave it to me.

Ethel Andrus

What I spent, is gone; what I kept, I lost;/ but what I gave away will be mine forever.

Abby Cohen

Opportunities are likely to present themselves, especially given a 6- to 12-month time horizon.

Leo Tolstoy

The more is given the less people will work for themselves, and the less they work the more their poverty will increase

Lillian Koller

The money is so flexible, so broad. But it's a limited amount. While it seems a lot, given all our needs and services, it goes fast.

Mick Durham

Defensively he's also making great strides. No question he's given us a lift offensively.

Jim Beaver

'Deadwood' proved that viewers are smarter in terms of grasping intricate dialogue than they had been given credit for.

Anthony Crescenzi

Any money given to seniors probably would get spent and therefore help the economy.

Carlos Delgado

The situation with the Marlins, getting rid of some of their players, has given me a great opportunity in New York,

Nicolas Massu

These matches in the Latin American Tour have always given me luck. But I still need to take one more step.

Larry Rothschild

The second round is important for us to get him ready and that he keeps progressing. I have nothing to say about it, but I would like him to get a start. Some consideration has to be given to that. If not, then we have to reconsider what's going on. After the first round I need to find out what's going on with him.

Dr. Shannon

We'll keep him medically sedated as long as possible.

David Morales

He tried to obtain the proper medical treatment to treat this, and he was denied,

Marty Bahamonde

Sir, I know that you know the situation is past critical. The sooner we can get the medical patients out, the sooner we can get them out.

Bobby Sherman

Gosh... for the past 10 years or so I've been with the EMS (Emergency Medical Services) as an EMT (Emergency Medical Technician).

John Olerud

I didn't need seven years of medical school to know what was next.

Yumi Oshima

Part of the problem is her parents live in Taiwan and she only has the Rutgers Medical Insurance. They can't transport her back to Taiwan because she is in such serious condition.

Stephen Dick

All the workers will undergo medical examination before repatriation to their families.

Miles White

This acquisition complements our strategy in medical products.

Donald Trump

We can't let people down when they can't get any medical care, when they're sick and don't have money to go to a doctor. You help them.

Ray Stevens

I originally passed on 'Raindrops Keep Fallin' On My Head' in 1969, so they gave it to B.J. Thomas.

Bob Lutz

Right now, we're not where we ought to be (on hybrids).

John Gibson

We've got about 300 members. We ought to have about 3,000.

John Stossel

Private businesses ought to get to discriminate.

Edward Kennedy

I think the Vice-President ought to re-read the constitution.

Susan Vreeland

I would like to bring people who have never been to a museum into a museum. And I would like to bring museum goers into libraries. I think there ought to be this cross-fertilization.

Robert Morrison

To do what ought to be done but what would not have been done unless I did it, I thought to be my duty.

Dave Gomo

If you've never done it, they ought to try it.

R. Ingram

It's something they ought to be able to live with.

Paul Simon

As you look at the vote returns, I think the Senate this time ought to be able to pass a Constitutional amendment.

Stacy Stewart

Perhaps by the end of the work week it could be posing a threat to Bermuda, but not the US.

Oliver Kahn

Perhaps we will still be using this policy for the World Cup. That would be a new concept.

Ann Gerhart

Perhaps this is how she is spending her capital,

Todd Hamilton

I'm so excited, I probably won't sleep for two or three or perhaps seven days,

John Lennon

I'm not going to change the way I look or the way I feel to conform to anything.

Kypros Chrysostomides

It seems that today we reached a satisfactory conclusion.

Tom Duxbury

There's at least one more we could reach for another flyby.

Bruce Vilanch

I've written about 15 screenplays and they all sold - they were all sold on pitches.

Joe Sakic

I didn't do much. I was just trying to get a screen in there. He shot it, and it just went off my stick.

Bruce Goldstein

Before Clara Bow, all the screen sirens were kind of exotic.

Jeff Tank

We aren't tough enough to screen out. I'd like to see us screen out harder. We didn't do that well, either.

J. F. Powers

He suddenly found himself on the precipice of utility.

Kate Winslet

I don't know why I'm suddenly playing nasty people. It is very fun, though, and it isn't real, at the end of the day.

Feist

When I wrote 'Mushaboom', I was living in the second verse, but I suddenly found myself in the first.

Al Golden

You never know it as well as you think until you have to be the teacher,

Ian Millward

And, until we get that right, we're not going to win games.

F. Stone

You have to give them you until you is what they want.

Brian Leonard

Right now it is only a scare. We won't know until after the fact.

Mark Ellis

I just feel good. I didn't think anything of it until (Mark) Kotsay said, 'If you get a chance, keep running.

Robert Harrison

I'll be here every year until I die.

Ozzie Guillen

If not then he'll have to wait until Monday.

Carol Davis

If I was the council, I wouldn't want to wait until July. It's been too long.

Rita Ora

I never knew how small L.A. was until I started to work here.

Dr. Beebe

You've got to try and normalize your life. I just walked around every morning, the same as I do here (in Connecticut).

Ray Brown

He walked into the storm. He's probably dead.