Famous Quotes & Sayings

Yang Lan

In 1994, after four years of talking about travel on my first show, I realized I knew so little about the world - I knew so little about myself. I decided to quit my job and pursue a postgraduate degree in New York.

Thom Yorke

We toyed with the idea of making it a double album, but I think that would only have confused everybody even more, so we decided to stick with the songs we picked.

Ike Barinholtz

We decided we don't use the term 'fat' for me. We use the term 'juicy' for me. My wife's fine with it, but the rule is when I'm over double her weight, it's over.

Vivek Wadhwa

Writing a book is usually a full-time job that takes years. I didn't have years. So I decided to crowdsource content for the book.

Becky G

When I was 11, I decided to start rapping, playing guitar, and writing songs. Everything really blossomed from there.

Bethany Mota

I decided to launch a fragrance because Aeropostale approached me about creating one, and it's something that I kind of always wanted to do but didn't think it would actually happen. So when I heard I had the opportunity to create my own perfume, I got super excited.

Vidya Balan

Promotions can be seen in two ways - either you hate them, and they're a burden, and you are getting through with it, or you can enjoy them. I decided early on that I was going to enjoy them. I did 43 interviews in a day for 'Kahaani.'

Walter Jon Williams

It's hard to generalize, because they're all different. When I started, I decided to take as much advantage as I could of the freedom offered by the SF field.

Raul Grijalva

The American people have decided that it was a mistake to choose to go to war in Iraq.

Elizabeth Warren

People who graduate are more resilient financially, and they weather economic downturns better than people who don't graduate. And, throughout their lives, people who graduate are more likely to be economically secure, more likely to be healthy, and more likely to live longer. Face it: A college degree puts a lot in your corner.

David H. Murdock

I'll match wits with anybody. I don't care if they have the top degree in the world.

Antoine Lavoisier

Thus, while I thought myself employed only in forming a Nomenclature, and while I proposed to myself nothing more than to improve the chemical language, my work transformed itself by degrees, without my being able to prevent it, into a treatise upon the Elements of Chemistry.

Bertrand Russell

I am not myself in any degree ashamed of having changed my opinions.

Jeremy Sweet

We were stationed in Pascagoula, Miss., which is about as far southeast as you can go. It was hot, hot, hot - nearly 100 degrees - and very humid every day.

Karen Broach

We have a high degree of flexibility to reach out and touch our demographics. The Latino package is a prime example. We don't offer a Latino tier in every market because the market doesn't demand that. In Madison, a Latino tier is necessary and important to consumers.

Gao Xuedong

We have been trying to make breakthroughs in the degree of difficulty in the summer training.

Herb Sendek

We're really not at liberty to talk about it. What I can tell you is that Gavin is a true gentleman, and he is working hard to pursue his degree at N.C. State.

Paula McLain

I took my first creative writing class when I was 24, then went onto to get a graduate degree in poetry. I've sort of never looked back from there.

Edward Snowden

If they had taught a class on how to be the kind of citizen Dick Cheney worries about, I would have finished high school.

Nancy Gibbs

Summer is not obligatory. We can start an infernally hard jigsaw puzzle in June with the knowledge that, if there are enough rainy days, we may just finish it by Labor Day, but if not, there's no harm, no penalty. We may have better things to do.

Adam Scott

That would finish off the year, and I'd be pretty happy.

Joe Godinho

That was the third time he had to wrestle his kid in the last three weeks. It was a tighter match, but Kevin finished strong.

Chris Johnson

That was the first thing that hit me. I knew I had to find a place to try and finish my senior year, so I'd have a chance.

Jeong Jang

That was the first long putt today. Good finish going into tomorrow.

Lauren Bechtold

That was something that's exceptional to be able to hear. To finish with all of these girls, it was incredible.

Brian Curran

That was a huge goal. Samy had a great all-around game and that was a nice way for him to finish it off.

John Ellinger

We have two games left, we need to win an away game. We want to win, we don't want to finish the season with 12 straight losses.

Ashton Kutcher

Whether you like it or not, the digital age has produced a new format for modern romance, and natural selection may be favoring the quick-thumbed quip peddler over the confident, ice-breaking alpha male.

Bill Bryson

England was full of words I'd never heard before - streaky bacon, short back and sides, Belisha beacon, serviettes, high tea, ice-cream cornet.

Doug Deming

Whoa! There's not as much ice here as I thought there was. I don't think we'll go any farther.

Jacques Villeneuve

I was happy to ski and play a lot of ice hockey. But I've come back because I was - and am - a racing driver. This is what I do.

Kelly Ioane

I think she's going to be OK. We just had her ice it and we'll see how it goes.

Mignon Waterman

Which is very easy. It actually is a little Italian dessert. It's like a mousse ... kind of like ice cream.

Dan Jones

We even had people showing up in shorts and sweatshirts, but the ice was still safe.

Pierre Turgeon

We can't wait to see what they are going to do. We have to make sure we put everything we have on the ice right off the bat. . . . The first 5 to 10 minutes are going to be crucial.

Steve Denney

We're going to be stocking 20,000 legal-size rainbow trout as soon as the ice is off, as soon as we can get to the lake.

Barry O'Farrell

Bigotry should never be sanctioned, whether intentionally or unintentionally.

Pontius Pilate

Whether will the twain will ye that I release unto you?

Dick Hill

You can always find Curtis, whether it's the Jeep or the Big Bird.

Kevin Lowe

Whether I can get it done is another question.

Bill Smith

Whether he didn't see him or doesn't want to say, I don't know.

Martha Stewart

Whether you're a programmer or a seamstress, it's all about new techniques, simplifying old techniques, and consolidating steps. Making things go faster - but not worse.

Cary Finberg

Whether you win by one-point or 20, it doesn't matter. You still get the title.

Jim Lehrer

Whether you're 9 or 90, you can play this game.

Hugh Shelton

I'm not going to say whether I'm a Republican or a Democrat.