Famous Quotes & Sayings

Voters had to choose between the unknown and the notorious.

Powers Boothe

I've been fortunate in my career to have the opportunity to pick and choose the parts I play. I've also been lucky to always be involved with quality actors, quality directors, quality writers.

Amy Hill

We must be doing something right -- 1.3 million people choose to work for Wal-Mart.

We will be working in connection with them to choose the topical content for a particular week.

We want users to be able to choose their own hardware and software platforms. If they want to use IBM, they can. If they prefer HP, they can too.

We want users to be able to choose their own hardware and software platforms, ... If they want to use IBM, they can. If they prefer HP, they can too.

Under the Railway Labor Act, it is legal for us to strike, and we will fight it in a court of law, if the company chooses to contest that.

There are many things we could choose to comment on (that) we've done this through the process.

Frank Abagnale

I was just a guy who ran away from home at 16 because my parents were getting a divorce and the judge was making me choose which parent to live with. I didn't want to make that choice. I ended up in New York City.

I don't work with a stylist, I don't work with a glam squad to get me together for the red carpet, I really enjoy the time it takes to do it myself, to choose my clothes and do my own makeup and my own hair.

David J. C. MacKay

I would like to help people have honest and constructive conversations about energy. We need to understand how much energy our modern lifestyles use, decide how much energy we would like to use in the future, and choose where we will get that energy from.

Don Kardong

Fartlek, or speed play, is variable-pace running that emphasizes creativity. During a 30-minute run, choose objects to run to - telephone poles, trees, buildings, other runners, whatever. Make choices that mark off different distances, so your pickups vary in length from 15 to 90 seconds, and modify your pace to match the distance.

Oscar Wilde

Perhaps one of the most difficult things for us to do is to choose a notable and joyous dress for men. There would be more joy in life if we were to accustom ourselves to use all the beautiful colours we can in fashioning our own clothes.

Blaise Pascal

Who would desire to have for a friend a man who talks in this fashion? Who would choose him out from others to tell him of his affairs? Who would have recourse to him in affliction? And indeed to what use in life could one put him?

Ryan Adams

There is this strange fog of being a young man that I would refer to as soft time. Time does not go forward there. It's a series of doors that kind of wind back into one another, like a series of doors in the upper floor of a house. You revisit the same lessons over and over again, or you choose to ignore them.

But I won't be offended if someone chooses to violate it.

Michael Cudlitz

I think a lot of high-profile artists like to make people think that. 'Oh, I'm trying to choose my next project.' This is a job. Sometimes your next job is so you can provide for your family; your kids are 16 and getting ready to go to college.

The governor's been very focused on making sure Ohio's high school students have the skills to succeed in the work force or if they choose to move on into college.

Ileana Ros-Lehtinen

If we don't like the Human Rights Council, then let's not fund it. We should pick and choose cafeteria style which groups we want to help.

Ina May Gaskin

I know of no country in the world that has passed a law specifically denying a woman's right to choose where she intends to give birth.

With a total of 27 tracks between the two of them to choose from we had to pick the best, kind of like the icing on the cake. Over the years people would come up to us and say 'I love this particular song,' so (these) are people's favorites.

Peter Lee

Yet we have this global opportunity (in the north) to do things right if we choose to.

Claire Tomalin

Why do we read biography? Why do we choose to write it? Because we are human beings, programmed to be curious about other human beings, and to experience something of their lives. This has always been so - look at the Bible, crammed with biographies, very popular reading.

Sarah Gadon

It's so often that I read for the bouncy, sunny girl men fall in love with who will solve all the romantic problems in the narrative. I don't choose to work that way.

Henry B. Eyring

If we have faith in Jesus Christ, the hardest as well as the easiest times in life can be a blessing. In all conditions, we can choose the right with the guidance of the Spirit. We have the gospel of Jesus Christ to shape and guide our lives if we choose it.

Gayle Tzemach Lemmon

Women who choose to breastfeed should get as much education and support as possible.

Georgia Holt

I was married a lot, but I didn't stay married very long because I didn't seem to be able to choose somebody that was a stable man.

Gary Zukav

The hardest times to choose love are the very times when you can most grow spiritually. In fact, they are the only times you can grow spiritually!

LZ Granderson

Just because we want our favorite team to win does not mean there's any lack of toughness when a player chooses family first.

Eleni Zaude Gabre-Madhin

Happiness is the freedom of choice. The freedom to choose where to live, what to do, what to buy, what to sell, from whom, to whom, when and how.

Elyn Saks

Choose your friends wisely, and also choose friends that you can trust.

We leave it up to each individual whether they choose to support it by wearing white that day, or staying home, or not going to work, or if they have to go to work, wear white.

Joel Salatin

Choose to patronise your local farmers; as eaters, you need to demand a different type of food. Appreciate the pigginess of the pig.