Famous Quotes & Sayings

I decided to set out to prove that you could make a reasonable living building for the poor using recycled materials and only hiring unskilled labor.

The question is: Can Ciro turn out the vote on the South Side? That will decide the election.

Roseanne Barr

I'm tired of watching as men destroy all the world. Everything used to be beautiful when women were in charge, and now I, working as the physical manifestation of the goddess Isis and the reincarnation of Cleopatra, have decided to save the world.

Martha Beck

If you're feeling intransigently ambivalent, it might pay to formally accept what's already happening - that is, decide not to decide.

Marlon Wayans

If I read something great and I want to go after it, I go after it. You don't wait to see what Hollywood wants to do with you. You decide what you want to do. I don't mind fighting when I really want something.

I worked a little as a messenger on a bicycle and then decided to study photography and film.

Alexa Von Tobel

Growing up in a family of doctors, I wanted to be a brain surgeon for a while. But ultimately, I get most excited about creating things, which is why I decided to become an entrepreneur.

Alex Steffen

If nothing else, the Internet allows people to put their ideas out there and let the world decide whether they're worth paying attention to.

Marianne Williamson

The man I love may decide tomorrow that he loves me no more - but if my heart remains open, I will endure the storm.

Derek Jarman

These names: gay, queer, homosexual are limiting. I would love to finish with them. We're going to have to decide which terms to use and where we use them. For me to use the word 'queer' is a liberation; it was a word that frightened me, but no longer.

Kevin Kennedy

When I go in the game, I like to think things are going to change. I just decided to fake the run and give it back and let my guy do his work.

Vladimir Bukovsky

The experience of opposing mass movements was acquired by the KGB during perestroika. It was then that the politicians decided to develop and nourish mass movements for their purposes.

The lanes and streets of the city being set out, the choice of sites for the convenience and use of the state remains to be decided on; for sacred edifices, for the forum, and for other public buildings.

Wilbur Smith

This first print run of the first edition of my first novel, 'When The Lion Feeds.' back in 1964, is so rare it can fetch several thousand pounds at auction. I always wanted to be an author, and I decided to write about what I knew.

We can self-censor ourselves for various reasons, but we can't live in a world where some person or some group decides what's offensive and what's not.

Lech Walesa

I decided to get to know my opponents and their arguments.

Leon Black

After my father died, we were pretty much wiped out financially as a family, so I decided to give finance a try.

Lori Foster

I'm truly, 100% guided by the characters and my Muse. If one of the characters suddenly decided to do something very different, I'd just go with it. It's much easier to let the Muse drive than for me to try to steer.

Neil Tennant

We decided we didn't want to do a musical for TV because the idea of writing a musical that would be seen on television once seems insane.

Naturi Naughton

I was pretty young when I decided I wanted to, well, more so be a singer. I started singing in church in my hometown, East Orange, New Jersey. I knew when I was about five or six that I wanted to be a performer.

Matt Martin

We didn't play physical today, and that's what I'm most disappointed with. You decide how you want to go down and I didn't feel like we went down swinging. That's what's disappointing.

Lee Tergesen

I think for Beecher specifically, Keller was with him when his wife died. Beecher had decided after he first got into prison that he had to shut off everybody. You can't let anybody in and you have to become like them and you have to be threatening and all that.

During the early 1960s, I decided to supplement research support for quantitative economic studies at Pennsylvania by selling econometric forecasts to private and public sector buyers.

The day you decide to do it is your lucky day

Robert Webb

When I was 18, I was halfway up the Eiffel Tower with my friend, Tom, when we decided to stick our heads through the railings. The gap between the railings was exactly the right size to be able to put your head through and nearly get stuck. Which is exactly what happened.

Robert Webb

The way people imagine their political leaders is, like it or not, an important factor in how they decide to vote and, indeed, whether they vote at all.

Ruben Blades

I decided we should book ourselves, so I started booking the band.

Randy Pausch

I've decided to tell my kids things like: 'I love the way each of you tilted back your heads when you laughed.' I will give them specific stuff they can grasp.

Carly Fiorina

People have decided that career politicians may be part of the problem, not part of the solution.

Ed Rendell

I think national issues play into gubernatorial races less than, obviously, in Senate and Congressional races. Much less. They tend to be more decided by personality, leadership qualities and by state or local issues. They still have some effect, no question about it, but not as much as Senate and Congressional races.

Lemn Sissay

My foster parents were very religious. They told me that they had not decided to take me in, rather that it was God that had decided it for them.

Listen, we're still selling stardom. That doesn't go away because MTV decides they can't play videos or they want to program themselves more as a traditional T.V. station. Vevo and YouTube are like MTV online, and on demand.

We decided to speak publicly about suicide because we wanted to make a difference in other people's lives.