Famous Quotes & Sayings

Barbara Park

My senior year of high school, I was voted 'Wittiest.' So, several years later, I decided to try my hand at writing humor to see if I could be witty enough to make some money.

Daryl Hall

In the early '70s, I started to feel like Philadelphia soul was the black-sheep brother of rock and roll. I decided to try to get away from it.

Barbara Lynn

You'd always see a lady or a little girl sitting at a piano. I decided I wanted to play something more unexpected, so that's when I got interested in learning to play the guitar.

Helplessness induces hopelessness, and history attests that loss of hope and not loss of lives is what decides the issue of war

There is room (for investment in another bank), and we will have to decide going forward what to do in this regard.

There is plenty of good in there. But it's been quite watered down, and many things have been left to be decided later.

The parliament wants the member states themselves to decide whether sunlight is a risk or not. That's totally unacceptable for the Commission.

The philosophy of being able as a woman to decide what you want and being unashamed about making it happen was new. Most successful businessmen are in that role. 'No' is never perceived as the end of the line. 'No' just means picking a new avenue.

Richard Myers

There are a lot of ways to go before you get to the point where you ... decide you want to give active-duty forces law enforcement authority,

The organization has decided not to renew his contract.

The opposition has not focused on the merits of the initiative. They've decided to focus on Rob.

The original schedule was late in January but the president has decided to postpone until the mid-February due to his tight schedule.

We've got a lot of new guys on the team, and we're trying to decide where to play them. We've essentially got 10 guys vying for four spots.

We had to decide what direction we were going to take this business, so we focused on the entertainment aspect.

To a growing degree, it is not governments, but rather quite different forces that decide the fate of humankind.

This website is not your usual 'read-some-copy, look-at-some-pictures' travel site. I don't know of any other travel Web site that focuses on virtual photographic tours. Travel planners and tourists can now take an online tour around San Diego with 360-degree virtual photography. After experiencing San Diego's sights and attractions online, visitors can decide where to go, what to do, and what to see when they visit

This was a visit that was decided on and organized and undertaken by the Turkish government.

This union has effectively decided to shut down the ports on the West Coast.

What plays out in this will decide whether or not this segment of TV remains a kind of Wild West, non union shop genre, or whether reality TV is going to organize its own set of definitions or be absorbed into already established ones.

We give you the facts to make an informed decision. We have to decide what we want to do as a community,

When did you decide you didn't want any more publicity? I'm looking for a date.

Paul Rusesabagina

We sat down in the ruins and we cried. The trip opened my eyes, it was very influential, ... Since then I've decided never to fight with a gun but with my mouth.

We knew that we had to play hard and had to turn it up and at that point, we decided we got to put up a fight. We can't just relax and let them run all over us.

We knew that types of medications being dispensed in schools were increasing and we had no information about them, so we decided we needed to get a handle on what was going on.

We thought of it as our last and we skated like it was our last but it might not be. We'll decide that after Calgary.

Roger Miller

We think what she has decided to do is very heart-warming. It's nice that she wants to help others who don't have very much.

Antonin Scalia

Why not decide in advance? Why not take a run and see,

We've decided we're going to start a medical evacuation of patients who need to be treated, ... The doctors told us better treatment could be obtained outside of the community.

We've decided to re-schedule the game sometime during the week before Thanksgiving. Neither one of us plays on that weekend, so we're looking at either the Thursday (Nov. 17) or Friday (Nov. 18) before. We'll make that decision later but, right now, the game is tentatively set for one of those days.

We've decided to keep him on turf for now. Besides, the UAE would be a long trip and a hard race, and if you go over there you could lose him for most of the year. He's still got lots of years left, and there are a lot of nice opportunities for him over here.

We've decided to isolate Hilton because they are the most recalcitrant and belligerent employer in the industry.

We've decided that we're going to take a rickshaw.

Frank Williams

We've decided that to be fair to the team and also to the two drivers to give them more time to demonstrate their abilities,