Famous Quotes & Sayings

Helena Mattsson

Growing up in Sweden, I decided pretty early on that I wanted to go to acting school.

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.

Irving Paul Lazar

Sometimes I wake up in the morning and there's nothing doing, so I decide to make something happen by lunch.

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.

E. O. Wilson

We have decommissioned natural selection and must now look deep within ourselves and decide what we wish to become.

We're evaluating our options and trying to decide if we can rebuild it ourselves, or find someone else who wants to do it. We've owned it for 15 years, and (putting the inn up for sale) was a personal decision that it was time for us to move on to something else.

There is a very tight race for No. 1 between ABC, Fox and CBS. You can't discount that. That's why they decided to go with original programming. This is about the competitive nature of our business.

Karl Rove

The Tea Party movement is a wide and diverse group. It will hurt the Republican Party if some elements of the Tea Party decide to become third party advocates because it will split the conservative vote.

Tom Robbins

I've decided to take advantage of outsourcing. My next novel will be written by a couple of guys in Bangalore, India.

Dennis Hastert

Unfortunately, opponents of online speech have decided to punish our changing technological world.

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.

We have to wait. We have to decide in another month what to do. But it will be another year until we know what will become of New Orleans.

Jerry Jones

We just didn't think it was as serious. We've had many play through that and do well, especially at that position, so it was discouraging when he decided he wanted to have surgery. ... The main thing is that we were planning on him being out at practice the next day when he decided to have surgery.

Mortimer Zuckerman

I decided law was the exact opposite of sex; even when it was good, it was lousy

Patti Stanger

A ring means a commitment. But more than that, it means that you've talked about your shared future and have decided together on a shared vision of it.

Rainbow Rowell

When I watch a romantic comedy, I feel like they're selling something that doesn't exist. Two beautiful, but extremely unpleasant, people are terrible to each other for an hour, accidentally kiss, then decide to like each other during an extremely vague montage. That isn't how people fall in love.

We have the impression the government has decided to respond to the student movement with truncheons and repression.

Jackie Mason

We were going to do it before the hurricane, but decided to wait,

We were still good enough that we decided let's give it another shot. But we got to this year and said it's time. Rather than try to tippy-toe our way through it, we just took it all in one big shot.

We were sitting there waiting and finally decided it was time to go back to the Health Department.

Today was getting through easier routines. The thought was to see where I'm at, then decide what I'm going to do Friday.

We don't know exactly what would happen after a 'no.' We wouldn't decide on that. It would be up to the EU.

Mike Richardson

We worked hard on that the other day in practice. We worked on a set squad to go out there and play hard defense until they turned it over or we decided it was time to foul.

We want to know what is going on, what is being discussed. After all, what is decided impacts our lives.

David Robertson

We'll see how it reacts in the (weekend) storm then decide on how we re-open it to two-way or one-way traffic.

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.

Thousands of men and women have done just that have decided to come to terms with what lies at the roots of their same-sex attractions and work diligently toward overcoming them.