Famous Quotes & Sayings

Joe Nedney

It was a straight crosswind, a little in my face. I've never seen anything like it. Mother Nature had a tough night and decided to take it out on us and the Bears.

Neelie Kroes

It was a surprise that they decided to disclose the source code.

Steve Johnson

It was important to get a lead. Ridley has been a second-half team, but we kept working at it. Last week was a tough loss, but we decided to let it go and get the job done. The defense did a good job.

Randy Lerner

It's a year-to-year thing. And this year we decided no increase was appropriate.

Ezra Miller

My mother took me to a lot of operas and when I was eight I got the opportunity to be in one and I realized that transformation into these make-believe situations was possible. I decided that was essentially what I wanted to do with my life.

Preity Zinta

Yes, you have to be brave enough to take steps that your heart is telling you to take. Because when I decided to go into cricket, not one person told me I was making the right move. At that time, nobody thought the IPL would become so big. I was nervous at that time, because suddenly I was in an uncomfortable spot.

Malcolm Gladwell

We used to say poor people had lousy genes. Then we decided that wasn't OK, but we transferred the prejudice to upbringing. We said, 'You were neglected as a child, so you'll never make it.' That's just as pernicious.

Dominika Cibulkova

I've always loved playing tennis. When I was 12, my parents decided that I should try to do it seriously. My father started to travel with me, and as a family, we tried to make it work.

Nick Woodman

I decided that I want to live in a big world. And since then, any time I'm confronted with a challenging situation, I go for it.

Jakaya Kikwete

We promise to respect people of all creeds: those who are Christians, Muslims as well as those who have decided not to follow any religion.

Al Groh

We preached all week for our guys to be prepared to go the long haul. We knew this game would be decided well into the game, late in the game. That helped see us through a tough start.

Trevor Moore

I was very young, and I kind of decided I wanted to do comedy. My parents were musicians, so we traveled on a tour bus. You're in a different town every night; as a kid, you're trying to make friends fast. You try to be funny.

Vanessa Ray

I visualized high school as being like 'Saved By the Bell.' I decided I would do all the things they did on that show.

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.

We have no problem of funds because we have raised these from various banks. We have now decided to enlist new members. By the time we are ready to open, we would have a membership of more than 10,000 people, each of whom will have paid a fee of Rs.500.

When we were in Pakistan last year, we made donations to the earthquake relief and now that we're in India, we've decided that we're going to make donations to relief for the earthquake victims on this side of the border.

We remain in talks about what should be decided there, and what the role of the United Nations should be.

Our heart and our fight changed. We were down that whole game. The defense decided we weren't going to let them score anymore, and once our offense started moving the ball, we really knew we had to stop those guys.

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.

We are not going to pick a linebacker just to pick a linebacker. That is just not going to happen. We are going to pick a player that is decidedly higher rated. We have options.

Transparency is vitally important in what can be a very opaque process in Brussels. We've decided to open this up so people can understand the issues.

When I first saw what happened on the news I was devastated and decided to do something.

Paul Scott

While we have some promising signs, we need to see the proposal still. We're pleased that Mills has decided to step away from direct involvement of the project.

Honeysuckle Weeks

My parents wanted to be actors. They tried for years but didn't get anywhere. Then Mum got pregnant with me and they decided to make actors out of their children. You need your parents' support if you're going to do it. Otherwise who's going to ferry you to castings?

We got to Jackson, Miss. and we went looking for a generator; we knew there wasn't any electricity at home. Lowe's was out but was expecting a shipment within an hour or so and we decided to wait.

We gave up on waiting. We decided to go for it.

Terry Allen

We had eight games last year that were decided by seven points or less, and every one of those games had a special teams play that was significant in the outcome.

We had all this stuff -- it's from years past -- and we decided I needed to raise some money so I could move on and open up a new store.

We had to search all seven floors of the hospital and we were supposed to get 13 bodies, but we ended up with 19. When we decided to search the entire hospital is when we found the other six bodies.

We wanted to jump on them early, especially with the weather the way it was. Five innings makes an official game, so that is why we needed to get the early lead. But then, we decided to just put the weather out of our minds.

Ted Forrest

We wanted to have a little tea party here at people's advocate. We didn't have any tea, so we decided we'd throw the governor overboard.

Steven Sinofsky

With the general availability of Windows 8/RT and Surface, I have decided it is time for me to take a step back from my responsibilities at Microsoft.

Paul Verhoeven

I had decided after 'Hollow Man' to stay away from science fiction. I felt I had done so much science fiction. Four of the six movies I made in Hollywood are science-fiction oriented, and even 'Basic Instinct' is kind of science fiction.