Famous Quotes & Sayings

Madonna Ciccone

I had decided that if I was going to be a singer, I had to earn it. I had to learn how to play an instrument.

I decided to work on things that obsess women because women can't resist things like lace, sequins, animal prints and python.

Pippa Middleton

I have finally perfected my signature. It took hours of practicing... I decided early on just to write Pippa, not Middleton.

Peter Jurasik

I left because I decided it just really wasn't for me, and I got a better understanding of what the Catholic Church needed from its priests and ministers.

Caroline Leavitt

By the time I was 5, I was already an outcast. It was the early 1960s, and I was part of the only Jewish family in a decidedly Christian suburb of Waltham, Mass.

When I went to university, I decided that I would like to do something related to plant ecology, because I felt that plants were so beautiful. When I am studying plants, I feel like I am talking with some kind of supernatural life, like I am talking with someone who does not speak.

We are evaluating our options We haven't decided what to do yet. We take the privacy of our customers' information very seriously.

We obtained the tape from a third party. We haven't decided exactly when we're releasing it, but look for it in a few months.

Todd White

But once I was able to work out again, I decided to give it another shot and train really hard.

David Bowie

As an adolescent, I was painfully shy, withdrawn. I didn't really have the nerve to sing my songs on stage, and nobody else was doing them. I decided to do them in disguise so that I didn't have to actually go through the humiliation of going on stage and being myself.

The government will not interfere in setting the price, and the price will be decided by the market.

Jason Kenney

The government has not decided whether there will be or not be direct compensation to descendants.

The government decided that confrontation was not a good solution, and to let it evolve politically.

Jeff Smith

We had a tremendous response from the participants. We decided to do it again.

We are statewide, and we want to start reflecting that with our projects. For our first year out of town, we decided to do San Antonio because it was the closest.

Elmore Leonard

I decided to write Westerns because there was a terrific market for Westerns in the '50s. There were a lot of pulp magazines, like 'Dime Western' and '10 Story Western' that were still being published. The better ones paid two cents a word. And I thought, 'I like Westerns.'

Alan Hansen

Playing for 14 years definitely took its toll mentally. I decided when I was playing my last season that when I retired from football I would never go back into it, and I've never regretted that decision.

Dan Fogelberg

I never going to satisfy everybody, so I decided to satisfy myself.

Gary Ross

Despite recent speculation in the media, and after difficult but sincere consideration, I have decided not to direct 'Catching Fire.' As a writer and a director, I simply don't have the time I need to write and prep the movie I would have wanted to make, because of the fixed and tight production schedule.

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.

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.

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.

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,

We've decided not to fly with the ramps, but we have to put some kind of (protective covering) in that area. There are multiple solutions. Engineers are just trying to decide which one of those is the right one to do that gives us the right safety margins.

We've decided not to fly with the (ramps), but we have to put some kind of (protective covering) in that area.

We've decided not to do anything differently if Steve does.