I decided if I couldn't be a writer, my life would be miserable. I had this imaginary room of references to all… — Per Petterson Copy Share Image
When I found out how music made me feel and how my singing made other people feel, that's when I decided this… — Dianne Reeves Copy Share Image
I thought long and hard about my future this past year and during the offseason, and I've decided 2015 will be the… — Jeff Gordon Copy Share Image
Mr. Jesmond made a peculiar noise rather like a hen who has decided to lay an egg and then thought better of… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
(After the losses) I decided I had to break through. I had to set a goal. My goal that I set was… — Kyle Maynard Copy Share Image
I sculpted for four or five years. Mostly for my own amusement, I decided to do a picture book, and that was… — Chris Van Allsburg Copy Share Image
A close girlfriend of mine and I have been writing and playing together for years and decided to make it official, so… — Bethany Joy Lenz Copy Share Image
I still have not given up the idea of becoming a journalist, but at 17 I decided to follow my heart and… — Mackenzie Astin Copy Share Image
After Secretary Clinton announced in January 2010 that Internet freedom would be a major pillar of U.S. foreign policy, the State Department… — Rebecca MacKinnon Copy Share Image
It is difficult to say why I decided I wanted to be an artist. Obviously, I had some facility, more than other… — David Hockney Copy Share Image
Creating my own roles, as an actor, is great. You're so at the mercy of other people, and you're waiting for a… — Catherine Bell Copy Share Image
When I came back to the United States, I decided that if you could use propaganda for war, you could certainly use… — Edward Bernays Copy Share Image
Illegal immigration presents a huge problem. That is why I decided to spend a week along the southern border to see firsthand… — Ric Keller Copy Share Image
I started this career because I loved doing houses. I'd done three of my own and I couldn't keep on moving my… — Dorothy Draper Copy Share Image
Sterling Holloway, the actor who had originally voiced Pooh, decided to retire in the mid-1980s. Disney decided that they wanted to continue… — Jim Cummings Copy Share Image
I realized that people had an unreal image of me, that somehow I was a god on Mount Olympus. I decided that… — Sonia Sotomayor Copy Share Image
I was told I had to go to business school to succeed. I gave it a shot, but eventually dropped out to… — Ryan Holmes Copy Share Image
Science is much closer to myth than a scientific philosophy is prepared to admit. It is one of the many forms of… — Paul Feyerabend Copy Share Image
Like any developing country, it has an inequality of wealth. In the Chinese case, it is particularly [pronounced] by the fact that… — Henry A. Kissinger Copy Share Image
When I was developing the [TV Series "Daredevil"] idea, we were really doing something closer to what was in the comic book.… — Melissa Rosenberg Copy Share Image
This is a perfect example of the power and ridiculousness of a website like Wikipedia. I did give a slightly contentious graduation… — Nick Kroll Copy Share Image
A common question asked of writers is "When did you decide to become a writer?" The answer, of course, is that we… — Mary Higgins Clark Copy Share Image
We thought that using rap would draw a parallel with the protest music from the 60s and 70s that we found through… — Alex Abreu Copy Share Image
One day while studying a Yeats poem I decided to write poetry the rest of my life. I recognized that a single… — Robert Bly Copy Share Image
I was three years old. I was messing with my grandparents' dog in Las Vegas, and he decided to pick me up… — Brian Austin Green Copy Share Image
How I Love Lucy was born? We decided that instead of divorce lawyers profiting from our mistakes, we'd profit from them. — Lucille Ball Copy Share Image
The big moment came when it was decided to paint...Just To Paint. The gesture on the canvas was a gesture of liberation,… — Harold Rosenberg Copy Share Image
I've decided that art is a habit-forming drug. That's all it is, for the artist, for the collector, for anybody connected with… — Marcel Duchamp Copy Share Image
I decided that I would be one of the biggest new names; and I actually had some little fancy business cards printed… — Count Basie Copy Share Image
I've been trying to do films for years. So I've decided to wait until the next good part comes along and develop… — Gwen Stefani Copy Share Image
I decided that Europeans and Americans are like men and women: they understand each other worse, and it matters less, than either… — Randall Jarrell Copy Share Image
Having decided to follow my own intuitive path I began to write music on the basis of harmonized spoken words, for new… — Harry Partch Copy Share Image
Who are you now? Who have you decided to become? Make this decision consciously. Make it carefully. Make it powerfully. Then act… — Tony Robbins Copy Share Image
I played bass for a year, but I wasn't getting better at it, so I decided to stop so I could see… — Daniel Radcliffe Copy Share Image
And I think that when I finally decided to let go and let God and allow that to happen, I became a… — Clay Aiken Copy Share Image
The Bible is full of ordinary people who went to impossible places and did wondrous things simply because they decided to obey… — Andrew van der Bijl Copy Share Image
I decided to take God and organized religion seriously, and to reject the secular life which in my teens had looked attractive… — Luke Ford Copy Share Image
At a certain point, I just put the building and the art impulse together. I decided that building was a legitimate way… — Martin Puryear Copy Share Image
I wonder if anybody ever decided to commit suicide, then thought; but first I'm going to stop by that taco place I… — Dov Davidoff Copy Share Image
On daughter Liza Minnelli: I think she decided to go into show business when she was an embryo, she kicked so much. — Judy Garland Copy Share Image