“Three days after my boyfriend left me, I discovered a closetful of his clothes. I thought of what I'd done in the past (bundling them up and sending them, COD: distributing them to my friends) even as I already had the scissors in hand and was cutting his shirts and a pair of pants into teeny pieces. When there was nothing left of his ghost except a large pile of cloth, I decided to learn how to quilt.” DoneHandsPastThreeLeftPiecesCuttingClothesMy FriendsDecidedGhostShirtsPairsPantsMy BoyfriendScissorsQuilts Author:Anne Elizabeth Moore
“I was always able to understand my friend who decided to quit smoking and who, through an effort of will, succeeded in doing so. One morning, he opened the newspaper, read that the first H- bomb had exploded, found out about the bomb's admirable effects and went straight to the tobacconist's.” FirstsAbleFoundEffortMorningEffectsHealthMy FriendsDecidedQuittingNewspapersBombsSmokingAdmirableQuit Smoking Author:Albert Camus
“My friends decided to open a pub and asked me to be part of it. The day-to-day running is something I know little about. Luckily, I'm the demented figurehead, a kind of mascot. I get all the good stuff - like free pork scratchings - without any of the bad stuff.” KnowsKindLittlesRunningStuffMy FriendsDecidedDay To DayPubsPorkDementedBad StuffMascots Author:Jason Flemyng
“The first book really was kind of an entertaining textbook for the homemaker. I couldn't find a good book about entertaining in 1982, and neither could my friend, so I decided to write it.” WritingFirstsKindBookMy FriendsDecidedEntertainingGood BookTextbooksHomemaker Author:Martha Stewart
“When I finally decided to leave school and pursue acting, my parents didn't take it very lightly. My friends thought that it was the tackiest thing they'd ever heard of. Acting was really beneath them. They couldn't believe that I would want to become an actress. Not now, of course.” WantBelieveSchoolCoursesParentActingHeardMy FriendsDecidedActressesPursue Author:Salma Hayek
“I was like 14 and decided I wanted to be a rapper, so I needed a hip rapper name. I was with one of my friends in class and literally went through a thesaurus. I saw "temper" and thought, "I like this, but it's too much." My friend was like, "What about Tinie for tiny," and that was that.” WantedNamesClassSawsToo MuchNeededMy FriendsDecidedTinyHipsTemperRapperThesaurus Author:Tinie Tempah
“When I was a model, actually, for a little while, my friend that I worked with a lot, she had horrible self-esteem too. We decided that the exact moment when we actually thought we were attractive, we wouldn't be anymore. We would just, like, miss it.” LittlesSelfMomentsMissingSelf EsteemModelsMy FriendsDecidedHorribleEsteemAttractive Author:Geena Davis
“[My friend and I] decided, we'll go to Corsicana, and we'll see what the people in Corsicana say. ... We just started meeting people and talking to them, and the more I heard the stories, the more red flags kept popping up. There was this disconnect between this person [Todd Willingham] that I'm reading in the court records, the prosecutor's statements, and this person that I'm learning about.” PeoplePersonsStoriesReadingTalkingRecordsHeardMy FriendsRedDecidedCourtMeetingsStatementsFlagsProsecutorPoppingRed Flags Author:Elizabeth Gilbert
“I just started asking my friends if they had noticed. None of them - feminists, mothers, daughters - noticed until I pointed it out. Then I decided to bring it up within the industry. I knew a lot of people, so I'd say, "Have you ever noticed how few female characters there are in kids movies?" when I met a director, a producer, whatever. And they said, "Oh, but that's not true anymore."” PeopleIfsSaidCharacterKidsMotherIndustryMetsDirectorsDaughterMy FriendsFemaleDecidedAskingFeministProducersThey SaidFemale CharactersMother DaughterKids Movie Author:Geena Davis
“I played bass for a year, but I wasn't getting better at it, so I decided to stop so I could see my friends.” YearsMy FriendsDecidedGet BetterBass Author:Daniel Radcliffe
“Making 'The Avengers' was very important to me, but it was also extremely arduous. I missed my friends and I missed my home, so I decided to throw them all on camera, which is the only way I seem to know to relate to people.” PeopleKnowsWayImportantHomeSeemsMy FriendsDecidedCamerasRelateAvengers Author:Joss Whedon
“Since I don't smoke, I decided to grow a mustache - it is better for the health. However, I always carried a jewel-studded cigarette case in which, instead of tobacco, were carefully placed several mustaches, Adolphe Menjou style. I offered them politely to my friends: "Mustache? Mustache? Mustache?" Nobody dared to touch them. This was my test regarding the sacred aspect of mustaches.” GrowsCasesCrazyStyleMy FriendsAspectDecidedTestsSacredSmokeCigaretteJewelsTobaccoMustache Author:Salvador Dali
“The answer, The answer, my friend, is not yours to invent or create. It will be decided for you. It is outside you. It is real and objective and firm. One day you will hear it. You don’t create it. You don’t define it. It comes to you, and sooner or later you conform to it—or bow to it.” RealAnswersOne DayMy FriendsDecidedObjectivesFirmBowsSooner Or LaterConform Author:John Piper
“Driven by a wish to save Tomás from a life of penury and misunderstanding, Fermin had decided that he needed to develop my friend's latent conversational and social skills. Like the good ape he is, man is a social animal, characterized by cronyism, nepotism, corruption, and gossip. That's the intrinsic blueprint for our ethical behavior.” MenWishSocialAnimalNeededSkillsBehaviorMy FriendsDecidedCorruptionDrivenGossipEthicalTomsMisunderstandingApesBlueprintsLatentSocial SkillsNepotismEthical BehaviorCronyism Book:The Shadow Of The Wind Source: The Shadow Of The Wind
“In middle school, my friends decided I was weird, and they didn’t like my hair. They ditched me and talked behind my back, which is cool — I’m over it. [laughs] One time I called them and said, “Hey, do you want to go to the Berkshire Mall?” They all gave me excuses and said no. So I go to the mall with my mom, and don’t you know, we run into all of them. Together. Shopping. My mom could see I was about to cry, so she said, “You know what? We’re going to the King of Prussia mall,” which was the mecca.” KnowsWantSaidRunningSchoolTogetherBehindsLaughingMiddleCryHairMomKingsMy FriendsDecidedExcuseMy MomHeyOver ItShoppingOne TimeMallsMiddle SchoolMeccaPrussiaBehind My Back Author:Taylor Swift
“You'd have thought we planned it," says Peeta, giving me just the hint of a smile. "Didn't you?" asks Portia. Her fingers press her eyelids closed as if she's warding off a very bright light. "No," I say looking at Peeta with a new sense of apreciation. "Neither of us even knew what we were going to do before we went in." "And Haymitch?" says Peeta. "We decided we don't want any other allies in the arena." "Good. Then I won't be responsible for you killing off any of my friends with your stupidity," he says.” IfsWantGivingLightAsksMy FriendsDecidedResponsiblePressesFingersKillingStupidityAlliesArenaHintsBeing ResponsiblePeetaEyelidsBright LightsHaymitch Author:Suzanne Collins
“I was going to say 'my friend Stuart', but I suppose he's not a friend any more. I seem to have lost a number of friends in the last few years. I don't mean that I've fallen out with them, in any dramatic way. We've just decided not to stay in touch. And that's what it's been: a decision, a conscious decision, because it's not difficult to stay in touch with people nowadays, there are so many different ways of doing it. But as you get older, I think that some friendships start to feel increasingly redundant. You just find yourself asking, "What's the point?" And then you stop.” PeopleThinkingWayFeelsYearsMeanDifferentSeemsLastsLostDifficultDecisionNumbersConsciousMy FriendsDecidedAskingFallenDifferent WaysDramaticFinding YourselfRedundant Book:The Terrible Privacy of Maxwell Sim Source: The Terrible Privacy of Maxwell Sim