Certain Quotes
Those obsessed with health are not healthy; the first requisite of good health is a certain calculated carelessness about oneself.
Peter Beard is one of those people I've known a long time. We have an affinity. We share certain values.
Art is the subjective, preferential treatment of certain elements of reality; it selects and resets, distributes light and shade, omits and underlines, softens and emphasises.
You think you KNOW when you learn, are more sure when you can write, even more when you can teach, but certain when you can program.
The faith which saves is not one single act done on a certain day: it is an act continued and persevered in throughout the life of man.
There's no law that decrees when not to whinge, but you reach a certain age - 80 seems about right - when you're expected to manifest querulousness - the coffee's too hot, the boiled egg's too soft.
If certain critics and poetasters had their way, 'Ordinary Piety' and its child, Dullness, would be the masters of poetry.
One of the pleasures of looking at the world through mathematical eyes is that you can see certain patterns that would otherwise be hidden.
I can honestly, and proudly, say that I never was on the casting couch. Oh, of course there have been advances from certain men in the movie industry, but nothing overwhelming.
Prayer is commitment. We don't merely co-operate with God with certain things held back within. We, the total person, co-operate. This means that co-operation equals committment.
It is certain that if you would have the whole secret of a people, you must enter into the intimacy of their religion.
Gertrude Stein did us the most harm when she said, 'You're all a lost generation.' That got around to certain people and we all said, 'Whee! We're lost.
Laughter... is like a hurricane: once it reaches a certain point, it becomes self-feeding, self-supporting. You laugh not because the jokes are funny but because your own condition is funny.
Winning Strategists are certain of triumph before seeking a challenge. Losing Strategists are certain to challenge before seeking a triumph.
Certain things, certain events, seem inexplicable only for a time: up to the moment when the veil is torn aside.
If a creative person has a sense of humor, a sense of style and a certain amount of stubbornness, he finds a way to do what he needs to in spite of the obstacles.
People think retiring is fun. Well, maybe, but if you have a certain kind of fire inside, there is no end in sight.
The stars awaken a certain reverence, because though always present, they are inaccessible.
I love things that have a vintage feel to them, just because there's a certain texture to them that we just don't have anymore. In fact I think I've been stuck in the 50s or 60s for a while...
I think everyone has a certain kind of formula in their life. When you deviate from that formula, you're going to fail big or you're gonna win big.
We need to step into certain uncertainty. Without faith it is impossible to please God.
The company of certain people may excite our generosity and sensitivity, while that of others awakens our competitiveness and envy.
I often think when a man's once past a certain age, the older he grows the tougher he gets, and women the same or more so.
What cinema can do is the reordering of this reality from a certain chaos or from a certain order into an aesthetic dimension.
To be a poet is to have an appetite for a certain anxiety which, when tasted among the swirling sum of things existent or forfeit, causes, as the taste dies, joy.
It seems to me that the spirit of politeness is a certain attention in causing that, by our words and by our manners, others may be content with us and with themselves.
When I was young I liked taking tests. I happened to be good at it. Certain subjects came easily, like math. All the science stuff. I would just read the textbooks in the first few days of class.
If people tell me something is impossible, I just want to prove that. I want to know that that's for certain. I don't want to not do something because someone says I can't.
Melody has a certain way that it projects back to you. It triggers certain nerves in your body and certain instincts that normally wouldn't be triggered by a normal voice.
What is certain in death is somewhat softened by what is uncertain; it is an indefiniteness in the time, which holds a certain relation to the infinite, and what is called eternity.
Actually, I love trying to figure out why certain books become hits while others, which may be just as good, have trouble finding an audience.
Consciousness, much like our feelings, is based on a representation of the body and how it changes when reacting to certain stimuli. Self-image would be unthinkable without this representation.
Any piece of art, when you're putting it on a certain platform, if the platform becomes a political place, you can manipulate things.
A man becomes a philosopher by reason of a certain perplexity, from which he seeks to free himself.
Teaching is the human thing, in terms of building the kids' self-confidence, so if we take the broad ways that we want to see society to be better, science can only provide certain pieces of that.
Logic must look after itself. In a certain sense, we cannot make mistakes in logic.
To men of a certain type The suspicion that they are incapable of loving Is as disturbing to their self-esteem As, in cruder men, the fear of impotence.
A show of a certain amount of honesty is in any profession or business the surest way of growing rich.
The ear disapproves but tolerates certain musical pieces; transfer them into the domain of our nose, and we will be forced to flee.
Unless we as social change agents come from a certain spirituality, we're likely to create more harm than good.
Great directors can understand the staging in such a way that can make a scene come alive. Others have a certain way of pacing the scene.