Certain Quotes

Mania's premonitory signs are unusual acts of extravagance, manifested by the purchase of houses, and certain expensive and unnecessary articles of furniture.

The history of philosophy is to a great extent that of a certain clash of human temperaments.

Creativity is not an ability that you either have or do not have. It is, for example, and this may surprise you, absolutely unrelated to IQ, provided you're intelligent above a certain minimal level.

You might be an interested guy, an interested reported then I get to know you and then I know you're this also and you're this also and you may hide it in a certain way. That's what I love.

There is a certain type of conversation one hears only when one is drunk and it is like a dream, full of humor and threat and significance, deep significance.

If you are going to emphasize certain words in the headline, be sure that they are the words that say something.

Truth, as any dictionary will tell you, is a property of certain of our ideas. It means their agreement, as falsity means their disagreement, with reality.

Men are in numberless instances qualified for certain things, for no other reason than because they are qualified for nothing else.

The mind revolts against certain opinions, as the stomach rejects certain foods.

The vehemence with which certain critics have chosen not simply to criticize what I've written, but to challenge my writing this story at all, speaks of what the book is about: fear of disapproval.

No wise man can have a contempt for the prejudices of others; and he should even stand in a certain awe of his own, as if they were aged parents and monitors. They may in the end prove wiser than he.

You're after something - not a story, but a certain, exquisitely intense encounter with beauty - and the only way to find it is to tiptoe past the dragon's cave.

Even though I'm a realist, I try to let the medium show and allow it a certain degree of freedom.

So there might be a kind of collective effort that allows for those risks to be taken, pose a certain danger but not a suicidal one.

When people hit on feeling a certain melancholy or elation, it's a really exciting moment. I think making that connection is the goal, and what makes something great.

Many people help construct our attitudes at a certain time and place.

There is hardly a man on earth who will take advice unless he is certain that it is positively bad.

My insides still turn over when he looks at me that certain way.

It is most important that we should keep in this country a certain leisured class. I am of the opinion of the ancient Jewish book which says there is no wisdom without leisure.

Supreme art is a traditional statement of certain heroic and religious truth, passed on from age to age, modified by individual genius, but never abandoned.

We undertake certain spiritual exercises to achieve alignment with the creative energy of the universe.

Art should not have to be a certain way.

Legalize racing in every State. Sure people will bet, but they get to see the horses run and you certain can't see General Motors and General Electric and General Utility run when you bet on them.

Fanatical religion driven to a certain point is almost as bad as none at all, but not quite.

When philosophic reason is clear and certain by intuition or necessary induction, no subsequent revelation supported by prophecies or miracles can supersede it.

Had I been chosen President again, I am certain I could not have lived another year.

When I perform on stage, I often pretend to be someone other than myself to bring a certain emotion or intent to a song.

Should I be worried about being a slave and being returned to slavery? Because certain things happened in the Constitution that had to change.

It is exceedingly improbable that the identical action of the corresponding parts of the two retina is the result of a certain habituation, or of the influence of the mind.

We have people who are healers and those who posses a certain animal magnetism.

Some people might think that the paintings are involved with a mythic - not just subject matter - but a certain sort of physical space that the paintings occupy...like personages.

True courage, in the face of almost certain death, is the rarest quality on earth.

I was utilized because I have a certain face that works well in cinema, and I'm used to making myself look as good as possible

I am certain that I have been here as I am now a thousand times before, and I hope to return a thousand times.

When I am dead, I am certain that the imprint of my love will be found on my heart. It is impossible to worship as I do without leaving some visible trace behind when life is over.

Certain roles are more challenging than others, but I haven't come across one yet that I can't tackle.

Certain books seem to be written, not that we might learn from them, but in order that we might see how much the author knows.

I think certain movies work and that is part of the magic of it all. We can't truly define why something succeeds.

I happen to believe that certain types of assault weapons, which are manufactured and designed for military purposes to kill people very quickly should not be used in civilian society.

Everything in a wide sense is a kind of a self-portrait. It's just the way you see things and you're curious about certain things and just excited about them.

Coaching will become the model for leaders in the future... I am certain that leadership can be learned and that terrific coaches... facilitate learning.

A newspaper that reduces its coverage of the news important to its community is certain to reduce its readership as well

Now there is no place you can go where you don't hear certain types of music.

When we try to push the envelope, there are certain sectors of society that say this is a Zionist plot to sort of destabilize our country, or this is an American agenda.

Call it my little gesture toward social conscience, but I like to think I'm teaching a certain number of people to read. Now that sounds pretentious!

Certain people want to see me solely as a pop act, but there are many different sides to Christina Aguilera besides the pop girl.

In the future, I will make certain that I commit to projects so there's enough breathing space for me to have an emotional life.

The Clinton era is over. I think that there would even have been a certain amount of rejoicing among some Republicans if Gore had won or if Ralph Nader had won or if Satan had won.

You can do films for the fun of it, or the thrill of it, but certain films you can't do unless there's something driving you, something you have a passion for that will pull you through.

I know there are certain gifts that each of us have. The gifts you don't have to worry about so much, because God gave them to us. It's the living, it's the life, it's the now.