Certain Quotes

In a memoir, I think, the contract implies a certain degree of truth. I think you have to be as true to your memory and your experience as you possibly can.

No matter what I do, my songs come out in a certain style, and if that sounds like Dead Kennedys, then there's probably a reason for it. Don't forget, I wrote most of those songs, music and lyrics.

You can't make jazz without using certain elements of Latin music.

Why seek to embarrass [the artist] with vanities foreign to his quietness? Know you not that certain sciences require the whole man, leaving no part of him at leisure for your trifles?

How idle it is to call certain things God-sends! as if there was anything else in the world.

And we've got to ask ourselves some very serious questions as to whether or not certain religious leaders, in terms of raising money - I hate to bring this up - are pushing hot buttons.

Hopefully, I have a certain amount of what you call musical talent.

Rarely have I seen any really great advertising created without a certain amount of confusion, throw-aways, bent noses, irritation and downright cursedness.

We try to... we are, I suppose to a certain extent all affected and erm, that is both funny and sad I think.

I like to maintain a certain sense of fantasy in my life.

I want the shuffles and echoes, and a certain mysteriousness... It's so bloody hard to paint.

It is a certain rule that wit and passion are entirely incompatible. When the affections are moved, there is no place for the imagination.

When it came to football there was a certain age where I realized that my future in football was being a grease spot on the side of some bigger player.

Sometimes I feel like art is supposed to mirror life, but strangely it's as if art is trying to catch up to life, to a certain extent?

I will never have a drink and get behind the wheel of a car. It's not illegal to drink and drive, but there becomes a certain point where it does become a crime.

Money is the representative of a certain quantity of corn or other commodity. It is so much warmth, so much bread.

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.

All rent is based on the monopoly power of private owners of certain portions of the globe.

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 don't know if it was love or an illusion. I don't know if there's ever a way to be certain.

We see things based on autopilot. Our mind identifies something in a certain way, no matter what the eye sees. The eye tells you one thing and the brain tells you another.

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

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.

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.

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

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!

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.

My songs are cinematic so they seem to reference a glamorous era or fetishize certain lifestyles, but that's not my aim.

Nature forms us in a certain manner, both inwardly and outwardly, and it is in vain to attempt to alter it.

At certain times you really feel as though you have to do something.

At a certain age, death becomes familiar to you-or a loss becomes familiar-the tragedies that are more commonplace in life.

Be certain that you easily clear the minimum standards for service as a missionary and that you are continually raising the bar.

My films have been progressing towards a certain kind of minimalism, even though it was never intended. Elements which can be eliminated have been eliminated.

I do not know whether any of this is true. I am certain that the scientific community does not know that it is false.

A certain luxury when you get to writing a novel is to have the space to have your characters just banter.

Certain materials suggest ideas and ways of working.

Organic compounds exist in which a hydrogen atom, joined to the carbon, acquires acid properties as a result of the proximity of certain functional groupings.

It seems as though, at the approach of a certain dark hour, the light of heaven infills those who are leaving the light of earth.

I think that people who get to a certain position, and then try to ferociously defend it or build on it, it's kind of a dead-end street. You see people becoming miserable that way.

Among human beings, the subjection of women is much more complete at a certain level of civilization than it is among savages. And the subjection is always reinforced by morality.

After a certain point, a heart with so many stress fractures can never be anything but broken.

Now I see that there is no such thing as love unreturn'd. The pay is certain, one way or another.

Thought is an infection. In the case of certain thoughts, it becomes an epidemic.

Faith When you feel deeply that a certain act is the right act, do it and have perfect faith that the consequences will be good.

I'm very happy to sing whatever I'm singing. I've always enjoyed any role I've been given at a certain time. They've all been favourites, they've all been wonderful pieces to play.

Mysticism is, in essence, little more than a certain intensity and depth of feeling in regard to what is believed about the universe.

We have long passed the Victorian Era when asterisks were followed after a certain interval by a baby.

I sometimes feel like when you're talking to boys, they just hear certain keywords… But if you had a bubble above their head, they'd be thinking about game scores, masturbation and food.

The best history is but like the art of Rembrandt; it casts a vivid light on certain selected causes, on those which were best and greatest; it leaves all the rest in shadow and unseen.

I have this certain vision of the way I want my comics to look; this sort of photographic realism, but with a certain abstraction that comics can give. It's kind of a fine line.