Certain Quotes

You look a certain way because you want people to listen to you in a certain way.

It's almost having certain kinds of secrets for yourself that you'll let the whole world in on only for a moment.

Below a certain point, if you keep too quiet, people no longer see you as thoughtful or deep; they simply forget you.

I am certain that most Germans have instinctive liking for Italy, just as Italians admire Germans for their many qualities.

I could be wrong. Not being certain is what being a philosopher is all about.

There must be something in oneself which is essential. Therefore I refrain from referring to a landscape or certain objects when speaking of a picture. The hand is cleverer than the mind.

It is a most certain truth, that the richer we see ourselves to be, confessing at the same time our poverty, the greater will be our progress, and the more real our humility.

Who will reach heaven? I do not know, but I am certain that no one will be there who does not feel at home.

It's as though a certain level of intoxication with the mushroom is the precondition for being able to communicate, but is not itself enough.

There are certain people who people think are enlightened. The problem with the word enlightenment is what you mean by it.

In Algeria, I had begun to get into literature and philosophy. I dreamed of writing-and already models were instructing the dream, a certain language governed it.

It is, perhaps more than anything else, the arrest of time which has taken place in a completed work of art that gives certain plays their feeling of depth and significance.

In other localities certain places in the streams are much better than others, but at Niagara one place is just as good as another, for the reason that the fish do not bite anywhere.

I can tell when an actor's forcing tears, and it's tricky because you then have to film it and edit in a certain way to skirt around the issue.

It was the era of Tab Hunter and Rock Hudson; they all had a certain look.

If somebody would come and they're not playing music, they would encounter certain people on another level.

There are staples to my show. I have to be conscious about switching things up because I know people who saw me last year will say, 'He did that last time.' But if certain things work, they work.

I think the sensitivity that you need to create certain things sometimes would spill over into things that shouldn't have bothered me.

We must be certain that we all realize that our enemy is not an enemy that is located in one single place. There are terrorist cells all around the globe.

Unless we as social change agents come from a certain spirituality, we're likely to create more harm than good.

Every time you respond in a certain fashion, it gets easier and easier to respond.

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.

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.

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.

One is certain of nothing but the truth of one's own emotions.

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.

Comics have a caste system - an editor has to act in a certain way, an artist has to be humble.

There is a certain element of complementarity between men and women that is biological by nature.

In the process of natural selection, then, any device that can insert a higher proportion of certain genes into subsequent generations will come to characterize the species.

Success isn´t guaranteed, but failure is certain if you aren´t truly emotionally invested in your work.

I have always had a certain song in my head, a certain chemistry of sounds.

You have to be in good shape, basically. And then, you have to have a certain craziness, if you're going to do some of the action things.

[defines a madman as] a man who preferred to become mad,in the socially accepted sense of the word, rather than forfeit a certain superior idea of human honor.

At a certain age you're always uncertain how other people will take you.

Lighting can bring out certain contours in the body, in the face, in the eyes, that otherwise flat lighting couldn't.

Truths that become old become decrepit and unreliable; sometimes they may be kept going artificially for a certain time, but there is no life in them.

Infrastructure creates the form of a city and enables life to go on in a city, in a certain way.

With any recovery from morbidity there must go a certain healthy humiliation.

That things are changed, and that nothing really perishes, and that the sum of matter remains exactly the same, is sufficiently certain.

I have siblings. And there are certain things I know that I can push their buttons. And they know they have certain things where they can push mine.

Caffeine helps a lot. That and a certain amount of isolation.

When you're hurting another person, past a certain point you're cracking them open and whatever's inside them gets all over you. So you should kinda check out whether you want that to happen.

Be patient and live with the knowledge that all you are searching for is certain to come if you prepare for it and expect it.

If food did not exist it would be well-nigh impossible to get certain types off the phone, as one would be unable to say, 'Look, I've got to run but let's have dinner sometime soon.'

In this world of doubt, one thing is certain for me; that I will go on writing songs up to and - I hope, through heavenly means or diabolical - beyond the day I die.

Certain elements may try to stretch this beyond what it is.

At a certain age, you have to live near good medical care — if, that is, you're going to continue. You always have the option of not continuing, which, I fear, is sometimes nobler.

I wrote the book because I wanted to be able to share some things that I had learned and as pompous as that may sound, as you get to a certain point in life, you figure so what am I doing?

Be certain that in the religion of Love there are no believers and unbelievers. LOVE embraces all.

That's my takeaway from 'Scream' - I know I can fit in dog doors. You have to jimmy your body in a certain position and really hope you're not wearing something super fancy.