Certain Quotes
The dullness of certain people is sometimes a sufficient security against the attack of an artful man.
If you don't have trouble paying the rent, you have trouble doing something else; one needs just a certain amount of trouble.
A unitary urbanism — the synthesis of art and technology that we call for — must be constructed according to certain new values of life, values which now need to be distinguished and disseminated.
Once the festival achieved a certain level of notoriety, then people began to come here with agendas that were not the same as ours. We can't do anything about that. We can't control that.
On the ostensible exactitude of certain branches of human knowledge, including mathematics. The exactness is a fake.
My perspective on the academic world is very favorable. I did certain kinds of things that I could never have done otherwise.
Infrastructure creates the form of a city and enables life to go on in a city, in a certain way.
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.
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.
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.
On a Chinese film you just give orders, no one questions you. Here, you have to convince people, you have to tell them why you want to do it a certain way, and they argue with you. Democracy.
I think maybe there could be some restrictions that there had to be a certain amount of training taken.
In the past ABC has made half-hearted efforts or, worse, cosmetic efforts, to do something about news and I wasn't certain about what their real aim was - nor am I now.
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.
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.
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.
When the time is ripe for certain things, these things appear in different places in the manner of violets coming to light in the early spring.
I'm pretty immature and get pretty embarrassed easily. I would check out once in a while certain shots to make sure that I felt OK because sometimes once you see it you realize it is fine.
Nothing is as certain as that the vices of leisure are gotten rid of by being busy.
When you're younger - duh - you don't really have the tools to deal with certain things in your life.
For a certain kind of person, love begins from something tiny or silly. From something like that or it doesnt begin at all.
A fighter can condition his body to go hard certain rounds, then to coast certain rounds.
There are certain sounds that I've found work well in nearly any context. Their function is not so much musical as spatial: they define the edges of the territory of the music.
In a certain sense a writer is 'selected' by his subject - his subject being the consciousness of his own era.
No propagation or multiplication is more rapid that that of evil, unless it be checked; no growth more certain.
Everything has to have some kind of a point for people to breathe easy. What's the point of life? I have no clue, but sometimes there are things that just attract us and pull us in a certain way.
There are certain things in war of which the commander alone comprehends the importance. Nothing but his superior firmness and ability can subdue and surmount all difficulties.
I am able to apply certain things to my craft that maybe other comedians don't, because I'm a devotee.
I pretty much only write by default, because I want to make certain projects so instead of trying to wait and find them, I create them, but I'm not really a writer.
And I have to consider myself fortunate, because there are plenty of writers who spend most of a lifetime looking for that certain something without ever finding it.
Discretion has been termed the better part of valour, and it is more certain, that diffidence is the better part of knowledge.
One must realize that all who have accumulated great fortunes first did a certain amount of dreaming, hoping, wishing, desiring, and planning before they acquired money.
Fortunate is the person who has learned that the most certain way to 'get' is to first 'give' through some sort of useful service.
The statements of certain western officials show that contrary to their absurd claims, westerners are disqualified, and impetuous, lacking any cultural background.
Whatever advantage we snatch beyond a certain portion allotted us by at nature, is like money spent before it is due, which, at the time of regular payment, will be missed and regretted.
Everyone wants a more simple tax system. But if this means that certain tax breaks have to be cut, people are no longer so enthusiastic.
I have a particular style of writing and my voice sounds a particular way, which lends itself to a certain style.