Certain Quotes
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.
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.
If you don't have trouble paying the rent, you have trouble doing something else; one needs just a certain amount of trouble.
The dullness of certain people is sometimes a sufficient security against the attack of an artful man.
My mother would put me on a wooden box at the stove and tell me to call her if certain things would happen. Like if the steam turns blue, that is danger!
The more we want certain situations, the more we find ourself stuck in situations we do not want.
Writer or painter god-parents are notoriously unreliable. That is, there is certain before long to be a cooling of friendship.
There are certain defects which, well-mounted, glitter like virtue itself.
It is fatal to know too much at the outcome: boredom comes as quickly to the traveler who knows his route as to the novelist who is over certain of his plot.
That which has always been accepted by everyone, everywhere, is almost certain to be false.
It is sometimes forgotten how much wit there is in certain works of abstract art. There is a certain point in undergoing anguish when one encounters the comic.
When I look back on the townscapes now, they do seem to me to recall certain images of the destruction of Dresden during the war.
One of the marks of a certain type of bad man is that he cannot give up a thing himself without wanting everyone else to give it up.
It was hard to reassure grown-ups when you weren't certain yourself what you were feeling and thinking—when thoughts dissolved before you could name them.
Music creates a certain mood and then people dress accordingly. I think it's all quite closely intertwined.
The richness of the world, all artificial pleasures, have the taste of sickness and give off a smell of death in the face of certain spiritual possessions.
Stop turning on your emotional television to watch the same program over & over again, the one that shows how much you suffered from a certain loss: that is only poisoning you, nothing else.
When a shepherd goes to kill a wolf, and takes his dog to see the sport, he should take care to avoid mistakes. The dog has certain relationships to the wolf the shepherd may have forgotten.
Words are made for a certain exactness of thought, as tears are for a certain degree of pain. What is least distinct cannot be named; what is clearest is unutterable.
The fact is that certain ideas exist almost everywhere and at all times and can even spontaneously create themselves quite independently of migration and tradition.
I realize that in this undertaking I place myself in a certain opposition to views widely held concerning the mathematical infinite and to opinions frequently defended on the nature of numbers.
An atheist is someone who is certain that God does not exist, someone who has compelling evidence against the existence of God. I know of no such compelling evidence.
God always forgives, always. But he asks that I forgive. If I don't forgive, in a certain sense I am closing the door to God's forgiveness.
There are people who possess not so much genius as a certain talent for perceiving the desires of the century, or even of the decade, before it has done so itself.
Certain realities in life are only seen through eyes that are cleansed through our tears. Let us learn how to weep
My own experience is that a certain kind of genius among students is best brought out in bed.
We sold a certain, steady amount of product for them and they could count on it. When it came time to ask for the money for this new record, they dropped us. It was fine with us. It was a dead fish.
The realization that just as no action is really indifferent, so no utterance is without its responsibility introduces, it is true, a certain strenuosity into life.
I'm in the studio 24 hours a day. It's true that once you get a certain level of success, you become a target. Talk magazine should be ashamed of themselves.
When you're rapping, you do have to perform to a certain degree, but not every rapper is necessarily a gifted actor.
Don't turn away from possible futures before you're certain you don't have anything to learn from them.
In person, George W. Bush is extremely forceful. He has a restless energy when he sits in a chair, and nearly leaps out of it when making certain points.
The greatest object in the universe, says a certain philosopher, is a good man struggling with adversity; yet there is still a greater, which is the good man who comes to relieve it.
I can't say whether we had more wit among us now than usual, but I am certain we had more laughing, which answered the end as well.
I don't like religion very much. I think it's all about people trying to be very certain about things that are very uncertain.
I think the hardest obstacles, actually, are probably ones I've put on myself. I push myself really hard, and I think that's why I've been able to accomplish certain things.
As great as it is, 'Vogue' won't change a designer's business. But if an unknown brand is worn by a certain person in a tabloid, it will be the biggest designer within a week.
Naturally, business and pleasure can be readily combined, but a certain balance should exist, and the latter should not predominate over the former.
In an evolutionary perspective, the rational mind takes a certain distance and no further, & we must be able to transcend it.
There is a certain satisfaction in coming down to the lowest ground of politics, for we get rid of cant and hypocrisy.
There is always a certain noise in applause: even in the applause we give ourselves.
I'm starting to realize I can't practice a certain way during the week and expect to play another way on Sunday.
God will not have his work made manifest by cowards. Always, always, always, always, always do what you are afraid to do. Do the thing you fear and the death of fear is certain.
Virtue and vice are both prophets; the first, of certain good; the second, of pain or else of penitence.
JOSS-STICKS- Small sticks burned by the Chinese in their pagan tomfoolery, in imitation of certain sacred rites of our holy religion.
A run is more difficult to make than no save, because batting is in its nature a far less certain and reliable thing than bowling and fielding.
Science and religion have to go hand in hand with the mystery, because there's a certain point beyond which you say, "There are no answers."