Certain Quotes

In drama, I think, the audience is a willing participant. It's suspending a certain kind of disbelief to try to get something out of a story.

There are certain pursuits which, if not wholly poetic and true, do at least suggest a nobler and finer relation to nature than we know. The keeping of bees, for instance.

I grow tired of intelligence having such a limited manifestation in movies - "intelligence" usually meaning coastal, with a certain level of formal education.

I established a certain standard of behavior, that, during my playing, there must be no talking.

Prudent people are very happy; 'tis an exceeding fine thing, that's certain, but I was born without it, and shall retain to my day of Death the Humour of saying what I think.

And, granted, for a long time, the European has been dominant in certain parts of this Western Hemisphere, but by the end of the 21st century, it's over.

There's a certain arrogance to an actor who will look at a script and feel like, because the words are simple, maybe they can paraphrase it and make it better.

Obviously, the young dancers lack a certain air of maturity.

Stories never really end. They can go on and on and on. It's just that sometimes, at a certain point, one stops telling them.

Certain drummers drop time, and I like to play on top of the beat.

Contrary to what certain comedians have led you to believe, the national French pastime is picnicking.

Men's courses will foreshadow certain ends, to which, if persevered in, they must lead," said Scrooge. "But if the courses be departed from, the ends will change.

At a certain point, the struggles with teaching and mothering and so on and so forth, those decline, those lessen.

Being and working in America, it's very important to work hard, work smart and work in a certain way. France and Europe has, with the tradition and culture, it's slow-moving and it's not always good.

Recognize that on certain days the greatest grace is that the day is over and you get to close your eyes. Tomorrow comes more brightly.

Once you have a certain amount of money, it ceases to be an issue. I'd rather put my cultural imprint on the fabric of life. After money, all you want is immortality.

There are many times where a woman would gladly drop her husband if she did not feel morally certain that some other woman would come right along and pick him up.

We've always been the development project that lived in a time pressured setting and always where commercial entities were relying heavily on releases in a certain time frame.

I believe there are certain things that cannot be bought -- loyalty, friendship, health, love and an American League pennant.

For the Rays, to speak properly, have no Colour. In them there is nothing else than a certain power and disposition to stir up a sensation of this Colour or that.

When general observations are drawn from so many particulars as to become certain and indisputable, these are jewels of knowledge.

You have actors who begin at a certain young age and there's very little change in their technique and the depth of their performances; they're the same 30 years later.

Hindu religion does not consist in struggles and attempts to believe a certain doctrine or dogma, but in realizing not in believing, but in being and becoming.

I believe love produces a certain flowering of the whole personality which nothing else can achieve.

True, Heaven prohibits certain pleasures; but one can generally negotiate a compromise.

I am certain that to preach the wrath of God with a hard heart, a cold lip, a tearless eye, and an unfeeling spirit is to harden men, not benefit them.

We are certain that there is forgiveness, because there is a Gospel, and the very essence of the Gospel lies in the proclamation of the pardon of sin.

But I've always believed that Christine Cagney shouldn't be played past a certain age.

You can adapt to certain situations and to a certain way of life, but it has to be difficult to fully let go of something.

It is well to write love letters. There are certain things for which it is not easy to ask your mistress face to face, like money for instance.

If there is a God, man's immortality is certain. If not, Immortality would not be worth having.

Every situation is an equilibrium of forces; every life is a struggle between opposing forces working within the limits of a certain equilibrium

But the central point is that any campaign against Iraq, whatever the strategy, cost and risks, is certain to divert us for some indefinite period from our war on terrorism.

I respect the Bible and offer namaz regularly. But I am ritualistic only up to a certain extent. I believe only in those rituals that I can understand and connect with, and conduct them my own way.

I made my excuses and left, thinking, really, after a certain age, people are just going to do what they're going to do and you're either going to accept them as they are or you're not.

So society has strangled in its asylums all those it wanted to get rid of or protect itself from, because they refused to become its accomplices in certain great nastinesses.

I think there's a certain sense of grounding that comes from not being a rich kid from a media-elite school.

Even if I knew for certain that I would never have anything published again, and would never make another cent from it, I would still keep on writing.

I'm not a folk-singer. I just sing a certain place.

I admire the linear and decisive way a certain kind of man thinks, to my curlicue boundless overthinking.

In creating the Harry Potter artwork, I try to bring a certain amount of realism and believability to the characters and setting, but still add an element of wonder and the unknown.

Then going out on the ice usually about 15 minutes before and certain things I would do for the different races, aspects that you run through your mind.

Genius of a kind has always been with me; an empty heart that has taken on a certain wooden quality; an excellent, strong woman's body and a pitiably starved soul.

A tainted society has invented psychiatry to defend itself against the investigations of certain superior intellects whose faculties of divination would be troublesome.

There is fear as to whether Japan, reduced to such a predicament, could ever manage to pay reparations to certain designated Allied Powers without shifting the burden upon the other Allied Powers.

I've learned a great deal about a certain type of filmmaking. But I have ambitions toward another type of filmmaking that I haven't been allowed to engage in yet.

It's always sad to me when certain people are excluded from being considered beautiful... because of someone else's expectation. That bothers me.

I don't know why certain people shine for others. I don know why you and not someone else

Every brush stroke has a certain tension, a certain nervousness. Every brush stroke is, in a sense, some kind of an accident.

Everyone wants to be perceived a certain way, to gain the things that they have decided are the things that they want in their life.