Certain Quotes

God gives us hopes and dreams for certain things to happen in our lives, but He doesn't always allow us to see the exact timing of His plan.

You seem so clear about who you are. So certain that you are just right as you are, that for all your intelligence and maybe in spite of it, you never seem to need a second opinion.

A certain kind of permission is given to live differently, to conceptualize and to act according to a new conceptualization.

The fact is certain because it is impossible.

There are certain nights you and your image just aren't in the same bed.

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.

You have certain writing tools but generally creating something from nothing makes one quite mad and Cynthia and I are quite mad you know.

I am obliged to believe certain opinions myself. No man's belief will save me except my own.

Tragedies are about the depths that call up to certain men and insist that they descend.

I feel slightly confused about certain things. Practical and tactical things. When you try to make everyone happy… in the end you've got to make yourself happy.

Through certain humors or passions, and from temper merely, a man may be completely miserable, let his outward circumstances be ever so fortunate.

Parents learn the uses of power and its limits. They can insist on certain outward behavior but cannot change inner attitudes. They can require obedience but not goodness - and certainly not love.

You have to be careful what you imagine, because the act of imagining is the act of encouraging yourself to be a certain kind of person.

It's a very stressful thing, directing a movie. You have the budget, you have the schedule, you are in certain confines, and you have everybody giving you advice about what to do.

The look of success, when it is worn a certain way, would infuriate a jackass.

Real excellence does not come cheaply. A certain price must be paid in terms of practice, patience, and persistence - natural ability notwithstanding.

There are doubtless certain unworldly people who are indifferent to money. I myself have never met one.

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

Only a certain breed of actor should ever even try to work for Orson Welles. I'm glad I'm one of that breed.

I've never really been schooled in music theory. I'm a guitar player, and I attack the guitar in a certain way that it not fully unique to me, but it's more unique that some other people.

I am always amazed how much a certain facility with a special and apparently narrow technique can accomplish.

Certain stories we carry with us, events in our life, they define who we are. It's not a matter of getting over anything; we have to make the best of it.

As a writer I've learned certain lessons. One of them is to be careful about how you put a view, and to bear in mind how easily and readily you'll be misinterpreted.

I don't think I make genre movies. There is a certain type of violence in my films but I think I have my own genre because I made it happen like that.

I have values I believe in and certain things I stand for.

I'd prefer it if the coach said certain things to me face to face.

The Author is subtly unflinching in its satirical attack on certain practices in the creation of art and the mediation of violence.

When you're just writing, you can do anything with it. But with TV, you've gotta work within certain budget constraints, so you've got to pick and choose your battles.

For me, certain shots or scenes are keys in the movie.

I feel like I've passed through a certain door in my life and that I'm standing in a different room now.

It is much better to tempt fortune where it can favor you than to see your certain ruin by not tempting it.

When you follow your thoughts and watch them attach to certain things, it makes certain things real and other things unreal, and you realize that this is all created by your mind.

The price of training is always a certain trained incapacity: the more we know how to do something, the harder it is to learn to do it differently.

Technically I feel total fluidity in writing. I feel there's nothing technically that I can't do the way a certain sort of pianist feels that. But that doesn't mean it comes easily. It doesn't.

Tis true, 'tis certain; man, though dead, retains Part of himself; the immortal mind remains.

Everyone knows what the Masters is, even if you're a non-golfer. People know what Wimbledon is. They know what the Super Bowl is. There are certain events that people just know about.

Filmmaking is such a collaboration. At a certain point, I suppose you do have to let go and trust the people you're working with.

Doing a film, or being sent scripts to look at a certain character, it's very odd for me. I tend to take it very personally.

Is there not a certain satisfaction in the fact that natural limits are set to the life of the individual, so that at the conclusion it may appear as a work of art?

I think there are certain ways that people are always themselves, but I do think people change

I know for certain that miracles happen, but only for those who hang on to hope.

In college I didn't dress up every day, for class or stuff like that, but when it came time to do certain things I'd dress up for sure.

My writing is progressing slowly, but at least it's moving forward. I'm sure that's the case. The only problem is that I'm never absolutely certain that what I've written is any good.

I was always brought up to believe in Him [God], and to behave in certain ways. That is what my parents taught me and I always trust my parents. They have great values.

Every nation has to follow a certain policy: Commercial, trade, various other types of policies.

The fight scenes in 'The World's End' have a certain balletic quality to them.

It's important to me to have what I photograph undergo a certain transformation - to become a thing different from what we are used to, to be another version of itself.

Once there was an elephant Who tried to use the telephant. No! no! I mean an elephone Who tried to use the telephone. Dear me, I am not certain quite That even now I've got it right.

There are certain stars who are not actors. I don't want to be that type.

We know well enough when we're being unjust and despicable. but we don't restrain ourselves because we experience a certain pleasure, a primitive sort of satisfaction in moments like that.